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Irish World Academy of Music and DanceUniversity of Limerick

Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus CeolOllscoil Luimnigh

Autumn

An Fómhar

2010

2010

Contents

Lucy Suggate performing Fergus O Conchuir’s ‘Niche’, as part of a collaborative project between the Academy’s MA Contemporary Dance, the Belltable Arts Centre and Daghdha Dance Company.Photograph © Maurice Gunning 01

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02 Introduction

07 Lunchtime Concert Series

17 Seminar Series

21 Special Events

27 Spring & Summer 2010 at the Irish World Academy

31 Bealach / Community Cultural Pathways

35 Cónaí / Artists in Residence

41 Clár / Irish World Academy MA and BA Programmes

43 Scholarships

47 Other Programmes and Arts Offices

Contents

Lucy Suggate performing Fergus O Conchuir’s ‘Niche’, as part of a collaborative project between the Academy’s MA Contemporary Dance, the Belltable Arts Centre and Daghdha Dance Company.Photograph © Maurice Gunning 01

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02 Introduction

07 Lunchtime Concert Series

17 Seminar Series

21 Special Events

27 Spring & Summer 2010 at the Irish World Academy

31 Bealach / Community Cultural Pathways

35 Cónaí / Artists in Residence

41 Clár / Irish World Academy MA and BA Programmes

43 Scholarships

47 Other Programmes and Arts Offices

Sited on the banks of the river Shannon, connected to the city of Limerick by the

Living Bridge, and sprung from a landscape of curves and meanders, the Irish World

Academy of Music and Dance is a place of conversation, comhrá. Conversations arise

from questions and passions brought by artists and scholars who come seeking a

community that understands their vocations and burnishes their gifts. Conversations

are created out of the rich humus of world traditions embodied in both the performing

arts and those who practice and seek to understand them. These are conversations

that require listening with the ear of one’s heart, believing in the power of such

unfettered exchange to unleash the creative spirit.

ConversationComhráAnya Peterson Royce

Irish World AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

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Anya Peterson Royce,Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,Indiana University

Sited on the banks of the river Shannon, connected to the city of Limerick by the

Living Bridge, and sprung from a landscape of curves and meanders, the Irish World

Academy of Music and Dance is a place of conversation, comhrá. Conversations arise

from questions and passions brought by artists and scholars who come seeking a

community that understands their vocations and burnishes their gifts. Conversations

are created out of the rich humus of world traditions embodied in both the performing

arts and those who practice and seek to understand them. These are conversations

that require listening with the ear of one’s heart, believing in the power of such

unfettered exchange to unleash the creative spirit.

ConversationComhráAnya Peterson Royce

Irish World AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

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Anya Peterson Royce,Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,Indiana University

The Stepping Stones initiative, a marvelous multi-year set of conversations, was my introduction to the creative exchange possible at the Academy. Charged with envisioning the next way-stations the Academy might choose in expanding its compass more broadly across the performing arts, a small group of us sat down together to listen and to talk. All ideas were welcome, and our wise guides gave us time to imagine, to listen to each other, and, out of that mutual engagement, find new ways of seeing. Then began the process of finding a common thread, of placing ideas next to each other to see how they prospered by the proximity. Slowly, and after inviting others into the conversation, possibilities were winnowed down to a vision, an MA in Festive Arts, that had coherence and beauty, and that embodied the values of community, invitation, and creativity that have characterized all the Academy offerings. New configurations have brought together genres, communities of practitioners, reflection and practice with care and imagination. The festival that will be an integral part of the Festive Arts program will flow across the Living Bridge with music, dance, puppetry, street theatre, and feasting, connecting community and Academy in ways both joyful and profound. The richness of conversation here comes from the insistence on living into that frontier between the poetic and the practical.1 It is there for the crossing, and we live in both, must do so, to realize the full potential of either. Few institutions, academic or conservatory, have had the wisdom and the vision to make that a fundamental premise. The Academy is one of those rare places that lives out such a philosophy with a vibrancy and a generosity that continues to astonish. It is filled with creative spirits who, by their fearless exploration, give us the courage to embrace the unexpected. The fluid architecture of exploration that is the sustaining philosophy of the

sense of curiosity and humility. The architecture of invention spun from medieval traditions and the latest in e-journals such as Inbhear honours and sustains both. Lastly, the Academy is a healing place, if we understand healing as a making whole. Body, mind, and heart are joined here; we have only to enter the conversation.

Anya Peterson Royce,Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,Indiana University

Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received a BA in Anthropology with Distinction as well as Honors in Humanities from Stanford University in 1968. In 1971, she received a Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in Anthropology from Berkeley in 1974. Royce is one of the pioneers in the Anthro-pology of Dance, bringing together her early career in classical ballet with long-term ethnographic research. Her experience in both these realms has convinced her of the importance of embodied approaches. Royce’s books on dance include The Anthropology of Dance (1974), Movement and Meaning in Ballet and Mime (1984), and The Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2004). She is currently working on a fourth, Pilobolus: Collaborative Innovation, and the Architecture of Reinvention. Royce’s work on dance and performing arts has examined both form and content within broad cultural contexts in order to understand the creative process, the interpretive role of performers and writers, and artistry and aesthetics of the ordinary. Professor Royce will be the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Limerick in September 2010.

Academy is reflected in the splendid architecture of the new building. Those who live, learn, and work here are reminded of the conversations and connections there for the taking, by the architecture that reveals old traditions in modern forms, by the spaces for learning craft that flow into the spaces of performing, and by the contiguity of performance and inquiry that lets one move fluidly between these two ways of knowing and doing.

Performing artists are always in conversation; some are intimate and others communal but all are essential in vocations based on an interpretive role. The most intimate, the first and the last, is with their instruments. Acknowledging the daily obligation to make one’s instrument as perfect as possible defines performers to themselves and to others. Mentors and teachers become partners in the process of discovery and refinement. The creators of the works performers bring alive are insistent voices, requiring their interpreters to listen into the stillnesses and the silences, to reveal the arc of the work. Performers join their colleagues in ensembles that bring together individual voices, creating something more than any single performer could have imagined or realized. Performances, the sum of all the conversations, are offered to audiences in theatres, community halls, or ritual grounds. When, in them, the practicalities of craft disappear into the transparency of artistry, both performer and audience are transformed.

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance is a hospitable place, welcoming known and strange, in the ancient tradition of the abbeys and monasteries that line the Shannon. The Academy is a fount of creativity; those who guide it and those who pass through it bring together the poetic and the practical, performance both in the doing of it and in the thinking about it, guided always with the artist's

1 From Seamus Heaney “Frontiers of Writing” in The Redress of Poetry (London: Faber and Faber, 1995), p.203, referring to two orders of knowledge, the practical and the poetic.

Conemara sean-nós singer Roisín El Safty at the Irish World Academy’s ‘Lá na nAmhrán’, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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The Stepping Stones initiative, a marvelous multi-year set of conversations, was my introduction to the creative exchange possible at the Academy. Charged with envisioning the next way-stations the Academy might choose in expanding its compass more broadly across the performing arts, a small group of us sat down together to listen and to talk. All ideas were welcome, and our wise guides gave us time to imagine, to listen to each other, and, out of that mutual engagement, find new ways of seeing. Then began the process of finding a common thread, of placing ideas next to each other to see how they prospered by the proximity. Slowly, and after inviting others into the conversation, possibilities were winnowed down to a vision, an MA in Festive Arts, that had coherence and beauty, and that embodied the values of community, invitation, and creativity that have characterized all the Academy offerings. New configurations have brought together genres, communities of practitioners, reflection and practice with care and imagination. The festival that will be an integral part of the Festive Arts program will flow across the Living Bridge with music, dance, puppetry, street theatre, and feasting, connecting community and Academy in ways both joyful and profound. The richness of conversation here comes from the insistence on living into that frontier between the poetic and the practical.1 It is there for the crossing, and we live in both, must do so, to realize the full potential of either. Few institutions, academic or conservatory, have had the wisdom and the vision to make that a fundamental premise. The Academy is one of those rare places that lives out such a philosophy with a vibrancy and a generosity that continues to astonish. It is filled with creative spirits who, by their fearless exploration, give us the courage to embrace the unexpected. The fluid architecture of exploration that is the sustaining philosophy of the

sense of curiosity and humility. The architecture of invention spun from medieval traditions and the latest in e-journals such as Inbhear honours and sustains both. Lastly, the Academy is a healing place, if we understand healing as a making whole. Body, mind, and heart are joined here; we have only to enter the conversation.

Anya Peterson Royce,Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature,Indiana University

Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She received a BA in Anthropology with Distinction as well as Honors in Humanities from Stanford University in 1968. In 1971, she received a Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in Anthropology from Berkeley in 1974. Royce is one of the pioneers in the Anthro-pology of Dance, bringing together her early career in classical ballet with long-term ethnographic research. Her experience in both these realms has convinced her of the importance of embodied approaches. Royce’s books on dance include The Anthropology of Dance (1974), Movement and Meaning in Ballet and Mime (1984), and The Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2004). She is currently working on a fourth, Pilobolus: Collaborative Innovation, and the Architecture of Reinvention. Royce’s work on dance and performing arts has examined both form and content within broad cultural contexts in order to understand the creative process, the interpretive role of performers and writers, and artistry and aesthetics of the ordinary. Professor Royce will be the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Limerick in September 2010.

Academy is reflected in the splendid architecture of the new building. Those who live, learn, and work here are reminded of the conversations and connections there for the taking, by the architecture that reveals old traditions in modern forms, by the spaces for learning craft that flow into the spaces of performing, and by the contiguity of performance and inquiry that lets one move fluidly between these two ways of knowing and doing.

Performing artists are always in conversation; some are intimate and others communal but all are essential in vocations based on an interpretive role. The most intimate, the first and the last, is with their instruments. Acknowledging the daily obligation to make one’s instrument as perfect as possible defines performers to themselves and to others. Mentors and teachers become partners in the process of discovery and refinement. The creators of the works performers bring alive are insistent voices, requiring their interpreters to listen into the stillnesses and the silences, to reveal the arc of the work. Performers join their colleagues in ensembles that bring together individual voices, creating something more than any single performer could have imagined or realized. Performances, the sum of all the conversations, are offered to audiences in theatres, community halls, or ritual grounds. When, in them, the practicalities of craft disappear into the transparency of artistry, both performer and audience are transformed.

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance is a hospitable place, welcoming known and strange, in the ancient tradition of the abbeys and monasteries that line the Shannon. The Academy is a fount of creativity; those who guide it and those who pass through it bring together the poetic and the practical, performance both in the doing of it and in the thinking about it, guided always with the artist's

1 From Seamus Heaney “Frontiers of Writing” in The Redress of Poetry (London: Faber and Faber, 1995), p.203, referring to two orders of knowledge, the practical and the poetic.

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Lunchtime Concert Series1.15 - 2.00pm

www.irishworldacademy.ie

September - December

Venue: Tower TheatreIrish World AcademyUniversity of Limerick

Admission FreeAll Welcome

Irish World Academy of Music and DanceProfessor Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202590Email: Melissa.carty@ul.ie

Dr Helen Phelan, Associate Director, Irish World Academy of Music and DanceDirector, PhD Arts PracticeActing Director, MA Ritual Chant and Song Phone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

Paula Dundon, Academy AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202149Email: paula.dundon@ul.ie

Melissa Carty, Assistant AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202590Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie

Ellen Byrne, Director, Media and Arts Office Phone: + 353 61 202917Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

Ferenc Szücs, Director MA Classical String PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202918Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

Professor Jane Edwards, Director MA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 213122Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

Dr Aileen Dillane, Lecturer in MusicBA Irish Music & Dance(On leave)

Éamonn Costello, Acting Lecturer, MusicBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202159Email: Eamon.costello@ul.ie

Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music & DancePhone: + 353 61 202470Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie

Mats Melin, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music and Dance(On Sabbatical)

Maeve Felton, Acting Lecturer, DanceBA Irish Music and DanceEmail: maeve.felton@ul.ie

Óscar Mascareñas Garza, Director BA Voice and DancePhone: + 353 61 233762Email: Oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

Tríona McCaffrey, Acting Lecturer MA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: Triona.mccaffrey@ul.ie

Mary Nunan, DirectorMA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhone + 353 61 213464Email: mary.nunan@ul.ie

Dr Catherine Foley, DirectorMA EthnochoreologyMA Irish Traditional Dance PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202922Email: catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

Niall Keegan, DirectorBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202465Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

Sandra Joyce, DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

Dr Colin Quigley, Director MA EthnomusicologyPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: colin.quigley@ul.ie

Jean Downey, DirectorMA Community Music Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) MA Education (Music)Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: jean.downey@ul.ie MA Classical String student Peter Sebestyen,

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Lunchtime Concert Series1.15 - 2.00pm

www.irishworldacademy.ie

September - December

Venue: Tower TheatreIrish World AcademyUniversity of Limerick

Admission FreeAll Welcome

Irish World Academy of Music and DanceProfessor Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinDirectorIrish World Academy of Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202590Email: Melissa.carty@ul.ie

Dr Helen Phelan, Associate Director, Irish World Academy of Music and DanceDirector, PhD Arts PracticeActing Director, MA Ritual Chant and Song Phone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

Paula Dundon, Academy AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202149Email: paula.dundon@ul.ie

Melissa Carty, Assistant AdministratorPhone: + 353 61 202590Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie

Ellen Byrne, Director, Media and Arts Office Phone: + 353 61 202917Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

Ferenc Szücs, Director MA Classical String PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202918Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

Professor Jane Edwards, Director MA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 213122Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

Dr Aileen Dillane, Lecturer in MusicBA Irish Music & Dance(On leave)

Éamonn Costello, Acting Lecturer, MusicBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202159Email: Eamon.costello@ul.ie

Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music & DancePhone: + 353 61 202470Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie

Mats Melin, Lecturer in DanceBA Irish Music and Dance(On Sabbatical)

Maeve Felton, Acting Lecturer, DanceBA Irish Music and DanceEmail: maeve.felton@ul.ie

Óscar Mascareñas Garza, Director BA Voice and DancePhone: + 353 61 233762Email: Oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

Tríona McCaffrey, Acting Lecturer MA Music TherapyPhone: + 353 61 234358Email: Triona.mccaffrey@ul.ie

Mary Nunan, DirectorMA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhone + 353 61 213464Email: mary.nunan@ul.ie

Dr Catherine Foley, DirectorMA EthnochoreologyMA Irish Traditional Dance PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202922Email: catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

Niall Keegan, DirectorBA Irish Music and DancePhone: + 353 61 202465Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

Sandra Joyce, DirectorMA Irish Traditional Music PerformancePhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

Dr Colin Quigley, Director MA EthnomusicologyPhone: + 353 61 202966Email: colin.quigley@ul.ie

Jean Downey, DirectorMA Community Music Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) MA Education (Music)Phone: + 353 61 213160Email: jean.downey@ul.ie MA Classical String student Peter Sebestyen,

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John Carty

Tuesday September 14John Carty (Fiddle/Banjo)

Born in London, John Carty developed his love for fiddle, banjo and flute, all of which he has mastered, through his multi-instrumentalist father who was a member of the Glenside Ceili Band in London in the 1960s. He relocated to Ireland in the 1990s, settling in Boyle, Co Roscommon. In his 1994 debut banjo album, The Cat that Ate the Candle was released to critical acclaim and his first fiddle album, Last Night’s Fun, was released 1996. This album has been described as a milestone in recorded fiddle music. In 1997 he formed ‘At the Racket’, a free-spirited dance band named after an old Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm recording. The group has recorded three highly acclaimed CDs, At the Racket, Mirth Making Heroes and It’s Not Racket Science and has toured all ‘the major European festivals. Awarded TG4‘s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003, Carty now performs regularly with Chieftains’ flautist Matt Molloy exploring the North Connaught tradition. A CD of their music, accompanied by Arty McGlynn, entitled Pathway to the Well was launched in late 2007.

Réamonn Keary & Miriam RoycroftMichelle MulcahyBrian McGrath Mattias PerezSimon Thoumire

Tuesday September 21Brian McGrath (Piano/Banjo), Michelle Mulcahy (Harp/Concertina/Box etc!) & Simon Thoumire (Concertina)

Brian McGrath comes from Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh. His first work in the professional field was with the group Dervish as banjo and mandolinist. He then joined Four Men and a Dog and played on the award winning album Barking Mad. He has accompanied many traditional musicians including Noel Hill, Paul Brock, Frankie Gavin. He now plays with ‘At the Racket’, and is a very much sought after session musician on piano, banjo and mandolin. Michelle Mulcahy from Abbeyfeale Co Limerick, is a multi-instrumentalist, no less impressive on fiddle, concertina, harp, and piano. From a very well known musical family, she has recorded with her father Mick and sister Louise, the most recent album being Notes from the Heart (2009). She is currently a student of the Irish World Academy’s PhD Arts Practice programme. An acknowledged concertina virtuoso, Simon Thoumire was winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989. He has always been keen to explore different genres of music, releasing many records over the years delving into folk, jazz, improvisation and composition. As a composer, he is hugely in demand, and was commssioned to write the music for the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.

Thursday September 23Miriam Roycroft (cello) Réamonn Keary (piano)

Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Further studies included a period in Banff, Canada with Aldo Parisot. She has performed as soloist with the RTE NSO and has played most of the major concerti for cello with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland. She has been a guest leader of the cello sections of the NSO, the BBCSSO and the Northern Sinfonia and has also guest co-lead the cello sections of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBCCO. A native of Galway, Réamonn Keary began his piano studies in Limerick with Gerard Shanahan. While studying music at Trinity College Dublin he also studied piano with John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has worked with Ireland’s most distinguished instrumentalists and singers. He is afrequent broadcaster and lecturer on the topics of piano teaching and interpretation and was for many years John O’Conor’s teaching assistant at the RIAM.

Tuesday September 28Mattias Perez (Guitar) &Mats Berglund (Fiddle)

Swedish traditional musicians Mattias Perez and Mats Berglund are regular performers on the European folk music festival circuit, with focus on Swedish traditional music as well as their own compositions and arrange-ments. Mattias Pérez is a 12-string guitarist and much sought-after accompanist to artists including vocalist Åström Rune, with his own trio MP3, and with Outhouse Allstars. He is a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music in Sweden

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John Carty

Tuesday September 14John Carty (Fiddle/Banjo)

Born in London, John Carty developed his love for fiddle, banjo and flute, all of which he has mastered, through his multi-instrumentalist father who was a member of the Glenside Ceili Band in London in the 1960s. He relocated to Ireland in the 1990s, settling in Boyle, Co Roscommon. In his 1994 debut banjo album, The Cat that Ate the Candle was released to critical acclaim and his first fiddle album, Last Night’s Fun, was released 1996. This album has been described as a milestone in recorded fiddle music. In 1997 he formed ‘At the Racket’, a free-spirited dance band named after an old Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm recording. The group has recorded three highly acclaimed CDs, At the Racket, Mirth Making Heroes and It’s Not Racket Science and has toured all ‘the major European festivals. Awarded TG4‘s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003, Carty now performs regularly with Chieftains’ flautist Matt Molloy exploring the North Connaught tradition. A CD of their music, accompanied by Arty McGlynn, entitled Pathway to the Well was launched in late 2007.

Réamonn Keary & Miriam RoycroftMichelle MulcahyBrian McGrath Mattias PerezSimon Thoumire

Tuesday September 21Brian McGrath (Piano/Banjo), Michelle Mulcahy (Harp/Concertina/Box etc!) & Simon Thoumire (Concertina)

Brian McGrath comes from Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh. His first work in the professional field was with the group Dervish as banjo and mandolinist. He then joined Four Men and a Dog and played on the award winning album Barking Mad. He has accompanied many traditional musicians including Noel Hill, Paul Brock, Frankie Gavin. He now plays with ‘At the Racket’, and is a very much sought after session musician on piano, banjo and mandolin. Michelle Mulcahy from Abbeyfeale Co Limerick, is a multi-instrumentalist, no less impressive on fiddle, concertina, harp, and piano. From a very well known musical family, she has recorded with her father Mick and sister Louise, the most recent album being Notes from the Heart (2009). She is currently a student of the Irish World Academy’s PhD Arts Practice programme. An acknowledged concertina virtuoso, Simon Thoumire was winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989. He has always been keen to explore different genres of music, releasing many records over the years delving into folk, jazz, improvisation and composition. As a composer, he is hugely in demand, and was commssioned to write the music for the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.

Thursday September 23Miriam Roycroft (cello) Réamonn Keary (piano)

Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Further studies included a period in Banff, Canada with Aldo Parisot. She has performed as soloist with the RTE NSO and has played most of the major concerti for cello with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland. She has been a guest leader of the cello sections of the NSO, the BBCSSO and the Northern Sinfonia and has also guest co-lead the cello sections of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBCCO. A native of Galway, Réamonn Keary began his piano studies in Limerick with Gerard Shanahan. While studying music at Trinity College Dublin he also studied piano with John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has worked with Ireland’s most distinguished instrumentalists and singers. He is afrequent broadcaster and lecturer on the topics of piano teaching and interpretation and was for many years John O’Conor’s teaching assistant at the RIAM.

Tuesday September 28Mattias Perez (Guitar) &Mats Berglund (Fiddle)

Swedish traditional musicians Mattias Perez and Mats Berglund are regular performers on the European folk music festival circuit, with focus on Swedish traditional music as well as their own compositions and arrange-ments. Mattias Pérez is a 12-string guitarist and much sought-after accompanist to artists including vocalist Åström Rune, with his own trio MP3, and with Outhouse Allstars. He is a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music in Sweden

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Thursday October 7 Paul Roe (clarinet) Music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet

In this very attractive and wide-ranging concert Paul plays music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet from Ireland and the U.S.A. This programme features a number of pieces in a variety of styles including jazz, classical and folk elements, demonstrating the richness of contemporary writing for these instruments.

Paul Roe is a one of Ireland’s most creative and versatile musicians (clarinet and bass clarinet). He was Associate-Principal Clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland from 1987-2000. Since then he has given solo and ensemble performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America with musicians including: Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo String Quartet (Romania/Ireland) and Finghin Collins (Piano-Ireland). He teaches Clarinet at The Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Klezmer performance at Mannes College, New York with David Krakauer. Paul has a PhD in Music (Performance Practice) from the University of York, a Masters Degree in Community Music from the University of Limerick and is a Fellow of Trinity College, London. Paul’s latest CD [Between-Solos and Duos] was released in April 2010 on the Diatrible label Further information from: www.paulroe.org

Tuesday October 12Jean-Michel Veillon

Jean-Michel Veillon is best known as the flute player with the Breton groups Kornog and Pennou Skoulm.

The Band of 1st Southern Brigade Sergio Neves Ghandi DayGwendolyn Masin

Wednesday October 6Ghandi Day

The Irish World Academy is delighted to host the second annual Gandhi Day celebrations in Limerick. Organised by Abed Al Dakar, Intercultural Officer with Doras Luimní, Gandhi Day (October 2nd) is an international day of peace and non-violence. The Limerick celebrations willtake place on October 6th at the Academy and will kick-off with a lunchtime concert of Indian music, followed by workshops by the performers. An evening reception with music and Indian food will celebrate the cultural contributions of the growing Indian and Pakistani community in Ireland.

America and Europe. As a student at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, he was honoured with the 2003 Boesendorfer Stipendium and the overall prize of the Fidelio Competition. He completed his Master of Musicdegree from Trinity College of Music London in 2008 with the highest recognition - the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal for Performance Excellence.

Portuguese clarinettist Sérgio Neves studied at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco. He completed his Masters degree at Trinity College of Music, London, graduating with the award for “Excellence in Clarinet Studies”. He is an international prizewinner having been awarded 1st Prize in the Wilfred Hambleton clarinet competition 2008, (England): 1st Prize FOLEFEST 2007, Chamber Music (Portugal) and 1st Prize in The Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition 2007, (England).

Tuesday October 5The Band of 1st Southern Brigade

The Army No. 2 Band was formed in April 1925 at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. It was posted to Cork the following year, where it is currently stationed at Collins Barracks. The numerical titles of all bands, with the exception of the Army No.1 Band, were later changed to territorial styles; thus the Army No.2 Band became The Band of the Southern Command. Its current title, The Band of 1 Southern Brigade, dates from a re-organisation of the Defence Forces in 1997. In addition to its military commitments, the band plays a major part in the musical and cultural life of the southern region of the country. The band’s Schools Concert programme is a much-appreciated part of the Defence Forces contribution to the community.

Thursday September 30Messiaen Quartet for the End of TimeGwendolyn Masin, violin, Sergio Neves, clarinet,Tara-Lee Angell, cello, Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, piano

Gwendolyn Masin has been described as “a natural performer with an authority most violinists would envy” (The Irish Times). She has performed extensivelyin Europe and South Africa to critical acclaim and has toured as a soloist with orchestras such as the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and the StateSymphony Orchestra of Belarus. She currently completing a doctoral thesis on 20th century and contemporary violin pedagogy for Trinity College in Dublin. Gwendolyn’s award-winning book on violin teaching, Michaela’s Music House, The Magic of the Violin, was published in 2009 by Müller & Schade.

Tara-Lee Angell holds degrees from The Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin, Utrecht Conservatorium, Holland and Trinity College of Music London. Whilestudying for her Masters degree in London, she was awarded a place on the Mentorship scheme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In September 2009 sheestablished the Munster Music Academy in Killaloe, Co Clare. She is in demand as a cello teacher and chamber music coach in Ireland and and abroad having previously taught in the Young European Strings School in Dublin and Royal Academy of Music Junior Department London.

Filipino-American pianist Jovanni-Rey V. de Pedro has performed extensively throughout Asia, North

He pioneered the use of the wooden flute in Breton music, and is also an excellent player of Irish tunes. He was born in Frehel, near St. Brieuc in Cotes D'Armor Brittany, in 1959. He began playing wooden flute in 1977, and developed a great interest in Irish music and culture, learning tunes from Irish players Desi Wilkinson and Paddy O’Neill. His highly regarded first solo album, E Koad Nizan is the first record dedicated to Breton music on transverse wooden flute.

Wednesday October 13Rex Levitates Dance Company12 Minute Dances

This semester, choreographer-in-residence and director of Rex Levitates Dance Company will be working again with the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, developing a new ensemble choreography which explores “dependency” and “reliance on others”. She will teach a daily class, followed by intensive periods of studio-based research towards the creation/ rehearsal of the new work. Her Dublin based dance company Rex Levitates, will be in residence throughout the week of October 11th - 15th. During this period the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance will be invited join the company in training and rehearsal, and also to spend time developing new choreographic material.

12 Minute Dances is a collection of short works that were first performed at the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009 with lighting design by Sinead Wallace and commissioned music by New York composers Ed Rosenberg and Joel Mellin. The pieces are inspired by different sources in poetry, art and music and appearas a wash of colour, movement, rhythm and emotion; human embodiment as a dynamic event. The audience completes the picture.

“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer”. Mark Rothko (painter 1903 – 1970)

This Autumn Rex Levitates will also be performing 12 Minute Dances at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, The Capstone Theatre Liverpool and The Hawk’s Well, Sligo.

Rex Levitates is supported by The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin City Council.

“…It was full of graceful instinct as the dancers literally seemed to lose themselves in their own and each others’ shape and gesture... an eloquent piece of subtle technical composition”.Irish Theatre Magazine 2009

“5 stars... elegantly crafted choreography that’s confident in its understatement.... the five 12 minute dances will undoubtedly reward repeated viewings” The Irish Times. Sept 8th 2009

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Tara-Lee Angell Jovanni-Rey de Pedro

Thursday October 7 Paul Roe (clarinet) Music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet

In this very attractive and wide-ranging concert Paul plays music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet from Ireland and the U.S.A. This programme features a number of pieces in a variety of styles including jazz, classical and folk elements, demonstrating the richness of contemporary writing for these instruments.

Paul Roe is a one of Ireland’s most creative and versatile musicians (clarinet and bass clarinet). He was Associate-Principal Clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland from 1987-2000. Since then he has given solo and ensemble performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America with musicians including: Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo String Quartet (Romania/Ireland) and Finghin Collins (Piano-Ireland). He teaches Clarinet at The Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Klezmer performance at Mannes College, New York with David Krakauer. Paul has a PhD in Music (Performance Practice) from the University of York, a Masters Degree in Community Music from the University of Limerick and is a Fellow of Trinity College, London. Paul’s latest CD [Between-Solos and Duos] was released in April 2010 on the Diatrible label Further information from: www.paulroe.org

Tuesday October 12Jean-Michel Veillon

Jean-Michel Veillon is best known as the flute player with the Breton groups Kornog and Pennou Skoulm.

The Band of 1st Southern Brigade Sergio Neves Ghandi DayGwendolyn Masin

Wednesday October 6Ghandi Day

The Irish World Academy is delighted to host the second annual Gandhi Day celebrations in Limerick. Organised by Abed Al Dakar, Intercultural Officer with Doras Luimní, Gandhi Day (October 2nd) is an international day of peace and non-violence. The Limerick celebrations willtake place on October 6th at the Academy and will kick-off with a lunchtime concert of Indian music, followed by workshops by the performers. An evening reception with music and Indian food will celebrate the cultural contributions of the growing Indian and Pakistani community in Ireland.

America and Europe. As a student at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, he was honoured with the 2003 Boesendorfer Stipendium and the overall prize of the Fidelio Competition. He completed his Master of Musicdegree from Trinity College of Music London in 2008 with the highest recognition - the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal for Performance Excellence.

Portuguese clarinettist Sérgio Neves studied at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco. He completed his Masters degree at Trinity College of Music, London, graduating with the award for “Excellence in Clarinet Studies”. He is an international prizewinner having been awarded 1st Prize in the Wilfred Hambleton clarinet competition 2008, (England): 1st Prize FOLEFEST 2007, Chamber Music (Portugal) and 1st Prize in The Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition 2007, (England).

Tuesday October 5The Band of 1st Southern Brigade

The Army No. 2 Band was formed in April 1925 at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. It was posted to Cork the following year, where it is currently stationed at Collins Barracks. The numerical titles of all bands, with the exception of the Army No.1 Band, were later changed to territorial styles; thus the Army No.2 Band became The Band of the Southern Command. Its current title, The Band of 1 Southern Brigade, dates from a re-organisation of the Defence Forces in 1997. In addition to its military commitments, the band plays a major part in the musical and cultural life of the southern region of the country. The band’s Schools Concert programme is a much-appreciated part of the Defence Forces contribution to the community.

Thursday September 30Messiaen Quartet for the End of TimeGwendolyn Masin, violin, Sergio Neves, clarinet,Tara-Lee Angell, cello, Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, piano

Gwendolyn Masin has been described as “a natural performer with an authority most violinists would envy” (The Irish Times). She has performed extensivelyin Europe and South Africa to critical acclaim and has toured as a soloist with orchestras such as the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and the StateSymphony Orchestra of Belarus. She currently completing a doctoral thesis on 20th century and contemporary violin pedagogy for Trinity College in Dublin. Gwendolyn’s award-winning book on violin teaching, Michaela’s Music House, The Magic of the Violin, was published in 2009 by Müller & Schade.

Tara-Lee Angell holds degrees from The Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin, Utrecht Conservatorium, Holland and Trinity College of Music London. Whilestudying for her Masters degree in London, she was awarded a place on the Mentorship scheme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In September 2009 sheestablished the Munster Music Academy in Killaloe, Co Clare. She is in demand as a cello teacher and chamber music coach in Ireland and and abroad having previously taught in the Young European Strings School in Dublin and Royal Academy of Music Junior Department London.

Filipino-American pianist Jovanni-Rey V. de Pedro has performed extensively throughout Asia, North

He pioneered the use of the wooden flute in Breton music, and is also an excellent player of Irish tunes. He was born in Frehel, near St. Brieuc in Cotes D'Armor Brittany, in 1959. He began playing wooden flute in 1977, and developed a great interest in Irish music and culture, learning tunes from Irish players Desi Wilkinson and Paddy O’Neill. His highly regarded first solo album, E Koad Nizan is the first record dedicated to Breton music on transverse wooden flute.

Wednesday October 13Rex Levitates Dance Company12 Minute Dances

This semester, choreographer-in-residence and director of Rex Levitates Dance Company will be working again with the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, developing a new ensemble choreography which explores “dependency” and “reliance on others”. She will teach a daily class, followed by intensive periods of studio-based research towards the creation/ rehearsal of the new work. Her Dublin based dance company Rex Levitates, will be in residence throughout the week of October 11th - 15th. During this period the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance will be invited join the company in training and rehearsal, and also to spend time developing new choreographic material.

12 Minute Dances is a collection of short works that were first performed at the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009 with lighting design by Sinead Wallace and commissioned music by New York composers Ed Rosenberg and Joel Mellin. The pieces are inspired by different sources in poetry, art and music and appearas a wash of colour, movement, rhythm and emotion; human embodiment as a dynamic event. The audience completes the picture.

“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer”. Mark Rothko (painter 1903 – 1970)

This Autumn Rex Levitates will also be performing 12 Minute Dances at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, The Capstone Theatre Liverpool and The Hawk’s Well, Sligo.

Rex Levitates is supported by The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin City Council.

“…It was full of graceful instinct as the dancers literally seemed to lose themselves in their own and each others’ shape and gesture... an eloquent piece of subtle technical composition”.Irish Theatre Magazine 2009

“5 stars... elegantly crafted choreography that’s confident in its understatement.... the five 12 minute dances will undoubtedly reward repeated viewings” The Irish Times. Sept 8th 2009

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Thursday October 14The Piano Music of EJ MoeranDuncan Honeybourne (piano)

English composer EJ Moeran was best known for his richly romantic and picturesque piano music, which was inspired by Ireland’s landscapes and people. He died sixty years ago in Kerry. In addition to playing some of E.J. Moeran’s most distinctive piano works, Honeybourne will tell the composer’s compelling and tragic story, revealing that in the west of Ireland he found a spiritual home where he was able to unravel the complexities of his mature artistic identity. Moeran, an inveterate folksong collector, was deeply affected by places and people and the picturesque titles and warm lyricism of his piano music reflect his rural preoccupations. English pianist Duncan Honeybourne made his Irish debut at the National Concert Hall in 1998, and has since played frequently in Ireland. At home in the UK he has played concertos and given many solo recitals at major venues in London. He has also broadcast as a soloist for BBC Radio 3. He has taken a particular interest in the works of 20th and 21st century British and Irish composers. His double CD, Piano Music from the Midlands, was released in 2008.

Duncan Honeybourne Aogán Lynch Oisín MacDiarmuda Nóirín Ní Riain

Wednesday October 19Aogán Lynch (Concertina), Oisín MacDiarmuda (Fiddle), Kevin Crawford (Flute) & Kevin Burke (Fiddle)

Aogán Lynch was born and raised in Ovens, Co. Cork.Postgraduate studies brought him to Dublin in ’97, where he recorded an album with cousin (guitarist) Gavin Ralston, and fiddler Michelle O Brien, and in 1999 Aogán received the TG4 Gradam Ceóil Young Musician of the Year award. Oisín Mac Diarmada is a graduate in Music Education from Trinity College Dublin/RIAM. He began playing fiddle at a young age in Co. Clare, subsequently moving to Co. Sligo and developing a deep interest in the playing style of the North Connacht region. Following the release of acclaimed solo album, Ar an bhFidil (Green Linnet) in 2003, the Irish Echo’s Earle Hitchner hailed him as “one of the most gifted and creative traditional fiddlers playing today.” He is founder of the noted group Téada. Kevin Crawford was born in Birmingham. His early life was one long journey into Irish music and Co. Clare, to where he eventually moved while in his 20s. A virtuoso flute player, Kevin has recorded two solo albums, D’Flute Album and In Good Company. He is now a member of the hugely successful band Lúnasa. Kevin Burke is one of the seminal figures in the story of Irish traditional music. From his early days with the ground-breaking and now legendary Bothy Band in the mid-70s to his tours with the Irish supergroup Patrick Street, he is widely respected as both an ensemble player

and a dynamic solo performer. Born in London of Irish parents from County Sligo in 1950, he took up the fiddle at age eight, acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. In 2002, he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, a lifetime honour presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA. “Lyric, fluid and precisely as tricky as he needs to be…Kevin Burke is probably the greatest Irish fiddler living." (The Village Voice, New York)

Mark Patrick Hederman is Abbot of Glenstal Abbey in county Limerick. A former headmaster of Glenstal Abbey School, he is author of a number of books including Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheonrd Doors, Veritas, 2008, which contains reflections on W.B.Yeats. His most recent book is Underground Cathedrals, (Columba Press, 2010).

Thursday October 21

Solo and ensemble pieces from the students of this year’s Classical String Programme at the Academy

Tuesday October 26Conal O’Grada (Flute) & Hugh Healy (Concertina)

Conal Ó Gráda is Irish Traditional Flute Player from Co Cork. He has released two solo CDs; The Top of Coom, released in 1990 and Cnoc Buí, released in July of 2008. He has also guested on a number of other CD’s, including with with Kevin Burke/ Jackie Daly, Eoin Ó Riabhaigh, Colm Murphy and others. He teaches flute in Cork (Coláiste Cholm, Ballincollig) and Baile Bhuirne as well as at many of the summer schools both here and abroad. He also runs a ‘Guided Listening Course’ on Traditional Music for Junior/ Leaving Cert students as well as an Arts Management course for Transition Year students.

Wednesday October 20

From Ballads to Byzantium: The Spiritual Journey of W.B. Yeats with Nóirín Ní Riain and Mark Patrick Hederman

In this specially formatted performance for The Tower Theatre at the Academy based upon their recent acclaimed presentation at the National Library of Ireland, Mark Patrick Hederman and Nóirín Ní Riain celebrate the spiritual journey of W.B.Yeats in a program of words and song. William Butler Yeats had the music of Ireland in his veins, and Sligo, where his mother’s family came from, and where he spent time as a child, formed the backdrop and geography of his poetic imagination. He was a natural poet, which is sometimes a danger in the sense that poetry can come too easily to one so gifted. His early poems became world-renowned best-sellers. This presentation takes us from those early days of popular lyrics through his three major obsessions which were Ireland, art and Maud Gonne, to his spiritual journey symbolised by the place where Christianity developed its first and most characteristic art form: Byzantium in the 6th Century.

Nóirín Ní Riain is an internationally acclaimed singer of spiritual songs from many traditions. Her Masters Degree from UCC was on the subject of Religious Song from the Irish Tradition. She was awarded the first ever Doctorate in Theology from the University of Limerick in 2003 for which she coined the term ‘Theosony’ which means ‘the sound of God’. This thesis will be published shortly by the Mellen Press USA. Her latest publication was an autobiography entitled ‘Listen with the Ear of the Heart’ (Veritas).

Kevin Crawford Kevin Burke Mark Patrick Hederman Conal O’Grada

Liz Davis Maxfield, Fulbright Ireland scholar 09/10 on the Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Music Performance in concert, May 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Thursday October 14The Piano Music of EJ MoeranDuncan Honeybourne (piano)

English composer EJ Moeran was best known for his richly romantic and picturesque piano music, which was inspired by Ireland’s landscapes and people. He died sixty years ago in Kerry. In addition to playing some of E.J. Moeran’s most distinctive piano works, Honeybourne will tell the composer’s compelling and tragic story, revealing that in the west of Ireland he found a spiritual home where he was able to unravel the complexities of his mature artistic identity. Moeran, an inveterate folksong collector, was deeply affected by places and people and the picturesque titles and warm lyricism of his piano music reflect his rural preoccupations. English pianist Duncan Honeybourne made his Irish debut at the National Concert Hall in 1998, and has since played frequently in Ireland. At home in the UK he has played concertos and given many solo recitals at major venues in London. He has also broadcast as a soloist for BBC Radio 3. He has taken a particular interest in the works of 20th and 21st century British and Irish composers. His double CD, Piano Music from the Midlands, was released in 2008.

Duncan Honeybourne Aogán Lynch Oisín MacDiarmuda Nóirín Ní Riain

Wednesday October 19Aogán Lynch (Concertina), Oisín MacDiarmuda (Fiddle), Kevin Crawford (Flute) & Kevin Burke (Fiddle)

Aogán Lynch was born and raised in Ovens, Co. Cork.Postgraduate studies brought him to Dublin in ’97, where he recorded an album with cousin (guitarist) Gavin Ralston, and fiddler Michelle O Brien, and in 1999 Aogán received the TG4 Gradam Ceóil Young Musician of the Year award. Oisín Mac Diarmada is a graduate in Music Education from Trinity College Dublin/RIAM. He began playing fiddle at a young age in Co. Clare, subsequently moving to Co. Sligo and developing a deep interest in the playing style of the North Connacht region. Following the release of acclaimed solo album, Ar an bhFidil (Green Linnet) in 2003, the Irish Echo’s Earle Hitchner hailed him as “one of the most gifted and creative traditional fiddlers playing today.” He is founder of the noted group Téada. Kevin Crawford was born in Birmingham. His early life was one long journey into Irish music and Co. Clare, to where he eventually moved while in his 20s. A virtuoso flute player, Kevin has recorded two solo albums, D’Flute Album and In Good Company. He is now a member of the hugely successful band Lúnasa. Kevin Burke is one of the seminal figures in the story of Irish traditional music. From his early days with the ground-breaking and now legendary Bothy Band in the mid-70s to his tours with the Irish supergroup Patrick Street, he is widely respected as both an ensemble player

and a dynamic solo performer. Born in London of Irish parents from County Sligo in 1950, he took up the fiddle at age eight, acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. In 2002, he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, a lifetime honour presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA. “Lyric, fluid and precisely as tricky as he needs to be…Kevin Burke is probably the greatest Irish fiddler living." (The Village Voice, New York)

Mark Patrick Hederman is Abbot of Glenstal Abbey in county Limerick. A former headmaster of Glenstal Abbey School, he is author of a number of books including Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheonrd Doors, Veritas, 2008, which contains reflections on W.B.Yeats. His most recent book is Underground Cathedrals, (Columba Press, 2010).

Thursday October 21

Solo and ensemble pieces from the students of this year’s Classical String Programme at the Academy

Tuesday October 26Conal O’Grada (Flute) & Hugh Healy (Concertina)

Conal Ó Gráda is Irish Traditional Flute Player from Co Cork. He has released two solo CDs; The Top of Coom, released in 1990 and Cnoc Buí, released in July of 2008. He has also guested on a number of other CD’s, including with with Kevin Burke/ Jackie Daly, Eoin Ó Riabhaigh, Colm Murphy and others. He teaches flute in Cork (Coláiste Cholm, Ballincollig) and Baile Bhuirne as well as at many of the summer schools both here and abroad. He also runs a ‘Guided Listening Course’ on Traditional Music for Junior/ Leaving Cert students as well as an Arts Management course for Transition Year students.

Wednesday October 20

From Ballads to Byzantium: The Spiritual Journey of W.B. Yeats with Nóirín Ní Riain and Mark Patrick Hederman

In this specially formatted performance for The Tower Theatre at the Academy based upon their recent acclaimed presentation at the National Library of Ireland, Mark Patrick Hederman and Nóirín Ní Riain celebrate the spiritual journey of W.B.Yeats in a program of words and song. William Butler Yeats had the music of Ireland in his veins, and Sligo, where his mother’s family came from, and where he spent time as a child, formed the backdrop and geography of his poetic imagination. He was a natural poet, which is sometimes a danger in the sense that poetry can come too easily to one so gifted. His early poems became world-renowned best-sellers. This presentation takes us from those early days of popular lyrics through his three major obsessions which were Ireland, art and Maud Gonne, to his spiritual journey symbolised by the place where Christianity developed its first and most characteristic art form: Byzantium in the 6th Century.

Nóirín Ní Riain is an internationally acclaimed singer of spiritual songs from many traditions. Her Masters Degree from UCC was on the subject of Religious Song from the Irish Tradition. She was awarded the first ever Doctorate in Theology from the University of Limerick in 2003 for which she coined the term ‘Theosony’ which means ‘the sound of God’. This thesis will be published shortly by the Mellen Press USA. Her latest publication was an autobiography entitled ‘Listen with the Ear of the Heart’ (Veritas).

Kevin Crawford Kevin Burke Mark Patrick Hederman Conal O’Grada

Liz Davis Maxfield, Fulbright Ireland scholar 09/10 on the Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Music Performance in concert, May 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Wednesday October 27

Wednesday 27th OctoberVenue: IW2-25 (Dance Studio, 2nd Floor)Time: 2.30

Jean Butler Day

Jean Butler will perform extracts from her current performance project, a solo entitled “DAY”, choreographed by New York based artist, Tere O'Connor. After the performance Jean will talk about the work and the process of creation and collaboration. A questions and answers forum will follow. DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre (Ireland) and was co-presented by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. It explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. The work questions how well we can know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the truth. O’Connor moves away from episodic theatrical structures in this work, using non-causal sequencing to create a meditation on consciousness. Through extreme contrasts in rhythm, tone and reference DAY mirrors the mercurial, unfixed nature of the human mind. He has created a choreographic system in which persona shifts constantly, and where strands of affect, artifice and suggestion are woven around the real performer. Devised in silence O'Connor’s dense rhythmic phrases create a grammar for the work. DAY is a departure from Jean’s long history and training in Irish Dance. The work can be seen as a dialogue between two uniquely different artists. O'Connor and Butler’s personal histories and shared aesthetics combined illuminate the ability of dance to process information in alternative ways. The work features a score by O'Connor's long time collaborator James Baker.

The work was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival 2010 and also performed at the International Tanzmesse Festival in Düsseldorf, August 2010. The work will have its New York premiere at St. Marks Church, hosted by Danspace Project in November 2010.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Culture Ireland, Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O'Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. Tere O’Connor (choreographer) has been making dances since 1982 creating over 35 works for his company, Tere O’Connor Dance, which has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works; among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep; Dance Alloy; and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He recently completed a solo for Jean Butler, which premiered in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O'Connor is a 2009 USArtist Fellow and the recipient of a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is currently a professor of dance at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.

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Thursday October 28 Academos, Irish World Academy Strings (directed by Katherine Hunka, Irish Chamber Orchestra)

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Today’s concert will be directed by ICO Leader, Katherine Hunka.

Tuesday November 2Alan Kelly (Piano Accordion)

One of Ireland’s most accomplished musicians in any genre, Alan Kelly is piano accordionist, composer and arranger. Born into the rich musical landscape of Roscommon in 1972, Alan began playing whistle at the age of 5, before moving onto fiddle, piano and accordion 4 years later. His critically acclaimed 1997 debut album Out of the Blue exploded onto the traditional scene with such impact that he is generally credited with ‘making the piano accordion hip again’. July 2000 saw the release of Kelly’s second solo album Mosaic. Produced by Arty McGlynn, Mosaic’s South American rhythms and cinematic jazz feel brought Alan’s music to a whole new audience. This album was voted one of the top ten trad’ albums by both the Irish Times and Hot Press Magazine. By now, Kelly had firmly established himself as one of Ireland’s top musicians touring with artists such as De Dannan, Arty McGlynn and Eddi Reader. He guested with Lúnasa and also collaborated with Alison Brown, the Grammy award winning banjo player on her Irish tour in 2001. His current band is the Alan Kelly Quartet, along with fiddler Tola Custy, flute player Steph Geremia and guitarist Donogh Hennessy.

Academos Alan Kelly

Thursday November 4 Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari North Indian Sarod & Tabla players

Mattu and Ciro are part of an emerging movement in Ireland to re-interpret North Indian Classical music and bring it to a new found prominence. Since 2003, both musicians have been spent extensive residencies in Kolkata with their respective gurus, learning the intricacies of swara (melody) and tal (rhythm). Both players have toured extensively with their teachers across Europe and India and have been given blessings to begin teaching. Since 2006 they have been teaching individuals and large groups the fundamentals of Indian Classical music in workshops in France and Ireland. They have performed classical recitals all over Europe and are founding members of Galway based fusion group, the Bahh Band who have performed at Electric Picnic and Dun Laorighe festival of World Cultures. Ciro has performed extensively on Italian television and Mattu has collobrated with Ronan O’Snodaigh on soundtrack work for RTE. In 2010, Mattu was granted a travel and training award by the Arts Council to attend a master class in Kolkata and received an individual artist bursary to complete an album of fusion material with his band.

Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari

Wednesday October 27

Wednesday 27th OctoberVenue: IW2-25 (Dance Studio, 2nd Floor)Time: 2.30

Jean Butler Day

Jean Butler will perform extracts from her current performance project, a solo entitled “DAY”, choreographed by New York based artist, Tere O'Connor. After the performance Jean will talk about the work and the process of creation and collaboration. A questions and answers forum will follow. DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre (Ireland) and was co-presented by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. It explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. The work questions how well we can know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the truth. O’Connor moves away from episodic theatrical structures in this work, using non-causal sequencing to create a meditation on consciousness. Through extreme contrasts in rhythm, tone and reference DAY mirrors the mercurial, unfixed nature of the human mind. He has created a choreographic system in which persona shifts constantly, and where strands of affect, artifice and suggestion are woven around the real performer. Devised in silence O'Connor’s dense rhythmic phrases create a grammar for the work. DAY is a departure from Jean’s long history and training in Irish Dance. The work can be seen as a dialogue between two uniquely different artists. O'Connor and Butler’s personal histories and shared aesthetics combined illuminate the ability of dance to process information in alternative ways. The work features a score by O'Connor's long time collaborator James Baker.

The work was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival 2010 and also performed at the International Tanzmesse Festival in Düsseldorf, August 2010. The work will have its New York premiere at St. Marks Church, hosted by Danspace Project in November 2010.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Culture Ireland, Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O'Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. Tere O’Connor (choreographer) has been making dances since 1982 creating over 35 works for his company, Tere O’Connor Dance, which has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works; among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep; Dance Alloy; and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He recently completed a solo for Jean Butler, which premiered in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O'Connor is a 2009 USArtist Fellow and the recipient of a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is currently a professor of dance at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.

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Thursday October 28 Academos, Irish World Academy Strings (directed by Katherine Hunka, Irish Chamber Orchestra)

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Today’s concert will be directed by ICO Leader, Katherine Hunka.

Tuesday November 2Alan Kelly (Piano Accordion)

One of Ireland’s most accomplished musicians in any genre, Alan Kelly is piano accordionist, composer and arranger. Born into the rich musical landscape of Roscommon in 1972, Alan began playing whistle at the age of 5, before moving onto fiddle, piano and accordion 4 years later. His critically acclaimed 1997 debut album Out of the Blue exploded onto the traditional scene with such impact that he is generally credited with ‘making the piano accordion hip again’. July 2000 saw the release of Kelly’s second solo album Mosaic. Produced by Arty McGlynn, Mosaic’s South American rhythms and cinematic jazz feel brought Alan’s music to a whole new audience. This album was voted one of the top ten trad’ albums by both the Irish Times and Hot Press Magazine. By now, Kelly had firmly established himself as one of Ireland’s top musicians touring with artists such as De Dannan, Arty McGlynn and Eddi Reader. He guested with Lúnasa and also collaborated with Alison Brown, the Grammy award winning banjo player on her Irish tour in 2001. His current band is the Alan Kelly Quartet, along with fiddler Tola Custy, flute player Steph Geremia and guitarist Donogh Hennessy.

Academos Alan Kelly

Thursday November 4 Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari North Indian Sarod & Tabla players

Mattu and Ciro are part of an emerging movement in Ireland to re-interpret North Indian Classical music and bring it to a new found prominence. Since 2003, both musicians have been spent extensive residencies in Kolkata with their respective gurus, learning the intricacies of swara (melody) and tal (rhythm). Both players have toured extensively with their teachers across Europe and India and have been given blessings to begin teaching. Since 2006 they have been teaching individuals and large groups the fundamentals of Indian Classical music in workshops in France and Ireland. They have performed classical recitals all over Europe and are founding members of Galway based fusion group, the Bahh Band who have performed at Electric Picnic and Dun Laorighe festival of World Cultures. Ciro has performed extensively on Italian television and Mattu has collobrated with Ronan O’Snodaigh on soundtrack work for RTE. In 2010, Mattu was granted a travel and training award by the Arts Council to attend a master class in Kolkata and received an individual artist bursary to complete an album of fusion material with his band.

Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari

Tuesday November 9Laoise Kelly (Harp)

Laoise Kelly is from Westport Co Mayo. She first came to prominence in the television series ‘A River of Sound’ in 1995 and has since become a highly experienced musician, participating in over 50 recordings, with artists including Donal Lunny, The Chieftains, Mary Black, Sinéad O’Connor and Kate Bush. She has two acclaimed albums to her credit Just Harp and Ceis.

Thursday November 11 Students of the MA Ritual Chant & Song

Solo and ensemble pieces by students of this years Ritual Chant and Song programme.

Wednesday November 17East Clare Day

Today’s lunchtime concert features performances by a number of east Clare traditional musicians including fiddler Martin Hayes who curates the concert and a seminar directly afterwards at 2.30 pm.

Thursday November 18 Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Each year students of the MA in Contemporary Dance performance, working under the direction of guest artists and tutors, create a number of original choreographic works and improvisational scores. The process of creating these works is central to this programme and the emergent solo and ensemble

choreographies are performed as part of the student's final performance exam. The programme for this lunchtime performance features a number of short extracts selected from works being created under the direction of guest artists Jean Butler, Cindy Cummings, Liz Roche, Nigel Rolfe, Mairead Vaughan and Course Director Mary Nunan.

Tuesday November 23Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme present a lunchtime concert of solo and ensemble works. These include traditional and new contemporary theatrical dance pieces devised and mentored by tutors on the programme, including Olive Beecher, Breandan de Gallaí, Katarina Mojzisova, Mairead O’Connor, Michael Ryan, and Catherine Foley, Director of the programme.

Thursday November 25 University of Limerick Gospel Choir (In aid of Hope & Homes for Children, Romania)

UL Gospel Choir brings together students and staff from the UL community to perform a repertoire that ranges from spirituals to funk, working songs to celebration anthems. The choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The choir continues its long standing affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children and performs two fundraising concerts every year for the organisation.

Wednesday December 8thNASC DVD Launch

NASC features Cruinniú (staff traditional group), Céim (staff and student set dancing group) and pupils from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh performing songs in Irish. A twenty-track DVD, with all proceeds going to Gaelscoil Caladh an Treoigh will be launched at the Academy in December 2010. Nasc (join, link or bond together) took seven months to complete, starting in May and finishing in November 2010. The DVD was recorded at the new Irish World Academy Building; NASC was one of the first groups to record here. Nasc features over thirty five members of Cruinniú and Céim, and over 225 children from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh playing music, singing and dancing. The DVD was filmed/recorded by students from CSIS Dept in UL and LIT. This outreach project created social and community links between Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh and the University of Limerick. It’s a coming together of University Staff with children from the Gaelscoil to celebrate our Music, Dance, Irish Language and Songs.

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Tower TheatreIrish World AcademyUniversity of Limerick

Laoise Kelly Ritual Chant & Song studentsStudents of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Traditional singer and musician Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh performing at alunchtime concert during the Academy’s Blas Summer School, July 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Tuesday November 9Laoise Kelly (Harp)

Laoise Kelly is from Westport Co Mayo. She first came to prominence in the television series ‘A River of Sound’ in 1995 and has since become a highly experienced musician, participating in over 50 recordings, with artists including Donal Lunny, The Chieftains, Mary Black, Sinéad O’Connor and Kate Bush. She has two acclaimed albums to her credit Just Harp and Ceis.

Thursday November 11 Students of the MA Ritual Chant & Song

Solo and ensemble pieces by students of this years Ritual Chant and Song programme.

Wednesday November 17East Clare Day

Today’s lunchtime concert features performances by a number of east Clare traditional musicians including fiddler Martin Hayes who curates the concert and a seminar directly afterwards at 2.30 pm.

Thursday November 18 Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Each year students of the MA in Contemporary Dance performance, working under the direction of guest artists and tutors, create a number of original choreographic works and improvisational scores. The process of creating these works is central to this programme and the emergent solo and ensemble

choreographies are performed as part of the student's final performance exam. The programme for this lunchtime performance features a number of short extracts selected from works being created under the direction of guest artists Jean Butler, Cindy Cummings, Liz Roche, Nigel Rolfe, Mairead Vaughan and Course Director Mary Nunan.

Tuesday November 23Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme present a lunchtime concert of solo and ensemble works. These include traditional and new contemporary theatrical dance pieces devised and mentored by tutors on the programme, including Olive Beecher, Breandan de Gallaí, Katarina Mojzisova, Mairead O’Connor, Michael Ryan, and Catherine Foley, Director of the programme.

Thursday November 25 University of Limerick Gospel Choir (In aid of Hope & Homes for Children, Romania)

UL Gospel Choir brings together students and staff from the UL community to perform a repertoire that ranges from spirituals to funk, working songs to celebration anthems. The choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The choir continues its long standing affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children and performs two fundraising concerts every year for the organisation.

Wednesday December 8thNASC DVD Launch

NASC features Cruinniú (staff traditional group), Céim (staff and student set dancing group) and pupils from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh performing songs in Irish. A twenty-track DVD, with all proceeds going to Gaelscoil Caladh an Treoigh will be launched at the Academy in December 2010. Nasc (join, link or bond together) took seven months to complete, starting in May and finishing in November 2010. The DVD was recorded at the new Irish World Academy Building; NASC was one of the first groups to record here. Nasc features over thirty five members of Cruinniú and Céim, and over 225 children from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh playing music, singing and dancing. The DVD was filmed/recorded by students from CSIS Dept in UL and LIT. This outreach project created social and community links between Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh and the University of Limerick. It’s a coming together of University Staff with children from the Gaelscoil to celebrate our Music, Dance, Irish Language and Songs.

SeminarSeries

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Wednesdays 2.30 – 5pm

Tower TheatreIrish World AcademyUniversity of Limerick

Laoise Kelly Ritual Chant & Song studentsStudents of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Traditional singer and musician Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh performing at alunchtime concert during the Academy’s Blas Summer School, July 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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18 Students of the MA Contemporary Dance, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Wednesday September 29 Dance SeminarSpeaker: Dr Anya Peterson Royce (Indiana University)Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

Dr Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Royce is one of the pioneers in the anthropology of dance, bringing together her early career in classical ballet with long-term ethnographic research. Her books on dance include The Anthropology of Dance (1974), Movement and Meaning in Ballet and Mime (1984), and The Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2004). She is currently working on a Pilobolus: Collaborative Innovation and the Architecture of Reinvention. Her work examines the from, content and cultural context of the performing arts in order to understand artistry, creativity improvisation, interpretation and the aesthetics of the ordinary.

Abstract: The Architecture of Reinvention: The Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Other Tribes

Pilobolus is unique among dance companies for its choreography but also in its belief in innovation embedded in a context of common values. Its members and supporting cast refer to themselves as a family. In our recent conversations, they have also used the word “tribe” to describe their customs and communal process. Ethnographers historically have worked most often in the context of societies that have a similar sense of

Dr Anya Peterson Royce

community and collective responsibility. Finding these values and the supporting structure in a contemporary dance company is, however, rare. Pilobolus’ ability to refashion and reinvent itself over four decades while remaining faithful to the founding philosophy of collaboration, on the one hand, and belief, on the other, in the ability of everyone to create, is a story of imagination and innovation. Points of tension and specific challenges, rather than dissolving the company, caused its members to seek creative solutions. Instilling that process and philosophy into successive generations of dancers requires the creation of architecture of reinvention. In this creative fashioning, Pilobolus resembles many societies whose cultures have deep roots and structures that guide collaborative endeavours of all kinds, including those arts that require communal investment. Just as with those societies, Pilobolus has experienced critical moments that have required a rethinking, a readjustment, a restructuring if the company were to continue with its original philosophy. This seminar will examine several of those moments and will offer some thoughts about similar processes at work in historically communally-based societies.

Chair: Dr Catherine Foley

Dr Catherine Foley designed and is course director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland; she also supervises doctoral research in dance at the Academy. Catherine pioneered the ethnochoreo-logical study of dance and Irish dance performance in University Higher Education in Ireland. She received her undergraduate degree in Music (1977) and her Postgraduate Diploma in Education (1978) from

University College Cork. She received her Postgraduate Diploma in teaching the Irish language from the Department of Education (1984) and is an Associate in Acting with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Catherine is a registered Irish step dance teacher with An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha and has also worked as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance for Muckross House, Killarney, Ireland. She received her PhD in Ethnochoreology from LABAN, London, in 1988. Catherine is founder and Chair Emeritus of the international society, Dance Research Forum Ireland.

Wednesday October 27Venue: IW2-25 (Dance Studio, 2nd Floor)Time: 2.30

Jean Butler will perform extracts from her current performance project, a solo entitled “DAY”, choreographed by New York based artist, Tere O’Connor. After the performance Jean will talk about the work and the process of creation and collaboration. A questions and answers forum will follow. DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre (Ireland) and was co-presented by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. It explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. The work questions how well we can know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the truth. O’Connor moves away from episodic theatrical structures in this work, using non-causal sequencing to create a meditation on consciousness. Through extreme contrasts in rhythm, tone and reference DAY mirrors the mercurial, unfixed nature of the human mind. He has created a choreo-graphic system in which persona shifts constantly, and

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where strands of affect, artifice and suggestion are woven around the real performer. Devised in silence O'Connor's dense rhythmic phrases create a grammar for the work. DAY is a departure from Jean’s long history and training in Irish Dance. The work can be seen as a dialogue between two uniquely different artists. O'Connor and Butler's personal histories and shared aesthetics combined illuminate the ability of dance to process information in alternative ways. The work features a score by O’Connor’s long time collaborator James Baker. The work was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival 2010 and also performed at the International Tanzmesse Festival in Düsseldorf, August 2010. The work will have its New York premiere at St. Marks Church, hosted by Danspace Project in November 2010.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish

Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Culture Ireland, Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O’Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. Tere O’Connor (choreographer) has been making dances since 1982 creating over 35 works for his company, Tere O’Connor Dance, which has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O’Connor has

created numerous commissioned works; among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep; Dance Alloy; and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He recently completed a solo for Jean Butler, which premiered in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O'Connor is a 2009 USArtist Fellow and the recipient of a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is currently a professor of dance at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.

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18 Students of the MA Contemporary Dance, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Wednesday September 29 Dance SeminarSpeaker: Dr Anya Peterson Royce (Indiana University)Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

Dr Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. Royce is one of the pioneers in the anthropology of dance, bringing together her early career in classical ballet with long-term ethnographic research. Her books on dance include The Anthropology of Dance (1974), Movement and Meaning in Ballet and Mime (1984), and The Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (2004). She is currently working on a Pilobolus: Collaborative Innovation and the Architecture of Reinvention. Her work examines the from, content and cultural context of the performing arts in order to understand artistry, creativity improvisation, interpretation and the aesthetics of the ordinary.

Abstract: The Architecture of Reinvention: The Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Other Tribes

Pilobolus is unique among dance companies for its choreography but also in its belief in innovation embedded in a context of common values. Its members and supporting cast refer to themselves as a family. In our recent conversations, they have also used the word “tribe” to describe their customs and communal process. Ethnographers historically have worked most often in the context of societies that have a similar sense of

Dr Anya Peterson Royce

community and collective responsibility. Finding these values and the supporting structure in a contemporary dance company is, however, rare. Pilobolus’ ability to refashion and reinvent itself over four decades while remaining faithful to the founding philosophy of collaboration, on the one hand, and belief, on the other, in the ability of everyone to create, is a story of imagination and innovation. Points of tension and specific challenges, rather than dissolving the company, caused its members to seek creative solutions. Instilling that process and philosophy into successive generations of dancers requires the creation of architecture of reinvention. In this creative fashioning, Pilobolus resembles many societies whose cultures have deep roots and structures that guide collaborative endeavours of all kinds, including those arts that require communal investment. Just as with those societies, Pilobolus has experienced critical moments that have required a rethinking, a readjustment, a restructuring if the company were to continue with its original philosophy. This seminar will examine several of those moments and will offer some thoughts about similar processes at work in historically communally-based societies.

Chair: Dr Catherine Foley

Dr Catherine Foley designed and is course director of both the MA in Ethnochoreology and the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland; she also supervises doctoral research in dance at the Academy. Catherine pioneered the ethnochoreo-logical study of dance and Irish dance performance in University Higher Education in Ireland. She received her undergraduate degree in Music (1977) and her Postgraduate Diploma in Education (1978) from

University College Cork. She received her Postgraduate Diploma in teaching the Irish language from the Department of Education (1984) and is an Associate in Acting with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Catherine is a registered Irish step dance teacher with An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha and has also worked as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance for Muckross House, Killarney, Ireland. She received her PhD in Ethnochoreology from LABAN, London, in 1988. Catherine is founder and Chair Emeritus of the international society, Dance Research Forum Ireland.

Wednesday October 27Venue: IW2-25 (Dance Studio, 2nd Floor)Time: 2.30

Jean Butler will perform extracts from her current performance project, a solo entitled “DAY”, choreographed by New York based artist, Tere O’Connor. After the performance Jean will talk about the work and the process of creation and collaboration. A questions and answers forum will follow. DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre (Ireland) and was co-presented by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. It explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. The work questions how well we can know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the truth. O’Connor moves away from episodic theatrical structures in this work, using non-causal sequencing to create a meditation on consciousness. Through extreme contrasts in rhythm, tone and reference DAY mirrors the mercurial, unfixed nature of the human mind. He has created a choreo-graphic system in which persona shifts constantly, and

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where strands of affect, artifice and suggestion are woven around the real performer. Devised in silence O'Connor's dense rhythmic phrases create a grammar for the work. DAY is a departure from Jean’s long history and training in Irish Dance. The work can be seen as a dialogue between two uniquely different artists. O'Connor and Butler's personal histories and shared aesthetics combined illuminate the ability of dance to process information in alternative ways. The work features a score by O’Connor’s long time collaborator James Baker. The work was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival 2010 and also performed at the International Tanzmesse Festival in Düsseldorf, August 2010. The work will have its New York premiere at St. Marks Church, hosted by Danspace Project in November 2010.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish

Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Culture Ireland, Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O’Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. Tere O’Connor (choreographer) has been making dances since 1982 creating over 35 works for his company, Tere O’Connor Dance, which has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O’Connor has

created numerous commissioned works; among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep; Dance Alloy; and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He recently completed a solo for Jean Butler, which premiered in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O'Connor is a 2009 USArtist Fellow and the recipient of a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is currently a professor of dance at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.

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BA Irish Music and Dance student Christina Dolphin performing in concert during the Academy’s Blas Summer School, June 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Wednesday November 3Music and Locality – examining the paradigms of regional style.

Speakers: Daithí Kearney: ‘How long is a piece of string: concepts of area and distance in musical regions’

Éamonn Costello (Irish World Academy): The Regional Style Hypothesis and its Impact on Sean-nós Singing.

Niall Keegann (Irish World Academy): ‘Music, imagination and the creation of ‘tradition’’

About the speakers:

Daithí Kearney has recently completed a PhD on the geography of Irish traditional music. He has toured with a number of groups including Nuada and Siamsa Tíre, and was Artistic Director of the Cork International Folk Dance Festival, 2005. He won the All-Ireland senior mandolin in 2001, and performed for USA President Barak Obama in the White House for St. Patrick’s Day, 2009. He is a part-time lecturer in music at UCC, is an examiner with LCM and his research concerns the geography of regional identities in traditional music.

Éamonn Costello is from An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe) in the Connemara Gaeltacht. His plays the button accordion and the uilleann pipes. He has guested on collaborations with a number of musicians and groups, including: Mactíra (2000), Frozen Fish (6-Pack, 2004), and Papua Merdeka: Tribal Songs of Love and Freedom (2004). In 2010 Éamonn released a duet album with Cathal Clohessy from Limerick called Bosca Ceoil and Fiddle. Éamonn holds a B.A in Irish Music and Dance from the University of Limerick and an M.A in Ethnomusicology from University College Cork. He is currently undertaking a PhD researching the influences cultural nationalism has on sean-nós singing in Ireland.

Niall Keegan is course director of the BA Irish Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy. He was born

in the south east of England and began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age amongst the community of first and second generation musicians in and around London. In 1990 Niall began studying in UCC under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin for a Masters degree which he completed in 1992 with the submission of a thesis entitled The Words of Traditional Flute Style. Since moving to Ireland Niall has performed extensively throughout the country and abroad in a variety of contexts and venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Project Arts Centre in Dublin, the University of Limerick Concert Hall, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Waterfront Hall in Belfast and the Galway Arts Centre. Niall’s solo recording, Don’t Touch the Elk, was released in June 1999 on his own independent label to huge critical acclaim.

Wednesday November 17The Traditional Music of East ClareHosted by Martin Hayes

This day celebrates the music of East Clare, with its rich native arts heritage, as the new site of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Academics and some of the leading traditional musicians from this region will feature, performing, teaching and speaking of their music and its place in the cultural landscape of the nation.

The day long event will be curated by resident musician and East Clare native Martin Hayes, who will also perform. Public events include a lunchtime concert followed by a seminar.

Wednesday November 24Music Therapy Seminar Music & Health Research Group

Presentations from members of the Music & Health Research Group will provide an overview of recent

research findings, proposed future directions, and interesting topics about music, music therapy and healthcare that will appeal to a wide audience. Colleagues from all disciplines in healthcare, the study of health and culture, psychology, and music will be interested. Candidates wishing to apply for the MA in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy may also find the seminar useful. Jane Edwards, Director, Music & Health Research GroupProfessor Jane Edwards is a qualified music therapist with expertise in a range of practice areas including parent-infant bonding, music therapy to promote health outcomes in mental health services, and music for stress management and relaxation. She has edited a book for Oxford University Press Music therapy in parent-infant bonding to be launched in 2011. She is currently exploring the topic of music listening in everyday life through the Musli project. Jane is President of the International Association for Music & Medicine www.iammonline.com She regularly teaches and presents in other countries including in the past 12 months, Canada, the USA, Germany, and Australia. She leads the MA in Music Therapy in the Irish World Academy, and is the guest professor for music therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Alison Ledger, Health Research Board Fellow Alison Ledger came to the Irish World Academy in 2005 to work as part of an HSE funded project using music therapy and art therapy to achieve the reduction of agitation for older people with dementia. She has made a significant contribution to the development of the music therapy programme in various teaching and research roles since, most recently as the HRB Research Fellow studying aspects of music therapists’ experiences of developing services in medical healthcare contexts.

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BA Irish Music and Dance student Christina Dolphin performing in concert during the Academy’s Blas Summer School, June 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Wednesday November 3Music and Locality – examining the paradigms of regional style.

Speakers: Daithí Kearney: ‘How long is a piece of string: concepts of area and distance in musical regions’

Éamonn Costello (Irish World Academy): The Regional Style Hypothesis and its Impact on Sean-nós Singing.

Niall Keegann (Irish World Academy): ‘Music, imagination and the creation of ‘tradition’’

About the speakers:

Daithí Kearney has recently completed a PhD on the geography of Irish traditional music. He has toured with a number of groups including Nuada and Siamsa Tíre, and was Artistic Director of the Cork International Folk Dance Festival, 2005. He won the All-Ireland senior mandolin in 2001, and performed for USA President Barak Obama in the White House for St. Patrick’s Day, 2009. He is a part-time lecturer in music at UCC, is an examiner with LCM and his research concerns the geography of regional identities in traditional music.

Éamonn Costello is from An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe) in the Connemara Gaeltacht. His plays the button accordion and the uilleann pipes. He has guested on collaborations with a number of musicians and groups, including: Mactíra (2000), Frozen Fish (6-Pack, 2004), and Papua Merdeka: Tribal Songs of Love and Freedom (2004). In 2010 Éamonn released a duet album with Cathal Clohessy from Limerick called Bosca Ceoil and Fiddle. Éamonn holds a B.A in Irish Music and Dance from the University of Limerick and an M.A in Ethnomusicology from University College Cork. He is currently undertaking a PhD researching the influences cultural nationalism has on sean-nós singing in Ireland.

Niall Keegan is course director of the BA Irish Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy. He was born

in the south east of England and began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age amongst the community of first and second generation musicians in and around London. In 1990 Niall began studying in UCC under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin for a Masters degree which he completed in 1992 with the submission of a thesis entitled The Words of Traditional Flute Style. Since moving to Ireland Niall has performed extensively throughout the country and abroad in a variety of contexts and venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Project Arts Centre in Dublin, the University of Limerick Concert Hall, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Waterfront Hall in Belfast and the Galway Arts Centre. Niall’s solo recording, Don’t Touch the Elk, was released in June 1999 on his own independent label to huge critical acclaim.

Wednesday November 17The Traditional Music of East ClareHosted by Martin Hayes

This day celebrates the music of East Clare, with its rich native arts heritage, as the new site of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Academics and some of the leading traditional musicians from this region will feature, performing, teaching and speaking of their music and its place in the cultural landscape of the nation.

The day long event will be curated by resident musician and East Clare native Martin Hayes, who will also perform. Public events include a lunchtime concert followed by a seminar.

Wednesday November 24Music Therapy Seminar Music & Health Research Group

Presentations from members of the Music & Health Research Group will provide an overview of recent

research findings, proposed future directions, and interesting topics about music, music therapy and healthcare that will appeal to a wide audience. Colleagues from all disciplines in healthcare, the study of health and culture, psychology, and music will be interested. Candidates wishing to apply for the MA in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy may also find the seminar useful. Jane Edwards, Director, Music & Health Research GroupProfessor Jane Edwards is a qualified music therapist with expertise in a range of practice areas including parent-infant bonding, music therapy to promote health outcomes in mental health services, and music for stress management and relaxation. She has edited a book for Oxford University Press Music therapy in parent-infant bonding to be launched in 2011. She is currently exploring the topic of music listening in everyday life through the Musli project. Jane is President of the International Association for Music & Medicine www.iammonline.com She regularly teaches and presents in other countries including in the past 12 months, Canada, the USA, Germany, and Australia. She leads the MA in Music Therapy in the Irish World Academy, and is the guest professor for music therapy at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Alison Ledger, Health Research Board Fellow Alison Ledger came to the Irish World Academy in 2005 to work as part of an HSE funded project using music therapy and art therapy to achieve the reduction of agitation for older people with dementia. She has made a significant contribution to the development of the music therapy programme in various teaching and research roles since, most recently as the HRB Research Fellow studying aspects of music therapists’ experiences of developing services in medical healthcare contexts.

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Friday September 24Opening of the new Irish World Academy Building by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD. The new Irish World Academy Building on the north campus of the University of Limerick, designed by the London-based French architect Daniel Cordier, will be officially opened by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD on Friday September 24th. The result of an international competition, the new Irish World Academy of Music and Dance building has taken its place in County Clare along the banks of the River Shannon. Lying at the foot of the new Pedestrian Living Bridge which links both sides of the campus, this 5000 sq meter building will become the new heart of this young and vibrant University.

“This new building will provide a riverside space where musicians, dancers, composers, singers, conductors and choreographers will explore together. Musicologists and choreologists will research alongside live performance. The history and anthropology of music and dance will provide the research surround for the rediscovery of older sounds and gestures, as well as for the discovery of new voices, and the reinvention of received traditions”. Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

The opening celebrations will include a performance at 1.30 pm by Rex Levitates Dance Company of 12 Minute Dances - a collection of short works that were first performed at the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009 with lighting design by Sinead Wallace and commissioned music by New York composers Ed Rosenberg and Joel Mellin. The pieces are inspired by different sources in poetry, art and music and appear as a wash of colour, movement, rhythm and emotion; human embodiment as a dynamic event. The audience completes the picture.

Saturday October 2The Association of Irish Choirs Autumn sight singing and conducting courses

Founded in 1980, The Association of Irish Choirs (formerly Cumann Náisiunta na gCor) is a national resource organisation, funded by The Arts Council, to support and promote excellence in choral music throughout Ireland.

The Association of Irish Choirs moved its administrative offices from Cork City to the University of Limerick in February 2010. University of Limerick is home to a number of arts organisations with which the Association hopes and intends to collaborate including the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the University Concert Hall. The Association intends to play its part in student life while also contributing to the artistic life of the city and its surrounds.

In addition to providing for the needs of the choral sector, AOIC is also the producing and parent organisation of the Irish Youth Choir. In June 2010, following nationwide auditions, 98 young singers and 50 instrumentalists between the ages of 18 and 28 benefited from the IYC and NYOI summer residential programme of training, rehearsals and concerts here at University of Limerick. The Irish Youth Choir also offers opportunities for young conductors to develop their skills through the Conductor in Training initiative, run in conjunction with the National Chamber Choir, and by offering masterclass opportunities during the IYC week. Founded in 1982, IYC members have gone on to form the backbone of musical life in this country and beyond as conductors, choir founders, singers, teachers and musicians. They include singer Julie Feeney, soloists

Mairéad Buicke and Bridget Knowles, conductors Bernie Sherlock and Niall Crowley, to name but a few.AOIC will offer a number of 8-week Autumn sight singing and conducting courses which will commence in Dublin in October. The Autumn Conducting course will commence on Saturday 2 October, the Sight Singing course will commence on Saturday 9 October. AOIC also hopes to introduce a new 5-week Voice Production for Choral Singers course. We also hope to roll out new courses in Cork and Limerick in the coming months. More details will be available in the coming weeks.

For further information contact us at:aoic@ul.ie or tel. 061 234823/202715.

October 3-10Association of Irish Choirs National Choral Singing Week

Ireland’s National Choral Singing Week will take place during World Mental Health Week, from 3 - 10 October, 2010. This joint initiative of AOIC, Wexford County Council Arts Office and Mental Health Ireland was an enormous success in 2008 and 2009. The initiative was developed to show the positive benefits of choral singing to people's mental health and to encourage people to become involved. Choral singing gives the body a physical and mental boost, increasing blood flow, reducing isolation, lessening stress! We hope that we will have even more choirs, schools and groups involved in the National Choral Singing Week, 2010, so start planning your event now. Events can include joint choral performances; workshops in workplaces; open rehearsals; performances in the street, in shopping centres, in hospitals and day care units, and even a live juke box!

For further information, please call us at 061 234823/202715 or email: aoic@ul.ie

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Friday September 24Opening of the new Irish World Academy Building by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD. The new Irish World Academy Building on the north campus of the University of Limerick, designed by the London-based French architect Daniel Cordier, will be officially opened by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD on Friday September 24th. The result of an international competition, the new Irish World Academy of Music and Dance building has taken its place in County Clare along the banks of the River Shannon. Lying at the foot of the new Pedestrian Living Bridge which links both sides of the campus, this 5000 sq meter building will become the new heart of this young and vibrant University.

“This new building will provide a riverside space where musicians, dancers, composers, singers, conductors and choreographers will explore together. Musicologists and choreologists will research alongside live performance. The history and anthropology of music and dance will provide the research surround for the rediscovery of older sounds and gestures, as well as for the discovery of new voices, and the reinvention of received traditions”. Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

The opening celebrations will include a performance at 1.30 pm by Rex Levitates Dance Company of 12 Minute Dances - a collection of short works that were first performed at the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009 with lighting design by Sinead Wallace and commissioned music by New York composers Ed Rosenberg and Joel Mellin. The pieces are inspired by different sources in poetry, art and music and appear as a wash of colour, movement, rhythm and emotion; human embodiment as a dynamic event. The audience completes the picture.

Saturday October 2The Association of Irish Choirs Autumn sight singing and conducting courses

Founded in 1980, The Association of Irish Choirs (formerly Cumann Náisiunta na gCor) is a national resource organisation, funded by The Arts Council, to support and promote excellence in choral music throughout Ireland.

The Association of Irish Choirs moved its administrative offices from Cork City to the University of Limerick in February 2010. University of Limerick is home to a number of arts organisations with which the Association hopes and intends to collaborate including the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the University Concert Hall. The Association intends to play its part in student life while also contributing to the artistic life of the city and its surrounds.

In addition to providing for the needs of the choral sector, AOIC is also the producing and parent organisation of the Irish Youth Choir. In June 2010, following nationwide auditions, 98 young singers and 50 instrumentalists between the ages of 18 and 28 benefited from the IYC and NYOI summer residential programme of training, rehearsals and concerts here at University of Limerick. The Irish Youth Choir also offers opportunities for young conductors to develop their skills through the Conductor in Training initiative, run in conjunction with the National Chamber Choir, and by offering masterclass opportunities during the IYC week. Founded in 1982, IYC members have gone on to form the backbone of musical life in this country and beyond as conductors, choir founders, singers, teachers and musicians. They include singer Julie Feeney, soloists

Mairéad Buicke and Bridget Knowles, conductors Bernie Sherlock and Niall Crowley, to name but a few.AOIC will offer a number of 8-week Autumn sight singing and conducting courses which will commence in Dublin in October. The Autumn Conducting course will commence on Saturday 2 October, the Sight Singing course will commence on Saturday 9 October. AOIC also hopes to introduce a new 5-week Voice Production for Choral Singers course. We also hope to roll out new courses in Cork and Limerick in the coming months. More details will be available in the coming weeks.

For further information contact us at:aoic@ul.ie or tel. 061 234823/202715.

October 3-10Association of Irish Choirs National Choral Singing Week

Ireland’s National Choral Singing Week will take place during World Mental Health Week, from 3 - 10 October, 2010. This joint initiative of AOIC, Wexford County Council Arts Office and Mental Health Ireland was an enormous success in 2008 and 2009. The initiative was developed to show the positive benefits of choral singing to people's mental health and to encourage people to become involved. Choral singing gives the body a physical and mental boost, increasing blood flow, reducing isolation, lessening stress! We hope that we will have even more choirs, schools and groups involved in the National Choral Singing Week, 2010, so start planning your event now. Events can include joint choral performances; workshops in workplaces; open rehearsals; performances in the street, in shopping centres, in hospitals and day care units, and even a live juke box!

For further information, please call us at 061 234823/202715 or email: aoic@ul.ie

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Saturday October 9ICTM Ireland in association with Dance Research Forum Irelandpresents The Insight Track

hosted by The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick

ICTM Ireland in association with Dance Research Forum Ireland this year invite postgraduate students involved in study and research in the disciplines of music, song or dance in Ireland to attend and participate in The Insight Track, a one day event taking place in the new Irish World Academy of Music and Dance building at the University of Limerick on Saturday 9th October. The Insight Track is an event where experienced facilitators will deliver workshops designed to support researchers in various interrelated areas of their research and working lives. Participants in this year’s The Insight Track workshops will be introduced to the Alexander Technique and its benefits in terms of some of the most common difficulties experienced by research students from the anxiety often associated with performing, presenting, and public speaking, to the discomfort of sitting in front of a computer for many hours. Another workshop will focus on ways of improving one’s writing skills and strategies, finding satisfaction in engaging in regular and productive writing, and integrating writing into one’s working life. There will be much opportunity for discussion, reflection, playing, singing and dancing throughout the day.

Full details of the event, including information on registration, schedule etc. will be available soon at www.ictm.ie and www.danceresearchforumireland.com

For further information on The Insight Track contact:

ICTM Ireland student representativeThomas Johnston (education@ictm.ie) or DRFI Student Representative Breandán de Gallaí (breandan.degallai@ul.ie)

Hibernia Ensemble Concert November 13Ensemble Hibernia Concert Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co Limerick

Artistic Director: Óscar Mascareñas Garza

Voices: Sinéad Boomsma, Sydney FreedmanÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Cara Morrisey-Gleeson with guest singers:Hannah Fahey and Clare O'Brien

Programme Title: 'Songs for An Age of Sorrow'

This programme features a selection of Gregorian chants from the 8th-12th centuries which address themes that represent the reality of our times: sorrow, cruelty, lamentation, beseech, and deliverance. The programme is performed by Hibernia (an ensemble formed by students from the BA in Voice and Dance and the MA in Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) under the artistic direction of Óscar Mascareñas, and introduces a post-modern re-interpretation/re-presentation of Gregorian chant and other medieval vocal pieces that results from the scholarly work that Óscar has undertaken in the past seven years at the Irish World Academy.

According to his research, which has been influenced by the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida, the manuscripts may be seen as an opening of representation that results from the work of play in the musical structures of the melodies. The manuscripts, therefore, may be understood as a sort of beginning and our interpretation of them, as the next step. In this open re-interpretation we use words and music

as instruments to create a powerful, mystic, almost magical sound, in order to convey the most basic emotions of suffering, cruelty and sorrow that are today, in this Age – our Age – a reality that surrounds us constantly, and that makes itself so evidently present in these performances that it would be almost impossible for us to ignore it any longer. Thus, our proposal in this interpretation of the manuscripts aims to open the seemingly ‘historically closed’ repertoire of medieval chant, one that brings us back to where our traditional interpretative methodologies closed it off, so that once re-opened, we understand it not any more as outsiders, but as active practicians of a musical reality which is now impossible to finalise.

Tuesday November 16The Creative use of Classroom Singing

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has a unique role in supporting the implementation of the curriculum as well as in offering professional development opportunities for teachers. On Tuesday 16th November the Irish World Academy will partner with the Professional Development Service for Teachers (a Constituent of the Department of Education and Skills) in presenting a workshop on the creative use of classroom singing. A 2.5 hour hands on practical workshop will be provided for post-primary school music teachers. The PDST has commissioned Dr. Marian Ingoldsby to compose a new anthology of class based vocal material with specific learning outcomes for each of the songs. The workshop will be presented in liaison with the Association of Irish Choirs. The PDST has prepared a team of facilitators to deliver the programme nationwide and is pleased to be able to present the programme at the Irish World Academy in Theatre 1 on Tuesday 16th November from 6.30pm - 9.00pm.

Local Arts Development: The Arts Council and Local Authorities: 25 years of partnership

25 years ago The Arts Council of Ireland started a partnership scheme with Local Authorities to appoint specialist arts officers for the benefit of developing local arts strategies. To celebrate this initiative, The Arts Council with the Association of Local Authority Arts Officers is organising a seminar in November that will address issues that faced the arts and that are facing the arts.

The dates for the seminar are Thursday 25th and Friday 26th November. It will take place in the University of Limerick in the New Irish World Academy Building Booking for the conference will be available from September.

Saturday November 6Dance Careers and Training Day, 2010, Dance House, Foley St, Dublin 1

Organised by Dublin Youth Dance Company and Dance Ireland the “Dance Careers and Training Day” is tailored to young people who may be considering a career or further

studies in dance. Students are welcome to meet with course directors of the various vocational colleges and universities from Ireland who will have their prospectus and information about their programme and enrolment available. There will also be presentations by dance professionals discussing their training and work on the day. Dance Training and Careers Day is a unique and informative one-day event providing high-quality, relevant and up-to-date information and guidance on further education, training and career opportunities in the dance industry.

Colleges Exhibiting:

of Limerick

To book a place for your student(s) please send an email to: careersday.dydc@gmail.com

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Saturday October 9ICTM Ireland in association with Dance Research Forum Irelandpresents The Insight Track

hosted by The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick

ICTM Ireland in association with Dance Research Forum Ireland this year invite postgraduate students involved in study and research in the disciplines of music, song or dance in Ireland to attend and participate in The Insight Track, a one day event taking place in the new Irish World Academy of Music and Dance building at the University of Limerick on Saturday 9th October. The Insight Track is an event where experienced facilitators will deliver workshops designed to support researchers in various interrelated areas of their research and working lives. Participants in this year’s The Insight Track workshops will be introduced to the Alexander Technique and its benefits in terms of some of the most common difficulties experienced by research students from the anxiety often associated with performing, presenting, and public speaking, to the discomfort of sitting in front of a computer for many hours. Another workshop will focus on ways of improving one’s writing skills and strategies, finding satisfaction in engaging in regular and productive writing, and integrating writing into one’s working life. There will be much opportunity for discussion, reflection, playing, singing and dancing throughout the day.

Full details of the event, including information on registration, schedule etc. will be available soon at www.ictm.ie and www.danceresearchforumireland.com

For further information on The Insight Track contact:

ICTM Ireland student representativeThomas Johnston (education@ictm.ie) or DRFI Student Representative Breandán de Gallaí (breandan.degallai@ul.ie)

Hibernia Ensemble Concert November 13Ensemble Hibernia Concert Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co Limerick

Artistic Director: Óscar Mascareñas Garza

Voices: Sinéad Boomsma, Sydney FreedmanÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Cara Morrisey-Gleeson with guest singers:Hannah Fahey and Clare O'Brien

Programme Title: 'Songs for An Age of Sorrow'

This programme features a selection of Gregorian chants from the 8th-12th centuries which address themes that represent the reality of our times: sorrow, cruelty, lamentation, beseech, and deliverance. The programme is performed by Hibernia (an ensemble formed by students from the BA in Voice and Dance and the MA in Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) under the artistic direction of Óscar Mascareñas, and introduces a post-modern re-interpretation/re-presentation of Gregorian chant and other medieval vocal pieces that results from the scholarly work that Óscar has undertaken in the past seven years at the Irish World Academy.

According to his research, which has been influenced by the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida, the manuscripts may be seen as an opening of representation that results from the work of play in the musical structures of the melodies. The manuscripts, therefore, may be understood as a sort of beginning and our interpretation of them, as the next step. In this open re-interpretation we use words and music

as instruments to create a powerful, mystic, almost magical sound, in order to convey the most basic emotions of suffering, cruelty and sorrow that are today, in this Age – our Age – a reality that surrounds us constantly, and that makes itself so evidently present in these performances that it would be almost impossible for us to ignore it any longer. Thus, our proposal in this interpretation of the manuscripts aims to open the seemingly ‘historically closed’ repertoire of medieval chant, one that brings us back to where our traditional interpretative methodologies closed it off, so that once re-opened, we understand it not any more as outsiders, but as active practicians of a musical reality which is now impossible to finalise.

Tuesday November 16The Creative use of Classroom Singing

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has a unique role in supporting the implementation of the curriculum as well as in offering professional development opportunities for teachers. On Tuesday 16th November the Irish World Academy will partner with the Professional Development Service for Teachers (a Constituent of the Department of Education and Skills) in presenting a workshop on the creative use of classroom singing. A 2.5 hour hands on practical workshop will be provided for post-primary school music teachers. The PDST has commissioned Dr. Marian Ingoldsby to compose a new anthology of class based vocal material with specific learning outcomes for each of the songs. The workshop will be presented in liaison with the Association of Irish Choirs. The PDST has prepared a team of facilitators to deliver the programme nationwide and is pleased to be able to present the programme at the Irish World Academy in Theatre 1 on Tuesday 16th November from 6.30pm - 9.00pm.

Local Arts Development: The Arts Council and Local Authorities: 25 years of partnership

25 years ago The Arts Council of Ireland started a partnership scheme with Local Authorities to appoint specialist arts officers for the benefit of developing local arts strategies. To celebrate this initiative, The Arts Council with the Association of Local Authority Arts Officers is organising a seminar in November that will address issues that faced the arts and that are facing the arts.

The dates for the seminar are Thursday 25th and Friday 26th November. It will take place in the University of Limerick in the New Irish World Academy Building Booking for the conference will be available from September.

Saturday November 6Dance Careers and Training Day, 2010, Dance House, Foley St, Dublin 1

Organised by Dublin Youth Dance Company and Dance Ireland the “Dance Careers and Training Day” is tailored to young people who may be considering a career or further

studies in dance. Students are welcome to meet with course directors of the various vocational colleges and universities from Ireland who will have their prospectus and information about their programme and enrolment available. There will also be presentations by dance professionals discussing their training and work on the day. Dance Training and Careers Day is a unique and informative one-day event providing high-quality, relevant and up-to-date information and guidance on further education, training and career opportunities in the dance industry.

Colleges Exhibiting:

of Limerick

To book a place for your student(s) please send an email to: careersday.dydc@gmail.com

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Wednesday December 8Doras Luimní 10th anniversary concert

Doras Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants in Limerick is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The Irish World Academy, through its SANCTUARY initiative, has been involved with Doras since its inception. Joint events included the Anaíl Dé: Breath of God Festival of World Sacred Music (2000-2008) as well as numerous community-based programmes supporting the music of new migrant communities. More recently, Sanctuary has coordinated a joint programme with the Irish Chamber Orchestra called ‘World Playground’ in Presentation Primary School, one of the most multi-cultural schools in Limerick. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Doras Luimní, Mícheál Ó Súillleabháin, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and special world music guests will present a concert on Wednesday, December 8th in St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.

Further information/tickets: 19890 61 61 61

Doras Luimní agency supports the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and all migrant communities.

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Wednesday December 8Doras Luimní 10th anniversary concert

Doras Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers and new migrants in Limerick is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The Irish World Academy, through its SANCTUARY initiative, has been involved with Doras since its inception. Joint events included the Anaíl Dé: Breath of God Festival of World Sacred Music (2000-2008) as well as numerous community-based programmes supporting the music of new migrant communities. More recently, Sanctuary has coordinated a joint programme with the Irish Chamber Orchestra called ‘World Playground’ in Presentation Primary School, one of the most multi-cultural schools in Limerick. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Doras Luimní, Mícheál Ó Súillleabháin, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and special world music guests will present a concert on Wednesday, December 8th in St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.

Further information/tickets: 19890 61 61 61

Doras Luimní agency supports the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and all migrant communities.

28MA Contemporary Dance Performance student, Buíon event, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Dance Research Forum Ireland 3rd International ConferenceDance Research Forum Ireland’s 3rd International Conference took place at the Firkin Crane, Cork, 24th – 27th June, 2010. Established by Dr Catherine Foley of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2003, this international and inclusive society of dance has developed to become the leading forum for danceresearch in Ireland. Funded by the European Cultural Contact Point the conference included academic papers, practice-based presentations, workshops, and lecture demonstrations on the theme, ‘Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance Research and Practice’. The keynote address of the conference was presented by Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop, consultant with TrinityLaban, London.

International Association for Music & Medicine Website Launch The International Association for Music & Medicine (IAMM) have launched their official web site at www.iammonline.com IAMM was founded in 2009 at the inaugural meeting in Limerick, Ireland, hosted by the Irish World Academy and the Graduate Medicine School of the University of Limerick. Professor Jane Edwards, Director of the Music & Health Research Group at UL was elected President of this diverse international body at the inaugural meeting. IAMM has 35 founding members with an Executive Board elected from the founders. The organisation supports a journal Music & Medicine with Co-Editors in Chief Dr Joanne Loewy and Dr Ralph Spingte. The journal is published by SAGE 4 times per annum;

IAMM promotes an integrative perspective to applied music in health care. Pursuing an ambitious vision including the dissemination of high level research through the IAMM journal Music & Medicine and gathering a worldwide membership base, the IAMM offers immense capacity for directing attention towards the integration of a wide range of research initiatives and contemporary practices in the uses of music in the healthcare arena. The association also hosts regular conferences. The next conference Mozart & Science III will be held in Krems, Austrian in November 2010; http://www.mozart-science.at/

The IAMM promotes sharing and capacity building across a wide range of fields including arts medicine, music performance, performance arts medicine, music psychology, medical humanities, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music neurology, music therapy, music in hospitals, infant stimulation, and music medicine. The IAMM is a community with expertise to support the development of arts based initiatives in all health care arenas, promoting the further potential for research, practice and knowledge about music and medicine.

INBHEAR On-line Journal of Irish Music and Dance Launched at the AcademyThe Inbhear on-line Journal of Irish Music and Dance was launched by Irish World Academy Faculty in May 2010. It will be a yearly journal, free-to-access, concerned with arts practices relevant to Ireland, the Irish (wherever they may be) or perceived to be of Ireland or the Irish. The journal is also intended to be relevant to the areas of arts practice and academic research

engaged at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, reflecting and augmenting the Academy’s activities and providing ties to the communities of practice that develop resources for university and arts communities. A regular criticism, particularly among the traditional arts community in Ireland, is that the University does not deliver the fruits of its research back to the people that nourish it. There is certainly an element of truth in this critique and this is one platform to counter it.

This first issue is made up of five invited papers, mostly from faculty at the Academy. For future editions, submissions are invited from any relevant discipline and from the community generally (the traditional music community, for example, has produced much fine scholarship outside of the academic world). A media review section will also be developed. Submissions are invited from across a wider cross-section of media than the internet encourages. Many of the papers contain graphics, audio and video and this is a trend we would like to encourage. There is no reason why compositions, choreographies and performances could not appear in future issues. Indeed anything which presents critically appraised and presented knowledge across a number of different sensory and artistic modes, unifying text, performance, music and dance, must be the future for performance studies in the widest possible sense.

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Association of Irish Choirs Coral Conducting Summer School The Association of Irish Choirs presented its 30th Annual Choral Conducting Summer School, attended by 60 conductors, teachers, students, choral enthusiasts and musicians at the newly opened Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The course was delivered on 5 levels, beginner to advanced designed to address the needs of conductors of all levels. AOIC also presented a numberof workshops and masterclasses as part of the Annual Choral Conducting Summer School.

Association of Irish Choirs Summer School

Photograph from left: Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop (TrinityLaban, London), Dr Catherine Foley (University of Limerick and Chair, Dance Research Forum Ireland), and Dr Egil Bakka (University of Trondheim,International Association for

28MA Contemporary Dance Performance student, Buíon event, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Dance Research Forum Ireland 3rd International ConferenceDance Research Forum Ireland’s 3rd International Conference took place at the Firkin Crane, Cork, 24th – 27th June, 2010. Established by Dr Catherine Foley of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2003, this international and inclusive society of dance has developed to become the leading forum for danceresearch in Ireland. Funded by the European Cultural Contact Point the conference included academic papers, practice-based presentations, workshops, and lecture demonstrations on the theme, ‘Capturing Composition: Improvisation in Dance Research and Practice’. The keynote address of the conference was presented by Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop, consultant with TrinityLaban, London.

International Association for Music & Medicine Website Launch The International Association for Music & Medicine (IAMM) have launched their official web site at www.iammonline.com IAMM was founded in 2009 at the inaugural meeting in Limerick, Ireland, hosted by the Irish World Academy and the Graduate Medicine School of the University of Limerick. Professor Jane Edwards, Director of the Music & Health Research Group at UL was elected President of this diverse international body at the inaugural meeting. IAMM has 35 founding members with an Executive Board elected from the founders. The organisation supports a journal Music & Medicine with Co-Editors in Chief Dr Joanne Loewy and Dr Ralph Spingte. The journal is published by SAGE 4 times per annum;

IAMM promotes an integrative perspective to applied music in health care. Pursuing an ambitious vision including the dissemination of high level research through the IAMM journal Music & Medicine and gathering a worldwide membership base, the IAMM offers immense capacity for directing attention towards the integration of a wide range of research initiatives and contemporary practices in the uses of music in the healthcare arena. The association also hosts regular conferences. The next conference Mozart & Science III will be held in Krems, Austrian in November 2010; http://www.mozart-science.at/

The IAMM promotes sharing and capacity building across a wide range of fields including arts medicine, music performance, performance arts medicine, music psychology, medical humanities, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music neurology, music therapy, music in hospitals, infant stimulation, and music medicine. The IAMM is a community with expertise to support the development of arts based initiatives in all health care arenas, promoting the further potential for research, practice and knowledge about music and medicine.

INBHEAR On-line Journal of Irish Music and Dance Launched at the AcademyThe Inbhear on-line Journal of Irish Music and Dance was launched by Irish World Academy Faculty in May 2010. It will be a yearly journal, free-to-access, concerned with arts practices relevant to Ireland, the Irish (wherever they may be) or perceived to be of Ireland or the Irish. The journal is also intended to be relevant to the areas of arts practice and academic research

engaged at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, reflecting and augmenting the Academy’s activities and providing ties to the communities of practice that develop resources for university and arts communities. A regular criticism, particularly among the traditional arts community in Ireland, is that the University does not deliver the fruits of its research back to the people that nourish it. There is certainly an element of truth in this critique and this is one platform to counter it.

This first issue is made up of five invited papers, mostly from faculty at the Academy. For future editions, submissions are invited from any relevant discipline and from the community generally (the traditional music community, for example, has produced much fine scholarship outside of the academic world). A media review section will also be developed. Submissions are invited from across a wider cross-section of media than the internet encourages. Many of the papers contain graphics, audio and video and this is a trend we would like to encourage. There is no reason why compositions, choreographies and performances could not appear in future issues. Indeed anything which presents critically appraised and presented knowledge across a number of different sensory and artistic modes, unifying text, performance, music and dance, must be the future for performance studies in the widest possible sense.

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Association of Irish Choirs Coral Conducting Summer School The Association of Irish Choirs presented its 30th Annual Choral Conducting Summer School, attended by 60 conductors, teachers, students, choral enthusiasts and musicians at the newly opened Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The course was delivered on 5 levels, beginner to advanced designed to address the needs of conductors of all levels. AOIC also presented a numberof workshops and masterclasses as part of the Annual Choral Conducting Summer School.

Association of Irish Choirs Summer School

Photograph from left: Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop (TrinityLaban, London), Dr Catherine Foley (University of Limerick and Chair, Dance Research Forum Ireland), and Dr Egil Bakka (University of Trondheim,International Association for

FIS | Passion | Rhythm | Spirit Exhibiton Launched at the AcademyFIS | Passion | Rhythm | Spirit is a photographic exhibition celebrating 15 years of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the rich and diverse history of the Academy celebrated throughout the walls of the spectacular new Irish World Academy Building on the banks of the Shannon on the UL campus.

The exhibition consists of selected works by the Academy’s long-time Photographer-in-Residence, Maurice Gunning, and marks the first publicly specially curated showing of his work at the Academy. Irish World Academy Director Professor Micheal O Súilleabháin says “it demonstrates Maurice's artistry in capturing the arts in action. His intimate knowledge of the students, faculty and visiting specialists in our community has allowed him to explore behind the mundane into the essence of the singing and dancing body, into the cut and thrust of academic discourse, into the life of musical instruments and of those who breathe life into them”.

Maurice Gunning, from Clancy Strand Limerick, has been Photographer-in-Residence at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick since 2004. He first approached the Academy as early as 1999, while completing his degree at the Limerick School of Art and Design, to request permission to photograph classes and concerts there, as part of his final year project. He has remained the chief documenter of all of the Academy’s events ever since. With a concentration on fine art documentary photography as well as

specializing in performing arts photography, Maurice has worked with many of the leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary dancers in Ireland and internationally.

A photographic approach that works to accentuate the natural nuances and tone of the performing artist, Maurice creates an intimately honest portrait of his subjects. Maurice received his MFA from the University of Wales in 2009. This was made possible with funding from the Irish Arts Council. Before this, Maurice spent time documenting the Argentine Irish community of Buenos Aires. This work has been exhibited in the UK, and will be exhibited in Buenos Aires in 2010. Maurice’s photography features through this brochure.

Paul Brady Blas Summer School Scholarship LaunchedIn March 2010 at the annual UL Chancellor’s Dinner, one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular singer-songwriters, Paul Brady, announced his first-ever music scholarship, the Paul Brady Blas Scholarship, in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.

The Paul Brady Blas Scholarship provides €20,000 in funds over three years, providing 25 places for deserving musicians on the Blas programme where they will benefit from master classes and tuition from some of Ireland’s most respected traditional musicians and dancers.

Paul Brady celebrated the launch of his eponymous music scholarship by performing an intimate gig on Wednesday March 24th with UL music students at the University Of Limerick Chancellor’s Concert, an exclusive gala black-tie

event, hosted by UL Chancellor Peter Malone, and attended by 100 friends and patrons of the University and UL Foundation. Announcing his music scholarship fund, Paul Brady said, “I am delighted to be associated in this way with the University of Limerick and in particular with the Irish World Academy, which is such an innovative and imaginative facility, under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s inspired direction. It’s my hope that the Paul Brady Blas Scholarships will allow students who wouldn’t otherwise get the opportunity, to experience the Blas Summer School and to access the expertise of some of our finest traditional musicians, singers and dancers.”

The first Paul Brady Blas Scholarships were awarded in June 2010 where recipients spent two weeks at the Academy, receiving tuition from tutors including Dónal Lunny, Martin Hayes, John Carty, Derek Hickey, Colin Dunne, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Siobhán Peoples, Ernestine Healy, Niall Keegan, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and many more.

Applications are invited in writing for Blas 2011 and should be made to Ernestine Healy, Director, Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick or email ernestine.healy@ul.ie. Applicants should be over 17 and should include a sample recording of their music and/or dance. See www.blas.ie for further information.

For more information please contact: Ellen Byrne, Press Officer, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Phone: + 353 61 202917

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Sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird at the Academy’s Lá na nAmhrán event, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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FÍS Exhibition Launch Paul Brady Scholarship Launch

FIS | Passion | Rhythm | Spirit Exhibiton Launched at the AcademyFIS | Passion | Rhythm | Spirit is a photographic exhibition celebrating 15 years of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the rich and diverse history of the Academy celebrated throughout the walls of the spectacular new Irish World Academy Building on the banks of the Shannon on the UL campus.

The exhibition consists of selected works by the Academy’s long-time Photographer-in-Residence, Maurice Gunning, and marks the first publicly specially curated showing of his work at the Academy. Irish World Academy Director Professor Micheal O Súilleabháin says “it demonstrates Maurice's artistry in capturing the arts in action. His intimate knowledge of the students, faculty and visiting specialists in our community has allowed him to explore behind the mundane into the essence of the singing and dancing body, into the cut and thrust of academic discourse, into the life of musical instruments and of those who breathe life into them”.

Maurice Gunning, from Clancy Strand Limerick, has been Photographer-in-Residence at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick since 2004. He first approached the Academy as early as 1999, while completing his degree at the Limerick School of Art and Design, to request permission to photograph classes and concerts there, as part of his final year project. He has remained the chief documenter of all of the Academy’s events ever since. With a concentration on fine art documentary photography as well as

specializing in performing arts photography, Maurice has worked with many of the leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary dancers in Ireland and internationally.

A photographic approach that works to accentuate the natural nuances and tone of the performing artist, Maurice creates an intimately honest portrait of his subjects. Maurice received his MFA from the University of Wales in 2009. This was made possible with funding from the Irish Arts Council. Before this, Maurice spent time documenting the Argentine Irish community of Buenos Aires. This work has been exhibited in the UK, and will be exhibited in Buenos Aires in 2010. Maurice’s photography features through this brochure.

Paul Brady Blas Summer School Scholarship LaunchedIn March 2010 at the annual UL Chancellor’s Dinner, one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular singer-songwriters, Paul Brady, announced his first-ever music scholarship, the Paul Brady Blas Scholarship, in association with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.

The Paul Brady Blas Scholarship provides €20,000 in funds over three years, providing 25 places for deserving musicians on the Blas programme where they will benefit from master classes and tuition from some of Ireland’s most respected traditional musicians and dancers.

Paul Brady celebrated the launch of his eponymous music scholarship by performing an intimate gig on Wednesday March 24th with UL music students at the University Of Limerick Chancellor’s Concert, an exclusive gala black-tie

event, hosted by UL Chancellor Peter Malone, and attended by 100 friends and patrons of the University and UL Foundation. Announcing his music scholarship fund, Paul Brady said, “I am delighted to be associated in this way with the University of Limerick and in particular with the Irish World Academy, which is such an innovative and imaginative facility, under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s inspired direction. It’s my hope that the Paul Brady Blas Scholarships will allow students who wouldn’t otherwise get the opportunity, to experience the Blas Summer School and to access the expertise of some of our finest traditional musicians, singers and dancers.”

The first Paul Brady Blas Scholarships were awarded in June 2010 where recipients spent two weeks at the Academy, receiving tuition from tutors including Dónal Lunny, Martin Hayes, John Carty, Derek Hickey, Colin Dunne, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Siobhán Peoples, Ernestine Healy, Niall Keegan, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and many more.

Applications are invited in writing for Blas 2011 and should be made to Ernestine Healy, Director, Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick or email ernestine.healy@ul.ie. Applicants should be over 17 and should include a sample recording of their music and/or dance. See www.blas.ie for further information.

For more information please contact: Ellen Byrne, Press Officer, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Phone: + 353 61 202917

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Sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird at the Academy’s Lá na nAmhrán event, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Guest artist Suprapto Suryodarmo with MA Contemporary Dance Performance Tutor Mary Wycherly at Buíon event at the Academy, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Saturday October 9Limerick Lullaby Project

Mothers, Musicians, Midwives and Medics exploring the benefits of singing lullabies during pregnancy

The Limerick Lullaby project is a study exploring the benefits of mothers singing lullabies during their pregnancy. The Lullaby Research team at UL is a collaboration between the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Graduate Entry Medical School, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. The study involved women recruited through the Limerick Regional Maternity antenatal education classes. Pregnancy and birth can be difficult periods in a woman’s life and many women suffer from stress and worries around this time. Medical treatment is not always suitable because of concerns that taking medication may harm the baby. For that reason doctors and midwives are interested in finding other ways to reduce pregnancy stress, such as singing. The aim of this study is to look at the effect of different strategies in relieving stress in pregnancy. Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director of the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance said; “The intersection of performing arts research and medical research is a rich area of exploration. This study is a good example of the increasingly creative relationship between arts research at the Irish World Academy and the rapidly growing Medical School at UL.” The calming effect of music may be attributable to the fact that the normal tempo of music falls somewhere between 60 and 80, when measured on the metronome. The average measure is approximately 72 which corresponds with the average adult human heartbeat. There is additionally considerable evidence to suggest that listening to music and singing

benefits both mother and infant. The lullabies were taught by Kathleen Turner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Oscar Mascareñas, Director of the BA Voice & Dance, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance. Oscar Mascareñas said, “This study was quite compelling for me for personal reasons. I remember my mother telling me that my father used to play the piano when she was expecting me. And incredibly enough, whenever I hear the pieces, played by my father on the piano, I feel a strange connection to my origins. Some of the pieces I have never studied myself (from the notation), but, strangely enough once more, I am able to sing them/play them on the violin and piano with ease. I do believe that music has a powerful effect on the babies, which influences through their whole life“ The lullabies taught included traditional Irish and international songs which have been serenading young children for centuries, as well as more recent compositions including, ‘Close your eyes sweet love’, ‘The Meadow’ and ‘Go to Sleep My Little Baby’.

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 SANCTUARY also works in partnership with the Intercultural Office at Doras Luimní towards the coordination of cultural events such as annual celebration for Ghandi Day (International Day of Non-Violence). This year, we are also organising an event to raise awareness around the Karen refugee camps on the Burmese / Thai border through a celebration of the music of the Karen harp. SANCTUARY is also working with Doras towards a concert to celebrate their 10th anniversary, featuring Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and guests.

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: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

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Guest artist Suprapto Suryodarmo with MA Contemporary Dance Performance Tutor Mary Wycherly at Buíon event at the Academy, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Saturday October 9Limerick Lullaby Project

Mothers, Musicians, Midwives and Medics exploring the benefits of singing lullabies during pregnancy

The Limerick Lullaby project is a study exploring the benefits of mothers singing lullabies during their pregnancy. The Lullaby Research team at UL is a collaboration between the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Graduate Entry Medical School, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. The study involved women recruited through the Limerick Regional Maternity antenatal education classes. Pregnancy and birth can be difficult periods in a woman’s life and many women suffer from stress and worries around this time. Medical treatment is not always suitable because of concerns that taking medication may harm the baby. For that reason doctors and midwives are interested in finding other ways to reduce pregnancy stress, such as singing. The aim of this study is to look at the effect of different strategies in relieving stress in pregnancy. Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director of the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance said; “The intersection of performing arts research and medical research is a rich area of exploration. This study is a good example of the increasingly creative relationship between arts research at the Irish World Academy and the rapidly growing Medical School at UL.” The calming effect of music may be attributable to the fact that the normal tempo of music falls somewhere between 60 and 80, when measured on the metronome. The average measure is approximately 72 which corresponds with the average adult human heartbeat. There is additionally considerable evidence to suggest that listening to music and singing

benefits both mother and infant. The lullabies were taught by Kathleen Turner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Oscar Mascareñas, Director of the BA Voice & Dance, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance. Oscar Mascareñas said, “This study was quite compelling for me for personal reasons. I remember my mother telling me that my father used to play the piano when she was expecting me. And incredibly enough, whenever I hear the pieces, played by my father on the piano, I feel a strange connection to my origins. Some of the pieces I have never studied myself (from the notation), but, strangely enough once more, I am able to sing them/play them on the violin and piano with ease. I do believe that music has a powerful effect on the babies, which influences through their whole life“ The lullabies taught included traditional Irish and international songs which have been serenading young children for centuries, as well as more recent compositions including, ‘Close your eyes sweet love’, ‘The Meadow’ and ‘Go to Sleep My Little Baby’.

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 SANCTUARY also works in partnership with the Intercultural Office at Doras Luimní towards the coordination of cultural events such as annual celebration for Ghandi Day (International Day of Non-Violence). This year, we are also organising an event to raise awareness around the Karen refugee camps on the Burmese / Thai border through a celebration of the music of the Karen harp. SANCTUARY is also working with Doras towards a concert to celebrate their 10th anniversary, featuring Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and guests.

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: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

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Buíon: CollectiveBuíon: Collective was established in 2007 in order to create opportunities for students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance to come together with past-graduates and members of the wider professional dance community to participate in once-off workshops, performances and other events. Each Buíon:Collective event invites participants to work together to inspire, challenge and support each other in their practice. Buíon:Collective events to date have been developed and/or hosted in association with Belltable Arts Centre/Joanne Byrne, Dance Ireland/ Paul Johnson, Firkin Crane/Blank Canvas/Jane Kellaghan, Limerick College of Arts and Design, UL Arts Office/Patricia Moriarity, Vibrate Festival Roscommon/Niamh Condron, Phillip DeLaMere.

Buíon:Collective (2008) (1) Performance of "Delete 0" choreographed by Yoshiko Chuma at Vibrate Dance Festival, Roscommon

Buíon:Collective (2009) (2) Devising interdisciplinary work, mentored by Nigel Rolfe (in association with UL Arts Office and the Limerick College of Art and Design)

Buíon: Collective (2009) (3) Symposium: Making work, Sustaining a Practice ( in association with Dance Ireland, Arts Council/Cultural Contact Point) (2009)

Buíon: Collective (2010) (4) Guest artist Henry Montes, workshop in dance technique and composition (in association with Dance Ireland and CCP/the Arts Council)

Buíon: Collective (2010) (5) Performance by MA students in Firkin Crane, Cork

Buíon Collective (2010) (6) Guest teacher Surprapto Suryodarmo (in association with Ul Arts Office and Amerta Movement Ireland)

Two Buíon events are planned for this forthcoming Semester: Nigel Rolfe will direct an original site-specific ensemble performance. It will be premiered at the Belltable’s UnFringed Festival in January 2011 ( in association with Belltable Arts Centre and UL Arts office) Jean Butler will lead a series of “open” workshops as part of her Irish World Academy residency.

For further information about Buíon:Collective please contact mary.nunan@ul.ie

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Academy Graduates Eri Hirabayashi and Elaine Cormican attending a Blas Summer School concert, July 2010Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Buíon: CollectiveBuíon: Collective was established in 2007 in order to create opportunities for students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance to come together with past-graduates and members of the wider professional dance community to participate in once-off workshops, performances and other events. Each Buíon:Collective event invites participants to work together to inspire, challenge and support each other in their practice. Buíon:Collective events to date have been developed and/or hosted in association with Belltable Arts Centre/Joanne Byrne, Dance Ireland/ Paul Johnson, Firkin Crane/Blank Canvas/Jane Kellaghan, Limerick College of Arts and Design, UL Arts Office/Patricia Moriarity, Vibrate Festival Roscommon/Niamh Condron, Phillip DeLaMere.

Buíon:Collective (2008) (1) Performance of "Delete 0" choreographed by Yoshiko Chuma at Vibrate Dance Festival, Roscommon

Buíon:Collective (2009) (2) Devising interdisciplinary work, mentored by Nigel Rolfe (in association with UL Arts Office and the Limerick College of Art and Design)

Buíon: Collective (2009) (3) Symposium: Making work, Sustaining a Practice ( in association with Dance Ireland, Arts Council/Cultural Contact Point) (2009)

Buíon: Collective (2010) (4) Guest artist Henry Montes, workshop in dance technique and composition (in association with Dance Ireland and CCP/the Arts Council)

Buíon: Collective (2010) (5) Performance by MA students in Firkin Crane, Cork

Buíon Collective (2010) (6) Guest teacher Surprapto Suryodarmo (in association with Ul Arts Office and Amerta Movement Ireland)

Two Buíon events are planned for this forthcoming Semester: Nigel Rolfe will direct an original site-specific ensemble performance. It will be premiered at the Belltable’s UnFringed Festival in January 2011 ( in association with Belltable Arts Centre and UL Arts office) Jean Butler will lead a series of “open” workshops as part of her Irish World Academy residency.

For further information about Buíon:Collective please contact mary.nunan@ul.ie

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Academy Graduates Eri Hirabayashi and Elaine Cormican attending a Blas Summer School concert, July 2010Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Jean ButlerThe Irish World Academy is delighted to announce the residency of Jean Butler for the 2010/2011 Academic year.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Center (Dublin), Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O'Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. As part of the residency at the Academy Jean will give an informal studio performance of extracts from Day and also talk about the process of creating it. As part of this event there will also be time for Jean to respond to questions about the work/the process of creating and performing it. Other residency activities will include a series of workshops which Jean will lead with the students of the MA Contemporary Dance performance and invited past-graduates.

Martin HayesMartin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents to emerge in the world of Irish

traditional music. His unique sound, his mastery of his chosen instrument – the violin – his acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music, combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. He is the recipient of major national and international awards: most recently the prestigious Gradam Ceoil, Musician of the Year 2008 from the Irish language television station TG 4; previously Man of the Year from the American Irish Historical Society; Folk Instrumentalist of the Year from BBC Radio; a National Entertainment Award (the Irish ‘Grammy’); six All-Ireland fiddle championships - before the age of nineteen - and cited by the Irish Sunday Tribune as one of the hundred most influential Irish men and women in the fields of entertainment, politics and sports in the year 2000, as well as one of the most important musicians to come out of Ireland in the last fifty years. He has recorded two acclaimed solo albums, “Martin Hayes” (1993) and “Under the Moon” (1995) on the Green Linnet label. Martin Hayes is the Artistic Director of the Masters of Tradition Festival held in August each year at Bantry House in Bantry, West Cork, where Ireland’s most distinguished traditional musicians are invited to play in an exquisite chamber music setting. In January 2009, Martin Hayes will lead a group of Masters of Tradition musicians to the Sydney International Festival where they will perform at the Sydney Opera House for two nights. A native of County Clare, to which he returns for extended periods several times a year, Martin Hayes has been based in the United States, now living in Connecticut, for the past twenty-three years. He has drawn musical inspiration from sources as diverse as the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, the Spanish viola da gamba master, Jordi Savall, and the jazz genius, John Coltrane, but remains grounded in the music he grew up

with in his own locality, Maghera, Feakle, East County Clare where the music which he learned from his late father, P. Joe Hayes, the legendary leader of the long-lived Tulla Ceilí Band, profoundly influenced his musical accent and ideas forever after. Recently he has composed scores for film, theatre, and modern dance, and has collaborated with like-minded musicians from other genres, such as jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell and eclectic violinist Darol Anger. His residency at the Irish World Academy will include masterclasses with students of the MA and BA programmes in Irish traditional music, as well as two seminars, one on the topic of East Clare fiddle music, the second on the innovative innovative Irish fiddle player from Dublin (1912 to 1988). Martin’s residency also includes tutoring on the Academy’s annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.

Rex Levitates Dance CompanyBased in Dublin, Rex Levitates Dance Company produces a diverse range of innovative dance activities yearly from theatre based or site specific performances and touring.

Supported by the Arts Council as a Regularly Funded Organisation and also by Culture Ireland, Rex Levitates has been going from strength to strength in the last year. We have been commissioned by the Dublin Dance Festival and have performed at Judson Memorial Church New York and the Centre for Performance Research Brooklyn, Massachusetts International Festival of Art, Cúirt Festival Galway, Kilkenny Arts Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In previous years the company has also performed in the South Bank Centre London, The Playhouse Liverpool, Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, The Irish Arts Festival Beijing 08, and the Meet in Beijing Festival 2004.

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The company was co founded in 1999 by sisters Liz Roche and Jenny Roche and is presently under the artistic direction of choreographer Liz Roche.

An artistically ambitious and resourceful arts organization, we deliver our program with consistency, originality and an attention to detail and this has led to our steady expansion since 1999. The company is known for its own particular brand of contemporary dance which has been created through an on-going working relationship between Liz Roche and a core group of exceptional dancers and artistic collaborators. Rex Levitates’ residency at Irish World Academy, from Oct 11th-14th, is in conjunction with the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance. Studio showings, open rehearsals and discussions throughout the week with performance of 12 Minute Dances on Oct 13th at 1.15pm in Theatre 1.

For residency schedule please see www.rexlevitates.com or follow us on facebook.

CantoralCantoral 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. In February, 2010, Cantoral performed its 'Imbolc' programme as guests of the Irish Arts Centre in New York City. This programme explores the pre-Christian and Christian festivals surrounding early February, or Imbolc in the Celtic calendar and includes 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). Cantoral performed its 'Sed Diabolus irrisit …' programme (’but the devil laughed’) as part of the Galway Early Music Festival in May, 2010. Cantoral includes singers from Ireland, France, the US, Japan and Mexico.

Liz RocheChoreographer in ResidenceBorn in Dublin in 1975, Liz is a graduate of London Contemporary Dance School and the College of Dance, Dublin. She has choreographed for Scottish Dance Theatre, Cois Céim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Maiden Voyage, CCNC France, and the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Rex Levitates Dance Company Dublin. Her work for the company has been performed throughout Ireland and at the South

Bank Centre London, Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church New York, Capital Nights Festival Liverpool 08, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Meet in Beijing Festival, Festival De La Nouvelle Danse Uzes and Centre Culturel Irlandais/ CND. She has been commissioned to make choreographies for companies including the National Ballet of China, Scottish Dance Theatre and Cois Ceim and has also danced for choreographers John Jasperse, Jodi Melnick, Rosemary Butcher, Christine Gaigg, Les Carnets Bagouets, Helene Cathala & Fabrice Ramalingom, Mary Nunan, David Bolger and John Scott. She has choreographed for Opera de Nice, Opernhaus Zurich, Rossini Opera Festival, National Opera of Korea, Wexford Festival, Liceu Barcelona and Opera Ireland and also in theatre at The Gate, Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions and The Ark. As a dancer, she has worked with many of the leading Irish contemporary dance companies and with a number of other choreographers, including Rosemary Butcher (UK) and John Jasperse (US), performing at such prestigious events as the Montpelier Dance Festival, Paris Biennale ’99 and Impulse Dance Festival and Viennale 2003. Roche is the first choreographer to be invited to take up the position of choreographer-in-residence at the Irish World Academy. This semester, as part of her residency, Liz will be working again with the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, developing a new ensemble choreography which explores “dependency” and “reliance on others”. She will teach a daily class, followed by intensive periods of studio-based research towards the creation/ rehearsal of the new work. Liz Roche is artistic director of Dublin based dance company Rex Levitates.

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Jean ButlerThe Irish World Academy is delighted to announce the residency of Jean Butler for the 2010/2011 Academic year.

Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Center (Dublin), Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O'Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. As part of the residency at the Academy Jean will give an informal studio performance of extracts from Day and also talk about the process of creating it. As part of this event there will also be time for Jean to respond to questions about the work/the process of creating and performing it. Other residency activities will include a series of workshops which Jean will lead with the students of the MA Contemporary Dance performance and invited past-graduates.

Martin HayesMartin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents to emerge in the world of Irish

traditional music. His unique sound, his mastery of his chosen instrument – the violin – his acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music, combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. He is the recipient of major national and international awards: most recently the prestigious Gradam Ceoil, Musician of the Year 2008 from the Irish language television station TG 4; previously Man of the Year from the American Irish Historical Society; Folk Instrumentalist of the Year from BBC Radio; a National Entertainment Award (the Irish ‘Grammy’); six All-Ireland fiddle championships - before the age of nineteen - and cited by the Irish Sunday Tribune as one of the hundred most influential Irish men and women in the fields of entertainment, politics and sports in the year 2000, as well as one of the most important musicians to come out of Ireland in the last fifty years. He has recorded two acclaimed solo albums, “Martin Hayes” (1993) and “Under the Moon” (1995) on the Green Linnet label. Martin Hayes is the Artistic Director of the Masters of Tradition Festival held in August each year at Bantry House in Bantry, West Cork, where Ireland’s most distinguished traditional musicians are invited to play in an exquisite chamber music setting. In January 2009, Martin Hayes will lead a group of Masters of Tradition musicians to the Sydney International Festival where they will perform at the Sydney Opera House for two nights. A native of County Clare, to which he returns for extended periods several times a year, Martin Hayes has been based in the United States, now living in Connecticut, for the past twenty-three years. He has drawn musical inspiration from sources as diverse as the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, the Spanish viola da gamba master, Jordi Savall, and the jazz genius, John Coltrane, but remains grounded in the music he grew up

with in his own locality, Maghera, Feakle, East County Clare where the music which he learned from his late father, P. Joe Hayes, the legendary leader of the long-lived Tulla Ceilí Band, profoundly influenced his musical accent and ideas forever after. Recently he has composed scores for film, theatre, and modern dance, and has collaborated with like-minded musicians from other genres, such as jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell and eclectic violinist Darol Anger. His residency at the Irish World Academy will include masterclasses with students of the MA and BA programmes in Irish traditional music, as well as two seminars, one on the topic of East Clare fiddle music, the second on the innovative innovative Irish fiddle player from Dublin (1912 to 1988). Martin’s residency also includes tutoring on the Academy’s annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance.

Rex Levitates Dance CompanyBased in Dublin, Rex Levitates Dance Company produces a diverse range of innovative dance activities yearly from theatre based or site specific performances and touring.

Supported by the Arts Council as a Regularly Funded Organisation and also by Culture Ireland, Rex Levitates has been going from strength to strength in the last year. We have been commissioned by the Dublin Dance Festival and have performed at Judson Memorial Church New York and the Centre for Performance Research Brooklyn, Massachusetts International Festival of Art, Cúirt Festival Galway, Kilkenny Arts Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In previous years the company has also performed in the South Bank Centre London, The Playhouse Liverpool, Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, The Irish Arts Festival Beijing 08, and the Meet in Beijing Festival 2004.

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The company was co founded in 1999 by sisters Liz Roche and Jenny Roche and is presently under the artistic direction of choreographer Liz Roche.

An artistically ambitious and resourceful arts organization, we deliver our program with consistency, originality and an attention to detail and this has led to our steady expansion since 1999. The company is known for its own particular brand of contemporary dance which has been created through an on-going working relationship between Liz Roche and a core group of exceptional dancers and artistic collaborators. Rex Levitates’ residency at Irish World Academy, from Oct 11th-14th, is in conjunction with the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance. Studio showings, open rehearsals and discussions throughout the week with performance of 12 Minute Dances on Oct 13th at 1.15pm in Theatre 1.

For residency schedule please see www.rexlevitates.com or follow us on facebook.

CantoralCantoral 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. In February, 2010, Cantoral performed its 'Imbolc' programme as guests of the Irish Arts Centre in New York City. This programme explores the pre-Christian and Christian festivals surrounding early February, or Imbolc in the Celtic calendar and includes 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). Cantoral performed its 'Sed Diabolus irrisit …' programme (’but the devil laughed’) as part of the Galway Early Music Festival in May, 2010. Cantoral includes singers from Ireland, France, the US, Japan and Mexico.

Liz RocheChoreographer in ResidenceBorn in Dublin in 1975, Liz is a graduate of London Contemporary Dance School and the College of Dance, Dublin. She has choreographed for Scottish Dance Theatre, Cois Céim, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Maiden Voyage, CCNC France, and the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Rex Levitates Dance Company Dublin. Her work for the company has been performed throughout Ireland and at the South

Bank Centre London, Baryshnikov Arts Centre and Judson Memorial Church New York, Capital Nights Festival Liverpool 08, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Meet in Beijing Festival, Festival De La Nouvelle Danse Uzes and Centre Culturel Irlandais/ CND. She has been commissioned to make choreographies for companies including the National Ballet of China, Scottish Dance Theatre and Cois Ceim and has also danced for choreographers John Jasperse, Jodi Melnick, Rosemary Butcher, Christine Gaigg, Les Carnets Bagouets, Helene Cathala & Fabrice Ramalingom, Mary Nunan, David Bolger and John Scott. She has choreographed for Opera de Nice, Opernhaus Zurich, Rossini Opera Festival, National Opera of Korea, Wexford Festival, Liceu Barcelona and Opera Ireland and also in theatre at The Gate, Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions and The Ark. As a dancer, she has worked with many of the leading Irish contemporary dance companies and with a number of other choreographers, including Rosemary Butcher (UK) and John Jasperse (US), performing at such prestigious events as the Montpelier Dance Festival, Paris Biennale ’99 and Impulse Dance Festival and Viennale 2003. Roche is the first choreographer to be invited to take up the position of choreographer-in-residence at the Irish World Academy. This semester, as part of her residency, Liz will be working again with the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, developing a new ensemble choreography which explores “dependency” and “reliance on others”. She will teach a daily class, followed by intensive periods of studio-based research towards the creation/ rehearsal of the new work. Liz Roche is artistic director of Dublin based dance company Rex Levitates.

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38Blas Summer School tutors Dónal Lunny, John Carty and Kevin Crawford performing in concert during Blas, June 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Donal LunnyDonal Lunny continues his residency at the Irish World Academy for a second academic year. 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 two intensive week-long workshops with

students of the Academy’s BA and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, which led to a major concert where he was joined by these students on stage at in the Theatre 1 in the new Irish World Academy building, as part of the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, where he was also a tutor. His residency continues for the 2010/2011 academic year where he will continue to interact with students of the performance programmes at the Academy.

University of Limerick Gospel ChoirBeing part of a choir is about much more than simply singing. It’s about boosting confidence, meeting new people, becoming a better listener, and most importantly it’s about having fun. When you combine those experiences with the raw, raucous and energetic sound of Gospel music, you get an experience that is joyful and unique. UL Gospel Choir brings together students and staff from the UL community to perform a repertoire that ranges from spirituals to funk, working songs to celebration anthems. The choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The choir continues its long standing affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children and performs two fundraising concerts every year for the organisation.

Irish Chamber OrchestraIn 1995 the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) moved from east coast to west, following an invitation from Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to become part of the emerging performing arts programme at the University of Limerick.

At the same time the musicians were offered regular contracts, attracting the country's finest string players back to Ireland. These two events bought the goal of establishing in Ireland one of the greatest Chamber Orchestras in the world and a cultural ambassador for the country at home and abroad, closer to reality. The orchestra has been resident at the university ever since, and in 2008 opened it’s own state of the art building - with studio, rehearsal rooms and offices – on campus.

As well as a succession of illustrious Artistic Directors (Fionnuala Hunt, Nicholas McGegan, Anthony Marwood) the orchestra regularly works with an imaginative mix of some of the world’s finest musicians, including Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough, Alison Balsom and Sinéad O’Connor. The orchestra performs regular concert series in Limerick, Dublin and Cork, as well as undertaking an extensive programme of regional touring. The orchestra is also in demand internationally - 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.

The Irish Chamber Orchestra is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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38Blas Summer School tutors Dónal Lunny, John Carty and Kevin Crawford performing in concert during Blas, June 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Donal LunnyDonal Lunny continues his residency at the Irish World Academy for a second academic year. 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 two intensive week-long workshops with

students of the Academy’s BA and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, which led to a major concert where he was joined by these students on stage at in the Theatre 1 in the new Irish World Academy building, as part of the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, where he was also a tutor. His residency continues for the 2010/2011 academic year where he will continue to interact with students of the performance programmes at the Academy.

University of Limerick Gospel ChoirBeing part of a choir is about much more than simply singing. It’s about boosting confidence, meeting new people, becoming a better listener, and most importantly it’s about having fun. When you combine those experiences with the raw, raucous and energetic sound of Gospel music, you get an experience that is joyful and unique. UL Gospel Choir brings together students and staff from the UL community to perform a repertoire that ranges from spirituals to funk, working songs to celebration anthems. The choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The choir continues its long standing affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children and performs two fundraising concerts every year for the organisation.

Irish Chamber OrchestraIn 1995 the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) moved from east coast to west, following an invitation from Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin to become part of the emerging performing arts programme at the University of Limerick.

At the same time the musicians were offered regular contracts, attracting the country's finest string players back to Ireland. These two events bought the goal of establishing in Ireland one of the greatest Chamber Orchestras in the world and a cultural ambassador for the country at home and abroad, closer to reality. The orchestra has been resident at the university ever since, and in 2008 opened it’s own state of the art building - with studio, rehearsal rooms and offices – on campus.

As well as a succession of illustrious Artistic Directors (Fionnuala Hunt, Nicholas McGegan, Anthony Marwood) the orchestra regularly works with an imaginative mix of some of the world’s finest musicians, including Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough, Alison Balsom and Sinéad O’Connor. The orchestra performs regular concert series in Limerick, Dublin and Cork, as well as undertaking an extensive programme of regional touring. The orchestra is also in demand internationally - 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.

The Irish Chamber Orchestra is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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Programmes at the Irish World Academy

40Students of the Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance performing for RTÉ’s ‘Céilí House’ programme, recorded at the Academy, April 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish Chamber Orchestra Autumn 2010 Concert Series

September Beethoven Symphony No. 1Thursday 23 - UCH LimerickAnthony Marwood violin/directorMilhaud Chamber Symphony No. 5, Op. 75 - Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Op. 21, C major, Beethoven Violin Concerto Op. 61, D major

October Mozart Symphony No. 40Thursday 7 - UCH LimerickJörg Widmann clarinet/directorMozart Idomeneo Overture KV 366 - Widmann Ikarische Klage - Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1, Op. 73 - Mozart Symphony No. 40 KV 550, G minor

November - Haydn Symphony No. 46Thursday 18 - UCH LimerickKatherine Hunka violin/director, Fiona Kelly flute, Jean Kelly harpGrieg Erotik - Kinsella Nocturnes - Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp KV 299 - Grieg Lyric Pieces - Boulez Memoriale - Haydn Symphony No. 46 B major

December - MessiahThursday 16 - UCH LimerickTonu Kaljuste, conductor, Regina Nathan, soprano, Alexandra Petersamer, mezzo, Paul McNamara, tenor , Frode Olsen, bass Handel Messiah (HWV 56)

The Irish Chamber Orchestra, University of Limerick, Limerick, IrelandPhone: + 353 61 202620

www.irishchamberorchestra.com

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy StringsACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings has toured internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Each orchestra member is a fulltime registered postgraduate student on the two-year MA Classical String programme at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick and is tutored by internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), Michael Wolf (Double Bass), with Cello tuition from Course Director, Ferenc Szücs.

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings 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. Academos is directed by Ferenc Szücs, with line leaders from the Irish Chamber Orchestra, providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional experience through this contact with players from the ICO.

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings was formally launched at its inaugural concert in Dublin in March 2008, made its European debut at the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris in March 2009 and in February 2010, made its US debut at the Concert Hall of the Society for Ethical Culture New York, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre, with funding from Culture Ireland.

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40Students of the Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance performing for RTÉ’s ‘Céilí House’ programme, recorded at the Academy, April 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish Chamber Orchestra Autumn 2010 Concert Series

September Beethoven Symphony No. 1Thursday 23 - UCH LimerickAnthony Marwood violin/directorMilhaud Chamber Symphony No. 5, Op. 75 - Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Op. 21, C major, Beethoven Violin Concerto Op. 61, D major

October Mozart Symphony No. 40Thursday 7 - UCH LimerickJörg Widmann clarinet/directorMozart Idomeneo Overture KV 366 - Widmann Ikarische Klage - Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1, Op. 73 - Mozart Symphony No. 40 KV 550, G minor

November - Haydn Symphony No. 46Thursday 18 - UCH LimerickKatherine Hunka violin/director, Fiona Kelly flute, Jean Kelly harpGrieg Erotik - Kinsella Nocturnes - Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp KV 299 - Grieg Lyric Pieces - Boulez Memoriale - Haydn Symphony No. 46 B major

December - MessiahThursday 16 - UCH LimerickTonu Kaljuste, conductor, Regina Nathan, soprano, Alexandra Petersamer, mezzo, Paul McNamara, tenor , Frode Olsen, bass Handel Messiah (HWV 56)

The Irish Chamber Orchestra, University of Limerick, Limerick, IrelandPhone: + 353 61 202620

www.irishchamberorchestra.com

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy StringsACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings has toured internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Each orchestra member is a fulltime registered postgraduate student on the two-year MA Classical String programme at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick and is tutored by internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), Michael Wolf (Double Bass), with Cello tuition from Course Director, Ferenc Szücs.

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings 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. Academos is directed by Ferenc Szücs, with line leaders from the Irish Chamber Orchestra, providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional experience through this contact with players from the ICO.

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings was formally launched at its inaugural concert in Dublin in March 2008, made its European debut at the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris in March 2009 and in February 2010, made its US debut at the Concert Hall of the Society for Ethical Culture New York, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre, with funding from Culture Ireland.

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Scholarships at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

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BA Irish Music and DanceNiall Keegan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202465Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

BA Voice and DanceÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Course DirectorPhone: +353 61 233762Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

MA Music Therapy Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. Phone: + 353 61 213122 Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformanceDr Catherine Foley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202922 Email:catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

MA Irish Traditional Music PerformanceSandra Joyce, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

MA Ritual Chant and SongDr Helen Phelan, Acting Course DirectorAssociate Director, Irish World AcademyPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

MA Classical String Performance Ferenc Szucs, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202918, Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

MA Community Music Jean Downey Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160

MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Mary Nunan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213464, Email: mary.nunan@ul.ie

MA Ethnochoreology Dr Catherine Foley, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202922, Email:catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

MA Ethnomusicology Dr Colin Quigley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202966, Email: colin.quigley@ul.ie

M. Ed (Music) Graduate Diploma Education (Music) Jean Downey, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213160, Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

PhD Arts PracticeDr Helen Phelan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

Certificate In Music and DanceSandra Joyce, Acting Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

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BA Irish Music and DanceNiall Keegan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202465Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

BA Voice and DanceÓscar Mascareñas Garza, Course DirectorPhone: +353 61 233762Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

MA Music Therapy Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. Phone: + 353 61 213122 Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformanceDr Catherine Foley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202922 Email:catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

MA Irish Traditional Music PerformanceSandra Joyce, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

MA Ritual Chant and SongDr Helen Phelan, Acting Course DirectorAssociate Director, Irish World AcademyPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

MA Classical String Performance Ferenc Szucs, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202918, Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

MA Community Music Jean Downey Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160

MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Mary Nunan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213464, Email: mary.nunan@ul.ie

MA Ethnochoreology Dr Catherine Foley, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202922, Email:catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

MA Ethnomusicology Dr Colin Quigley, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202966, Email: colin.quigley@ul.ie

M. Ed (Music) Graduate Diploma Education (Music) Jean Downey, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 213160, Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

PhD Arts PracticeDr Helen Phelan, Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202575Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

Certificate In Music and DanceSandra Joyce, Acting Course DirectorPhone: + 353 61 202565Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie

Blas Summer School concert

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44MA Contemporary Dance Performance student Katrin Neue at a workshop, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Paul Brady Blas Summer School Scholarship The Paul Brady Blas Scholarship provides €20,000 in funds over three years, providing 25 places for deserving musicians on the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, which takes place annually in June. The Paul Brady Blas Summer School scholarship recipients will benefit from master classes and tuition from some of Ireland’s most respected traditional musicians and dancers.

The first Paul Brady Blas Scholarships were awarded in June 2010 where recipients spent two weeks at the Academy, receiving tuition from tutors including Dónal Lunny, Martin Hayes, John Carty, Derek Hickey, Colin Dunne, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Siobhán Peoples, Ernestine Healy, Niall Keegan, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and many more.

Applications are invited in writing for Blas 2011 and should be made to:

Ernestine Healy, Director, Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick or email ernestine.healy@ul.ie.

Applicants should be over 17 and should include asample recording of their music and/or dance. See www.blas.ie for further information.

For more information please contact:

Ellen Byrne, Press Officer, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Phone: + 353 61 202917

Sing Out with Strings Scholarship Fund

An Irish Chamber Orchestra/Irish World Academy Initiative at the University of Limerick. Five scholarships, valued at €5,000 each were made available for prospective students for the following educational programmes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick:

MA Community Music (contact jean.downey@ul.ie)

MA Classical String Performance (contact ferenc.szucs@ul.ie) The successful candidates will display the skills necessary for the programmes in question, with special reference to their suitability for internships with the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Community Outreach Initiative, as an integral part of their study programme. Both programmes lead to a Master of Arts degree from the University of Limerick following one year of full-time study. The successful applicant, as well as demonstrating the necessary musical requirements for the programme in question, will also have a proven ability to interact in a challenging classroom context. A capacity to work with voice or strings will also be an advantage.

Applicants should apply in writing, including a CV and two referees to:

Ellen Byrne, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 (0) 61 202917 Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

The Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship for the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmeThrough Dr Catherine Foley’s connection with Muckross House since 1979 as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance, the Trustees of Muckross House have awarded for a number of years a scholarship to a dancer on the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme. The 2009/10 recipient was Meabh Felton from Stratford-Upon Avon, England. On 21st May, Dr Foley and the MA students visited Muckross House. Dr Foley presented a lecture to the Trustees and Friends of Muckross House and the MA students, including allumni of the programme, performed. Some of these students were also recipients of the scholarship. They included Máiréad O’Connor from Kerry (recipient 2007/08) and Anna Shalabudova from St Petersburg, Russia (recipient 2008/09). The other dancers included Breandán de Gallaí, Renske Burghout, and Alan Fox.

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44MA Contemporary Dance Performance student Katrin Neue at a workshop, Spring 2010.Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Paul Brady Blas Summer School Scholarship The Paul Brady Blas Scholarship provides €20,000 in funds over three years, providing 25 places for deserving musicians on the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, which takes place annually in June. The Paul Brady Blas Summer School scholarship recipients will benefit from master classes and tuition from some of Ireland’s most respected traditional musicians and dancers.

The first Paul Brady Blas Scholarships were awarded in June 2010 where recipients spent two weeks at the Academy, receiving tuition from tutors including Dónal Lunny, Martin Hayes, John Carty, Derek Hickey, Colin Dunne, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Siobhán Peoples, Ernestine Healy, Niall Keegan, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and many more.

Applications are invited in writing for Blas 2011 and should be made to:

Ernestine Healy, Director, Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick or email ernestine.healy@ul.ie.

Applicants should be over 17 and should include asample recording of their music and/or dance. See www.blas.ie for further information.

For more information please contact:

Ellen Byrne, Press Officer, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick Phone: + 353 61 202917

Sing Out with Strings Scholarship Fund

An Irish Chamber Orchestra/Irish World Academy Initiative at the University of Limerick. Five scholarships, valued at €5,000 each were made available for prospective students for the following educational programmes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick:

MA Community Music (contact jean.downey@ul.ie)

MA Classical String Performance (contact ferenc.szucs@ul.ie) The successful candidates will display the skills necessary for the programmes in question, with special reference to their suitability for internships with the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Community Outreach Initiative, as an integral part of their study programme. Both programmes lead to a Master of Arts degree from the University of Limerick following one year of full-time study. The successful applicant, as well as demonstrating the necessary musical requirements for the programme in question, will also have a proven ability to interact in a challenging classroom context. A capacity to work with voice or strings will also be an advantage.

Applicants should apply in writing, including a CV and two referees to:

Ellen Byrne, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 (0) 61 202917 Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

The Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship for the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmeThrough Dr Catherine Foley’s connection with Muckross House since 1979 as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance, the Trustees of Muckross House have awarded for a number of years a scholarship to a dancer on the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme. The 2009/10 recipient was Meabh Felton from Stratford-Upon Avon, England. On 21st May, Dr Foley and the MA students visited Muckross House. Dr Foley presented a lecture to the Trustees and Friends of Muckross House and the MA students, including allumni of the programme, performed. Some of these students were also recipients of the scholarship. They included Máiréad O’Connor from Kerry (recipient 2007/08) and Anna Shalabudova from St Petersburg, Russia (recipient 2008/09). The other dancers included Breandán de Gallaí, Renske Burghout, and Alan Fox.

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Blas Summer School tutor Jim Higgins giving a bodhrán workshop, July 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning46

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. EMI Music Sound Foundation 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 extended 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 Academy other than in 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. There is no separate application form. A relevant CV should be included with the application form for admission to the relevant degree programme along with a covering letter applying for the bursary and sent to Jean Downey, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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 202918/Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

Irish World Academy Research Fee WaiversA 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: Melissa.carty@ul.ie

All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.

Blas Summer School Lunchtime Concert Spring ‘10Ceili House recording

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Blas Summer School tutor Jim Higgins giving a bodhrán workshop, July 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning46

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. EMI Music Sound Foundation 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 extended 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 Academy other than in 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. There is no separate application form. A relevant CV should be included with the application form for admission to the relevant degree programme along with a covering letter applying for the bursary and sent to Jean Downey, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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 202918/Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

Irish World Academy Research Fee WaiversA 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: Melissa.carty@ul.ie

All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.

Blas Summer School Lunchtime Concert Spring ‘10Ceili House recording

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College Of Science: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: + 353-61-202807, Email: Brigitte.moody@ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics:The Centre for Computational Musicology & Computer Music MA/MSC in Music TechnologyThe 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 Simpson, Phone: + 353 61 202782, Email: jurgen.simpson@ul.ie www.csis.ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics:The Interaction Design Centre (Idc) Ma in Interactive MultimediaThe 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 Fernström, Phone: + 353 61 202606, Email: mikael.fernstrom@ul.ie 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 @ €7,000 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 of Music and Dance.

Faculty

Dr. Gareth Cox (Head of Department)Dr. Paul Collins Dr. Michael Murphy Gwen MooreAilbhe KennyDr Karen Power (Music Technician)Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist)

Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: musicinfo@mic.ul.ieWebsite: www.mic.ul.ie

Arts Offices at The University of LimerickArts Officer:Patricia Moriarty Phone + 353 61 20 2130patricia.moriarty@ul.ie

Visual Arts Officer:Yvonne Davis Phone + 353 61 21 3052Yvonne.davis@ul.ie

Irish Language Officer/ Stiúrthóir Na Gaeilge:Deirdre Ní LoingsighPhone: + 353 61 213463deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie

The Association of Irish Choirs:Liz Powell, CEOUniversity Concert Hall, University of Limerick, Tel: +353-61-234823Email: aoic@ul.ie

Further information on the Irish World Academy’s courses, concerts, seminars and special events:

Phone: + 353 61 202917/Fax: + 353 61 202589Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie www.irishworldacademy.ie

Front Cover photograph: Rex Levitates Dance Company, dance company- in-residence at the Academy in 12 Minute Dances, by Liz Roche. © Fionn McCann

Back Cover photograph: Dónal Lunny, artist-in-residence at the Academy and Academy faculty member Niall Keegan perform at the ‘Dónal Lunny & Friends’ concert, Blas Summer School, June 2010 © Maurice Gunning

Foundation Building, University of LimerickLimerick, Ireland. Tel: 353 61 202590www.irishworldacademy.ie

Students of the Academy’s MA Contemporary Dance Performance attending a workshop at Daghdha Dance Company, Spring 2010.

Kathleen Turner & Helen Phelan, members of the Academy’s vocal ensemble-in-residence Cantoral in concert at Glenstal Abbey, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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College Of Science: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: + 353-61-202807, Email: Brigitte.moody@ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics:The Centre for Computational Musicology & Computer Music MA/MSC in Music TechnologyThe 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 Simpson, Phone: + 353 61 202782, Email: jurgen.simpson@ul.ie www.csis.ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics:The Interaction Design Centre (Idc) Ma in Interactive MultimediaThe 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 Fernström, Phone: + 353 61 202606, Email: mikael.fernstrom@ul.ie 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 @ €7,000 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 of Music and Dance.

Faculty

Dr. Gareth Cox (Head of Department)Dr. Paul Collins Dr. Michael Murphy Gwen MooreAilbhe KennyDr Karen Power (Music Technician)Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist)

Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: musicinfo@mic.ul.ieWebsite: www.mic.ul.ie

Arts Offices at The University of LimerickArts Officer:Patricia Moriarty Phone + 353 61 20 2130patricia.moriarty@ul.ie

Visual Arts Officer:Yvonne Davis Phone + 353 61 21 3052Yvonne.davis@ul.ie

Irish Language Officer/ Stiúrthóir Na Gaeilge:Deirdre Ní LoingsighPhone: + 353 61 213463deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie

The Association of Irish Choirs:Liz Powell, CEOUniversity Concert Hall, University of Limerick, Tel: +353-61-234823Email: aoic@ul.ie

Further information on the Irish World Academy’s courses, concerts, seminars and special events:

Phone: + 353 61 202917/Fax: + 353 61 202589Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie www.irishworldacademy.ie

Front Cover photograph: Rex Levitates Dance Company, dance company- in-residence at the Academy in 12 Minute Dances, by Liz Roche. © Fionn McCann

Back Cover photograph: Dónal Lunny, artist-in-residence at the Academy and Academy faculty member Niall Keegan perform at the ‘Dónal Lunny & Friends’ concert, Blas Summer School, June 2010 © Maurice Gunning

Foundation Building, University of LimerickLimerick, Ireland. Tel: 353 61 202590www.irishworldacademy.ie

Students of the Academy’s MA Contemporary Dance Performance attending a workshop at Daghdha Dance Company, Spring 2010.

Kathleen Turner & Helen Phelan, members of the Academy’s vocal ensemble-in-residence Cantoral in concert at Glenstal Abbey, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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