Headford musicians perform at Galway City Museum

THE Galway Museum will feature performances from two Headford musicians over the next two weeks. Matthew and Naomi Berril are the son and daughter of local music teachers Peter and Mairead Berrill. Cellist Naomi Berril is part of the Indaco quartet, which has three other members from Italy, Muldovia and Japan. The string quartet is based in Italy. Naomi, who is currently based in Florence, Italy, began her music career in Galway where she studied cello with Liz Barry. She was also a member of Hugh Kelly's student chamber ensemble Tutti Con Belto and the Galway Youth Orchestra. The members are completing a specialised masters course in chamber music in Basel and are also working on integrating dance choreography into their string quartet performances, in collaboration with choreographer Gaby Mahler. They perform regularly in Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK. In February they were the resident String Quartet at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co Monaghan. The quartet's performance in Galway will be an acoustic journey from the joyful courts of Haydn's Austria to a dramatic and passionate interpretation of a jealous love story from the Czech Republic of Janacek. It follows on to Ireland for an interesting work by Irish composer and founder of the Crash Ensemble Donnacha Dennehy. The performance at the Galway Museum is on March 1 at 8 pm and tickets are priced €10. Meanwhile her brother Matthew Berril is also returning to the Galway City Museum after a moving concert in the Galway Jazz Festival 2010, as part of the Aengus Hackett Quartet. Matthew, who plays saxophone and clarinet, will join Galway native Aengus Hackett and Dubliners Matt Jacobson and Derek Whyte. The concert is set to be full of uplifting and exciting music and takes place on Saturday, February 26 from 4.30 to 6.30 pm.