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Patrik Kleemola: captivating

REVIEW

Patrik Kleemola, guitar

Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, February 17

A capacity audience basked not just in a beautiful sunlit morning, but in the spellbinding glow of this guitar recital by the young Finnish maestro Patrik Kleemona, who was on his first ever visit to Dublin for the Sunday@Noon concert series.

Kleemona is one of his county’s top performers and, among copious honours at home and abroad, founder and artistic director of one ...