comhaimseartha / of our times: autumn/winter 09/10
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The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance brings together the energies of performance, community outreach and artists in residence in the presentation of an array of events held on campus at the University of Limerick and within Limerick city. Details of these events are published each semester in the 'Of Our Time / Comhaimseartha' brochure.TRANSCRIPT
Of Our Times/Comhaimseartha
Irish World Academy of Music and DanceUniversity of Limerick
Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus CeolOllscoil Luimnigh
www.irishworldacademy.ie
Autumn
09An Fómhar
09
www.irishworldacademy.ie
Foundation BuildingUniversity of LimerickLimerick, IrelandTel: 353 61 202590
Front Cover photograph: ‘Firebird’ a choreography by 2009 Artist-in-Residence Breandán de Gallaí, performed by Breandán with students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance, as part of their final exam performance, June 09. © Declan English
Back Cover photograph: MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance StudentSatomi Mitera, May ’09 © Maurice Gunning
Design: Joseph Gervin
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick, as part of Blas Summer School, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Contents
01
02 Introduction
05 Lunchtime Concert Series
13 Seminar Series
17 Special Events
23 Bealach / Community Outreach at the Irish World Academy
29 Cónaí / Artists in Residence
35 Clár / Programmes at the Irish World Academy
37 Scholarships
40 Other Programmes and Arts Offices
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick, as part of Blas Summer School, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Contents
01
02 Introduction
05 Lunchtime Concert Series
13 Seminar Series
17 Special Events
23 Bealach / Community Outreach at the Irish World Academy
29 Cónaí / Artists in Residence
35 Clár / Programmes at the Irish World Academy
37 Scholarships
40 Other Programmes and Arts Offices
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Culture, Performanceand Healing
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Satomi Mitera, Breandán de Gallaí and Anna Shalubadova at their final performance exam, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Emotion is the currency of the performing arts. When culture is performed, emotion is channelled through human artistic action. Such action is itself an epiphany (or ‘showing’) of transformational potential that has the power to subvert the emotional body towards a catharsis (or ‘cleansing’). The healing power of such a process brings us back again and again to the site of artistic performance where this ‘showing’ creates its own arena of healing. Such catharsis can be at once both personal and social. The creation of a shared social arena through artistic performance can both undercut difference and recognise it simultaneously. The performer, the performed-to, the performed-with: all of these provide various points of perception of the artistic performed act. In all of this, the currency of emotion is the coin through which imbalances are redressed, stasis is averted or challenged, and emotional flow is facilitated.
Culture, Performance and Healing (CPH) is a research initiative in action towards deepening understanding and furthering experience of performed culture as a force of healing. This initiative interrogates the connection between the performance of culture and psychological, social, and political healing. It represents a shared vision within the University of Limerick between the Graduate Medical School, Health Sciences, the Office of the Vice President Research, and the Irish World Academy itself (where the initiative is centred). While the performing arts of music and dance are already established at the Irish World Academy, the Culture, Performance, and Healing initiative also dovetails with the emerging Stepping Stones project which is set to address the full range of the Festive Arts – including the spoken word – within the next academic year.
Culture, Performance, and Healing, therefore, recognises a kindred spirit in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the Department of English, Queen’s University, Belfast. The Seamus Heaney
Centre for Poetry is recognised as an international centre of research excellence, distinguished for both its engagement in critical scholarship, as well as its promotion of creative writing as a living art. By locating its enterprise at the crossroads between the creative and the critical, or the poetic and the practical, it resonates strongly with the ethos of the Irish World Academy, which takes the integration of performance practice and reflection as the touchstone of its pedagogical development.
The performative power of language in song, chant and poetry is a point of particular resonance between the Seamus Heaney Centre and Irish World Academy. The power of performed language to act as a healing agent through the physical, social and political body, is central to this research project. Heaney’s proposal in The Government of the Tongue that poetry can be a statement of ‘solidarity with the doomed, the deprived, the victimized, and the under-privileged’ or the image evoked in The Cure at Troy of ‘cures and healing wells’ as miracles of self-healing, articulate the power of the poetic to transform and heal.
CPH is an integrative research initiative located at the nexus of culture, performance and healing. The potential of performance expression – music, dance, poetry and song – to contribute to health and healing cannot be separated from its cultural framework, often a key factor in enforcing or inhibiting its efficacy. The initiative will facilitate arts practice research projects engaged in an exploration of the biological, psychological, emotional, political, social, and spiritual effect of performed expression in human culture.
The initiative aims to generate evidence-based outcomes which explore performance within cultures as an agent of health and healing. It will specifically focus on performance and healing with reference to the body, Limerick Regeneration, and Northern Ireland. It is expected that the
innovative combination of research methods including arts practice research, ethnography, survey and interviewing will delineate the relation-ship between the performing arts of music, dance, poetry and song and medical/social/political health. This will result in an understanding of how participation in performance arts contributes to the individual wellbeing of individuals as well as having transformative effects upon broader society.1 In Seamus Heaney’s translation of The Cure at Troy, the Chorus chants a cry of hope that links ‘self-healing’ with social and political healing. While “No poem or play or song/Can fully right a wrong/Inflicted or endured”, nonetheless the rhyming of ‘feeling’ and ‘healing’ carry the day and even make ‘hope’ and ‘history’ rhyme in a moment of miracle.
Call miracle self-healingThe utter self-revealingDouble-take of feeling.If there’s fire on the mountainAnd lightening and stormAnd a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearingThe outcry and the birth-cryOf new life at its term.It means once in a lifetimeThat justice can rise upAnd hope and history rhyme.
1Culture, Performance, and Healing outline document, Office of the Vice President Research, University of Limerick
Dr Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and Dance,University of Limerick
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Culture, Performanceand Healing
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Satomi Mitera, Breandán de Gallaí and Anna Shalubadova at their final performance exam, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Emotion is the currency of the performing arts. When culture is performed, emotion is channelled through human artistic action. Such action is itself an epiphany (or ‘showing’) of transformational potential that has the power to subvert the emotional body towards a catharsis (or ‘cleansing’). The healing power of such a process brings us back again and again to the site of artistic performance where this ‘showing’ creates its own arena of healing. Such catharsis can be at once both personal and social. The creation of a shared social arena through artistic performance can both undercut difference and recognise it simultaneously. The performer, the performed-to, the performed-with: all of these provide various points of perception of the artistic performed act. In all of this, the currency of emotion is the coin through which imbalances are redressed, stasis is averted or challenged, and emotional flow is facilitated.
Culture, Performance and Healing (CPH) is a research initiative in action towards deepening understanding and furthering experience of performed culture as a force of healing. This initiative interrogates the connection between the performance of culture and psychological, social, and political healing. It represents a shared vision within the University of Limerick between the Graduate Medical School, Health Sciences, the Office of the Vice President Research, and the Irish World Academy itself (where the initiative is centred). While the performing arts of music and dance are already established at the Irish World Academy, the Culture, Performance, and Healing initiative also dovetails with the emerging Stepping Stones project which is set to address the full range of the Festive Arts – including the spoken word – within the next academic year.
Culture, Performance, and Healing, therefore, recognises a kindred spirit in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the Department of English, Queen’s University, Belfast. The Seamus Heaney
Centre for Poetry is recognised as an international centre of research excellence, distinguished for both its engagement in critical scholarship, as well as its promotion of creative writing as a living art. By locating its enterprise at the crossroads between the creative and the critical, or the poetic and the practical, it resonates strongly with the ethos of the Irish World Academy, which takes the integration of performance practice and reflection as the touchstone of its pedagogical development.
The performative power of language in song, chant and poetry is a point of particular resonance between the Seamus Heaney Centre and Irish World Academy. The power of performed language to act as a healing agent through the physical, social and political body, is central to this research project. Heaney’s proposal in The Government of the Tongue that poetry can be a statement of ‘solidarity with the doomed, the deprived, the victimized, and the under-privileged’ or the image evoked in The Cure at Troy of ‘cures and healing wells’ as miracles of self-healing, articulate the power of the poetic to transform and heal.
CPH is an integrative research initiative located at the nexus of culture, performance and healing. The potential of performance expression – music, dance, poetry and song – to contribute to health and healing cannot be separated from its cultural framework, often a key factor in enforcing or inhibiting its efficacy. The initiative will facilitate arts practice research projects engaged in an exploration of the biological, psychological, emotional, political, social, and spiritual effect of performed expression in human culture.
The initiative aims to generate evidence-based outcomes which explore performance within cultures as an agent of health and healing. It will specifically focus on performance and healing with reference to the body, Limerick Regeneration, and Northern Ireland. It is expected that the
innovative combination of research methods including arts practice research, ethnography, survey and interviewing will delineate the relation-ship between the performing arts of music, dance, poetry and song and medical/social/political health. This will result in an understanding of how participation in performance arts contributes to the individual wellbeing of individuals as well as having transformative effects upon broader society.1 In Seamus Heaney’s translation of The Cure at Troy, the Chorus chants a cry of hope that links ‘self-healing’ with social and political healing. While “No poem or play or song/Can fully right a wrong/Inflicted or endured”, nonetheless the rhyming of ‘feeling’ and ‘healing’ carry the day and even make ‘hope’ and ‘history’ rhyme in a moment of miracle.
Call miracle self-healingThe utter self-revealingDouble-take of feeling.If there’s fire on the mountainAnd lightening and stormAnd a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearingThe outcry and the birth-cryOf new life at its term.It means once in a lifetimeThat justice can rise upAnd hope and history rhyme.
1Culture, Performance, and Healing outline document, Office of the Vice President Research, University of Limerick
Dr Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and Dance,University of Limerick
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www.irishworldacademy.ieMA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Student Anna Shalubadova, May ‘09
Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00p.m.September – December 2009
Venue: Performing Arts CentreLower Ground FloorFoundation BuildingUniversity of Limerick
Lunchtime ConcertSeries
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Admission FreeAll Welcome
05
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Professor Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202590Email: [email protected]
Ferenc Szücs, DirectorMA Classical String PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
Mary Nunan, DirectorMA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhone + 353 61 213464Email: [email protected]
Dr Catherine Foley, DirectorMA EthnochoreologyMA Irish Traditional Dance PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202922Email: [email protected]
Niall Keegan, DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music Performance(On sabbatical)
Sandra Joyce, Acting DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202565Email: [email protected]
Dr Colin Quigley, DirectorMA EthnomusicologyPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: [email protected]
Francis Ward, Acting Lecturer BA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202470Email: [email protected]
Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202653Email: [email protected]
Óscar Mascareñas Garza, DirectorBA Voice and DancePhone: + 353 61 202990Email: [email protected]
Julie Tiernan, DirectorCertificate in Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 234743Email: [email protected]
Paula Dundon, AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202149Email: [email protected]
Melissa Carty, Assistant AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202590Email: [email protected]
Ellen Byrne, Publicity Phone: + 353 61 202917Email: [email protected]
Jean Downey, DirectorMA Community Music Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) MA Education (Music)Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: [email protected]
Professor Jane Edwards, DirectorMA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 213122Email: [email protected]
Dr Simon Gilbertson, LecturerMA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: [email protected]
Eri Hirabayashi, Acting DirectorMA Ritual Chant and SongPhone: + 353 202960Email: [email protected]
Dr Helen Phelan, Course Director Doctoral Studies Phone: + 353 61 202575Email: [email protected]
Dr Aileen Dillane, DirectorBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202159Email: [email protected]
Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music & Dance(On sabbatical)
Mats Melin, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202542Email: [email protected]
04
www.irishworldacademy.ieMA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Student Anna Shalubadova, May ‘09
Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00p.m.September – December 2009
Venue: Performing Arts CentreLower Ground FloorFoundation BuildingUniversity of Limerick
Lunchtime ConcertSeries
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Admission FreeAll Welcome
05
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Professor Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202590Email: [email protected]
Ferenc Szücs, DirectorMA Classical String PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
Mary Nunan, DirectorMA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhone + 353 61 213464Email: [email protected]
Dr Catherine Foley, DirectorMA EthnochoreologyMA Irish Traditional Dance PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202922Email: [email protected]
Niall Keegan, DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music Performance(On sabbatical)
Sandra Joyce, Acting DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202565Email: [email protected]
Dr Colin Quigley, DirectorMA EthnomusicologyPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: [email protected]
Francis Ward, Acting Lecturer BA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202470Email: [email protected]
Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202653Email: [email protected]
Óscar Mascareñas Garza, DirectorBA Voice and DancePhone: + 353 61 202990Email: [email protected]
Julie Tiernan, DirectorCertificate in Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 234743Email: [email protected]
Paula Dundon, AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202149Email: [email protected]
Melissa Carty, Assistant AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202590Email: [email protected]
Ellen Byrne, Publicity Phone: + 353 61 202917Email: [email protected]
Jean Downey, DirectorMA Community Music Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) MA Education (Music)Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: [email protected]
Professor Jane Edwards, DirectorMA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 213122Email: [email protected]
Dr Simon Gilbertson, LecturerMA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: [email protected]
Eri Hirabayashi, Acting DirectorMA Ritual Chant and SongPhone: + 353 202960Email: [email protected]
Dr Helen Phelan, Course Director Doctoral Studies Phone: + 353 61 202575Email: [email protected]
Dr Aileen Dillane, DirectorBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202159Email: [email protected]
Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music & Dance(On sabbatical)
Mats Melin, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202542Email: [email protected]
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Pal Bánda Buille John Carty
06 07
Luke Daniels
Austin Durack
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Student Satomi Mitera, May ’09
Tuesday September 22nd
Mary Bergin (whistle)
Tin whistle player Mary Bergin was born in Shankill, Co Dublin, in 1949. Her mother played classical and traditional fiddle, and her father played the melodeon. Musicians like Paddy Hill, Mrs Crotty and Mrs Harrington were regular visitors to the house. The growing folk boom and the expansion of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann led to Comhaltas tours of Britain with, among others, Liam Og O Flynn and Matt Molloy and the US with Seamus Begley, Joe Burke and James Kelly. She played for five years with the Green Linnet Ceili Band in Dublin: Mick Hand, flute, Tommy Peoples on fiddle, Johnny McMahon, box, Liam Rowsome, fiddle. Then she joined Ceoltoiri Laigheann with Eamon de Buitlear, a group she found interesting for their arrangements and championing of lesser-known slow airs. She joined up with Dearbhaill Standun, Kathleen Loughnane and Martina Goggin in the early Nineties to form the baroque and traditional group Dordan and started writing tunes, including The Mistletoe Waltz. Four of her tunes are included on the Dordan CD Oiche Nollag/Christmas Capers. Beside some touring most of her time now is devoted to teaching, privately and in schools. She also teaches by correspondence to America, England and Australia.
Thursday September 24th
Pál Banda (cello)
Pal Banda is a cellist from Budapest, Hungary. He has just returned from the summer festival circuit where he has been teaching and performing in Hungary, France, Scotland, and England. He has been a member of several chamber music ensembles including the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Katin Piano Trio and was the cellist with the Allegri Quartet for 10 until 2008. He was one of the directors of the Paxos International Festival from1999-2004 and is also regularly invited as an adjudicator. Bach’s music has always occupied a special place in his repertoire.
Tuesday September 29th
Buille
Buille was formed in 2004 by Armagh born brothers Niall and Caoimhín Vallely along with Paul Meehan and Brian Morrissey as a vehicle to perform a body of new tunes written in a traditional style with contemporary arrangements. The resultant sound was picked up on by Donald Shaw and Vertical Records who immediately offered to produce and release the groups’ debut album. “Buille” was released in 2005 to rave reviews and was described in the Irish Times:
”Buille is as fresh a breath that's blown through traditional (and roots) circles in a long, long time.”
The group went on to tour extensively across Ireland, the UK, Europe, USA and Canada and along the way performed at such prestigious festivals as Celtic Connections in Glasgow, St. Chartier Festival in Central France, Festival de Cornouaille in Quimper, Brittany, Beo Festival at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Canada. Buille are back now with a new project and album entitled “Buille 2”. This is a much more ambitious project featuring more large scale compositions and arrangements and utilizing a much bigger ensemble. The new album will feature guest appearances from another brother Cillian on uilleann pipes, Zoë Conway on fiddle, Karen Dervan on viola, Kate Ellis on cello, Neil Yates on trumpet and flugelhorn, Ed Boyd and Paul Meehan on guitars and Brian Morrissey on bodhrán, percussion and banjo. The album will be released in Ireland in May and from then the band intends to bring the project on tour across the UK and Europe.
Thursday October 1st
Austin Durack (acoustic guitar) Joe Mulcahy (bass)
Austin Durack performs his own guitar instrumentals alongside new arrangements of jazz standards on jazz and Spanish guitars. He has had two appearances on RTÉ television in his short career as a guitarist and tunes from his last two albums have been played on RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Radio 1 and Raidió Na Gaeltachta. He performed W C Handy’s St Louis Blues live on Pat Kenny’s programme (RTE Radio 1) in October 2006 and played 4 tracks from his new album ‘A Guitar Journey’ on The Arts Show (RTE Radio 1) to wide acclaim on January 13th this year. The new album has been hailed as a success internationally as well as in Ireland with excellent reviews in the UK’s Acoustic magazine and in the US publication 20th Century Guitar. He will be accompanied by bass player Joe Mulcahy who features on the new album. Joe was a member of one of Limerick’s best- known rock bands, Reform and played with the Limerick Jazz Quartet.
Tuesday October 6th
Traditional Music Performance
John Carty (Fiddle/Banjo) Luke Daniels (button accordion)
Luke Daniels is one of a new breed of contemporary composers coming from a background of folk and traditional music, 1992 BBC Young Tradition Award Winner and ex Riverdance band member. Luke was more recently selected to take part in the Distil programme organised by the Scottish Arts Council, an event through which he met Judith Weir. His latest piece ‘Circle of Stone’ was recently featured on BBC Radio 3‘s In Tune programme. Previous commissions have been performed at the English National Opera Works, London Jazz Festival, South Bank’s ‘Folk in the Fall’ and at The Royal Festival. His work has received support in the past from Arts Council England, The Performing Rights Society Foundation and The Scottish Arts Council. John Carty is one of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians having been awarded the Irish Television station, TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003. Born in London, he has established himself among the elite in Irish traditional music and as a staunch supporter of its preservation. His 1996 album ‘Last Night’s Fun’ has been described as
a milestone in recorded fiddle music. He performs regularly with Chieftains flautist Matt Molloy exploring the North Connaught tradition they both love. A CD of their music accompanied by Arty McGlynn entitled Pathway to the Well was launched in late 2007. He is also touring the UK, US and Ireland with re-formed super group, Patrick Street. The group includes legendary musicians Andy Irvine, Kevin Burke and Ged Foley. He has also appeared as a special guest with the Chieftains and De Dannan.
Iris
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Lunc
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t Se
ries Mary Bergin
Pal Bánda Buille John Carty
06 07
Luke Daniels
Austin Durack
MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Student Satomi Mitera, May ’09
Tuesday September 22nd
Mary Bergin (whistle)
Tin whistle player Mary Bergin was born in Shankill, Co Dublin, in 1949. Her mother played classical and traditional fiddle, and her father played the melodeon. Musicians like Paddy Hill, Mrs Crotty and Mrs Harrington were regular visitors to the house. The growing folk boom and the expansion of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann led to Comhaltas tours of Britain with, among others, Liam Og O Flynn and Matt Molloy and the US with Seamus Begley, Joe Burke and James Kelly. She played for five years with the Green Linnet Ceili Band in Dublin: Mick Hand, flute, Tommy Peoples on fiddle, Johnny McMahon, box, Liam Rowsome, fiddle. Then she joined Ceoltoiri Laigheann with Eamon de Buitlear, a group she found interesting for their arrangements and championing of lesser-known slow airs. She joined up with Dearbhaill Standun, Kathleen Loughnane and Martina Goggin in the early Nineties to form the baroque and traditional group Dordan and started writing tunes, including The Mistletoe Waltz. Four of her tunes are included on the Dordan CD Oiche Nollag/Christmas Capers. Beside some touring most of her time now is devoted to teaching, privately and in schools. She also teaches by correspondence to America, England and Australia.
Thursday September 24th
Pál Banda (cello)
Pal Banda is a cellist from Budapest, Hungary. He has just returned from the summer festival circuit where he has been teaching and performing in Hungary, France, Scotland, and England. He has been a member of several chamber music ensembles including the Fitzwilliam Quartet, Katin Piano Trio and was the cellist with the Allegri Quartet for 10 until 2008. He was one of the directors of the Paxos International Festival from1999-2004 and is also regularly invited as an adjudicator. Bach’s music has always occupied a special place in his repertoire.
Tuesday September 29th
Buille
Buille was formed in 2004 by Armagh born brothers Niall and Caoimhín Vallely along with Paul Meehan and Brian Morrissey as a vehicle to perform a body of new tunes written in a traditional style with contemporary arrangements. The resultant sound was picked up on by Donald Shaw and Vertical Records who immediately offered to produce and release the groups’ debut album. “Buille” was released in 2005 to rave reviews and was described in the Irish Times:
”Buille is as fresh a breath that's blown through traditional (and roots) circles in a long, long time.”
The group went on to tour extensively across Ireland, the UK, Europe, USA and Canada and along the way performed at such prestigious festivals as Celtic Connections in Glasgow, St. Chartier Festival in Central France, Festival de Cornouaille in Quimper, Brittany, Beo Festival at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Canada. Buille are back now with a new project and album entitled “Buille 2”. This is a much more ambitious project featuring more large scale compositions and arrangements and utilizing a much bigger ensemble. The new album will feature guest appearances from another brother Cillian on uilleann pipes, Zoë Conway on fiddle, Karen Dervan on viola, Kate Ellis on cello, Neil Yates on trumpet and flugelhorn, Ed Boyd and Paul Meehan on guitars and Brian Morrissey on bodhrán, percussion and banjo. The album will be released in Ireland in May and from then the band intends to bring the project on tour across the UK and Europe.
Thursday October 1st
Austin Durack (acoustic guitar) Joe Mulcahy (bass)
Austin Durack performs his own guitar instrumentals alongside new arrangements of jazz standards on jazz and Spanish guitars. He has had two appearances on RTÉ television in his short career as a guitarist and tunes from his last two albums have been played on RTÉ lyric fm, RTÉ Radio 1 and Raidió Na Gaeltachta. He performed W C Handy’s St Louis Blues live on Pat Kenny’s programme (RTE Radio 1) in October 2006 and played 4 tracks from his new album ‘A Guitar Journey’ on The Arts Show (RTE Radio 1) to wide acclaim on January 13th this year. The new album has been hailed as a success internationally as well as in Ireland with excellent reviews in the UK’s Acoustic magazine and in the US publication 20th Century Guitar. He will be accompanied by bass player Joe Mulcahy who features on the new album. Joe was a member of one of Limerick’s best- known rock bands, Reform and played with the Limerick Jazz Quartet.
Tuesday October 6th
Traditional Music Performance
John Carty (Fiddle/Banjo) Luke Daniels (button accordion)
Luke Daniels is one of a new breed of contemporary composers coming from a background of folk and traditional music, 1992 BBC Young Tradition Award Winner and ex Riverdance band member. Luke was more recently selected to take part in the Distil programme organised by the Scottish Arts Council, an event through which he met Judith Weir. His latest piece ‘Circle of Stone’ was recently featured on BBC Radio 3‘s In Tune programme. Previous commissions have been performed at the English National Opera Works, London Jazz Festival, South Bank’s ‘Folk in the Fall’ and at The Royal Festival. His work has received support in the past from Arts Council England, The Performing Rights Society Foundation and The Scottish Arts Council. John Carty is one of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians having been awarded the Irish Television station, TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003. Born in London, he has established himself among the elite in Irish traditional music and as a staunch supporter of its preservation. His 1996 album ‘Last Night’s Fun’ has been described as
a milestone in recorded fiddle music. He performs regularly with Chieftains flautist Matt Molloy exploring the North Connaught tradition they both love. A CD of their music accompanied by Arty McGlynn entitled Pathway to the Well was launched in late 2007. He is also touring the UK, US and Ireland with re-formed super group, Patrick Street. The group includes legendary musicians Andy Irvine, Kevin Burke and Ged Foley. He has also appeared as a special guest with the Chieftains and De Dannan.
Thursday October 8th
Rhian Duo (Tara-Lee Byrne cello, Tala Tutunji piano)
Irish cellist Tara-Lee Byrne and Jordanian/Palestinian pianist Tala Tutunji formed the Rhian Duo in 2008, when they were both Masters students at Trinity College of Music, London. While classical music forms a large body of their repertoire, Tara-Lee and Tala are proud of their respective cultural heritage and background. Together they have developed a unique partnership blending old and contemporary traditional Irish and Middle Eastern music creating a fusion of eastern and western elements. The Rhian Duo is strongly committed to the performance of works by living contemporary composers across the globe with various commissions specially written for them. They are currently working on projects incorporating multimedia, dance and literature. The duo’s performances include the Cheltenham Music Festival, and Wigmore Hall, London. Future engagements in 2009 include a concert tour of Ireland including The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sweden and an extensive concert tour of The Middle East including Jordan and Dubai.
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Chris Wood
08 Nomad tutor Antonio Garcia Lopez with Certificate Music and Dance student Selina O’Leary
Tuesday October 13th
Chris Wood (vocals, fiddle, guitar)
Chris Wood is a multi award-winning artist at the centre of English folk music. Heralded as “the renaissance man of English folk” by The Irish Times, Chris won the BBC Folk Award’s “Best New Song” in 2006 and “Best Traditional Track” in 2007 with The Imagined Village. 2009 saw him recognised as “Singer of the Year” with this latest album Trespasser awarded “Album of the Year” at the BBC 2 Folk Awards. He is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the unofficial history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables, his writing has been said to share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson at his best.A double album compilation of his work over the past 20 years, entitled ‘Albion’ was released in June of this year to rapturous reviews:
‘Last year's ‘Trespasser’ album transformed Chris Wood's reputation. He has been (rightly) much hailed, and won folk singer of the year and album of the year at the latest BBC folk awards. But he is no overnight sensation, and this timely anthology is a reminder of his decade-plus career already’. The Guardian
‘Known as either the renaissance man of British folk or indeed the greatest singer-songwriter in Britain today, Wood’s material is frequently emotional – stripped down, shivers-down-spine moments of candid emotion’. BBC Music on-line
...it is his own compositions, which share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson's best writing, that make this CD special. The Times, London
Rhian Duo
Thursday October 15th
Redmond O’Toole (guitar)
Through his unorthodox playing style and committed musicianship Redmond O’Toole has emerged as one of the most innovative and exciting young guitarists in Europe. He plays an 8-string ‘Brahms guitar’ in the cello position connected to a special resonating box. The additional range of the guitar allows an expansion of the repertoire as well as incorporating original music for classical guitar. He has performed a number of major Concerti with Orchestra and played first guitar in the critically acclaimed Dublin Guitar Quartet from its foundation until 2005. He has collaborated with performers such as the Chieftains, the Callino Quartet, Soprano Charlotte Riedijk, violinists Cora Venus Lunny and Elizabeth Cooney. He has performed on numerous TV and Radio shows in the UK and Ireland and his videos receive regular broadcasts on Classic FM TV. His repertoire features many of his own arrangements of Baroque and Classical music previously unknown on guitar. He is also highly interested in new music and has premiered works by major composers including Kevin Volans, John Mc Laughlin and Benjamin Dwyer.
Redmond O’Toole
Thursday October 22nd
Rebecca C ̌ ápová (piano)
Rebecca was born into a musical family in Cork. Her earliest studies were with Eleanor Malone at the Cork School of Music and with Mabel Swainson in Dublin. In 2000 she was accepted as a student of Pavel Gililov at the Hochschule fur Musik, Cologne. During her studies there, she was awarded several prizes, including 2nd Prize at the International Piano Competition Citta Di Sulmona, Italy; the Concerto Prize in Cologne and the Belfast Classical Music Bursary. While studying on the Masters degree program at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts she won 1st Prize at the International Piano Competition Citta Di Sangemini and the Lyons Club Bursary in Cork. In 2008 she was awarded 1st Prize in the Premio Pianistico ”Silvio Begnalli”, as well as 3rd Prize at the Concorso Internazionale dei Duchi d’Aquaviva. In 2007 she was awarded a First Class Honours Masters Degree in Prague. She is presently a ”Konzertexaman” student of Pavel Gililov in Cologne. Forthcoming engagements include tours of China and Japan in 2010, a performance of concerto no. 8 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and recitals in Ireland and Italy.
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Thursday October 8th
Rhian Duo (Tara-Lee Byrne cello, Tala Tutunji piano)
Irish cellist Tara-Lee Byrne and Jordanian/Palestinian pianist Tala Tutunji formed the Rhian Duo in 2008, when they were both Masters students at Trinity College of Music, London. While classical music forms a large body of their repertoire, Tara-Lee and Tala are proud of their respective cultural heritage and background. Together they have developed a unique partnership blending old and contemporary traditional Irish and Middle Eastern music creating a fusion of eastern and western elements. The Rhian Duo is strongly committed to the performance of works by living contemporary composers across the globe with various commissions specially written for them. They are currently working on projects incorporating multimedia, dance and literature. The duo’s performances include the Cheltenham Music Festival, and Wigmore Hall, London. Future engagements in 2009 include a concert tour of Ireland including The National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sweden and an extensive concert tour of The Middle East including Jordan and Dubai.
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08 Nomad tutor Antonio Garcia Lopez with Certificate Music and Dance student Selina O’Leary
Tuesday October 13th
Chris Wood (vocals, fiddle, guitar)
Chris Wood is a multi award-winning artist at the centre of English folk music. Heralded as “the renaissance man of English folk” by The Irish Times, Chris won the BBC Folk Award’s “Best New Song” in 2006 and “Best Traditional Track” in 2007 with The Imagined Village. 2009 saw him recognised as “Singer of the Year” with this latest album Trespasser awarded “Album of the Year” at the BBC 2 Folk Awards. He is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the unofficial history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables, his writing has been said to share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson at his best.A double album compilation of his work over the past 20 years, entitled ‘Albion’ was released in June of this year to rapturous reviews:
‘Last year's ‘Trespasser’ album transformed Chris Wood's reputation. He has been (rightly) much hailed, and won folk singer of the year and album of the year at the latest BBC folk awards. But he is no overnight sensation, and this timely anthology is a reminder of his decade-plus career already’. The Guardian
‘Known as either the renaissance man of British folk or indeed the greatest singer-songwriter in Britain today, Wood’s material is frequently emotional – stripped down, shivers-down-spine moments of candid emotion’. BBC Music on-line
...it is his own compositions, which share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson's best writing, that make this CD special. The Times, London
Rhian Duo
Thursday October 15th
Redmond O’Toole (guitar)
Through his unorthodox playing style and committed musicianship Redmond O’Toole has emerged as one of the most innovative and exciting young guitarists in Europe. He plays an 8-string ‘Brahms guitar’ in the cello position connected to a special resonating box. The additional range of the guitar allows an expansion of the repertoire as well as incorporating original music for classical guitar. He has performed a number of major Concerti with Orchestra and played first guitar in the critically acclaimed Dublin Guitar Quartet from its foundation until 2005. He has collaborated with performers such as the Chieftains, the Callino Quartet, Soprano Charlotte Riedijk, violinists Cora Venus Lunny and Elizabeth Cooney. He has performed on numerous TV and Radio shows in the UK and Ireland and his videos receive regular broadcasts on Classic FM TV. His repertoire features many of his own arrangements of Baroque and Classical music previously unknown on guitar. He is also highly interested in new music and has premiered works by major composers including Kevin Volans, John Mc Laughlin and Benjamin Dwyer.
Redmond O’Toole
Thursday October 22nd
Rebecca C ̌ ápová (piano)
Rebecca was born into a musical family in Cork. Her earliest studies were with Eleanor Malone at the Cork School of Music and with Mabel Swainson in Dublin. In 2000 she was accepted as a student of Pavel Gililov at the Hochschule fur Musik, Cologne. During her studies there, she was awarded several prizes, including 2nd Prize at the International Piano Competition Citta Di Sulmona, Italy; the Concerto Prize in Cologne and the Belfast Classical Music Bursary. While studying on the Masters degree program at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts she won 1st Prize at the International Piano Competition Citta Di Sangemini and the Lyons Club Bursary in Cork. In 2008 she was awarded 1st Prize in the Premio Pianistico ”Silvio Begnalli”, as well as 3rd Prize at the Concorso Internazionale dei Duchi d’Aquaviva. In 2007 she was awarded a First Class Honours Masters Degree in Prague. She is presently a ”Konzertexaman” student of Pavel Gililov in Cologne. Forthcoming engagements include tours of China and Japan in 2010, a performance of concerto no. 8 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and recitals in Ireland and Italy.
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Tuesday October 27th
Seán Ryan (whistle)
From Cashel Co Tipperary, Sean Ryan is the renowned whistle player and singer. He is probably just as well known as being the owner of Leap Castle 15th century stronghold of the O Carroll Clan, which is believed to be one of the most haunted sites in Ireland. Sean widely regarded as the finest tin whistle player in Ireland and his CD, ‘Take the Air‘ is described as “One of the sweetest recordings on penny whistle to date” (Brian Finnegan - Tin Whistle Tutor). His unique style allows the whistle to sing in a manner not often heard and is often quoted as being the inspiration behind many of the country’s younger musicians.
Thursday October 29th
Students of MA in Classical String Performance Solo and ensemble pieces from students of this year’s MA Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy.
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Monday November 2nd
Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny’s Mozaik
First envisaged by venerable vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine (Planxty, Patrick Street), Mozaik is the ultimate global string band - a truly international ensemble who can not only perform music from a wide array of cultures, but interweave their myriad influences into an entirely new sound. Mozaik moves effortlessly from Celtic to old-time to Eastern European music, with intricate string arrangements complementing Andy and Bruce’s vocals. The line-up boasts musicians as versatile and eclectic as the music created between them, whose traditions and styles are distinct yet blend beautifully to form a cohesive work of art. Long time fans from Irvine's Planxty days will be aware that he has been experimenting with Eastern European melodies and rhythms for a long time now, which is a style he incorporates magnificently into this band.
Andy Irvine: vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica Donal Lunny: vocals, bouzouki, guitar bodhrán Bruce Molsky: vocals, fiddle, 5-string banjo Nikola Parov: gadulka, gaida, kaval, tin whistle, clarinet, guitar, kalimba Rens van der Zalm: vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar
Seán Ryan
Niamh Roche After completing an MA in Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2005, Niamh did a PGDip at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she won theJosephine Euler Award and was awarded the highly coveted D-day fund. In 2008 Niamh began studying with Bruno Giuranna on the MA programme at the University of Limerick, where she won an RTÉ lyric fm scholarship. She has worked as principal violist with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis in London, and deps regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Programme:
W.A. Mozart ‘Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, E-flat Major, K.364.
Movements: I. Allegro MaestosoII. AdagioIII. Presto
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Thursday November 5th
Catherine Humhreys (violin) & Niamh Roche (viola)
Catherine Humphreys began studying the violin at the age of six in the Cork School of Music. She has LTCL Diploma in Violin Performance from Trinity College of Music in London. Recently, Catherine graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Clinical Speech and Language Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently studying with Mariana Sirbu as part of the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy, UL. She works regularly as a freelance violinist in Dublin and throughout Ireland. She has been invited to perform with the World Youth Orchestra on three occasions, and has played with this ensemble for the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She is a deputy violinist with the RTE Concert Orchestra and has worked with the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
Tuesday November 3rd
Fidil
(Aidan O’Donnell, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Damien McGeehan)
Fidil is one of the most talked-about young traditional bands to have emerged from Ireland in recent years, and comprises three exceptional Donegal fiddle players: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, TG4 Young Musician of the Year 2003 from Gaoth Dobhair is one of the influential Ó Maonaigh clan which included his grandfather, the late Francie Mooney and Altan’s Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. Ciarán is three-time Oireachtas fiddle champion and has produced and presented many programmes for TG4. Aidan O’Donnell is from Dunkineely Co Donegal and has been described as one of the finest young traditional musicians in Ireland today. A graduate of the Irish World Academy, he released a critically acclaimed debut album in ‘In Safe Hands’ in 2006 with Mayo flute player Kieran Munnelly and has performed with some of traditional music’s finest artists, including Donal Lunny and The Chieftains. Damien McGeehan studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance (Glasgow), and recently achieved a BA Irish Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy and has since toured Ireland the UK, Australia and Scandinavia and made numerous national and international TV appearances.
Niamh Roche
Thursday November 5th
Ritual Chant & Song Students of the MA Ritual Chant Performance at the Irish World Academy perform solo and ensemble pieces.
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Tuesday October 27th
Seán Ryan (whistle)
From Cashel Co Tipperary, Sean Ryan is the renowned whistle player and singer. He is probably just as well known as being the owner of Leap Castle 15th century stronghold of the O Carroll Clan, which is believed to be one of the most haunted sites in Ireland. Sean widely regarded as the finest tin whistle player in Ireland and his CD, ‘Take the Air‘ is described as “One of the sweetest recordings on penny whistle to date” (Brian Finnegan - Tin Whistle Tutor). His unique style allows the whistle to sing in a manner not often heard and is often quoted as being the inspiration behind many of the country’s younger musicians.
Thursday October 29th
Students of MA in Classical String Performance Solo and ensemble pieces from students of this year’s MA Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy.
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Monday November 2nd
Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny’s Mozaik
First envisaged by venerable vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine (Planxty, Patrick Street), Mozaik is the ultimate global string band - a truly international ensemble who can not only perform music from a wide array of cultures, but interweave their myriad influences into an entirely new sound. Mozaik moves effortlessly from Celtic to old-time to Eastern European music, with intricate string arrangements complementing Andy and Bruce’s vocals. The line-up boasts musicians as versatile and eclectic as the music created between them, whose traditions and styles are distinct yet blend beautifully to form a cohesive work of art. Long time fans from Irvine's Planxty days will be aware that he has been experimenting with Eastern European melodies and rhythms for a long time now, which is a style he incorporates magnificently into this band.
Andy Irvine: vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica Donal Lunny: vocals, bouzouki, guitar bodhrán Bruce Molsky: vocals, fiddle, 5-string banjo Nikola Parov: gadulka, gaida, kaval, tin whistle, clarinet, guitar, kalimba Rens van der Zalm: vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar
Seán Ryan
Niamh Roche After completing an MA in Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2005, Niamh did a PGDip at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she won theJosephine Euler Award and was awarded the highly coveted D-day fund. In 2008 Niamh began studying with Bruno Giuranna on the MA programme at the University of Limerick, where she won an RTÉ lyric fm scholarship. She has worked as principal violist with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis in London, and deps regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Programme:
W.A. Mozart ‘Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, E-flat Major, K.364.
Movements: I. Allegro MaestosoII. AdagioIII. Presto
Catherine Humpreys
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Thursday November 5th
Catherine Humhreys (violin) & Niamh Roche (viola)
Catherine Humphreys began studying the violin at the age of six in the Cork School of Music. She has LTCL Diploma in Violin Performance from Trinity College of Music in London. Recently, Catherine graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Clinical Speech and Language Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently studying with Mariana Sirbu as part of the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy, UL. She works regularly as a freelance violinist in Dublin and throughout Ireland. She has been invited to perform with the World Youth Orchestra on three occasions, and has played with this ensemble for the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She is a deputy violinist with the RTE Concert Orchestra and has worked with the Lyric Opera Orchestra.
Tuesday November 3rd
Fidil
(Aidan O’Donnell, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Damien McGeehan)
Fidil is one of the most talked-about young traditional bands to have emerged from Ireland in recent years, and comprises three exceptional Donegal fiddle players: Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, TG4 Young Musician of the Year 2003 from Gaoth Dobhair is one of the influential Ó Maonaigh clan which included his grandfather, the late Francie Mooney and Altan’s Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. Ciarán is three-time Oireachtas fiddle champion and has produced and presented many programmes for TG4. Aidan O’Donnell is from Dunkineely Co Donegal and has been described as one of the finest young traditional musicians in Ireland today. A graduate of the Irish World Academy, he released a critically acclaimed debut album in ‘In Safe Hands’ in 2006 with Mayo flute player Kieran Munnelly and has performed with some of traditional music’s finest artists, including Donal Lunny and The Chieftains. Damien McGeehan studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance (Glasgow), and recently achieved a BA Irish Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy and has since toured Ireland the UK, Australia and Scandinavia and made numerous national and international TV appearances.
Niamh Roche
Thursday November 5th
Ritual Chant & Song Students of the MA Ritual Chant Performance at the Irish World Academy perform solo and ensemble pieces.
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2.30 – 5.00p.m.
Venue: Music Room BLower Ground FloorFoundation BuildingUniversity of Limerick
Seminar Series
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Admission FreeAll Welcome
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(1.15 pm and 5 pm)
Traditional Music Performance
Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance in concert
Thursday 12th
Ritual Chant and Song
Students of the MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Academy perform solo and ensemble pieces
Tuesday November 17th
Traditional Music Performance
Thursday November 19th
Contemporary Dance Performance
Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy in solo and ensemble pieces.
Tuesday November 24th
Traditional Dance Performance
Solo and ensemble pieces from students of the Irish World Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance.
Wednesday November 25th
Irish Traditional Music and Dance Performance
Students of the BA Irish Music and Dance will perform ensemble work and the Final Year students will perform part of their Final Year performances.
Thursday November 26th
University of Limerick Gospel Choir
In aid of Hope and Homes for Children, Romania
Gospel is a powerful vocal tradition, intended to inspire, uplift and engage both the audience and the singer. The UL Gospel Choir embodies this intention inits performances, through a wide repertoire that ranges from traditional and contemporary Gospel to other related genres such as Blues, Soul and Funk. This year the choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy and director of the city based Limerick Gospel Choir. The choir continues its long established affiliation with ’Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation.
www.hopeandhomes.org
University of Limerick Gospel Choir Musician, composer and music therapist Tommy Hayes at the International Music and Medicine Conference, hosted by the Irish World Academy, April 09
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2.30 – 5.00p.m.
Venue: Music Room BLower Ground FloorFoundation BuildingUniversity of Limerick
Seminar Series
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Admission FreeAll Welcome
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Tuesday November 10th,Wednesday 11th
(1.15 pm and 5 pm)
Traditional Music Performance
Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance in concert
Thursday 12th
Ritual Chant and Song
Students of the MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Academy perform solo and ensemble pieces
Tuesday November 17th
Traditional Music Performance
Thursday November 19th
Contemporary Dance Performance
Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy in solo and ensemble pieces.
Tuesday November 24th
Traditional Dance Performance
Solo and ensemble pieces from students of the Irish World Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance.
Wednesday November 25th
Irish Traditional Music and Dance Performance
Students of the BA Irish Music and Dance will perform ensemble work and the Final Year students will perform part of their Final Year performances.
Thursday November 26th
University of Limerick Gospel Choir
In aid of Hope and Homes for Children, Romania
Gospel is a powerful vocal tradition, intended to inspire, uplift and engage both the audience and the singer. The UL Gospel Choir embodies this intention inits performances, through a wide repertoire that ranges from traditional and contemporary Gospel to other related genres such as Blues, Soul and Funk. This year the choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy and director of the city based Limerick Gospel Choir. The choir continues its long established affiliation with ’Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation.
www.hopeandhomes.org
University of Limerick Gospel Choir Musician, composer and music therapist Tommy Hayes at the International Music and Medicine Conference, hosted by the Irish World Academy, April 09
Wednesday October 14th
Jewish Liturgical Music
Speakers: Dr Jane Mink RossenMelanie Brown
Jane Mink Rossen Title: A Fusion of Traditions
Jane Mink Rossen (USA and Denmark) holds a Doctorate in Ethnomusicology from Copenhagen University, Denmark, and a Masters degree from Columbia University. She has served as Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Copenhagen University’s Department of Musicology, as Research Associate at the Danish Folklore Archives and as Senior Research Fellow at the Danish Council for Research in the Humanities. In addition to the present study on Jewish music in Denmark and numerous scholarly entries in encyclopaedias, she is the author of a two-volume monograph based on her research in the Solomon Islands, Songs of Bellona Island (1987) and a catalog of the non-European recordings at the Danish Folklore Archives (1989). Dr. Rossen has participated in conferences worldwide, and pursued strong interests in North American Indian music, Danish folk poetry and Klezmer music.
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Melanie BrownTitle: Jewish Liturgical Music in Dublin: Changing Styles within One Tradition
This discussion focuses on contrasting musical styles found within the Jewish Sabbath morning service heldin Dublin. While format, text and language remain constant, many musical genres, forms and modalities are heard during this through-sung service, and variations upon these occur on a weekly basis. Such differences are reflected through the performance practices of those who lead the service. The attempt is made to enumerate and define these differences, illustrated by the use of recordings of clergy and lay-readers which form part of the basis for this research, together with observations made through regular attendance at the service. Melanie Brown is graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and NUI, Maynooth. She was formerly Composer-in-Residence to the National Chamber Choir, and now works at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Under the supervision of Dr. Helen Phelan at the Irish World Academy, she is currently in the process of completing a PhD on the subject of Jewish liturgical music in Dublin.
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Monday November 2nd
’Mozaik: East-West influences on Irish Traditional Music’
Chair: Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Irish World Academy)
Speakers: Niall Keegan (Irish World Academy)Dr Colin Quigley (Irish World Academy)
Mozaik: From Ireland to the Balkans and Beyond
Andy Irvine has been a path breaker in bringing his experience of music in the Balkans into Irish music since his return from travels there in 1969. His 1985 band Mosaic, that followed on the East Wind recording project produced by Bill Whelan, brought musicians from various European countries together and led to the later 1996 tour of Andy Irvine's East Wind Trio. His latest ensemble, the group Mozaik, brings the veterans from these explorations Nikoloa Parov, Rens Van der Zalm, and Donal Lunny together with the American old-timey musician Bruce Molsky.
To coincide with the two-day residency at the Irish World Academy of the band Mozaik, this seminar on the fertility of such musical affinities, will take the form of a Question and Answer session with members of the band, facilitated by Niall Keegan, Director of the Academy’s MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance.
Jane Mink Rossen
Donal Lunny
Wednesday October 14th
Jewish Liturgical Music
Speakers: Dr Jane Mink RossenMelanie Brown
Jane Mink Rossen Title: A Fusion of Traditions
Jane Mink Rossen (USA and Denmark) holds a Doctorate in Ethnomusicology from Copenhagen University, Denmark, and a Masters degree from Columbia University. She has served as Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Copenhagen University’s Department of Musicology, as Research Associate at the Danish Folklore Archives and as Senior Research Fellow at the Danish Council for Research in the Humanities. In addition to the present study on Jewish music in Denmark and numerous scholarly entries in encyclopaedias, she is the author of a two-volume monograph based on her research in the Solomon Islands, Songs of Bellona Island (1987) and a catalog of the non-European recordings at the Danish Folklore Archives (1989). Dr. Rossen has participated in conferences worldwide, and pursued strong interests in North American Indian music, Danish folk poetry and Klezmer music.
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Melanie BrownTitle: Jewish Liturgical Music in Dublin: Changing Styles within One Tradition
This discussion focuses on contrasting musical styles found within the Jewish Sabbath morning service heldin Dublin. While format, text and language remain constant, many musical genres, forms and modalities are heard during this through-sung service, and variations upon these occur on a weekly basis. Such differences are reflected through the performance practices of those who lead the service. The attempt is made to enumerate and define these differences, illustrated by the use of recordings of clergy and lay-readers which form part of the basis for this research, together with observations made through regular attendance at the service. Melanie Brown is graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and NUI, Maynooth. She was formerly Composer-in-Residence to the National Chamber Choir, and now works at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Under the supervision of Dr. Helen Phelan at the Irish World Academy, she is currently in the process of completing a PhD on the subject of Jewish liturgical music in Dublin.
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Monday November 2nd
’Mozaik: East-West influences on Irish Traditional Music’
Chair: Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Irish World Academy)
Speakers: Niall Keegan (Irish World Academy)Dr Colin Quigley (Irish World Academy)
Mozaik: From Ireland to the Balkans and Beyond
Andy Irvine has been a path breaker in bringing his experience of music in the Balkans into Irish music since his return from travels there in 1969. His 1985 band Mosaic, that followed on the East Wind recording project produced by Bill Whelan, brought musicians from various European countries together and led to the later 1996 tour of Andy Irvine's East Wind Trio. His latest ensemble, the group Mozaik, brings the veterans from these explorations Nikoloa Parov, Rens Van der Zalm, and Donal Lunny together with the American old-timey musician Bruce Molsky.
To coincide with the two-day residency at the Irish World Academy of the band Mozaik, this seminar on the fertility of such musical affinities, will take the form of a Question and Answer session with members of the band, facilitated by Niall Keegan, Director of the Academy’s MA in Irish Traditional Music Performance.
Jane Mink Rossen
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Cork-based Congolese singer Niwel Tsumbu at a lunchtime concert performance at the Irish World Academy, Spring ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Fiddler Martin Hayes gives a masterclass at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, June ’09
Irish Chamber Orchestra Education Officer and Irish World Academy Graduate Kathleen Turner during the ICO’s ‘Sing out Galvone’ outreach project at Galvone School Limerick
Students of the Academy’s Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) at a lunchtime concert performance, Spring ’09
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Cork-based Congolese singer Niwel Tsumbu at a lunchtime concert performance at the Irish World Academy, Spring ’09
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Special Events
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
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Fiddler Martin Hayes gives a masterclass at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, June ’09
Irish Chamber Orchestra Education Officer and Irish World Academy Graduate Kathleen Turner during the ICO’s ‘Sing out Galvone’ outreach project at Galvone School Limerick
Students of the Academy’s Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) at a lunchtime concert performance, Spring ’09
Wednesday September 9th
Launch of the Music and Health Research Group
Guest presenter: Professor Even Ruud, University of Oslo
Even Ruud is Professor of Music in the Department of Music and Theatre, University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor in Music Therapy, The State Academy of Music, Oslo. He has published books about music therapy, music education and music and cultural studies, including, Music Therapy and its Relationship to Current Treatment Theories (1980), Musikken - vårt nye rusmiddel (1983), Music and Health (1986), Musikk for øyet (1988), Musikk og verdier (1996), Musikk og identitet (1997) and Music Therapy: Improvisation, Communication, and Culture (1998).
Music and Health Research Group
The Music and Health Research Group was formed in 2009 to provide a focus for research activities relating to music in healthcare in Ireland and internationally. The group comprises experts in the field of music therapy who between them have some two decades of experience in hospital-based music therapy service provision for a range of patient groups in four countries. The research group is collaborating on a series of position papers on the topics of music in infancy, music during pregnancy, and research approaches in evaluating the effectiveness of music practices in health care.
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Jane Edwards is the Director of the Music and Health Research Group at the University of Limerick, and is Guest Professor at the Institute for Music Therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She is programme leader the MA in Music Therapy in the Irish World Academy. Her publications include a recent edited book Music: Promoting health and creating community in healthcare contexts (2007) and a forthcoming publication with Oxford University Press Music therapy in parent-infant bonding. She has undertaken research in music therapy with hospitalised children, music therapy in parent infant bonding, and music therapy for people who have dementia. She is President of the International Association for Music and Medicine and has convened and chaired two highly successful international meetings in Limerick; Music & Health (2005) and Music & Medicine (2009).
Dr Simon Gilbertson is Lecturer on the MA in Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance since September 2007. He completed his postgraduate training as a music therapist at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London and the Institute of Music Therapy, University of Witten Herdecke, Germany. As a music therapy clinician he has worked in England and Germany in a range of clinical settings including work with children on the autistic spectrum, developmental challenges, children and adults with cancer, neurological illness and disease. He has worked as a research assistant on a major literature review project led by Professor David Aldridge at the Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University Witten Herdecke, Germany. He is on the editorial team of the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy and the Journal of Irish Creative Arts Therapies. Simon has
September 21st-26th
UL languages week
The first UL Languages Week will be held during the week commencing 21 September in anticipation of European Languages Day on 26 September. The aim of this campus-wide initiative is to promote awareness of languages and language learning. A series of multilingual events, including poetry readings, language taster classes, workshops, film screenings and theme days at various restaurants will be held on campus. These will be complemented by visiting speakers, a book launch and a panel discussion on language-related themes. The results of a survey on the language profile of the campus community will also be published.
www.ul.ie/~lcs/ for further details.
Wednesday September 23rd
Fair Play
Fundraising Concert for Global Information SharingPromoting Equality through Language and Cultural Diversity
The Action week for Global Information Sharing is a joint initiative by Translators without Borders and The Rosetta Foundation, supported by the Localisation Research Centre, World Wide Web Consortium, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, University of Limerick and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The concert takes place on Wednesday September 23rd
at 8 pm in St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick and features Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Mel Mercier, Tunde Jegede,Maya Jobarteh, Niwel Tsumbu and Eamonn Cagney. The concert takes place as part of AGIS The Action week for Global Information Sharing, hosted by the Localisation Research Centre at UL. The event will bring together hundreds of volunteer translators, localisation specialists and NGOs from all over the world to address the plague of global information poverty. It will bring hope to people currently deprived of vital information and energize a world community of translators and localisers to make a difference.
Tickets for the concert on September 23rd cost €30 and are available from www.agis09.org or from 1890 61 61 61
Friday October 16th
Dance artists: Making work, sustaining practice
Venue: Dromroe Village Hall, University of Limerick, 9.30 - 16.30
In recent years many interesting and innovative spaces have been developed with the expressed purpose of supporting dance artists to research, develop and present their work. All of these spaces and structures, whether they have been developed in response to individual and/or collective needs, or designed to act as catalysts for change, reflect the artistic, social and political ideals of the people who created them. This one
day event will provide an opportunity to hear presentations from invited panellists about models that have developed in specific cultural contexts, countries and counties. It will also provide an opportunity for discussion and debate about if, and how, these models support artists in building constructive relationships, in evolving their working process and in realising their aspirations to develop and disseminate their art.
Registration 9.30-10.00Panel One 10.00-11.30Jan Ritsema PerformingArtsForum (PAF)Panel Two 12.00–13.00Joan Davis www.gorsehill.netChristiane Blaise Le Pacifique | CDC GrenoblePanel Three 14.15-16.30Jane Kellaghan Blank Canvas Firkin Crane CorkMichael Klein Daghdha Dance Company LimerickDARI Dance Artists in Regional IrelandJulie Lockett Genesis Project Dublin
There is no admission cost for attendance at the forum but participants must book in advance. The forum is supported by the Arts Council’s European Cultural Contact Point, and is a joint initiative between Dance Ireland and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Further information and panellists’ profile: www.danceireland.ie
To book a place contact Dance Ireland: + 353 1 884 8103
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written two book chapters on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and has written his first book, Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Light on a Dark Night, with David Aldridge which has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In August 2008, Simon became a World Federation of Music Therapy Council Member as Regional Liaison for Europe.
Alison Ledger is an Irish Health Research Board Fellow, who is currently undertaking PhD research at the Irish World Academy supervised by Professor Edwards. Her experiences working as a music therapist with older adults, children with cancer, and families have led to an interest in music therapy service development. In her doctoral research, she is working to identify strategies to assist music therapists to establish new music therapy services in healthcare. Previously she completed a BMus and an MPhil in music therapy at the School of Music, University of Queensland. She has published a number of papers and book chapters. She has taught extensively on the MA in Music Therapy and also has developed and delivered lecture series to nursing, physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy students.
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Niwel Tsumbu who performs at the FAIR PLAY concert, Sept 23rd
Wednesday September 9th
Launch of the Music and Health Research Group
Guest presenter: Professor Even Ruud, University of Oslo
Even Ruud is Professor of Music in the Department of Music and Theatre, University of Oslo and Adjunct Professor in Music Therapy, The State Academy of Music, Oslo. He has published books about music therapy, music education and music and cultural studies, including, Music Therapy and its Relationship to Current Treatment Theories (1980), Musikken - vårt nye rusmiddel (1983), Music and Health (1986), Musikk for øyet (1988), Musikk og verdier (1996), Musikk og identitet (1997) and Music Therapy: Improvisation, Communication, and Culture (1998).
Music and Health Research Group
The Music and Health Research Group was formed in 2009 to provide a focus for research activities relating to music in healthcare in Ireland and internationally. The group comprises experts in the field of music therapy who between them have some two decades of experience in hospital-based music therapy service provision for a range of patient groups in four countries. The research group is collaborating on a series of position papers on the topics of music in infancy, music during pregnancy, and research approaches in evaluating the effectiveness of music practices in health care.
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Jane Edwards is the Director of the Music and Health Research Group at the University of Limerick, and is Guest Professor at the Institute for Music Therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She is programme leader the MA in Music Therapy in the Irish World Academy. Her publications include a recent edited book Music: Promoting health and creating community in healthcare contexts (2007) and a forthcoming publication with Oxford University Press Music therapy in parent-infant bonding. She has undertaken research in music therapy with hospitalised children, music therapy in parent infant bonding, and music therapy for people who have dementia. She is President of the International Association for Music and Medicine and has convened and chaired two highly successful international meetings in Limerick; Music & Health (2005) and Music & Medicine (2009).
Dr Simon Gilbertson is Lecturer on the MA in Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance since September 2007. He completed his postgraduate training as a music therapist at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London and the Institute of Music Therapy, University of Witten Herdecke, Germany. As a music therapy clinician he has worked in England and Germany in a range of clinical settings including work with children on the autistic spectrum, developmental challenges, children and adults with cancer, neurological illness and disease. He has worked as a research assistant on a major literature review project led by Professor David Aldridge at the Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University Witten Herdecke, Germany. He is on the editorial team of the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy and the Journal of Irish Creative Arts Therapies. Simon has
September 21st-26th
UL languages week
The first UL Languages Week will be held during the week commencing 21 September in anticipation of European Languages Day on 26 September. The aim of this campus-wide initiative is to promote awareness of languages and language learning. A series of multilingual events, including poetry readings, language taster classes, workshops, film screenings and theme days at various restaurants will be held on campus. These will be complemented by visiting speakers, a book launch and a panel discussion on language-related themes. The results of a survey on the language profile of the campus community will also be published.
www.ul.ie/~lcs/ for further details.
Wednesday September 23rd
Fair Play
Fundraising Concert for Global Information SharingPromoting Equality through Language and Cultural Diversity
The Action week for Global Information Sharing is a joint initiative by Translators without Borders and The Rosetta Foundation, supported by the Localisation Research Centre, World Wide Web Consortium, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, University of Limerick and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The concert takes place on Wednesday September 23rd
at 8 pm in St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick and features Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Mel Mercier, Tunde Jegede,Maya Jobarteh, Niwel Tsumbu and Eamonn Cagney. The concert takes place as part of AGIS The Action week for Global Information Sharing, hosted by the Localisation Research Centre at UL. The event will bring together hundreds of volunteer translators, localisation specialists and NGOs from all over the world to address the plague of global information poverty. It will bring hope to people currently deprived of vital information and energize a world community of translators and localisers to make a difference.
Tickets for the concert on September 23rd cost €30 and are available from www.agis09.org or from 1890 61 61 61
Friday October 16th
Dance artists: Making work, sustaining practice
Venue: Dromroe Village Hall, University of Limerick, 9.30 - 16.30
In recent years many interesting and innovative spaces have been developed with the expressed purpose of supporting dance artists to research, develop and present their work. All of these spaces and structures, whether they have been developed in response to individual and/or collective needs, or designed to act as catalysts for change, reflect the artistic, social and political ideals of the people who created them. This one
day event will provide an opportunity to hear presentations from invited panellists about models that have developed in specific cultural contexts, countries and counties. It will also provide an opportunity for discussion and debate about if, and how, these models support artists in building constructive relationships, in evolving their working process and in realising their aspirations to develop and disseminate their art.
Registration 9.30-10.00Panel One 10.00-11.30Jan Ritsema PerformingArtsForum (PAF)Panel Two 12.00–13.00Joan Davis www.gorsehill.netChristiane Blaise Le Pacifique | CDC GrenoblePanel Three 14.15-16.30Jane Kellaghan Blank Canvas Firkin Crane CorkMichael Klein Daghdha Dance Company LimerickDARI Dance Artists in Regional IrelandJulie Lockett Genesis Project Dublin
There is no admission cost for attendance at the forum but participants must book in advance. The forum is supported by the Arts Council’s European Cultural Contact Point, and is a joint initiative between Dance Ireland and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Further information and panellists’ profile: www.danceireland.ie
To book a place contact Dance Ireland: + 353 1 884 8103
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written two book chapters on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and has written his first book, Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Light on a Dark Night, with David Aldridge which has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In August 2008, Simon became a World Federation of Music Therapy Council Member as Regional Liaison for Europe.
Alison Ledger is an Irish Health Research Board Fellow, who is currently undertaking PhD research at the Irish World Academy supervised by Professor Edwards. Her experiences working as a music therapist with older adults, children with cancer, and families have led to an interest in music therapy service development. In her doctoral research, she is working to identify strategies to assist music therapists to establish new music therapy services in healthcare. Previously she completed a BMus and an MPhil in music therapy at the School of Music, University of Queensland. She has published a number of papers and book chapters. She has taught extensively on the MA in Music Therapy and also has developed and delivered lecture series to nursing, physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy students.
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Simon Gilbertson Making Work Sustaining Practice, Photograph © Jonathan Mitchell
Niwel Tsumbu who performs at the FAIR PLAY concert, Sept 23rd
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Sunday November 22nd
The Chieftains in Concert
University Concert Hall, Limerick
In what has become an annual event, artists-in-residence at the Academy, The Chieftains, will take to the stage at the University Concert Hall with students of the BA Irish Music and Dance and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance.
Tickets: €30/€27.50 from the UCH box office: www.uch.ie or phone 1890 61 61 61
Friday November 27th
RTÉ lyric fm 10th anniversary
Academos Irish World Academy Strings will perform a lunchtime concert, in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Studio on Friday November 27th, with the University of Limerick President, Professor Don Barry in attendance, followed by a reception where a presentation will be made to Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Director of RTÉ lyric fm, to mark the tenth anniversary of the station, and to acknowledge the huge contribution made by RTÉ lyric fm to the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Academy, through its scholarship scheme over the last number of years.
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
Thursday February 10th 2010
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
Performance at Society for Ethical Culture, New York City
Hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New YorkSupported by Culture Ireland
Academos Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings tours internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Perfor-mance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of Academos.
Academos was formally launched at it first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin in 2008, and made its European debut at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris on Friday March 13th 2009, in the presence of Her Excellency Anne Anderson, Irish Ambassador to France, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais and Culture Ireland. Its US debut takes place at the Society for Ethical Culture New York City, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre.
The Chieftains, in concert November 22nd
2009 at the Irish World Academy
April English contemporary composer Gavin Bryars (right) and sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird gave a seminar at the Academy prior to a performance that evening at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick of Anáil Dé/ The Breath of God; a composition by Bryars based on pre-1600 texts from Ancient Irish spiritual manuscripts featuring the voice of Iarla Ó Lionáird
April ‘Listening to the Patient’ Music and Medicine Conference. The first ever conference of the International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM) was hosted by the Irish World Academy in association with the Graduate Medical School at the Univeristy of Limerick. The event attracted experts in the application of music in medical settings including key-note speaker Dr Joanne Loewy, director of Music Therapy at the Beth Israel Centre for Medicine, New York, (left)
MarchTráth na gCos, the Academy’s annual festival of traditional and sean-nós dance, this year featured Clare dancer Aidan Vaughan (right), with the Academy’s Dr Catherine Foley, as well as dancers from Cape Breton, Donegal, Scotland, Roscommon, Meath and Limerick.
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Sunday November 22nd
The Chieftains in Concert
University Concert Hall, Limerick
In what has become an annual event, artists-in-residence at the Academy, The Chieftains, will take to the stage at the University Concert Hall with students of the BA Irish Music and Dance and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance.
Tickets: €30/€27.50 from the UCH box office: www.uch.ie or phone 1890 61 61 61
Friday November 27th
RTÉ lyric fm 10th anniversary
Academos Irish World Academy Strings will perform a lunchtime concert, in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Studio on Friday November 27th, with the University of Limerick President, Professor Don Barry in attendance, followed by a reception where a presentation will be made to Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Director of RTÉ lyric fm, to mark the tenth anniversary of the station, and to acknowledge the huge contribution made by RTÉ lyric fm to the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Academy, through its scholarship scheme over the last number of years.
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
Thursday February 10th 2010
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
Performance at Society for Ethical Culture, New York City
Hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New YorkSupported by Culture Ireland
Academos Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings tours internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Perfor-mance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of Academos.
Academos was formally launched at it first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin in 2008, and made its European debut at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris on Friday March 13th 2009, in the presence of Her Excellency Anne Anderson, Irish Ambassador to France, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais and Culture Ireland. Its US debut takes place at the Society for Ethical Culture New York City, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre.
The Chieftains, in concert November 22nd
2009 at the Irish World Academy
April English contemporary composer Gavin Bryars (right) and sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird gave a seminar at the Academy prior to a performance that evening at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick of Anáil Dé/ The Breath of God; a composition by Bryars based on pre-1600 texts from Ancient Irish spiritual manuscripts featuring the voice of Iarla Ó Lionáird
April ‘Listening to the Patient’ Music and Medicine Conference. The first ever conference of the International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM) was hosted by the Irish World Academy in association with the Graduate Medical School at the Univeristy of Limerick. The event attracted experts in the application of music in medical settings including key-note speaker Dr Joanne Loewy, director of Music Therapy at the Beth Israel Centre for Medicine, New York, (left)
MarchTráth na gCos, the Academy’s annual festival of traditional and sean-nós dance, this year featured Clare dancer Aidan Vaughan (right), with the Academy’s Dr Catherine Foley, as well as dancers from Cape Breton, Donegal, Scotland, Roscommon, Meath and Limerick.
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2009 at the Irish World Academy (continued)
JuneAs part of the HEA-funded Nomad Project directed by Julie Tiernan at the Irish World Academy, 80 members of the Traveller community from Galway, Limerick, Tipperary and Carlow were welcomed to UL to perform as part of a Gamelan Orchestra.
JulyThe Academy’s annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance attracted students from countries including Peru, Chile, Israel, the US and the UK to spend two weeks learning music, song and dance from some of Ireland’s best known musicians, including Matt Cranitch (below).
MayAileen Dillane, course director of the Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance, was awarded a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago.
The title of her thesis was Sound Tracts, Songlines and Soft Repertoires: Irish Music Performance and the City of Chicago.
SeptemberA new structured PhD programme commenced at the The Irish World Academy in September, 2009. Directed by Dr Helen Phelan (right), the PhD programme in Arts Practice is designed to meet the needs of professional performing artists who wish to engage in academic and practice-based reflection on their own performance practice. It is a four year, structured programme with taught modules in the first year (performance theory, writing out of creative practice etc) and some additional elective modules in the second year. Taught components are offered during one immersion week per month, as well as through a summer programme. The first intake of students includes Breandán de Gallaí, Sharon Lyons, Michelle Mulcahy and Iarla Ó Lionáird. Lisa Phillips and Amy Kinlon, students of the MA in
Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy
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2009 at the Irish World Academy (continued)
JuneAs part of the HEA-funded Nomad Project directed by Julie Tiernan at the Irish World Academy, 80 members of the Traveller community from Galway, Limerick, Tipperary and Carlow were welcomed to UL to perform as part of a Gamelan Orchestra.
JulyThe Academy’s annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance attracted students from countries including Peru, Chile, Israel, the US and the UK to spend two weeks learning music, song and dance from some of Ireland’s best known musicians, including Matt Cranitch (below).
MayAileen Dillane, course director of the Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance, was awarded a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago.
The title of her thesis was Sound Tracts, Songlines and Soft Repertoires: Irish Music Performance and the City of Chicago.
SeptemberA new structured PhD programme commenced at the The Irish World Academy in September, 2009. Directed by Dr Helen Phelan (right), the PhD programme in Arts Practice is designed to meet the needs of professional performing artists who wish to engage in academic and practice-based reflection on their own performance practice. It is a four year, structured programme with taught modules in the first year (performance theory, writing out of creative practice etc) and some additional elective modules in the second year. Taught components are offered during one immersion week per month, as well as through a summer programme. The first intake of students includes Breandán de Gallaí, Sharon Lyons, Michelle Mulcahy and Iarla Ó Lionáird. Lisa Phillips and Amy Kinlon, students of the MA in
Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
CIIMDA: The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa
The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa, or CIIMDA for short, aims to promote and advance the learning of the philosophy, theory and human meaning of African instrumental music and dance practices in classroom music education in SADC countries. CIIMDA researches, promotes and advances Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage in which the musical arts is a most important knowledge area. This project started in 2004 in partnership with Concert Norway, Rikskonsertene, and is funded by the Norwegian Foreign Office. There are currently six countries involved: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia. Through its connection with Professor Meki Nzewi, a founder-member of CIIMDA, the Irish World Academy has enjoyed a special relationship with CIIMDA, which has now been formalised through the Stepping Stones initiative. Part of the remit of Stepping Stones involves the identification of global partners who will assist the Academy in locating highly talented musicians and dancers from around the world to take part in the Academy’s BA Voice and Dance, facilitated by the Stepping Stones international scholarships. CIIMDA and the Irish World Academy are also actively engaged in developing a programme which will support faculty and student exchange in the future. Professor Meki Nzewi and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin are both former students of the renowned ethnomusicologyist John Blacking, who was Chair of Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. This CIIMDA/Irish World Academy shared initiative reflects the global influency of Blacking on World Music and Dance education.
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Stepping Stones
The Stepping Stones initiative is a five year development plan for the strategic growth of the Irish World Academy. The initiative is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies (TAP) and coincides with the development of a specialist physical space for performing arts at the University of Limerick. Stepping Stones will expand the current performance focus of music and dance to include ‘theatrical’ arts as well as the development of arts practice research at the doctoral level. This development also incorporates new faculty and administrative posts to support growth across programmes. The Stepping Stones scholarships will target international students from culturally rich but economically challenged parts of the world, who wish to study Voice or Dance as part of the Academy’s new BA programme in Voice and Dance.
Certificate in Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy
The Irish World academy has just introduced a new Certificate in Music and Dance, its first intake commencing in September of this year. A progression and access-based programme, the Certificate is offered remotely as a two-year part time course, or for one year on a full-time basis. Involving learning by distance, the Certificate enables the learner to complete modules from home, community centres or while in employment. Offering master classes and tutorials, the programme is designed to suit the schedule of the individual learner. Graduates from the Certificate in Music and Dance may be considered for a place on the second year of the Academy’s four-year, full-time BA Irish Music and Dance programme, based on the number of available places and on the academic grade achieved.
For further information please contact Julie Tiernan at +353-61-234747 or [email protected]
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings will tour internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Performance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS.
ACADEMOS operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. The leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra along with the line leaders combine with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings in its international touring schedule thus providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards. ACADEMOS was formally launched in 2008 at its first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, inassociation with Temple Bar Cultural Trust. ACADEMOS
had its European debut in Paris on March 13th 2009, supported by Culture Ireland in the Centre Culturel Irlandais and its US debut takes place in New York on February 4th 2010 at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New York.
Cruinniú and Céim
Cruinniú (meaning ‘Gathering’) and Céim (meaning ‘Step’) are the titles of two Irish World Academy outreach initiatives which have seen staff from all walks of university life engaging in weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music (Cruinniú) and set-dancing (Céim) each Tuesday Wednesday from 1 - 2 pm in music room B, on the lower ground floor of the Foundation Building. These sessions are open to all, with beginners especially welcome. The sessions are facilitated by a number of people within the group, as well as by some students and staff of the Irish World Academy. Cruinniú launched an album of the same name in October 2007, the proceeds of were donated to St Vincent’s School, Lisnagry. The group also took part in a ‘Wren Day’ fundraising drive on the UL campus in December, raising further funds for St Vincent’s. New members are always welcome.
Further information from [email protected]
Leigheas an Cheoil: Music and Healing
The MA in Music Therapy, and the Music and Health Research Group undertake regular actions to promote knowledge of music therapy in the wider community. Aptly titled Leigheas an Cheoil, or ‘Music and Healing’; clinical outreach, free open-access public seminars, and media publicity all come under its remit. In June 2009, Grand Rounds were presented in three of the major medical centres in Limerick for example. Students of the MA in Music Therapy undertake supervised fieldwork practice training in a range of health and educational settings in Ireland, and occasionally abroad. Free public music therapy seminars and other outreach events promote music therapy as a mainstream allied health discipline in Ireland and beyond. Staff of the music therapy programme undertake research, consultancy, and development advisory work in collaboration with qualified music therapists and health service managers.
Further information: Professor Jane Edwards, Email: [email protected]
Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC)
Maoin Cheoil an Chláir was set up through Rural Resources Development in 1993. Designed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in consultation with Fr Harry Bohan and Clare Music Council, MCC is a music school, which caters equally for classical and traditional music. The school acts as a potential model for other similar music schools in other local authority areas throughout Ireland. In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of Co Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir is a local co-operative model serving the musical needs of County Clare through its headquarters in the 18th century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy in Ennis. Maoin Cheoil an Chláir has a special relationship with the Irish World Academy with two of its faculty on the MCC Board (chaired by Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, with Irish World Academy director of the Music Education Programmes. Jean Downey). The recently-appointed new director of Maoin Cheoil is Hans Böller, a graduate of the Irish World Academy’s Ritual Chant and Song programme.
Further information on Maoin Cheoil an Chláir: + 353 65 6841774
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CIIMDA: The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa
The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa, or CIIMDA for short, aims to promote and advance the learning of the philosophy, theory and human meaning of African instrumental music and dance practices in classroom music education in SADC countries. CIIMDA researches, promotes and advances Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage in which the musical arts is a most important knowledge area. This project started in 2004 in partnership with Concert Norway, Rikskonsertene, and is funded by the Norwegian Foreign Office. There are currently six countries involved: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia. Through its connection with Professor Meki Nzewi, a founder-member of CIIMDA, the Irish World Academy has enjoyed a special relationship with CIIMDA, which has now been formalised through the Stepping Stones initiative. Part of the remit of Stepping Stones involves the identification of global partners who will assist the Academy in locating highly talented musicians and dancers from around the world to take part in the Academy’s BA Voice and Dance, facilitated by the Stepping Stones international scholarships. CIIMDA and the Irish World Academy are also actively engaged in developing a programme which will support faculty and student exchange in the future. Professor Meki Nzewi and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin are both former students of the renowned ethnomusicologyist John Blacking, who was Chair of Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. This CIIMDA/Irish World Academy shared initiative reflects the global influency of Blacking on World Music and Dance education.
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Stepping Stones
The Stepping Stones initiative is a five year development plan for the strategic growth of the Irish World Academy. The initiative is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies (TAP) and coincides with the development of a specialist physical space for performing arts at the University of Limerick. Stepping Stones will expand the current performance focus of music and dance to include ‘theatrical’ arts as well as the development of arts practice research at the doctoral level. This development also incorporates new faculty and administrative posts to support growth across programmes. The Stepping Stones scholarships will target international students from culturally rich but economically challenged parts of the world, who wish to study Voice or Dance as part of the Academy’s new BA programme in Voice and Dance.
Certificate in Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy
The Irish World academy has just introduced a new Certificate in Music and Dance, its first intake commencing in September of this year. A progression and access-based programme, the Certificate is offered remotely as a two-year part time course, or for one year on a full-time basis. Involving learning by distance, the Certificate enables the learner to complete modules from home, community centres or while in employment. Offering master classes and tutorials, the programme is designed to suit the schedule of the individual learner. Graduates from the Certificate in Music and Dance may be considered for a place on the second year of the Academy’s four-year, full-time BA Irish Music and Dance programme, based on the number of available places and on the academic grade achieved.
For further information please contact Julie Tiernan at +353-61-234747 or [email protected]
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings will tour internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Performance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS.
ACADEMOS operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. The leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra along with the line leaders combine with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings in its international touring schedule thus providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards. ACADEMOS was formally launched in 2008 at its first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, inassociation with Temple Bar Cultural Trust. ACADEMOS
had its European debut in Paris on March 13th 2009, supported by Culture Ireland in the Centre Culturel Irlandais and its US debut takes place in New York on February 4th 2010 at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New York.
Cruinniú and Céim
Cruinniú (meaning ‘Gathering’) and Céim (meaning ‘Step’) are the titles of two Irish World Academy outreach initiatives which have seen staff from all walks of university life engaging in weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music (Cruinniú) and set-dancing (Céim) each Tuesday Wednesday from 1 - 2 pm in music room B, on the lower ground floor of the Foundation Building. These sessions are open to all, with beginners especially welcome. The sessions are facilitated by a number of people within the group, as well as by some students and staff of the Irish World Academy. Cruinniú launched an album of the same name in October 2007, the proceeds of were donated to St Vincent’s School, Lisnagry. The group also took part in a ‘Wren Day’ fundraising drive on the UL campus in December, raising further funds for St Vincent’s. New members are always welcome.
Further information from [email protected]
Leigheas an Cheoil: Music and Healing
The MA in Music Therapy, and the Music and Health Research Group undertake regular actions to promote knowledge of music therapy in the wider community. Aptly titled Leigheas an Cheoil, or ‘Music and Healing’; clinical outreach, free open-access public seminars, and media publicity all come under its remit. In June 2009, Grand Rounds were presented in three of the major medical centres in Limerick for example. Students of the MA in Music Therapy undertake supervised fieldwork practice training in a range of health and educational settings in Ireland, and occasionally abroad. Free public music therapy seminars and other outreach events promote music therapy as a mainstream allied health discipline in Ireland and beyond. Staff of the music therapy programme undertake research, consultancy, and development advisory work in collaboration with qualified music therapists and health service managers.
Further information: Professor Jane Edwards, Email: [email protected]
Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC)
Maoin Cheoil an Chláir was set up through Rural Resources Development in 1993. Designed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in consultation with Fr Harry Bohan and Clare Music Council, MCC is a music school, which caters equally for classical and traditional music. The school acts as a potential model for other similar music schools in other local authority areas throughout Ireland. In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of Co Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir is a local co-operative model serving the musical needs of County Clare through its headquarters in the 18th century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy in Ennis. Maoin Cheoil an Chláir has a special relationship with the Irish World Academy with two of its faculty on the MCC Board (chaired by Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, with Irish World Academy director of the Music Education Programmes. Jean Downey). The recently-appointed new director of Maoin Cheoil is Hans Böller, a graduate of the Irish World Academy’s Ritual Chant and Song programme.
Further information on Maoin Cheoil an Chláir: + 353 65 6841774
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The Nomad Project
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has a strong community outreach aspect built into its design. The Nomad project has attracted visionary funding from the Higher Education Authority to facilitate access to the performing arts cultures of the Irish Traveller community to a University environment. Nomad explores relevant aspects of Traveller culture and to enable increasing interaction between the Traveller community and the University of Limerick. The project has facilitated community outreach, performances, workshops and seminars and has a wide educational remit, as well as significance beyond third level and the Traveller community. As well as ongoing education and community music projects Nomad funded a gamelan project in summer ’09. Nomad welcomed approximately 80 members of the Traveller community from Galway, Limerick, Tipperary and Carlow to the Irish World Academy to be part of the Gamelan Orchestra. The Nomad Project also funded a Blas scholarship in June of this year and a very talented young singer from Carlow spent a week the Blas Summer School taking part in workshops and masterclasses in Irish traditional music and dance. She has since registered as a student with the Academy for 2009, on the Certificate of Music and Dance course which commences in September this year with 70% percent of applicants coming from listed targeted communities.
Further information: Julie Tiernan, Nomad Project Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Email: [email protected]
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Sanctuary / Irish Chamber Orchestra Global Song Programme
In September, 2008, Sanctuary embarked on a Global Song programme with Presentation Primary School, Limerick. One of the most multicultural schools in the city, Presentation Primary has a strong commitment to multicultural education and integration through the arts. The global song programme, facilitated by Kathleen Turner (Education Officer, Irish Chamber Orchestra) and students from the MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Academy, culminated in a performance of song, movement, art and readings by the children. In 2009, the Irish Chamber Orchestra came on board as partners in the initiative and a new global song programme will commence in September, 2009. Targeted at the youngest classes, it will include weekly sessions in global song and culminate in a final performance which will feature members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and students of the Irish World Academy.
Sanctuary, funded by the Higher Education Authority, is an Irish World Academy outreach project, which seeks to build bridges between higher education and refugee, asylum seeking and new migrant communities in Ireland. Since its inception in 2001, Sanctuary has hosted six international world sacred music festivals, bringing musicians from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Greece, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Vietnam and Tibet to Limerick. Sanctuary works in partnership with Doras Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Limerick. Further information: Dr Helen Phelan, Phone: + 353 61 202575, Email: [email protected]
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The Chieftains Fund (In memory of Derek Bell)
The Chieftains Fund recognises the increasing role played by universities around the world in supporting research and performance programmes in Irish traditional music and dance. With a view to nurturing, networking and co-operative communication between these programmes, The Chieftains Fund was established in 2003 in memory of harper, Derek Bell. The Chieftains Fund is based at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and administered from there. Initial consultant partners with the Irish World Academy are The Irish Studies Program at Boston College; The Irish Studies Program at Glucksman Ireland House (New York University) and the Music Department at University College Cork.
Nomad Project at the Irish World Academy.
Sanctuary / Irish Chamber Orchestra Global Song Programme
The Nomad Project
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has a strong community outreach aspect built into its design. The Nomad project has attracted visionary funding from the Higher Education Authority to facilitate access to the performing arts cultures of the Irish Traveller community to a University environment. Nomad explores relevant aspects of Traveller culture and to enable increasing interaction between the Traveller community and the University of Limerick. The project has facilitated community outreach, performances, workshops and seminars and has a wide educational remit, as well as significance beyond third level and the Traveller community. As well as ongoing education and community music projects Nomad funded a gamelan project in summer ’09. Nomad welcomed approximately 80 members of the Traveller community from Galway, Limerick, Tipperary and Carlow to the Irish World Academy to be part of the Gamelan Orchestra. The Nomad Project also funded a Blas scholarship in June of this year and a very talented young singer from Carlow spent a week the Blas Summer School taking part in workshops and masterclasses in Irish traditional music and dance. She has since registered as a student with the Academy for 2009, on the Certificate of Music and Dance course which commences in September this year with 70% percent of applicants coming from listed targeted communities.
Further information: Julie Tiernan, Nomad Project Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Email: [email protected]
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Sanctuary / Irish Chamber Orchestra Global Song Programme
In September, 2008, Sanctuary embarked on a Global Song programme with Presentation Primary School, Limerick. One of the most multicultural schools in the city, Presentation Primary has a strong commitment to multicultural education and integration through the arts. The global song programme, facilitated by Kathleen Turner (Education Officer, Irish Chamber Orchestra) and students from the MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Academy, culminated in a performance of song, movement, art and readings by the children. In 2009, the Irish Chamber Orchestra came on board as partners in the initiative and a new global song programme will commence in September, 2009. Targeted at the youngest classes, it will include weekly sessions in global song and culminate in a final performance which will feature members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and students of the Irish World Academy.
Sanctuary, funded by the Higher Education Authority, is an Irish World Academy outreach project, which seeks to build bridges between higher education and refugee, asylum seeking and new migrant communities in Ireland. Since its inception in 2001, Sanctuary has hosted six international world sacred music festivals, bringing musicians from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Greece, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Vietnam and Tibet to Limerick. Sanctuary works in partnership with Doras Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Limerick. Further information: Dr Helen Phelan, Phone: + 353 61 202575, Email: [email protected]
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The Chieftains Fund (In memory of Derek Bell)
The Chieftains Fund recognises the increasing role played by universities around the world in supporting research and performance programmes in Irish traditional music and dance. With a view to nurturing, networking and co-operative communication between these programmes, The Chieftains Fund was established in 2003 in memory of harper, Derek Bell. The Chieftains Fund is based at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and administered from there. Initial consultant partners with the Irish World Academy are The Irish Studies Program at Boston College; The Irish Studies Program at Glucksman Ireland House (New York University) and the Music Department at University College Cork.
Nomad Project at the Irish World Academy.
Sanctuary / Irish Chamber Orchestra Global Song Programme
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Students of the Irish World Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance during a workshop with Dónal Lunny, June 09
Singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh conducting a masterclass at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, July 09
Artists in Residence at the University of Limerick
Some UL students at the Irish World Academy’s annual Tráth na gCos celebration of sean-nós and traditional dance
Photographs © Maurice Gunning
MA Contemporary Dance student Lisa Phillipsduring her final performance exam, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Students of the Irish World Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance during a workshop with Dónal Lunny, June 09
Singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh conducting a masterclass at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, July 09
Artists in Residence at the University of Limerick
Some UL students at the Irish World Academy’s annual Tráth na gCos celebration of sean-nós and traditional dance
Photographs © Maurice Gunning
MA Contemporary Dance student Lisa Phillipsduring her final performance exam, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Liz Roche
Born in Dublin in 1975, Liz is a graduate of London Contemporary Dance School and the College of Dance, Dublin. Awarded the Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award 2001 (UK) and the Peter Darrell Award 2000 (UK), she has choreographed for Scottish Dance Theatre, Cois Ceim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Maiden Voyage, CCNC France, and the MA in Dance Performance at the University of Limerick. In 1999, she founded Rex Levitates Dance Company with Jenny Roche and has choreographed 9 full length works to date for the company, performing in festivals in Ireland, the US, Europe & Asia. The company completed a month long residency at Le Centre National De La Danse and Atelier Carolyn Carlson before performing the All Weather Project at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris in summer 2006. In 2008 the company performed Bread & Circus at the Festival of Irish Arts in Beijing and commissioned a new work Suedehead from New York choreographer Jodi Melnick performing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She is currently working on a collaborative new work which was shown at Judson Memorial Church, New York earlier this year as a work-in-progress.
Theatre choreographies include The Abbey Theatre’s productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, The Cherry Orchard and Burial At Thebes. The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (nominated for best production Irish Theatre Awards 2003) for The Ark and Unsung with musicians Iarla Ó Lionáird, Kenneth Edge, Kate Ellis and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August of this year. Liz was Chair of the Board of Dance Ireland /Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland from 2002 – 2007.
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Donal Lunny
The first traditional music-linked member of the Irish Arts Council-sponsored Aosdána, Donal Lunny has been a central thread in the tapestry of Irish traditional music in its most creative interactive modes over a generation. He was was born in Tullamore Co Offaly before moving to Newbridge, County Kildare. In 1971, he was one of the founding members of Planxty, for whom he wrote the counter-melodies and arranged harmonic structures and chord patterns for guitar and harmonium. He also played bouzouki, guitar, keyboards and bodhráns on all Planxty's recordings. 'Planxty' recorded three albums in the period 1971-1973 and redefined traditional Irish music. Their albums included Cold Blow and the Rainy Night and The Well below the Valley. In 1975, he joined the Bothy Band, producing four albums in four years including Out of the Wind and in to the Sun and After Hours. In 1980, Planxty reformed and Donal produced the three resulting albums before finally forming Moving Hearts with some of his former Planxty band-mates. Moving Hearts, who were responsible for such albums as Dark End of the Street and The Storm were a hybrid, incorporating contemporary folk music, jazz and other influences with elements of rock. Donal has also composed for stage and television including the soundtrack for Eat the Peach (1985) and This is my Father (1997) and the opening title music for the series Bringing it all Back Home (1991) and River of Sound (1997). In 1996 he won the IRMA Producer of the Year award and in 1998, the National Entertainment Award.
His residency at the Irish World Academy to date has included an intensive week-long workshop in July of this year with students of the Academy’s BA and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, as well as a major concert where he was joined by some 30 of these students on stage at the Daghdha Dance Space in Limerick. In November of this year, he will spend a further period at the Academy with Mozaik, another of the innovative bands he’s been directly involved in founding.
Alison LedgerHealth Research Board Fellow (Music Therapy)
Doctoral Research Scholar in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy, Alison Ledger is the 08/09 recipient of the Health Services Research Training Fellowship Award. The Health Services Research Training Fellowship is one of a number of research grants offered by the Irish Health Research Board (HRB). This particular fellowship aims to enable recipients to carry out Health Services Research in Ireland and to fulfil requirements of a postgraduate degree. Recipients receive a salary for up to 3 years, as well as additional funding for running costs. This is the first time the HRB has funded research on a music therapy topic.
Shane ColvinGeorge J Mitchell Scholar-in-Residence (Music Therapy)
Shane Colvin hails from Kalispell, in Montana USA, and is one of just 12 recipients of a 2008 George J. Mitchell Scholarship, often called the Irish Rhodes Scholarship. He was selected from over 300 applicants across the USA. Formerly a Montana State University undergraduate, he served as student body president. Shane, a senior with three majors (biochemistry, music and cell biology), will use the two years of postgraduate study in Ireland funded by the scholarship to complete the MA in Music Therapy in 2009-11.
Thomas JohnstonIrish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar-in-Residence
From Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, uilleann pipes and whistle player Thomas Johnston graduated from the BA Irish Music & Dance at the Irish World Academy in 2006. He was subsequently awarded a place on the University’s Advanced Scholars Programme and is currently working on a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Sandra Joyce, Jean Downey and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. His research has as its broad subject, ‘the experience’ of Irish traditional music, by music teachers and students, in the context of the post-primary music curriculum. The focus of this study is the process of transmission of Irish traditional music within the music classroom, the connection between classroom and ‘community’, and the attitudes, perceptions and specific practices of participants, namely students, teachers and the ‘visiting musician’, in their approach to this particular musical genre in this educational setting.
Thomas recently presented his research at the 6th International Conference for Research in Music Education held at the School of Education, University of Exeter, and at the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education held at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick in July of this year. His research interests include Irish traditional music in formal education, pedagogical approaches to the study of world musics in formal education, music and human experience, music education philosophy, and local music education services. He is currently Student Representative and Education Officer of the Irish National Committee of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Thomas’ research is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the Teaching Council.
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30 Donal Lunny working with Irish World Academy Students as part of his residency, June ‘09
Liz Roche
Born in Dublin in 1975, Liz is a graduate of London Contemporary Dance School and the College of Dance, Dublin. Awarded the Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award 2001 (UK) and the Peter Darrell Award 2000 (UK), she has choreographed for Scottish Dance Theatre, Cois Ceim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Maiden Voyage, CCNC France, and the MA in Dance Performance at the University of Limerick. In 1999, she founded Rex Levitates Dance Company with Jenny Roche and has choreographed 9 full length works to date for the company, performing in festivals in Ireland, the US, Europe & Asia. The company completed a month long residency at Le Centre National De La Danse and Atelier Carolyn Carlson before performing the All Weather Project at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris in summer 2006. In 2008 the company performed Bread & Circus at the Festival of Irish Arts in Beijing and commissioned a new work Suedehead from New York choreographer Jodi Melnick performing at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. She is currently working on a collaborative new work which was shown at Judson Memorial Church, New York earlier this year as a work-in-progress.
Theatre choreographies include The Abbey Theatre’s productions of The House of Bernarda Alba, The Cherry Orchard and Burial At Thebes. The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish (nominated for best production Irish Theatre Awards 2003) for The Ark and Unsung with musicians Iarla Ó Lionáird, Kenneth Edge, Kate Ellis and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August of this year. Liz was Chair of the Board of Dance Ireland /Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland from 2002 – 2007.
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Donal Lunny
The first traditional music-linked member of the Irish Arts Council-sponsored Aosdána, Donal Lunny has been a central thread in the tapestry of Irish traditional music in its most creative interactive modes over a generation. He was was born in Tullamore Co Offaly before moving to Newbridge, County Kildare. In 1971, he was one of the founding members of Planxty, for whom he wrote the counter-melodies and arranged harmonic structures and chord patterns for guitar and harmonium. He also played bouzouki, guitar, keyboards and bodhráns on all Planxty's recordings. 'Planxty' recorded three albums in the period 1971-1973 and redefined traditional Irish music. Their albums included Cold Blow and the Rainy Night and The Well below the Valley. In 1975, he joined the Bothy Band, producing four albums in four years including Out of the Wind and in to the Sun and After Hours. In 1980, Planxty reformed and Donal produced the three resulting albums before finally forming Moving Hearts with some of his former Planxty band-mates. Moving Hearts, who were responsible for such albums as Dark End of the Street and The Storm were a hybrid, incorporating contemporary folk music, jazz and other influences with elements of rock. Donal has also composed for stage and television including the soundtrack for Eat the Peach (1985) and This is my Father (1997) and the opening title music for the series Bringing it all Back Home (1991) and River of Sound (1997). In 1996 he won the IRMA Producer of the Year award and in 1998, the National Entertainment Award.
His residency at the Irish World Academy to date has included an intensive week-long workshop in July of this year with students of the Academy’s BA and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, as well as a major concert where he was joined by some 30 of these students on stage at the Daghdha Dance Space in Limerick. In November of this year, he will spend a further period at the Academy with Mozaik, another of the innovative bands he’s been directly involved in founding.
Alison LedgerHealth Research Board Fellow (Music Therapy)
Doctoral Research Scholar in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy, Alison Ledger is the 08/09 recipient of the Health Services Research Training Fellowship Award. The Health Services Research Training Fellowship is one of a number of research grants offered by the Irish Health Research Board (HRB). This particular fellowship aims to enable recipients to carry out Health Services Research in Ireland and to fulfil requirements of a postgraduate degree. Recipients receive a salary for up to 3 years, as well as additional funding for running costs. This is the first time the HRB has funded research on a music therapy topic.
Shane ColvinGeorge J Mitchell Scholar-in-Residence (Music Therapy)
Shane Colvin hails from Kalispell, in Montana USA, and is one of just 12 recipients of a 2008 George J. Mitchell Scholarship, often called the Irish Rhodes Scholarship. He was selected from over 300 applicants across the USA. Formerly a Montana State University undergraduate, he served as student body president. Shane, a senior with three majors (biochemistry, music and cell biology), will use the two years of postgraduate study in Ireland funded by the scholarship to complete the MA in Music Therapy in 2009-11.
Thomas JohnstonIrish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar-in-Residence
From Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, uilleann pipes and whistle player Thomas Johnston graduated from the BA Irish Music & Dance at the Irish World Academy in 2006. He was subsequently awarded a place on the University’s Advanced Scholars Programme and is currently working on a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Sandra Joyce, Jean Downey and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. His research has as its broad subject, ‘the experience’ of Irish traditional music, by music teachers and students, in the context of the post-primary music curriculum. The focus of this study is the process of transmission of Irish traditional music within the music classroom, the connection between classroom and ‘community’, and the attitudes, perceptions and specific practices of participants, namely students, teachers and the ‘visiting musician’, in their approach to this particular musical genre in this educational setting.
Thomas recently presented his research at the 6th International Conference for Research in Music Education held at the School of Education, University of Exeter, and at the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education held at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick in July of this year. His research interests include Irish traditional music in formal education, pedagogical approaches to the study of world musics in formal education, music and human experience, music education philosophy, and local music education services. He is currently Student Representative and Education Officer of the Irish National Committee of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Thomas’ research is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the Teaching Council.
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The Chieftains
The Chieftains are not only Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also the most enduring and influential creative force in establishing the international appeal of Irish music. Paddy Moloney, the group’s founder and front man, first brought together a group of local musicians in Dublin in 1962, fashioning an authentic instrumental sound that stood in sharp contrast to the slick commercial output of most Irish music at the time. The group’s first four albums, recorded between 1963 and 1974, established their worldwide reputation even as the group continued to perform on a semi-professional basis. In 1988, they joined forces with fellow countryman Van Morrison on Irish Heartbeat which began an historic series of collaborations including recordings with James Galway, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Tom Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder and many others. They also continued their acclaimed work in soundtracks, on such films as Treasure Island, Tristan And Isolde, The Grey Fox and Far and Away. In 1992, they recorded the double Grammy-winning Another Country, with performances by such country and bluegrass stars as Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins and Don Williams. They returned to Nashville in 2002 for DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD, their 40th career album, featuring such special guests as Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride and others. Their continued association with the Irish World Academy takes shape annually in a concert at the University Concert Hall Limerick, featuring students of the BA/MA Irish Music and Dance.
This year’s concert takes place on November 22nd at 8pm. Tickets from 1890 61 61 61
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Cantoral
Cantoral is an all female chant ensemble, specialising in Western plainchant and early polyphony, with a particular interest in medieval Irish repertoire. The ensemble was formed in 2008 and had its first international appearance in March, 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. The Artistic Director of Cantoral is Catherine Sergent, an acclaimed early music singer who has performed and recorded extensively with several early music ensembles. Her primary recordings have been with the Paris-based female schola Discantus, who have been awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or award for several of their recordings including Hortus Deliciarum, a collection of chants by Hildegard von Bingen, Eya Mater, a collection of Marian chants which explore the theme of motherhood and Campus Stellae, which features chants associated with Santiago de Compostela. Most of the members of Cantoral are graduates of the Masters in Ritual Chant and Song, UL and have a strong scholarly grounding in reading manuscript sources and are therefore able to prepare their own musical editions from original sources. The group is currently working on a programme which explores the pre-Christian and Christian festivals surrounding early February, or Imbolc in the Celtic calendar - the beginning of Spring, and the coming of the light after the darkness of winter, also known as Ogronios or the ‘end of cold’. This programme will include chants for the Feast of St. Brigid (February 1st) from the 15th century Office of St. Brigid (Trinity College Dublin collection, TCD 80), as well as chants from the Feast of the Presentation (February 2nd) and St. Blaise (February 3rd) which commemorate the presentation of ‘the Light’ to the world and the blessing of candles. Cantoral includes singers from Ireland, France, the US, Japan and Mexico. The ensemble made its debut in Paris in March of this year, at the Centre Cuturel Irlandais, along with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings and will again join ACADEMOS in New York on February 4th 2010 as guests of the Irish Arts Centre, New York.
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The University of Limerick Gospel Choir
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are not only Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also the most enduring and influential creative force in establishing the international appeal of Irish music. Paddy Moloney, the group’s founder and front man, first brought together a group of local musicians in Dublin in 1962, fashioning an authentic instrumental sound that stood in sharp contrast to the slick commercial output of most Irish music at the time. The group’s first four albums, recorded between 1963 and 1974, established their worldwide reputation even as the group continued to perform on a semi-professional basis. In 1988, they joined forces with fellow countryman Van Morrison on Irish Heartbeat which began an historic series of collaborations including recordings with James Galway, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Tom Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder and many others. They also continued their acclaimed work in soundtracks, on such films as Treasure Island, Tristan And Isolde, The Grey Fox and Far and Away. In 1992, they recorded the double Grammy-winning Another Country, with performances by such country and bluegrass stars as Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins and Don Williams. They returned to Nashville in 2002 for DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD, their 40th career album, featuring such special guests as Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride and others. Their continued association with the Irish World Academy takes shape annually in a concert at the University Concert Hall Limerick, featuring students of the BA/MA Irish Music and Dance.
This year’s concert takes place on November 22nd at 8pm. Tickets from 1890 61 61 61
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Cantoral
Cantoral is an all female chant ensemble, specialising in Western plainchant and early polyphony, with a particular interest in medieval Irish repertoire. The ensemble was formed in 2008 and had its first international appearance in March, 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. The Artistic Director of Cantoral is Catherine Sergent, an acclaimed early music singer who has performed and recorded extensively with several early music ensembles. Her primary recordings have been with the Paris-based female schola Discantus, who have been awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or award for several of their recordings including Hortus Deliciarum, a collection of chants by Hildegard von Bingen, Eya Mater, a collection of Marian chants which explore the theme of motherhood and Campus Stellae, which features chants associated with Santiago de Compostela. Most of the members of Cantoral are graduates of the Masters in Ritual Chant and Song, UL and have a strong scholarly grounding in reading manuscript sources and are therefore able to prepare their own musical editions from original sources. The group is currently working on a programme which explores the pre-Christian and Christian festivals surrounding early February, or Imbolc in the Celtic calendar - the beginning of Spring, and the coming of the light after the darkness of winter, also known as Ogronios or the ‘end of cold’. This programme will include chants for the Feast of St. Brigid (February 1st) from the 15th century Office of St. Brigid (Trinity College Dublin collection, TCD 80), as well as chants from the Feast of the Presentation (February 2nd) and St. Blaise (February 3rd) which commemorate the presentation of ‘the Light’ to the world and the blessing of candles. Cantoral includes singers from Ireland, France, the US, Japan and Mexico. The ensemble made its debut in Paris in March of this year, at the Centre Cuturel Irlandais, along with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings and will again join ACADEMOS in New York on February 4th 2010 as guests of the Irish Arts Centre, New York.
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The University of Limerick Gospel Choir
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Irish Chamber Orchestra
The Irish Chamber Orchestra is a hand-picked group of players who have built a reputation for the highest level of musical excellence, a vivid energy and a refreshing sense of warmth and wit. Violin virtuoso Anthony Marwood was appointed Artistic Director of the Orchestra in 2006 and has spurred them on to ever greater artistic heights. Under his leadership an imaginative mix of some of the world’s finest musicians have been invited to work with the orchestra, including Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Steven Isserlis and Sinéad O’Connor. The ensemble has consolidated its reputation as not just Ireland’s premier ensemble, but one of the finest of its kind in the world - recent tours include across Europe, Australia, South Korea, China and the US. Outside the concert hall the orchestra takes an active role in the wider community - working in marginalised communities to promote engagement in education and using music as a tool to increase self-confidence, enhance leadership skills and encourage creative problem solving. The ICO also provides tuition and support to the next generation of musicians.
In November 2008, the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s remarkable new building at the University of Limerick was officially opened by Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.
At the hub of this new landmark on campus is a double- height 300-square-metre Rehearsal Studio. This state-of the-art space has been acoustically modelled to share the properties of the world’s finest concert halls. It will provide rehearsal and recording facilities for the orchestra as well as allowing the organisation to expand its education remit, enabling schoolchildren and other members of the community to come and work with the orchestra. The building also includes soloist and conductor rehearsal rooms, instrument store room, musicians’ common room and spacious office
Irish Chamber Orchestra
accommodation for the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s administrative team.
Chief Executive: John KellyArtistic Director: Anthony MarwoodOrchestra Manager: Gerard KeenanPress: Charlotte EglingtonMarketing Manager: Boris HunkaEducation Outreach: Kathleen TurnerFriends/Accounts: Margaret Kelly
Further information: + 353 61 202620Email: [email protected] www.irishchamberorchestra.info
Univeristy of Limerick Gospel Choir
Gospel is a powerful vocal tradition, intended to inspire, uplift and engage both the audience and the singer. The UL Gospel Choir embodies this intention in its performances, through a wide repertoire that ranges from traditional and contemporary Gospel to other related genres such as Blues, Soul and Funk. This year the choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy and director of the city based ‘Limerick Gospel Choir.’ The choir continues its long established affiliation with 'Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation.
Maurice Gunning
Maurice Gunning has been working as Photographer-in-Residence with the Irish World Academy since 2004. Concentrating on fine art documentary photography as well as specialising in dance, music and theatre photography, Maurice has worked with many of the leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary dancers. He received his MFA from the University of Wales in 2009 after a period of time spent working with the Argentine Irish community of Buenos Aires. This work has been exhibited in the UK, and is planned to been shown in Buenos Aires in 2010. Working with funding from the Irish Heritage Council over the past three years on a project dealing with Ireland’s Traditional Boating Heritage has culminated in the first showing of this work in the Cultural Centre, Athens.
Commissions for CD artwork and design are also incorporated into his commissioned work. The photographs throughout this book are examples of his work documenting events at the Irish World Academy.
For further information see www.mauricegunning.com Email: [email protected]
Maurice Gunning
Programmes at the Irish World Academy
Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill during a workshop at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Irish Chamber Orchestra
The Irish Chamber Orchestra is a hand-picked group of players who have built a reputation for the highest level of musical excellence, a vivid energy and a refreshing sense of warmth and wit. Violin virtuoso Anthony Marwood was appointed Artistic Director of the Orchestra in 2006 and has spurred them on to ever greater artistic heights. Under his leadership an imaginative mix of some of the world’s finest musicians have been invited to work with the orchestra, including Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Steven Isserlis and Sinéad O’Connor. The ensemble has consolidated its reputation as not just Ireland’s premier ensemble, but one of the finest of its kind in the world - recent tours include across Europe, Australia, South Korea, China and the US. Outside the concert hall the orchestra takes an active role in the wider community - working in marginalised communities to promote engagement in education and using music as a tool to increase self-confidence, enhance leadership skills and encourage creative problem solving. The ICO also provides tuition and support to the next generation of musicians.
In November 2008, the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s remarkable new building at the University of Limerick was officially opened by Martin Cullen TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism.
At the hub of this new landmark on campus is a double- height 300-square-metre Rehearsal Studio. This state-of the-art space has been acoustically modelled to share the properties of the world’s finest concert halls. It will provide rehearsal and recording facilities for the orchestra as well as allowing the organisation to expand its education remit, enabling schoolchildren and other members of the community to come and work with the orchestra. The building also includes soloist and conductor rehearsal rooms, instrument store room, musicians’ common room and spacious office
Irish Chamber Orchestra
accommodation for the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s administrative team.
Chief Executive: John KellyArtistic Director: Anthony MarwoodOrchestra Manager: Gerard KeenanPress: Charlotte EglingtonMarketing Manager: Boris HunkaEducation Outreach: Kathleen TurnerFriends/Accounts: Margaret Kelly
Further information: + 353 61 202620Email: [email protected] www.irishchamberorchestra.info
Univeristy of Limerick Gospel Choir
Gospel is a powerful vocal tradition, intended to inspire, uplift and engage both the audience and the singer. The UL Gospel Choir embodies this intention in its performances, through a wide repertoire that ranges from traditional and contemporary Gospel to other related genres such as Blues, Soul and Funk. This year the choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy and director of the city based ‘Limerick Gospel Choir.’ The choir continues its long established affiliation with 'Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation.
Maurice Gunning
Maurice Gunning has been working as Photographer-in-Residence with the Irish World Academy since 2004. Concentrating on fine art documentary photography as well as specialising in dance, music and theatre photography, Maurice has worked with many of the leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary dancers. He received his MFA from the University of Wales in 2009 after a period of time spent working with the Argentine Irish community of Buenos Aires. This work has been exhibited in the UK, and is planned to been shown in Buenos Aires in 2010. Working with funding from the Irish Heritage Council over the past three years on a project dealing with Ireland’s Traditional Boating Heritage has culminated in the first showing of this work in the Cultural Centre, Athens.
Commissions for CD artwork and design are also incorporated into his commissioned work. The photographs throughout this book are examples of his work documenting events at the Irish World Academy.
For further information see www.mauricegunning.com Email: [email protected]
Maurice Gunning
Programmes at the Irish World Academy
Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill during a workshop at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School, June ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Scholarships Scholarships at the Irish World Academy ofMusic and Dance
BA Irish Music & DanceDr Aileen Dillane, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202159Email: [email protected]
Mats Melin, Lecturer, DancePhone: + 353 61 202542 Email: [email protected]
Francis Ward, Acting Lecturer, DancePhone: + 353 61 212653Email: [email protected]
Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer, MusicPhone: + 353 61 202653Email: [email protected]
BA Voice & DanceÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 233762Email: [email protected]
MA Music Therapy Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. Phone: + 353 61 213122Email: [email protected]
Dr Simon Gilbertson, LecturerPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: [email protected]
MA EthnochoreologyDr Catherine Foley, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202922Email: [email protected]
MA EthnomusicologyDr Colin Quigley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: [email protected]
M. ED (Music)Grad. Dip Education (Music)Jean Downey, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213160 Email: [email protected]
Certificate in Music & DanceJulie Tiernan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 234743Email: [email protected]
PhD Arts PracticeHelen Phelan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: [email protected]
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Afro Cuban Dance Class at the Academy, Spring ‘09
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MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformanceDr Catherine Foley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202922 Email: [email protected]
MA Irish Traditional Music PerformanceNiall Keegan, Course Director (on Sabbatical)Sandra Joyce, Acting Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: [email protected]
MA Ritual Chant & SongEri Hirabayashi, Acting Course DirectorEmail: [email protected]
MA Classical String PerformanceFerenc Szucs, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
MA Community MusicJean Downey Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: [email protected]
MA Contemporary Dance PerformanceMary Nunan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213464Email: [email protected]
English Contemporary composer Gavin Bryars in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick, hosted by the Irish World Academy, April ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Guitarist Tony McManus teaches at Blas Summer School June ‘09
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Scholarships Scholarships at the Irish World Academy ofMusic and Dance
BA Irish Music & DanceDr Aileen Dillane, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202159Email: [email protected]
Mats Melin, Lecturer, DancePhone: + 353 61 202542 Email: [email protected]
Francis Ward, Acting Lecturer, DancePhone: + 353 61 212653Email: [email protected]
Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer, MusicPhone: + 353 61 202653Email: [email protected]
BA Voice & DanceÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 233762Email: [email protected]
MA Music Therapy Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. Phone: + 353 61 213122Email: [email protected]
Dr Simon Gilbertson, LecturerPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: [email protected]
MA EthnochoreologyDr Catherine Foley, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202922Email: [email protected]
MA EthnomusicologyDr Colin Quigley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: [email protected]
M. ED (Music)Grad. Dip Education (Music)Jean Downey, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213160 Email: [email protected]
Certificate in Music & DanceJulie Tiernan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 234743Email: [email protected]
PhD Arts PracticeHelen Phelan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: [email protected]
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Afro Cuban Dance Class at the Academy, Spring ‘09
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MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformanceDr Catherine Foley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202922 Email: [email protected]
MA Irish Traditional Music PerformanceNiall Keegan, Course Director (on Sabbatical)Sandra Joyce, Acting Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: [email protected]
MA Ritual Chant & SongEri Hirabayashi, Acting Course DirectorEmail: [email protected]
MA Classical String PerformanceFerenc Szucs, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
MA Community MusicJean Downey Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: [email protected]
MA Contemporary Dance PerformanceMary Nunan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213464Email: [email protected]
English Contemporary composer Gavin Bryars in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick, hosted by the Irish World Academy, April ’09
Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Guitarist Tony McManus teaches at Blas Summer School June ‘09
The EMI Music Sound Foundation
EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997 to commemorate the centenary of EMI Records. EMI Music Sound Foundation is an independent charity and is now the single largest sponsor of Specialist Performing Arts Colleges in England and has created vital bursaries at music colleges to assist needy music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation is extending its remit to cover the Irish World Academy in Ireland. A Bursary of €8000 has been made available on an annual basis towards the establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Applicants should normally be under 25 years of age and should have applied for admission to the MA Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, bursary applications may be considered with applications for admission to Irish World Music Academy other than Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner will include the excellence of the CV submitted as well as evidence of financial need.
Applications should be sent to: Melissa Carty, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Email: [email protected]
Recipients of the 2009/2010 bursaries are 3 MA in Community Music students: Linda Ferguson, Patricia Moyna and Niall Cloak.
Patrons of the EMI Sound Foundation are Sir George Martin, Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana Ross, and Tina Turner.
Shannon Fellowship
The William V. Shannon Fellowship at Boston University was established in l989 in memory of William Shannon to commemorate his dedication to education and to Ireland. Appointed United States Ambassador to Ireland by President Jimmy Carter, Shannon served from l977 to l981. Upon his return from Ireland, and until his death in l989, Ambassador Shannon was a University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. The Shannon Fellowship provides funding for a graduate student from Ireland to attend Boston University for a year or more. Since the Fellowship was established, a number of Fellows have studied at Boston University. They travelled to B.U. from the University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and from Dublin City University. The Fellowship continues to facilitate links between the music education programmes at Boston University and at the Irish World Academy by funding students from the Irish World Academy to complete their teaching practice in Boston public schools. The Fellowship also facilitates on-going post-graduate research in music education.
Further information: Jean Downey, Course Director, Grad Dip Education (Music)/M. Ed Education (Music):
Phone + 353 61 213120Email: [email protected]
Further information on all MA Programmes, Scholarships and Fee Waivers can be had from the Irish World Academy website:
www.irishworldacademy.ieEmail: [email protected]
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Dr Nan McIntyre Culture Ireland / Fulbright Scholar at the Irish World Academy
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Trustees of Muckross HouseScholarship for Irish Traditional Dance
The Muckross House Folk Museum in Killarney Co Kerry has links with the Irish World Academy through Dr Catherine Foley, director of the MA Irish Traditional Performance. The Trustees of Muckross House have generously donated a scholarship which is available to students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. This year’s scholarship, valued at €6,750.00 has been awarded to Meabh Felton.
Applications to Dr Catherine Foley Phone: + 353 61 202922 Email: [email protected]
The RTÉ lyric fm Scholarship for Classical String Performance
RTÉ lyric fm has been a strong supporter of the Irish World Academy since RTE launched its classical music station in 1999. The RTE lyric fm Scholarship is available to students wishing to study on the MA in Classical String Performance.
Applications to Ferenc Szucs, Director, MA Classical String Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
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Culture Ireland / Fulbright Ireland Fellowships
Fulbright Commission awards scholarships for Irish citizens to lecture, research or study in the United States and for U.S. citizens to lecture, research or study in Ireland. The 2009/2010 Culture Ireland Fulbright Ireland Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Nan McEntire Associate Professor Director of the ISU Folklore Archives at the Department of English at Indiana State University USA.
Irish World Academy Research Fee Waivers
A limited number of full or partial fee waivers are available for PhD research students at the Irish World Academy. There is no application deadline for these fee waivers, which will be discussed as part of the consultative process in assessing any research application.
Enquiries for doctoral research should be addressed in the first instance to the appropriate course director specialist or to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Phone: + 353 61 202590 Email: [email protected] All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.
Irish World Academy MA Traditional Music Performance Graduate Kieran Munnelly conducting a flute masterclass at the Blas Summer School, June ‘09
The EMI Music Sound Foundation
EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997 to commemorate the centenary of EMI Records. EMI Music Sound Foundation is an independent charity and is now the single largest sponsor of Specialist Performing Arts Colleges in England and has created vital bursaries at music colleges to assist needy music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation is extending its remit to cover the Irish World Academy in Ireland. A Bursary of €8000 has been made available on an annual basis towards the establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Applicants should normally be under 25 years of age and should have applied for admission to the MA Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, bursary applications may be considered with applications for admission to Irish World Music Academy other than Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner will include the excellence of the CV submitted as well as evidence of financial need.
Applications should be sent to: Melissa Carty, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Email: [email protected]
Recipients of the 2009/2010 bursaries are 3 MA in Community Music students: Linda Ferguson, Patricia Moyna and Niall Cloak.
Patrons of the EMI Sound Foundation are Sir George Martin, Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana Ross, and Tina Turner.
Shannon Fellowship
The William V. Shannon Fellowship at Boston University was established in l989 in memory of William Shannon to commemorate his dedication to education and to Ireland. Appointed United States Ambassador to Ireland by President Jimmy Carter, Shannon served from l977 to l981. Upon his return from Ireland, and until his death in l989, Ambassador Shannon was a University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. The Shannon Fellowship provides funding for a graduate student from Ireland to attend Boston University for a year or more. Since the Fellowship was established, a number of Fellows have studied at Boston University. They travelled to B.U. from the University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and from Dublin City University. The Fellowship continues to facilitate links between the music education programmes at Boston University and at the Irish World Academy by funding students from the Irish World Academy to complete their teaching practice in Boston public schools. The Fellowship also facilitates on-going post-graduate research in music education.
Further information: Jean Downey, Course Director, Grad Dip Education (Music)/M. Ed Education (Music):
Phone + 353 61 213120Email: [email protected]
Further information on all MA Programmes, Scholarships and Fee Waivers can be had from the Irish World Academy website:
www.irishworldacademy.ieEmail: [email protected]
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Dr Nan McIntyre Culture Ireland / Fulbright Scholar at the Irish World Academy
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Trustees of Muckross HouseScholarship for Irish Traditional Dance
The Muckross House Folk Museum in Killarney Co Kerry has links with the Irish World Academy through Dr Catherine Foley, director of the MA Irish Traditional Performance. The Trustees of Muckross House have generously donated a scholarship which is available to students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. This year’s scholarship, valued at €6,750.00 has been awarded to Meabh Felton.
Applications to Dr Catherine Foley Phone: + 353 61 202922 Email: [email protected]
The RTÉ lyric fm Scholarship for Classical String Performance
RTÉ lyric fm has been a strong supporter of the Irish World Academy since RTE launched its classical music station in 1999. The RTE lyric fm Scholarship is available to students wishing to study on the MA in Classical String Performance.
Applications to Ferenc Szucs, Director, MA Classical String Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202918Email: [email protected]
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Culture Ireland / Fulbright Ireland Fellowships
Fulbright Commission awards scholarships for Irish citizens to lecture, research or study in the United States and for U.S. citizens to lecture, research or study in Ireland. The 2009/2010 Culture Ireland Fulbright Ireland Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Nan McEntire Associate Professor Director of the ISU Folklore Archives at the Department of English at Indiana State University USA.
Irish World Academy Research Fee Waivers
A limited number of full or partial fee waivers are available for PhD research students at the Irish World Academy. There is no application deadline for these fee waivers, which will be discussed as part of the consultative process in assessing any research application.
Enquiries for doctoral research should be addressed in the first instance to the appropriate course director specialist or to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Phone: + 353 61 202590 Email: [email protected] All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.
Irish World Academy MA Traditional Music Performance Graduate Kieran Munnelly conducting a flute masterclass at the Blas Summer School, June ‘09
Faculty of Education and Health Sciences:Graduate Diploma / Master of Arts in Dance
(Part Time)
The Graduate Diploma in Dance is a one-year, part time programme of study. The Graduate Diploma in Dance enables participants to acquire the necessary skills to teach at Leaving Certificate Physical Education level by focusing on the aesthetic/artistic/dance components of such a certificate. The emphasis is on participants’ own professional development. Students who satisfy the University’s entrance requirements for transfer to a master’s degree may be considered for admission to the master’s programme. The object of the programme is to interested teachers with a unique opportunity to develop appropriate dance education skills, the course aims to promote dance culture and develop greater participation in the art of dance in Ireland.
Course director: Brigitte Moody, Department: Physical Education and Sport Sciences.Phone: + 353-61-202807Email: [email protected]
Faculty of Science and Engineering MA/MSC In Music Technology
The Master's Degree in Music Technology is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for musicians from all disciplines. The course is aimed at graduates who are interested in combining technological competence with artistic endeavour.
Director: Jürgen SimpsonPhone: + 353 61 202782Email: [email protected]
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Faculty of Science and Engineering MA/MSC In Music Technology
The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for art and design graduates who are interested in pursuing studies, which combine technological competence with design/artistic endeavour. The convergence of computer and media technologies offers unique opportunities for design/artists to exploit their potential in new areas, across a wide range of activities, such as recording, multimedia, software, broadcasting and education.
Director: Mikael FernströmPhone: + 353 61 202606Email: [email protected] www.csis.ul.ie
Department Of Music, Mary Immaculate College Mary Immaculate College, Limerick was founded in 1898 and became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland in 1974 before being academically integrated with the University of Limerick in 1991. The College occupies a mature campus on the South Circular Road in the suburbs of Limerick City and student enrolment currently stands at €3,000. The Department of Music offers music for the B.Ed and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other postgraduate degrees to doctoral level by research (Graduate Assistantships at €6,600 p.a. plus fee waiver available). Regular choral and chamber concerts (see website) are a vital part of the life of the Department. There are close ties and many cross-campus ventures with the Irish World Academy.
Faculty Dr. Gareth Cox (Head of Department)Dr. Paul Collins Dr. Michael Murphy Gwen MooreAilbhe KennyKaren Power (Music Technician)Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist)
Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: [email protected]
Arts Offices at The University Of Limerick
Arts Officer:Patricia Moriarty Phone: + 353 61 20 2130Email: [email protected]
Visual Arts Officer:Yvonne Davis Phone: + 353 61 21 3052Email: [email protected]
Irish Language Officer/ Stiúrthóir Na Gaeilge:Deirdre Ní LoingsighPhone: + 353 61 213463Email: [email protected]
Further information on the Irish World Academy’s courses, concerts, seminars and special events: Phone: + 353 61 202917 / Fax: + 353 61 202589Email: [email protected] www.irishworldacademy.ie
Other Programmes and Arts Offices At The University Of Limerick:
Faculty of Education and Health Sciences:Graduate Diploma / Master of Arts in Dance
(Part Time)
The Graduate Diploma in Dance is a one-year, part time programme of study. The Graduate Diploma in Dance enables participants to acquire the necessary skills to teach at Leaving Certificate Physical Education level by focusing on the aesthetic/artistic/dance components of such a certificate. The emphasis is on participants’ own professional development. Students who satisfy the University’s entrance requirements for transfer to a master’s degree may be considered for admission to the master’s programme. The object of the programme is to interested teachers with a unique opportunity to develop appropriate dance education skills, the course aims to promote dance culture and develop greater participation in the art of dance in Ireland.
Course director: Brigitte Moody, Department: Physical Education and Sport Sciences.Phone: + 353-61-202807Email: [email protected]
Faculty of Science and Engineering MA/MSC In Music Technology
The Master's Degree in Music Technology is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for musicians from all disciplines. The course is aimed at graduates who are interested in combining technological competence with artistic endeavour.
Director: Jürgen SimpsonPhone: + 353 61 202782Email: [email protected]
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Faculty of Science and Engineering MA/MSC In Music Technology
The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for art and design graduates who are interested in pursuing studies, which combine technological competence with design/artistic endeavour. The convergence of computer and media technologies offers unique opportunities for design/artists to exploit their potential in new areas, across a wide range of activities, such as recording, multimedia, software, broadcasting and education.
Director: Mikael FernströmPhone: + 353 61 202606Email: [email protected] www.csis.ul.ie
Department Of Music, Mary Immaculate College Mary Immaculate College, Limerick was founded in 1898 and became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland in 1974 before being academically integrated with the University of Limerick in 1991. The College occupies a mature campus on the South Circular Road in the suburbs of Limerick City and student enrolment currently stands at €3,000. The Department of Music offers music for the B.Ed and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other postgraduate degrees to doctoral level by research (Graduate Assistantships at €6,600 p.a. plus fee waiver available). Regular choral and chamber concerts (see website) are a vital part of the life of the Department. There are close ties and many cross-campus ventures with the Irish World Academy.
Faculty Dr. Gareth Cox (Head of Department)Dr. Paul Collins Dr. Michael Murphy Gwen MooreAilbhe KennyKaren Power (Music Technician)Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist)
Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: [email protected]
Arts Offices at The University Of Limerick
Arts Officer:Patricia Moriarty Phone: + 353 61 20 2130Email: [email protected]
Visual Arts Officer:Yvonne Davis Phone: + 353 61 21 3052Email: [email protected]
Irish Language Officer/ Stiúrthóir Na Gaeilge:Deirdre Ní LoingsighPhone: + 353 61 213463Email: [email protected]
Further information on the Irish World Academy’s courses, concerts, seminars and special events: Phone: + 353 61 202917 / Fax: + 353 61 202589Email: [email protected] www.irishworldacademy.ie
Other Programmes and Arts Offices At The University Of Limerick:
Of Our Times/Comhaimseartha
Irish World Academy of Music and DanceUniversity of Limerick
Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus CeolOllscoil Luimnigh
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Front Cover photograph: ‘Firebird’ a choreography by 2009 Artist-in-Residence Breandán de Gallaí, performed by Breandán with students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance, as part of their final exam performance, June 09. © Declan English
Back Cover photograph: MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance StudentSatomi Mitera, May ’09 © Maurice Gunning
Design: Joseph Gervin