The West Ocean String Quartet

Collaboration has always been important to the members of quartet, and among those with whom they've performed and recorded are:

Mary Black

Mary's most recent album, Full Tide, featured the quartet, and a further track, Raglan Lane, recorded although not on the album, was featured on RTE's Late Late Show.

Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill

Neil Martin's song cycle for traditional voice and quartet, Oilean na Marbh, with words by Cathal O Searcaigh, was commissioned by Templebar Cultural Trust and was premiered in June 2006. It was written for Maighread.

Brian Kennedy

With Brian they guested on several television series, studio albums, a live DVD and CD. Also in concert, both as a guest of Brian, and Brian a guest of the quartet.

Matt Molloy

The collaboration with the Chieftains' flute-player came about after the quartet were invited to play in the National Concert Hall in Dublin as part of the Beo Festival in 2003. Neil Martin's The Guiding Moon was especially composed for Matt and premiered on that occasion, and Matt and the quartet have performed it frequently since. It is also the title track of the quartet's new CD.

Liam O'Flynn

Philip King's 2004 television programme on Christmas in Dingle strongly featured the quartet, both in their own right and in collaboration with Liam O'Flynn, in an arrangement of a movement from Shaun Davey's The Brendan Voyage.

Dervish

The quartet recorded with Dervish on their album Spirit.

Cathal O'Searcaigh

Neil Martin set four of Cathal's poems for Cathal's own voice and quartet, entitled Altú.

Tony McManus

The quartet were his special guests at Glasgow's Celtic Connections, 2005