Question of Taste: My grandmother used to bring Dad up on stage in a Moses basket

Séamus Hickey, 20, is from the Lough in Cork. He studies viola at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and chamber music with the Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie and various quartets.

Until 2018, he studied at CIT Cork School of Music. For the Ortús Chamber Music Festival in Cork (February 28 to March 1), he will be performing a new work, commissioned by the festival, as part of an ensemble that includes his sister, Mairéad Hickey.