About CAI

About CAI
Classical Arts Ireland is an arts social enterprise set up in 2011.  CAI’s aims are:

• To promote and develop a range of activities for public benefit in opera, ballet and classical music in Ireland
• To heighten national and international awareness of Ireland’s rich heritage in the classical arts
• To strengthen the place in Irish arts policy and provision of the classical arts.
• To actively address particular national needs in these fields, and
• To provide a focus for the large community of interest in the classical arts in Ireland.

Its principal activities in its first year are:

• The establishment and development of a long-term programme to produce scholarly performing editions, professional performance, and recordings of the large repertoire of important but unpublished Irish opera and art music.
• Advocacy for and promotion of an Irish Classical Arts archive.
• The promotion of the international Met Live in HD and Bolshoi Live in HD to audiences throughout Ireland.
• Policy advocacy to improve the extent and quality of national provision for the classical arts in Ireland.

A voluntary not-for profit organisation, CAI is established as a company limited by guarantee, registered in Ireland, company no. 499628.

A social enterprise, Classical Arts Ireland is funded purely by revenue from its programme activities, and by private donations in support of its programmes. It is not funded by government or by any government agency.

Classical Arts Ireland operates an innovative, flexible, and highly efficient organisational model. Core management and staffing is provided through donated professional services, with other professional staffing and services contracted as required for particular programme activities. This, along with earned revenue for some of its activities, enables 100% of all donations to be directed to CAI programmes.

Classical Arts Ireland is governed by a voluntary board of directors:
P. Brennan, C. Breathnach, C. Carey, D. O’Sullivan (Chairman), B. Walsh