Renowned violinist Sergey Malov hosted a series of concerts for 400 primary school children at Tuam’s Mall Theatre last week.

The Meet the Violins event, which was part of Music for Galway’s outreach programme, involved children from schools in Clydagh, Ballinlass, Bawnmore, Tuam, Athenry, Sylane and Glinsk Sergey Malov, who was in Galway to perform concerts in the city and Portumna on Thursday and Friday, hosted the event. He introduced the young pupils to instruments from the violin family through contemporary and traditional music, playing a mix of Bulgarian and Irish folk music as well as movements from Bach’s cello suite no. 6. He also played Ernst’s The Last Rose of Summer, a variation on the old Irish tune.

One of the pupils, Rachel McGuinness, from  Bawnmore National School, joined Sergey onstage with her violin to play the Galway Hornpipe.

Sergey, who is originally from St Petersburg, plays violin, viola, baroque violin and cello da spalla. In 2017, he was appointed professor at the Zurich Musikhochschule.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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