IBSL is excited to share the wonderful news that Ina Boyle's 'The Stolen Child' will be part of an extraordinary evening celebrating the literary genius of William Butler Yeats.

'I Dreamt I Dwelt' will be a collaboration between Irish Heritage UK and The London Yeats Society, celebrating Irish composers, W.B. Yeats, and Bedford Park’s heyday. This evening of music and poetry will feature a performance of Boyle's 1926 composition of Yeats's poem, 'The Stolen Child'.

• Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025

• Time: 7:30PM - 10:30PM

• Location: St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, Bath Road, Chiswick, W4 1TX

Boyle's composition is published in the songbook, Ina Boyle Selected Songs and can be heard in the album, Ina Boyle: Songs.

To find out more about The WB Yeats Bedford Park Project, go to www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com 

🎟️ Tickets for ‘I Dreamt I Dwelt’ available now! Follow the link below.

On Tuesday 26th August, 2025, at 1:05 PM, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will present a "Summer Lunchtime" concert on the Main Stage at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, under the direction of conductor Stephen Bell. The event will be presented by RTÉ lyric fm's Liz Nolan, with the programme including Ina Boyle’s (1889–1967), work 'Wild Geese'.

“The RTÉ Concert Orchestra are joined by Hannah Miller (Principal Horn with the Irish National Opera) for Anne Dudley’s Horn Concerto, Concitato.

Anne Dudley is a musician, composer, arranger and producer, whose work crosses the pop and classical worlds. This programme also feature’s Dudley’s Decadence Waltz, written for the BBC Singers Centenary Concert, and a movie music medley including Midnight in Sicily from Midnight Cowboy. A soundtrack expert, she has composed and produced scores for dozens of award-winning films and television shows” (National Concert Hall, Dublin)

RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell, conductor
Hannah Miller, horn
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm

Rachael Portman Emma: End Titles
Anne Dudley Decadence Waltz
Debbi Wiseman Wilde Main Theme
Ina Boyle The Wild Geese
Anne Dudley Concitato
Christine Hals Calling the Aurora
Anne Dudley Film Medley
Dani Howard Argentum

For further information including tickets, please visit this NATIONAL CONCERT HALL LINK.

Ina Boyle is delighted to share that The Piattis will be opening the 2nd Carwithen Music Festival on July 10th 2025. This programme will include Ina Boyle's Quartet.

Household Music by Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No.1 in E Minor by Ina Boyle
(Interval)
7 Irish Tunes for String Quartet by William Alwyn
The Holy Boy by John Ireland
String Quartet No.1 by Doreen Carwithen

Visit www.carwithenmusicfestival.co.uk for more information.

Tickets on sale September 1st 2024.

Lucy Farrimond & JustinE Gormley

Soprano Lucy Farrimond and pianist Justine Gormley will present a program, featuring works including Irish composer, Ina Boyle’s "The Joy of Earth" and "A Song of Enchantment", alongside pieces by Muriel Herbert, Dorothy Pilling, Roger Quilter, and more.

Location: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Date: 27th June 2025
Time: 1:00 PM (Doors 12:15).

For further information, please visit https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/uolconcerts/t-krkyrej or CLICK HERE.

Works set to the poetry of W.B. Yeats by Ina Boyle, Rebecca Clarke and Thomas Dunhill, will feature in a wonderful evening at Yeats Tower, Thoor Ballylee, Galway on Friday 20th June.

Thoor Ballylee served as W.B. Yeats's summer home for himself and his family from 1921 to 1929.

“Join Soprano Helen Hancock and special guests in raising a glass to Mary Hanley whose leadership in the restoration of Thoor Ballylee ensures that this legacy of W.B. Yeats remains with us today and into the future.

Helen's English language programme of song will be accompanied by Ramin Haghjoo piano and includes settings of Yeats poetry by Ina Boyle, Rebecca Clarke and Thomas Dunhill.”

Tickets available via Eventbrite.

Don't miss the exceptional Piatti Quartet at Djanogly Recital Hall, Nottingham University, on Thursday, 12 June 2025. They will be performing, among other works, Ina Boyle’s captivating String Quartet in E Minor.

Further information including tickets can be found both here and here.

Hugo Brady (tenor) and Mark Rogers (piano) perform at the ‘Life Victoria Festival’ in Barcelona. Their performance will included selected songs of Ina Boyle.

Ticket information can be found here.

Wicklow's Ina Boyle will be among the celebrated composers featured at the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival!

Boyle's "Phantasy" will be performed by Ruth Gibson (viola) & Fiachra Garvey (piano) on 8th May 2025.

Ticket information can be found here.

Ina Boyle’s Three Ancient Irish Poems will feature in a beautiful Evening Recital at the Leeds Lieder Festival 2025, by The Erda Ensemble, celebrating women in music!

The Erda Ensemble (www.erdaensemble.com) consists of:

Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano
@martafontanals Marta Fontanals-Simmons (voice) www.martafontanals.com

Chloë Vincent flute
@chloe_flutes_eats Chloe Vincent (flute) www.chloevincent.co.uk (flute)

Olivia Jageurs harp
@15secondharp (harp) www.olivia-harpist.com (harp)

Monday 7th April 2025. Doors and bar open from 7pm. Music starts at 8pm.

Further information including tickets can be found here.

The brochure for this year’s Leeds Lieder can be found here.

Irish Soprano, Helen Hancock and German pianist Paul Cibis, perform ‘Under (the light of) that same moon’, featuring Ina Boyle’s ‘Song of Enchantment’.

Catch them tonight at The Hardiman Hotel in Galway, followed by performances at the breathtaking Kylemore Abbey in Connemara and Dublin's historic St. Ann's, Dawson Street.

Ticket info here.

“Known for her storytelling and emotionally charged, authentic performances, Irish soprano Helen Hancock and German pianist Paul Cibis present beloved songs of Schubert, Strauss and Fauré in a beautiful evening of music which also includes On this Island by Benjamin Britten.

To mark St Patricks Day, the programme will also include Irish songs - At the Midhour of Night (Thomas Moore) set by Benjamin Britten, a song by Irish composer Ina Boyle, and two haunting settings of the Irish poet Máirtín Ó Direáin by Criostóir Ó Loingsigh. A rare chance to hear the Irish language in a classical music setting!

Leave the world behind and let the music wash over you in the warm and welcoming surrounds of the ballroom of the Hardiman Hotel, Galway.

Helen and Paul's collaboration began with a performance of their programme Zweisamkeit (Two Togetherness) in Würzburg, Germany in June 2024 as part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland, Germany. This programme was recorded and will be released as an album this year. A short video documenting this recording project can be viewed on this page- check it out.

This concert at the Hardiman Ballroom is supported by the Discipline of German, The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University of Galway and the Discipline of Music.”

The Nonesuch Orchestra with conductor Dan Shilladay will be performing their Annual Lunchtime Concert at St John’s Church in Harrow on Thursday, December 5th, 2024 12:30pm-1:45pm, featuring Ina Boyle, Adagio from the Quartet in E minor.

Full address: St John's Church, Sheepcote Road, Harrow HA1 2JE United Kingdom

The following is taken from the Nonesuch Orchestra’s website:

The Nonesuch Orchestra brings another adventurous programme of music to our regular winter concert at St John’s Church in Harrow on 5th December.

We will play four works spanning 66 years within the tumult of the twentieth century. You may not know all the composers but we hope you will find making their acquaintance as rewarding as we have during our rehearsals. Here’s the programme, which will last about an hour and a quarter:

Vaughan Williams - The Charterhouse Suite

Ina Boyle - Adagio from the Quartet in E minor, arranged for string orchestra by Dan Shilladay

Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances

Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Strings

Admission is free, with a retiring collection to help cover expenses. Light refreshments will be served from 11.45 am.

https://www.nonesuchorchestra.org.uk/events

Acclaimed Irish mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy and prize-winning Irish pianist Dearbhla Collins present a recital of songs, including those by Ina Boyle at the Kevin Barry Recital Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin, on Sunday, 1st December 2024, at 3 pm.

To book tickets, please click here.

St Paul’s Sinfonia, a chamber orchestra based in Greenwich and Lewisham, will be performing in St Alfege Church, Greenwich on Friday 15th November at 7.30pm.

Ina Boyle | Wild Geese
Glière | Horn Concerto
Schubert | Symphony No. 9

Nivanthi Karunaratne French horn
Andrew Morley conductor

This Friday, November 8th, the iconic BBC Concert Orchestra takes the stage at the legendary Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth for "Friday Night is Music Night." The program will feature a performance of Ina Boyle's "Wild Geese."

Tickets can be purchased here https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebwp8g and the concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 22 November 2024.

RODERICK WILLIAMS AND CHRISTOPHER GLYNN, ‘SONGS OF TRAVEL.’

Programme includes Ina Boyle’s A Song of Enchantment and The Joy of Earth

St Mary's Church, Lynton

https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/roderick-williams-and-christop

Ina Boyle Society is delighted to share that as part of the Music in Calary Summer Series 2024, Orla Shannon, David Scott and Aileen Cahill will be giving a recital called 'Ina Boyle and her World' on Saturday 22nd June. This will be held in Ina's home county of Wicklow.

For information & booking contact: 01 281 8118 or email derekneilson11@gmail.com