Comhaimseartha / Of Our Times: Spring/Summer 2010 by Michael McCabe

Spring

2010 Earrach

www.irishworldacademy.ie

2010

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick

Dรกmh Chruinne ร ireann Rince agus Ceol Ollscoil Luimnigh

Of Our Times/ Comhaimseartha

Contents 02 Introduction 07 Lunchtime Concert Series 13 Seminar Series 19 Special Events 23 Bealach / Community Cultural Pathways 29 Cónaí / Artists in Residence 35 Clár / Irish World Academy MA and BA Programmes 37 Scholarships 40 Other Programmes and Arts Offices

Student of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance, Nov 09 Photograph ÂŠ Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Between the Poetic and the Practical Crossing the Frontier

Aidan O’Donnell and Ciarán Ó Maonaigh of the group Fidil at a lunchtime concert, Autumn 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

As we enter 2010 and celebrate the opening of our new Academy building in March of this year, it is timely to outline the degree programmes that it will contain. The following listing outlines the work of the founding community of artists/scholars since the Academy was born in 1994. This achievement reflects the essential teamwork of a group of visionaries, each dedicated to a lifework within the overall mosaic of a calling. With 600 graduates to date from all continents and some 30 countries, it represents a contribution from an Irish base to the challenge of cultural globalization, to the celebration of difference, and to the inherent belief in a hopeful shared humanity. This is the gift that enters our magnificently designed new home on the banks of the river Shannon on a living campus in full flower. It is open to all who are called to share in it and to contribute to its growth.

PhD The Irish World Academy began life as a research centre with specializations in Irish and Irish-related music worldwide. The PhD (research) has now expanded to cover all of the distinct areas of expertise at the Academy.

PhD Arts Practice The first structured PhD in Performing Arts in Ireland commenced in 2009 at the Academy with a student body that includes sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, and choreographer/dancer Breandán de Gallaí (both past graduates of MA programmes at the Academy, and both internationally acclaimed Artistsin-Residence at the Academy). This highly innovative programme facilitates new music and dance through a combination of the poetic and the practical within a taught curriculum across four years. The programme is directed by singer/ academic Dr Helen Phelan, Associate Director at the Irish World Academy.

MA Classical String Performance Operated in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, this programme runs as a string orchestra - ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings which is currently led by Katherine Hunka, Leader of the ICO. Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Rome); Mariana Sirbu (Milan); and Michael Wolf (Berlin). The founding Course Director is Ferenc Szucs (Budapest). ACADEMOS has been supported by CULTURE IRELAND for concerts in Paris (2009) and New York (2010). This programme is globally unique in its interactivity with a professional orchestra as well as its basis as a chamber orchestra in itself. The Irish Chamber Orchestra is funded by An Chomhairle Ealaíon/ The Arts Council, and has its own specially designed building on the UL campus beside the new Irish World Academy building.

MA Community Music This is one of only two such programmes globally. It trains musicians to work with special population groups by using music to open up new vistas and social possibilities in challenged areas. It is increasingly working with the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s visionary social programme in the Limerick Regeneration Areas, and is directed by Jean Downey.

MA Contemporary Dance Performance The only such contemporary dance programme in Ireland, it began as a twin track programme with DAGHDHA Dance Company which was founded at the University of Limerick and is supported by An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council. The programme has attracted significant national and international students including international artists such as Colin Dunne and Jean Butler both of whom have been Dancers-in-Residence at the Academy. The programme

has also contributed to the setting up of several new dance company initiatives such as REX LEVITATES (founded by Liz Roche – currently Dancer-in-Residence at the Academy - and Jenny Roche, a graduate of the programme). The founding Course Director is Irish choreographer/dancer Mary Nunan who was also the founding Artistic Director of DAGDHA Dance Company.

MA Irish Traditional Music Performance A globally unique programme not only in terms of Irish traditional music but also in terms of any ‘ethnic’ music performance programme at postgraduate level. Like all of the other programmes, its student population is global in its scope. Several new traditional music ensembles have emerged from the ranks of its graduates including FIDIL and LIADAN. Other new ensembles directly influenced by the programme include THE MUNNELLY BAND. Along with singer/ academic Sandra Joyce, the founding Course Director is trad flute player/academic Niall Keegan.

MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Another global first, this programme twin-tracks the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance and again attracts an international student population. It also interacts with the MA Ethnochoreology (see overleaf) and has facilitated new dance out of a traditional base with significant figures such as Breandán de Gallaí (ex Riverdance) who as well as completing this programme was Dancer-in-Residence at the Academy in 2007/2008. The founding Course Director is dancer/ academic Dr Catherine Foley.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

MA Ritual Chant and Song programme is a

MA Ethnomusicology

Graduate Diploma Education (Music)

globally unique programme linking with professional early music singers, especially in Paris (Catherine Sergent, [singer with early music ensemble DISCANTUS]; Katarina Livljanic [Director early music ensemble DIALOGOS]; Benjamin Bagby [Director early music ensemble SEQUENTIA]). International Chant scholars who have interacted significantly with the programme include Professor Leo Treitler [City University New York], Professor Thomas Forest Kelly [Harvard], Professor Nick Sandon [Exeter] and Professor David Hiley [Regensburg]. Latin chant forms the essential basis of the performance curriculum but this is studied within the context of world traditions of spiritual song including Orthodox, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions. Its founding Course Director was singer/academic Dr. Helen Phelan and it is currently course directed by Eri Hirabayashi.

The Irish World Academy sets great store on, global cross-cultural awareness, and anthropology in a variety of specializations informs the ethos of this community of artists/scholars. Ethnomusicology (the Anthropology of Music) allows for an investigation of global music cultures on both practical and academic terms. The MA Ethnomusicology was one of the first programmes established at the Academy. Its Course Director is Dr Colin Quigley (ex UCLA) whose publications reflect his specializations in Eastern European as well as European diasporic traditions across Maritime and French Canada in both music and dance.

This is the primary programme in Ireland for the training of music teachers for second-level schools. Attracting up to 30 young trainee teacher graduates each year from Music Departments across the Irish Higher Education sector, it provides for up to 50% of the student’s time in music teaching related study, with the remaining time devoted to mainstream educational studies. It is operated in conjunction with the Faculty of Education and Science at UL, and its Course Director is Jean Downey (a key national figure in the Department of Education and Science’s Leaving Certificate Music programme implementation).

MA Ethnochoreology

M.Ed (Music)

MA Music Therapy The only full degree programme for Music Therapy in Ireland at any level, and the only two-year full-time postgraduate Music Therapy programme in the UK or Ireland. Already firmly established internationally as a key site for Music Therapy research and teaching, this programme was the first medical programme at the University of Limerick. The subsequent emergence of Health Sciences, Psychology, and the new Graduate Medical School on the UL campus have provided a rich context for the future development of Music and Health studies. The Course Director is Professor Jane Edwards (currently first President of the International Society for Music and Medicine), with Dr Simon Gilbertson.

A sister programme to the MA Ethnomusicology, the MA Ethnochoreology (the Anthropology of Dance) is the only such programme in Ireland and one of the few in Europe. It is also the only such programme globally with a specialisation in Irish dance within the context of world dance cultures. Its founding Course Director, dancer/ academic Dr Catherine Foley, is a key international scholar in this area and a pioneer in the understanding and celebration of Irish traditional dance within a world dance context. She is also the Founder of Dance Research Forum Ireland with its interests across all forms of dance in Ireland from hip hop to ballet, and was key to the recent establishment of the National Dance Archives of Ireland sponsored by An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council at the University of Limerick Glucksman Library. Like the MA Ethnomusicology, this programme invites performing artists to reflect on their own creative process and the creative processes of others. As such, both programmes facilitate the creation of new music and dance against a backdrop of performing arts research. Satomi Mitera, Breandán de Gallaí and Anna Shalubadova at their final performance exam, June ’09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

The Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) can be extended into a further year’s study leading to a Masters of Education in Music degree. This option is also open to music graduates of Higher Diploma in Education postgraduate programmes throughout the Irish Higher Education sector. Its founding Course Director is Jean Downey.

BA Irish Music and Dance The first such programme globally to focus exclusively on practitioners of Irish traditional music and dance genres. It attracts an international coterie of students including those from both Irish disaporic and non-diasporic backgrounds. As such it reflects the cultural globalisation of Irish traditional music and dance that has occurred over the past few decades. This programme – and related programmes at the Irish World Academy – may indeed be seen as performing arts educational responses to the globalisation of Irish cultures within the overall context of cultural globalisation itself. These programmes seek to celebrate difference within an increasing awareness of the cultural tapestry of global cultures. Its founding Co-Course Directors, musicians/ academics Sandra Joyce and Niall Keegan are pioneers in the further explorations

of the integration of traditional music practices within the University environment. The faculty team for this programme includes ethnomusicologist Aileen Dillane (current Course Director) and ethnochoreologists Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (former Course Director) and Mats Melin. Some 120 traditional musicians and dancers interact across this four-year programme leading to constant explorations of tradition and innovation in new music and dance out of received tradition.

BA Voice and Dance (BaVaD) commenced in 2008 with ten singers and ten dancers being admitted each year leading to a total of eighty singers/dancers by the full roll out of the programme in 2011. Alongside dance genres from many cultures, this programme incorporates choral singing in all four years across all styles of Western music from early monophony to contemporary. The BaVaDs, as the students style themselves, are already established as a unique complementary response to the fully operational BA Irish Music and Dance (the primary global degree programme in Irish traditional arts of music and dance, including sean nós singing). The curriculum extends across cultural expressions of music and dance from all continents over this four year highly innovative course. The BaVaD degree programme’s founding Course Director is early music singer/instrumentalist and chant scholar, Oscar Mascarenas.

Certificate in Music and Dance A special Access programme developed out of the Higher Education Authority-funded NOMAD (Irish traveller community linked) and SANCTUARY (new Irish communities linked) initiatives at the Irish World Academy. As such it is a unique Irish response to an educational and social challenge in contemporary Ireland. It reflects the Outreach (BEALACH Cultural Community Pathways) ethos within the Irish World Academy itself, which is present in all Academy programmes. Its founding Course Director is Julie Tiernan, a former NOMAD team worker with a proven ability to communicate across Traveller and settled communities.

BLAS International Summer School in Irish Traditional Music and Dance Performance This is the only University-based summer school in the Irish traditional performing arts, and is now in its 15th year. Attracting students from all continents, it offers the option of attaining three international education credits for those students who request this. Many of the great names in Irish traditional performing arts teach at BLAS, and the Academy’s current Artist-in-Residence, Donal Lunny, workshops extensively with students towards the exploration of new transformations of traditional music leading to public performances.

Forthcoming Programmes at the Irish World Academy Within the context of its move into its new specially designed home in March 2010 (a 5000 sq metre building costing 21 million euro situated on the banks of the river Shannon), The Atlantic Philanthropies invited the Academy to develop its interest beyond its present suite of programmes. Following extensive international consultation over a one year period, it was decided that the area of Festive Arts would provide the most exciting challenge to the Academy in its choice to move towards theatre-linked performing arts while building on its music

and dance expertise. An MA in Festive Arts will commence in 2011 to be mirrored by a new international Arts Festival for Limerick (The Living Bridge Festival) to commence in 2012. The new programme will investigate the nature and essence of festivals in world cultures, encouraging the design of new festival ideas as well as the revitalization of existing festivals. The contribution of festivals to society, both socially and economically will be furthered. The programme also brings together linked interests in the University of Limerick, Limerick City Council, and Shannon Development. Paula Dundon (Administrator), Ellen Byrne (Performing Art Coordinator/Public Relations), and Melissa Carty (Secretary) form the central support team at the Academy. In the new Academy building, performing arts and research sit side by side in an empowering relationship that is very much of our times. Seamus Heaney articulates it in the final essay in his collection, The Redress of Poetry: …I wanted to affirm that within our individual selves we can reconcile two orders of knowledge which we might call the practical and the poetic; to affirm also that each form of knowledge redresses the other and that the frontier between them is there for the crossing.1

Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Professor of Music, University of Limerick Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance 1

‘Frontiers of Writing’, The Redress of Poetry (London 1995:203)

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Director Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202590 Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie

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

Mats Melin, Lecturer in Dance BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202542 Email: mats.melin@ul.ie

Dr Helen Phelan, Associate Director, Irish World Academy Programme Director, PhD Arts Practice Phone: + 353 61 202575 Email: helen.phelan@ul.ie

Jean Downey, Director MA Community Music Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) MA Education (Music) Phone: + 353 61 213160 Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer BA Irish Music and Dance Email: ernestine.healy@ul.ie

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

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

Óscar Mascareñas Garza, Director BA Voice and Dance Phone: + 353 61 233762 Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

Mary Nunan, Director MA Contemporary Dance Performance Phone + 353 61 213464 Email: mary.nunan@ul.ie

Dr Simon Gilbertson, Lecturer MA Music Therapy Phone: + 353 61 234358 Email: simon.gilbertson@ul.ie

Julie Tiernan, Director Certificate in Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 234743 Email: julie.tiernan@ul.ie

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

Eri Hirabayashi, Acting Director MA Ritual Chant and Song Phone: + 353 202960 Email: eri.hirabayashi@ul.ie

Paula Dundon, Administrator Phone: + 353 61 202149 Email: paula.dundon@ul.ie

Niall Keegan, Director MA Irish Traditional Music Performance (On sabbatical)

Dr Aileen Dillane, Director BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202159 Email: aileen.dillane@ul.ie

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

Sandra Joyce, Acting Director MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Phone: + 353 61 202565 Email: sandra.joyce@ul.ie

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

Ellen Byrne, Publicity Phone: + 353 61 202917 Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

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Lunchtime Concert Series Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00 p.m. February – May 2010 Venue: Performing Arts Centre Lower Ground Floor Foundation Building University of Limerick (from April onwards all events will take place in the new Irish World Academy Building, North Campus)

Admission Free All Welcome

Rens Van der Zalm of Mozaik, during the group’s lunchtime concert & workshop at the Academy, November 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Lunchtime Concert Series

Neil Boland Norah Rendell & Brian Miller Róisín McMullin

Livia Nagy

Tuesday February 9th

Thursday February 11th

Wednesday February 17th

Norah Rendell (flute) Brian Miller (guitar)

Róisín McMullin (violin) & Neil Boland (piano)

Students of the Graduate Diploma in Education (Music)

Vancouver singer and flute player Norah Rendell and Minnesotan guitarist Brian Miller met while studying Irish traditional music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance UL. The Munster Express wrote that their music “brings sunlight into your heart and set your feet a dancing.” Since returning to North America, their debut album, Wait There Pretty One, has earned Norah a nomination for Canadian Traditional Singer of the Year and they are fast becoming known as two of the best young interpreters of traditional music the other side of the Atlantic. Norah has performed at venues and festivals around the globe including England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and North America as lead vocalist with Limerick band, The Outside Track. Esteemed Irish music critic Earle Hitchner writes that “the backing of [Brian] Miller on guitar flexes not just muscle but a fully complementary style.” Also an accomplished singer and flute player, Miller began playing Irish music at high-school in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has been a highly visible character in the Twin Cities Irish music scene since 1998.

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major

A lunchtime concert featuring solo and ensemble pieces form the students of the graduate Diploma in Education (Music) class.

Student of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance, Nov 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Roisin McMullin began her musical studies at age 7 in Clare Music Makers, Ennis. Highlights of her time there include an appearance on RTE’s Late Late Toy Show and frequently invitations to perform in the High Achievers Concerts of the ABRSM, who in 2003 awarded her the Philip F Walsh Memorial Prize for attaining the highest mark in the Grade 7 instrumental examinations at national level that year. She is also a former member of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Cork Symphony Orchestra. Roisin recently completed a BA (Honours) Degree in Music and Mathematical Studies in University College Cork and is currently studying violin with Professor Mariana Sirbu as part of the University of Limerick’s MA in Classical Strings Performance. Neil Boland was brought up in Yorkshire, concentrating initially on the flute before switching to main study piano at 18. He studied music in Manchester and London, gaining first class BA and MA degrees before moving to Japan where he lived for several years, teaching English as well as music. Following teacher training in New Zealand, Neil taught in schools there and in Germany, leavening school teaching with frequent performances. He moved to County Clare 9 years ago and is active throughout the area as a freelance pianist and accompanist.

Thursday February 18th Livia Nagy (cello) Bach Cello Suite No 6 in D major Livia graduated with a degree in classical cello performance from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. She has been a member of the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra in Veszprem, and the Dohnanyi Symphony Orchestra in Budapest. She has also collaborated with the Liszt ferenc Chamber Orchestra in Budapest. She has performed in many of the great concert halls of Hungary, such as, The Palace of Arts and the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Livia is currently studying with Ferenc Szucs as part of the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy, UL. She has been awarded the RTÉ Lyric FM Scholarship. The solo cello suites of J. S. Bach occupy a most significant place in her repertoire and in this concert she will play the beautiful sixth solo suit in D major.

Michael Joyce Ged Foley

Wednesday February 24th Cruinniu/Céim Lunchtime concert featuring UL’s traditional music and traditional dance ensembles.

Tuesday February 23rd Ged Foley (voice, guitar, fiddle) & Paul Smith (guitar) Ged Foley is well known as one of Irish music’s most gifted guitarists. He was a member of Scotland’s Battlefield Band, a founder of England’s House Band, and is a key part in Irish super group Patrick Street. A talented singer, instrumentalist, arranger and producer, Ged provides a strong and creative approach to rhythm guitar, and lifts those he accompanies. Born and raised in North East England, Ged now makes his home in Ireland. Recent recordings include Patrick Street’s On the Fly and Celtic Fiddle Festival’s Équinoxe, both on the Loftus Music Label.

Cruinniú (meaning ‘Gathering’) and Céim (meaning ‘Step’) are the titles of two Irish World Academy outreach initiatives which have seen staff from all walks of university life engaging in weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music (Cruinniú) and set-dancing (Céim) each Tuesday Wednesday from 1 – 2 pm in music room B, on the lower ground floor of the Foundation Building. These sessions are open to all, with beginners especially welcome. The sessions are facilitated by a number of people within the group, as well as by some students and staff of the Irish World Academy. Cruinniú launched an album of the same name in October 2007, the proceeds of were donated to St Vincent’s School, Lisnagry. The group also took part in a ‘Wren Day’ fundraising drive on the UL campus in December 2009, raising further funds for St Vincent’s. New members are always welcome. For further information contact: noel.mccarthy@ul.ie

Thursday February 25th Aingeala De Burca (violin) & Michael Joyce (piano) Aingeala de Burca began her violin career at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, studying with Maeve Broderick for 16 years. In 1993, she was awarded an honours degree in music from Trinity College, Dublin. As a

Aingeala De Burca

freelance performer, she has demonstrated her quality and diversity by appearing with such groups as the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Wexford Opera Festival Orchestra, and In Tua Nua. Her skills in improvisation and communication afforded her great success in her career as a music facilitator in educational, community music and healthcare settings. In 2007 her primary focus returned once more to performance when she began studying the baroque violin with Anne Wallstrom and Maya Homburger and the modern violin with Mariana Sirbu. In 2009, Aingeala was awarded a Masters in Classical String Performance from the University of Limerick. As an important part of her personal performance renaissance, she qualified in 2008 as a teacher of the Interactive Teaching Method (ITM) for the teaching of the F M Alexander Technique. Michael Joyce began his piano studies at the Cork School of Music with teachers Bridget Doolan and Jan Cap. Upon completing the two-year teaching diploma at the School, he studied piano performance with Professors Nerine Barrett and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, graduating with a first class honours Batchelor’s degree. After completing his studies in Germany, Michael worked as a teaching assistant at Yale University while pursing a Master of Music degree with the Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl. Michael has performed with singers Pauline Tinsley and Edel O’Brien, violist Nobuko Imai, violinists Héloîse Geoghegan, Keith Pascoe and Catherine Leonard and cellist Pavel Gomziakov. In 2006 he was artist in residence at the University of Limerick with the Bellatrix Piano Trio, along with Heloise Geoghegan (violin) and Gerald Peregrine (cello).

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Lunchtime Concert Series

Maya Diabaté in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick, as part of the ‘Fair Play’ concert, jointly hosted by the Irish World Academy at the Localisation Research Centre, UL, September 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Michelle & Mick Mulcahy

Conor MacCarthy

Tuesday March 2nd

Thursday March 4th

Thursday March 11th

Michelle & Mick Mulcahy

Conor MacCarthy (double bass) & Cormac MacCarthy (piano)

Caravel String Quartet & Theodoros Paltoglou (violin)

Conor McCarthy began studying in the Cork School of Music at the age of seven, and was soon offered a position studying the double bass with Sven Buic. In 2000 he began the Bachelor of Music degree at the Cork School of Music, focusing on double bass performance. In his final year of studies, he took part in an exchange programme for three months to Finland, studying with professor Lasse Lagercrantz of the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. He returned to Cork to finish his degree, and was awarded the highest grade in his performance exams. After graduating Conor returned to Finland, auditioned and won a place in the Sibelius Academy’s Master’s programme. He studied there for two years, furthering his orchestral skills, and getting substitute work with professional orchestras including the Kotka Symphonietta in Finland, and Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Spain. Since the Summer of 2006, Conor has lived in Ireland, and has been in constant demand as chamber and an orchestral musician, working regularly with the RTÉ National Symphony orchestra, the RTÉ National Concert Orchestra, the Irish Film Orchestra, the Wexford International Opera Festival. He is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Classical String performance with professor Michael Wolf in University of Limerick. Conor will be joined by Cormac MacCarthy on piano.

The Caravel Quartet formed in September, 2009 of the students of MA in Classical String performance, UL. The Caravel name refers that the members arrived from different part of the world: Ireland, Canada and Hungary and their program is a beautiful Mozart Quartet.

Musical families are often the backbone of multigenerational continuity within that global community, and no musical family today is more impressive in upholding the best principles of the tradition than the Mulcahys of Abbeyfeale, West Limerick. Mick, Michelle and Louise Mulcahy play a dazzling array of instruments between them but it’s the sweetness and tunefulness of their ensemble playing that is most striking. Their latest album ‘Reelin’ in Tradition’ has received worldwide acclaim, an album full of soulful traditional music rooted in the West Limerick, Sliabh Luachra and Clare tradition. Mick Mulcahy is a living legend in Irish accordion playing, with a rare repertoire of old tunes which he plays in a highly distinctive style, a style of personal touch which distinguishes the work of the true traditional musician, a touch which has been passed down to his two daughters Michelle and Louise. Michelle is considered to be one of Ireland’s most adroit and creative harpers and a gifted multi instrumentalist. She was awarded the highly prestigious TG4 Young Musician of the Year in 2006 .’Her revolutionary style on the harp is scintillating-played with power and panache, no concession to the complexity of the instrument, confirming her as one of the most significant musicians redefining harp at present ’- The Living Tradition. Her skill and mastery of the concertina showcases her depth in traditional music also confirming her as one young leading exponent of the concertina.

“If you like the ‘pure drop’, here it is - traditional Irish music at its natural, unadulterated and most seductive best”- The Irish Times

Programme: Bach: Prelude to the 2nd Cello suite Frank Proto: ‘Sonata 1969’ Edgar Meyer: Amalgamations for Solo Bass 3rd mvt

Roisin McMullin (first violin) recently completed a BA (Honours) Degree in Music and Mathematical Studies in University College Cork. She is a former member of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Cork Symphony Orchestra. She had appearances in RTÉ and in 2003 she won the Philip F Walsh Memorial Prize. Tamasine Plowman (second violin) was educated in England at Chethams School of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She has travelled and performed in many concert halls world-wide as classical orchestral and chamber group performer and also as jazz musician. Tobie Slippert (viola) studied violin and viola at the Conservatory of Quebec and completed a Bachelors degree at the University of Concordia in Montreal. He was the member of several orchestras in Canada, and also performed solo and chamber music in the greatest concert halls of his country. Livia Nagy (cello) graduated with a degree in classical cello performance from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. She has been a member of many hungarian orchestras, and performed in the greatest concert halls of Hungary, such as, The Palace of Arts and the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy.

Cyprian Love Péter Sebestyén Blyde Lasses

Theodoros Paltoglou was born in Thessaloniki and he started his musical studies at the age of 8 in Sinhrono Conservatory of Thessaloniki. In 2002 he got a scholarship to Municipality Conservatory of Glyfada with Nikolaos Karagiannis. Later with the same teacher he studied at the Orfeion Conservatory. He had his degree with Nadezda Sarantidou in Nakas Conservatory of Music in 2007. Presently he is a student of MA in Classical String Performance at UL with Mariana Sirbu. He had many appearances as a soloist in Greece with youth orchestras, and as a violin player in Nikolaos Mantzaros Youth Orchestra, Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra, and String Orchestra of Nakas Conservatory. He played concerts with Turkey-Greece Youth Orchestra, and he is the member of Academos String Orchestra in UL and the UL Orchestra. Also he was a member of Athens Municipality Orchestra and Athens State Orchestra. He participated many violin seminars with Sergey Kravcenko, Grigori Zislin, Edward Grach

Tuesday March 16th Charlie Piggott Accordion player Charlie Piggott, originally from Cork, was one of the founding members of Dé Danann and more recently The Lonely Stranded Band. He toured extensively with both bands and as a solo artist. Originally a banjo player, he unfortunately had an accident which meant he could no longer play that instrument and is now an accomplished accordionist.

Thursday March 18th

Tuesday March 23rd

Péter Sebestyén (cello) & Cyprian Love (piano)

Blyde Lasses

Péter Sebestyén graduated with a degree in classical cello performance from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. He has been a member of the St. Stephen Symphony Orchestra in Budapest and the principal cellist from 2005 – 2008. Currently he is the member of the Concerto Malaga Chamber Orchestra in Spain. He has performed in many of the great concert halls of Hungary, such as, The Palace of Arts and the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Peter is currently studying with Ferenc Szucs as part of the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy, UL. He has been awarded the RTÉ Lyric FM Scholarship. Cyprian Love is a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick. He studied piano with Angus Morrison at the Royal College of Music, London, and obtained an L.R.A.M. Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Academy of Music. He has given a number of recitals as piano soloist and accompanist at Glenstal Abbey where he lives. He is also an organist and has an interest in musical improvisation. His most recent CD, Amalgamare, is a collection of duo improvisations performed by himself (organ) and Eoghan Neff (Irish traditional fiddle). Péter and Cyprian perform one of the highlights of the cello-repertoire: the very famous Rokoko-variations from Tchaikovsky and the delightful Hungarian Rhapsody by Popper.

The Blyde Lasses are a dynamic young female duo who perform traditional Shetland and Scottish music on fiddle and concertina. Their timeless renditions of age-old tunes have become popular across North-East Scotland and beyond in recent years. Highlights of their performances include a Scottish Government St Andrews Day concert and a trip to the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Canada in 2008, and a performance aboard the ‘Glenlee’ Tall Ship at Partick Folk Festival in 2009. Claire White is a Shetlander, born and bred. She learned the fiddle with Dr Tom Anderson from the age of seven and played as a member of Shetland’s Young Heritage in Europe, New Zealand, the USA and Canada. She is now based in Aberdeen and plays regularly in popular ceilidh bands Danse McCabre and Jing Bang. In her day job, she brings all sorts of stories to the airwaves as a BBC Producer. Frances Wilkins first started playing English Concertina in sessions in Shetland before moving to London where she studied music as an undergraduate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Aberdeen where she is a researcher, visiting tutor, and archives assistant. She is a member of bands including Danse McCabre, Cabrach, and Ellefish, and regularly teaches concertina and mixed instrument classes in traditional music.

Péter Sebestyén Fintan Scanlan

Elaine Kenny Theodoros Paltoglou

Ceoltóirí Óga Chinn Mhara

Thursday March 25th String Quartet T. F. E. P. (Theodoros Paltoglou, Fintan Scanlon, Elaine Kenny, Péter Sebestyén) was formed in September, 2009 of the students of MA in Classical String performance, UL. Their professors are Mariana Sirbu, Bruno Giurana, Ferenc Szucs and Michael Wolf and today they will perform one of the delightful Haydn quartets. Elaine Kenny began studying music at the age of five in the Cork School of Music. Over the years, she has studied the viola with Tomás McCarthy, John Vallery and Joachim Roewer, as well as receiving master classes from Professor Bruno Giuranna, Massimo Paris and Liviu Stanese. Elaine completed her BA in Music and English in 2008 in University College Cork, and her BMus in 2009 in UCC. She is now studying under Professor Bruno Giuranna in the Masters in Classical String Performance in the University of Limerick. Elaine is also the viola player of String Quartet T. F. E. P. in the second half of the concert. Michael Joyce began his piano studies at the Cork School of Music with teachers Bridget Doolan and Jan Cap. Upon completing the two-year teaching diploma at the School, he studied piano performance with Professors Nerine Barrett and Renate Kretschmar-Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, graduating with a first class honours Batchelor’s degree. After completing his studies in Germany, Michael worked as a teaching assistant at Yale University while pursuing a Master of Music degree with the Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl.

Theodoros Paltoglou was born in Thessaloniki and had his degree in violin performance in Nakas Conservatory of Music. He had many appearances in Greek as a soloist, and also was the member of several orchestras, such as Nikolaos Mantzaros Youth Orchestra, Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra, and String Orchestra of Nakas Conservatory.

Fintan Scanlon was born in Waterford. He began learning violin at the age of 4 under the instruction of his mother, and continued to learn from her until he entered the music degree course in Waterford Institute of Technology. He then studied with Teresa Costello ex-leader of the RTE concert orchestra. more recent times Fintan has come back to the violin with renewed vigour and is currently studying with Mariana Sirbu at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick. Péter Sebestyén graduated with a degree in classical cello performance from the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary. He has been the principal cellist of the St. Stephen Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, and performed in many of the great concert halls of Hungary. Currently he is the member of the Concerto Malaga Chamber Orchestra in Spain.

Tuesday April 8th Ritual Chant and Song ‘Ceoltóirí Óga Chinn Mhara’ is a group of children from 4th class in St. Joseph’s National School in Kinvara, Co. Galway. Kinvara is a rich musical area and boasts a large amount of musicians from many different disciplines including traditional, old timey, jazz and cajun music. The area is close to North Clare and the music of concertina player, Chris Droney, while local memories of the music of accordion player Joe Cooley are still very strong. There are twenty one children in the class and they all play a musical instrument. In June 2009, after a series of music projects, they decided to have a music week, where they played music in class every day with their teacher, fiddle player, Máire O’Keeffe. Inspiration for this idea comes from the renowned Clare musician and teacher, Frank Custy, who instigated such a scheme in his school many years ago and from which many of today’s well-known traditional musicians bloomed including James Cullinan, Bernie Whelan, Siobhán Peoples and Sharon Shannon.

The music week in fourth class in Kinvara turned into a month of music and in September it was decided to keep the project going. In November, fourth class started practicing Christmas Carols. They went carol playing in the village of Kinvara and raised money for the medical fund of a little girl called Mariana, the daughter of a fiddle playing friend of their teacher. The instruments played by fourth class include fiddles, tin whistle and guitars as well as a cello, concertina, concert flute, piano and percussion. Since Christmas the children have been playing music from Ireland, Shetland, Brittany and Scandinavia and have worked on arrangements prepared for them by fiddle player, Seamus McGuire of Buttons and Bows and West Ocean String Quartet fame, cello player Neil Martin also of the West Ocean String Quartet and multi-instrumentalist, Garry O’Briain. They hope to bring some of this music to their lunchtime concert.

Thursday April 13th Ceoltóirí Óga Chinn Mhara Solo and ensemble pieces from the students of the MA Ritual Chant and Song

Thursday April 15th MA Contemporary Dance Performance students Solo and Ensemble performances from students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance Students.

Thursday April 22nd The University of Limerick Gospel Choir lunchtime concert performance in aid of Hope and Homes for Children

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The University of Limerick Gospel Choir

Seminar Series Venue: Music Room B Lower Ground Floor Foundation Building University of Limerick

Admission Free All Welcome

Donegal Group Fidil in concert at the Irish World Academy, Autumn 09 Photograph ÂŠ Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Seminar Series

Niall Mulpeter Deirdre Kinnane

Wednesday February 10th Music and Health Seminar Chair: Professor Jane Edwards, (Irish World Academy)

Speakers: Orla Casey (UK) ‘Music Therapy in Childrens’ Hospices’ ‘There are over 40 children’s hospices in the U.K. Most of these offer a music therapy service to children and families as part of holistic care programme. This presentation will outline music therapy services in a children’s hospice including - a history of services, current trends and developments, theoretical approaches, funding and links with wider services. Examples of casework will be discussed using audio and video material.’

Regina McCarthy

Orla Casey

About the speakers: Orla Casey qualified as a music therapist from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge in 2003. She has worked for six years in a children's hospice and is head of a county music therapy schools service in the UK. Dr Simon Gilbertson is Assistant Course Director of the MA in Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Associate Director of the Music and Health Research Group at the University of Limerick.

Dr Simon Gilbertson (Irish World Academy) ‘The Danger of order’

As a music therapy clinician he has worked in England and Germany in a range of clinical settings working with children and adolescents with autism, children and adults with cancer, neurological illness and trauma. He completed his doctoral research on music improvisation with people with traumatic brain injuries related to road traffic incidents in 2004 under the mentorship of Professor David Aldridge at the Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.

In music and health, as in most aspects of human experience like sport and love, it is the human capacity for extremes of variation, diversity and contextual irrelevance or significance in which humans naturally evolve and co-exist. Contrastingly, many systems related to both music and health are often conceptually dominated by order. Can this bias towards order harbour risk, or even danger in some aspects?

Simon has presented internationally and been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals. He has written two book chapters on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and has written his first book, ‘Music therapy and traumatic brain injury: A light on a dark night’ with David Aldridge for Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Simon is the current World Federation of Music Therapy Regional Liaison for Europe.

In this paper, I will begin by looking at contemporary discussions on the conceptualisation of order in music and health and will highlight core aspects using examples from the field of music therapy. From this perspective, time will be then taken to a reflect on how a consideration of the danger of order may assist us in a natural exploration of what it is actually like to be human.

Wednesday February 17th Music Education Music Education Research in the Irish Secondary School

Chair:

Jean Downey (Irish World Academy)

Speakers: Evelyn Hearns Deirdre Kinnane Regina McCarthy Niall Mulpeter Mary O’Brien Maria Quinn Deborah Reynolds Graduates of the Masters in Education (Music) programme gather to present and discuss their recent research findings. The speakers are all post-primary school music teachers who have continued their professional development at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Education and Professional Studies, University of Limerick. Topics include extracurricular music studies, composition, issues of gender in choral singing, sight-singing, subject choice processes, special needs, and the value of music-making.

Maria Quinn

Dr Catherine Foley

Wednesday March 10th Dance Research Forum Ireland in association with The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance A Sense of Relation Dance Research Forum Ireland (DRFI) was founded by Dr Catherine Foley in June, 2003. It is a non-profit, international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive society that promotes, supports and develops research and scholarship of dance in Ireland and further a field. Through seminars, student symposii, international conferences, and publications, the Forum provides a platform for presentation, discussion, and critical reflection on all issues relating to dance and human movement.

Chair: Dr Catherine Foley

Speakers: Dr Simon Gilbertson Mats Melin Olive Beecher Dr Catherine Foley

Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at a lunchtime concert, Autumn 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Biography: Catherine Foley is course director of the MA Ethnochoreology and MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance; she also supervises doctoral research in dance. She is founder and Chair of Dance Research Forum Ireland.

Dr Simon Gilbertson ‘The sense of relation’ Since 1994, I have been working on the sense of relation. Though the term, sense of relation emerged in my work later in 2002, the body of this work began with the study of music improvised by a professional music therapist and individuals who had experienced severe traumatic brain injuries and continued through the study of the history of human perception and action. The concept of the sense of relation has been elicited, extended and expanded through a consideration of social neuroscience, studies of music, dance and theatre, elite sport, and human development over the life-span. The process of differentiating and fusing entities of perception, creating context-dependant spectra of meaning and joining these in the real world, relies on a fundamental human faculty, which I have defined as, the sense of relation. Providing a hypothetical model for studies in social neuroscience and a description of contextualised human development over the life-span, the sense of relation offers a unique explanation for the coherent diversity of human experience. In this paper, I will portray these steps through a narrative about the cry of children, little boys and transistor radios, champion racing horses and swimmers, iconic stories and Grammy-award winning musicians, and a man who seemed to be able to draw almost everything.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Seminar Series

Dr. Olive Beecher

Mats Melin ‘A changing sense of relation’

Dr. Olive Beecher Seminar Paper

This paper is a personal reflection on my own changing sense of relation between movement genres, music, and musicians. From growing up dancing mainly to recorded music within strictly defined parameters of movement and music relation to interacting with different musicians over the years. The first steps in realising that some musicians have a better understanding of playing for dance than others and the pitfalls of picking the wrong one! The journey of discovering other styles of dance, in particular Cape Breton step dancing, where the relationships between, the dancer and movement patterns interacting with the musician and the music are crucial. Finally, as a non-musician, acquiring the skills to go inside the music and feel the movements it asks you to perform and the sense of relation with certain musicians and other dancers.

Title: Relating Verbally and Non-verbally through Dance.

Biography: Swedish born Traditional Dancer, Choreographer and Researcher Mats Melin has worked professionally with dance in Scotland since 1995 and in Ireland since 2005. He has been engaged in freelance work nationally and internationally as well as having been Traditional Dancer in Residence for four Scottish Local Authorities. Mats co-started the dynamic Scottish performance group ‘Dannsa’ in 1999 and have been commissioned to choreograph for the Northlands and the St Magnus Festivals. Mats is a former member of the Scottish Arts Council's Dance Committee. In 2005 Mats graduated with first class honours the Master of Arts degree in Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. His current position is Lecturer in Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Mats is currently conducting PhD research on Cape Breton Step Dancing.

This paper focuses on findings from my PhD thesis titled ‘Dance Experience and Sense of Being – Therapeutic Applications of Modern Dance’. The research involved five pupils with cerebral palsy or spina bifida. The process based intervention facilitated verbal and non-verbal communication while creating dance movement. Biography: Dr. Olive Beecher (BA, MA, Ph.D), is a professional dancer and dance academic. Olive trained at the Nikolais/Louis Dance School in New York where she studied extensively with Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis and Sara Pearson. She received a scholarship in her second year of study. On returning to Ireland she took up a two year sabbatical post as dance lecturer at Thomond College, University of Limerick. Olive worked with Mary Nunan and was a founder member of Daghdha Dance Company under Mary’s artistic direction. Olive continued to study under internationally renowned teachers from the USA and Europe for a further ten years. She performed in New York, the UK, in theatres throughout Ireland and at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Foley, Olive completed a PhD in Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at UL in 2005. For the past nine years she has been teaching dance and related areas at the Academy.

Wednesday April 21st Ethnomusicology Seminar Imagination, mediation and the ‘Tradition’ Stories of the relationship between the creative individual and the imagined mappings of traditional Irish music. Ethnomusicologists and members of the community that support the practice of traditional music often envisage this practice (amongst others) as an entity with a core and boundaries that delineate trajectories for aspects of that tradition. Instruments, musicians, sounds, and performance practices can be seen as ‘peripheral’, ‘mediating’ between positions, or engaging a journey from ‘outside’ the tradition to its ‘core’ or ‘heart’. Musicians and other individuals are seen as playing roles in these metaphorical journeys. This panel will show how such journeys and the terrains they occur over, are and can be imagined for certain musicians in a variety of contexts.

Speakers: Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Director, Irish World Academy, UL) Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy, UL) Niall Keegan (Irish World Academy, UL) Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy, UL)

Abstracts: Dr. Mícheál Ó Súileabháin – Peripheral or Prophetic: The Music of Tommie Potts The positioning of the Irish traditional fiddle music of Tommie Potts (1912-1988) relative to the ‘mainstream’ tradition can lead to insights around the perceived ‘central identity’ of the tradition itself. The manner in which the innovative aspects of Potts’ music threatened to subvert the communal structure of the tradition throws into relief the juxtaposition of individual versus communal creativity within the music genre.

projected series with Virgin/Venture. Along with the development of a uniquely Irish piano style, much of his composition to date has explored the diametrically opposed sounds of traditional and classical music. He was awarded an Honorary D.Mus from the National University of Ireland at his Alma Mater, University College Cork, in 2005 for his contribution to music in Ireland over the past thirty years.

Biography: Prof. Mícheál Ó Súileabháin From 1975 to 1993, Mícheál worked in the Music Department of University College Cork with young traditional and classical musicians from Ireland, the U.K. and North America. In that time he established UCC Music Department as the first such educational body to work towards the integration of traditional and classical musicians, within a shared curriculum. While there, Mícheál produced a series of five CD recordings of live traditional music events held in Cork University from 1991 to 1995 for Nimbus Records and Realworld. In 1990, he was Visiting Professor at Boston College for a semester, during which, he founded an Archive for Irish Traditional Music in America. In January 1994, Mícheál established the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick, where he took up position as the first holder of a new Chair of Music. The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance provides a central ring of nine MA programmes with associated doctorate research, 2 undergraduate programmes and a PhD programme in Arts practice. The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance is also the home of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Since his initial 2 recordings on the Gael Linn label Mícheál has created a further four recordings in a

Conor McCarthy, student of the MA Classical String Performance in concert, Nov 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Wednesday April 21st (continued) Sandra Joyce – Old Source, New Legacy: Aloys Fleischmann and the Canon of Irish Traditional Music Aloys Fleischmann’s publication Sources of Irish Traditional Music c1600 – 1855 (Garland, 1998) is undoubtedly the most monumental piece of scholarship ever undertaken in the field of Irish traditional music. Containing approximately 6841 pieces of music, and involving the consultation of 34 manuscripts and 341 printed collections of music, it also explores connections between tunes and provides much additional analysis and information on both music and sources. Fleischmann (1910 – 1992) devoted over 40 years to this project, and in many ways it can be viewed as an idiosyncratic expression of his own musical background and interests. Irish traditional music today is largely characterized by its reference to the past, including past musicians, repertoires and playing styles. Changing performance contexts and practices are often referred to in terms of their continuity, or lack of it, with earlier practices. Although a significant number are critiqued as lacking authenticity, many manuscript and printed sources, particularly those that are viewed to have been created ‘within’ or ‘by’ the traditional music community, are highly valued as a result. Despite its huge potential to contribute towards an understanding of how Irish traditional music developed and was represented historically, Fleischmann’s Sources has not been embraced by the traditional music community. This paper seeks to explore the reasons for this by critiquing the collection itself as well as through a series of interviews with traditional musicians. It aims to address if and how Sources can play a meaningful role in the realization of Irish traditional music in the twenty-first century.

Biography: Sandra Joyce - A native of Tuam, Co. Galway, is a graduate of University College, Cork. She is currently currently finishing her PhD at the University of Limerick, the subject of her doctoral research is Turlough O’ Carolan, the late seventeenth/ early eighteenth-century blind harper / composer. Her research interest also includes the ballad and ballad singing in Ireland, especially among the

travelling people. She is currently course director of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and was previously course director of the BA Irish Music and Dance. She is also a singer and bodhrán player and has performed internationally. Niall Keegan - No Place Like Home – Authenticity and the crisis of identity among traditional Irish musicians in London. An important tool for the construction of authenticity in Irish traditional music is the mapping of certain styles geographically within Ireland and beyond. At the centre of what is to be ‘traditional’ are regional styles such as Clare concertina playing, Sligo fiddle playing, northern fluting. However, for the history of traditional music in the second half of the twentieth century, London has been an important site of musical performance by the largely emigre communities engaging new performance practices and technologies that have become standard through this now international music. While musicians in Ireland may speak of a ‘London style’ of performing traditional music, this is a concept that is largely rejected by their counterparts in London. This is just one of the many aspects of the complicated relationship of what is now primarily a community of second and third generation musicians with a place they are born and live in but still struggle with calling ‘home’. This paper will examine the often disjunctive relationship between these musicians and their day-to-day environment, showing how ideas and sounds of authenticity are maintained in a view that can reject the contribution of its own locality. Biography: Niall Keegan has, until recently been course director of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. He keeps telling everyone that he’s nearly finished his PhD entitled The Art of Juncture: The Creative Transformations of Traditional Irish Music which examines cognitive structures that traditional musicians use to organise their oral music in a literate world. He is currently director of the University of Limerick based project, Nomad (aimed at honouring the music cultures of the traveling peoples at the University of Limerick). Niall also plays the traditional flute and has recorded an album on his own label Elk Records.

Dr Aileen Dillane, Texting the City: O’Neill’s Music of Ireland and the City of Chicago. In this paper, I perform a close textual reading of the historical and canonical work, Music of Ireland, a collection of tunes published by Capt. Francis O’Neill in Chicago in 1903, in order to critique conventional historiographies of O’Neill (collector and ‘saviour’ of Irish Music) and, by extension, explicitly/implicitly generated ‘Irish music in the Diaspora’ models of understanding that treat Irish music as somehow isolatable from its site of production in a perceived Diasporic ‘periphery’. By invoking a multilayered concept of ‘the city’, I perform this reading of Music of Ireland’s contents, layout, and editorial decisions by viewing the collection as a structural, spatial, and ideological embodiment of the city in which O’Neill’s entrepreneurial agency was exerted. In turn, O’Neill is re-imagined as a Celtic cosmopolitan, disciplining tradition - the ‘Gaelic’ melodies and associated discursive tropes – and producing a carefully designed, urban-inspired, modernist project. O’Neill’s creativity is viewed not as being primarily in the service of Tradition or community, but rather as a distinctive and powerful voice responding to a particular set of local conditions and opportunities in early twentieth century Chicago. This methodological approach and particular perspective on O’Neill and the place of Irish music in Chicago - as well as the place, structurally and historically, of Chicago in Irish music - suggests potential pathways for alternative historiographies of Irish traditional music ‘elsewhere’. Biography: Aileen Dillane is a flute and piano player with interests in ethnomusicological theory and practice, critical and cultural studies and traditional, ethnic, and popluar musics of Ireland, USA and Australia. She graduated from University College Cork with a B. Mus. and an MA from the Irish World Academy UL in 2000. The title of her MA Thesis was The Ivory Bridge: The Introduction of Piano Accompaniment to 78rmp recordings or Irish Traditional Music in America, 1910-1945. In 2009, she was awarded a PhD from the University of Chicago, her doctoral thesis was entitled Sound Tracts, Songlines, and Soft Repertoires: Irish Music Performance and the City of Chicago. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellowship recipient and Ethno Editor on the Journal for the Society of Music in Ireland. She is currently Course Director of the BA in Irish Traditional Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Special Events Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00p.m. February – May 2010 Venue: Performing Arts Centre Lower Ground Floor Foundation Building University of Limerick (from March onwards - Irish World Academy Building, North Campus)

Admission Free All Welcome

Dónal Lunny and Andy Irvine of Mozaik during the group’s lunchtime concert and workshop at the Academy, Nov 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Special Events

Davide Terlingo of the Arts Council (centre) at launch of Dance Archive of Ireland

February 2010 Dance Archive of Ireland launched at the Glucksman Library University of Limerick The University of Limerick recently announced the establishment of Ireland’s first dance archive to be based at the Glucksman Library. The Dance Archive of Ireland will be established through seed funding of €140,000 from the Arts Council. Commenting on the announcement, Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Professor of Music and Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University said: ”The establishment of the Dance Archive of Ireland at the University of Limerick, is a direct follow on from the inspired and inclusive vision of Dance Research Forum Ireland, across ballet, contemporary, traditional, popular and world dance genres.” Head of Dance at the Arts Council, Davide Terlingo, announced the funding in support of the Dance Archive of Ireland in saying; “The archive came about through a report carried out by Dance Research Forum Ireland, a body set up in 2005 by Dr Catherine Foley, lecturer in Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick.“

The report, written by dance historian Dr Victoria O’Brien, established the existence of a wealth of dance archival material, which to date has been difficult to access. Since the publication of the feasibility report, the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, in association with the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick, has worked together towards the establishment of an accessible dance archive.

Academos Irish World Academy Strings

According to Dr Catherine Foley: “Following years of effort, the National Dance Archive of Ireland is now becoming a reality; it is a historic moment for all dance in Ireland. Dance Research Forum Ireland owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the Arts Council for the awarding of this seed funding.”

Thursday February 4th ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings & CANTORAL Irish World Academy Female Chant Ensemble Performance at SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE, NEW YORK CITY Hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New York Supported by Culture Ireland ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings tours internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Performance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS. ACADEMOS operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. The leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra Katherine Hunka, along with

Iarla Ó Lionáird

the line leaders combine with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings in its international touring schedule thus providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards. ACADEMOS was formally launched in 2008 at it first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust. ACADEMOS had its European debut in Paris on March 13th 2009, supported by Culture Ireland in the Centre Culturel Irlandais and its US debut takes place in New York on February 4th 2010 at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New York, again with the support of Culture Ireland. Academos will be joined by Cantoral the Irish World Academy’s female chant ensemble, directed by Catherine Sergent.

February 27th and 28th International Council on Traditional Music: Ireland ICTM Ireland - 2010 Conference Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick Ireland ICTM Ireland are pleased to announce its annual conference, which will take place at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, On February 27th and 28th. Our keynote speaker is now confirmed as professor Tim Cooley of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and its theme will be ‘Ensemble: Playing Together’. Further details can be found on the website:

www.music.ucc.ie/ictm/index.php/news/commen ts/ictm_ireland_-_2010_conference/

General queries should be directed to Tony Langlois:

tony.langlois@mic.ul.ie Conference Theme: “Ensemble: Making Music Together” The common purpose of all ‘bands’, ‘groups’, ‘orchestras’ or ‘ensembles’ is to perform music or dance collectively. Whether casually formed for particular events or constituted as professional and legal institutions, musical groups are specialised social organisations which play a key role in ‘soundly organising humanity’. The objective of this conference is to explore the performance dynamics, interpersonal relationships, organisational structures and shared socio-cultural values of dance and musical groups – and of course, of the music they produce. Of equal importance in this exploration will be the active role of audiences in the creation of performance contexts. Presentations might consider such diverse issues as; criteria for membership of a music group; leadership and power within ensembles; improvisation; specialist roles within an ensemble; the experience of playing with others; ensembles as manifestations of identity; engagement with audiences, or the representations of ‘groups’ by the music industry.

Wednesday March 3rd Anam an Amhrán Lá na nAmhrán Presented by the Irish World Academy and Aonad na Gaeilge This year’s event focuses on the TG4 documentary, ‘Anam an Amhrán’. In this series, award winning singer Iarla Ó Lionáird journeys throughout Ireland and facilitates new and creative versions of a number of songs popular in the Irish tradition. Each performance is enhanced by specially created animations visualising the story of the featured songs.

The series is co-produced for TG4 by Sónta Teo, an independent production company based in Conamara, and Cartoon Saloon, one of Ireland’s best known animation companies. Cúilín Dualach, a previous innovative collaboration between these two companies, garnered a host of national and international awards. Iarla Ó Lionáird is one of our most acclaimed singers and has performed worldwide as a solo performer and as lead singer with the Afro Celt Sound System at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, The Royal Opera House in London, The Sydney Opera House and in Cape Town, Rome and Tokyo. He is currently a PhD student at the Irish World Academy. Singers featured in the series include Séamus Ó Beaglaoich, Paul Brady, Nell Ní Chróinín, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, John Beag Ó Flatharta, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Damien Dempsey. Schedule: 1.15pm

Lunchtime concert, Performing Arts Centre Featuring singers and animations from the series

2.30pm

Seminar, Music Room B

Chair:

Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Speakers: Iarla Ó Lionáird (Irish World Academy) Seán Ó Cualáin (Series Director) A number of singers and animators from the series will also participate 7pm

Concert, Performing Arts Centre Featuring singers and animators from the series: Séamus Begley, Mairéad Ni Maonaigh, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Nell Ní Chróinín, Róisín Elsafty. Introduced by Deirdre Ní Loingsigh, Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge, Aonad na Gaeilge, Ollscoil Luimnigh

March 18th and 21st Campus Trad Festival UL’s Traditional Music Society (Gan Ainm) run its annual Campus Trad festival from Thurs 18th-Sun 21st March. The festival starts with an opening session in Java’s on-campus bar. The weekend will include a lunchtime concert by past-students of the BA and MA course, show-casing some of the best of UL’s music. Night-time events will include an intervarsity competition, gigs by new up-and-coming trad bands, and a special performance by Slide on the Saturday night in The Stables. More details to follow. For further information email tradsock@gmail.com or see Facebook under Gan Ainm- UL Traditional

Music Society.

Tuesday March 30th Launch of Inbhear e-journal

Inbhear is an annual, multi-disciplinary publication from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance concerned with the performance practices of music and dance in Ireland, currently and historically. The focus of the journal will predominantly be the music and dance practices unique to this island, but not exclusively so. The journal will draw from a wide variety of academic disciplines including ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, popular music and dance studies, historical musicology, Irish studies, cultural studies, performance studies and ritual studies, among others. Although it is envisaged that the journal will have an inclusive view of the disciplines of Irish music and dance it is expected that the concentration of material presented will be concerned with traditional arts practice.

The Journal will be available from the 30th March on the domain www.inbhear.ie.

of the birth of Aloys Fleischmann (1910 – 1992). Fleischmann was Professor Music at UCC for 46 years, during which time he established the Department of Music as an important and vibrant cultural centre for the University, Cork City and Ireland. Fleischmann articulated a broad cultural role for music and sounded the keynotes of music education in Ireland in the 20th Century. The School of Music (UCC) and the Irish World Academy (UL) are proud to honour his legacy with this special one-day event.

Wednesday April 14th

June 21st to July 2nd

A Celebration of the Life and Music of Aloys Fleischmann

BLAS Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance

Apart from the initial issue the journal will be open to all for submissions. Issue one will comprise of approximately 6 invited submissions and a call for papers for further issues. Further issues of the journal will be peer reviewed by an international review panel. The journal will be an open source e-journal (ie. free on the internet).

11 am – 5.30 pm Ó Riada Hall, School of Music, University College Cork, Sunday’s Well Road, Cork The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance UL and the School of Music (UCC present a one-day seminar celebrating the life and work of Aloys Fleischmann. Introduction: Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Panel Discussions: i

Flesichmann: A Life

Composing Ireland: Aloys Fleischmann, Music and Identity

iii The Sources of Irish Traditional Music – Finding the Key A Concert of new music Composed by staff and students of the School of Music (UCC) in memory of Fleischmann The Fleischmann Piano Suite Performed by Dearbhla Collins In 2010, the School of Music UCC and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance UL will mark the centenary

Blas 2010 is the fourteenth annual two-week summer school of Irish traditional music and dance to be hosted by the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick. Under the directorship for the third year by Carl Corcoran, the tutor list for Blas 2009 is made up of some of the best-known traditional musicians, singers and dancers. Tutors will include Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Donal Lunny, Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Catherine Foley, Niall Keegan and many more. Places still remain, and tuition can be offered on a oneweek as well as a two-week basis. Class sizes are small, often allowing one-to-one contact with tutors. Blas also offers daily lectures and master classes, Irish language classes plus a whole range of activities including field trips, sessions, concerts & céilís, but above all, the opportunity to share tunes with the finest exponents of Irish traditional and dance. With no more than 50 places on offer, Blas students receive a high level of attention from tutors and organisers, with on-campus accommodation provided in the university’s luxurious student villages. Further information, updates and application forms at www.blas.ie or email Blas Director Ernestine Healy at Ernestine.healy@ul.ie

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Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at a lunchtime concert, Autumn 09 Photograph ÂŠ Maurice Gunning

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Cork-based Congolese singer Niwel Tsumbu at the ‘Fair Play’ concert St Mary’s Cathedral, Sept 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

CIIMDA: The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa The Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa, or CIIMDA for short, aims to promote and advance the learning of the philosophy, theory and human meaning of African instrumental music and dance practices in classroom music education in SADC countries. CIIMDA researches, promotes and advances Africa’s indigenous cultural heritage in which the musical arts is a most important knowledge area. This project started in 2004 in partnership with Concert Norway, Rikskonsertene, and is funded by the Norwegian Foreign Office. There are currently six countries involved: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zambia. Through its connection with Professor Meki Nzewi, a founder-member of CIIMDA, the Irish World Academy has enjoyed a special relationship with CIIMDA, which has now been formalised through the Stepping Stones initiative. Part of the remit of Stepping Stones involves the identification of global partners who will assist the Academy in locating highly talented musicians and dancers from around the world to take part in the Academy’s BA Voice and Dance, facilitated by the Stepping Stones international scholarships. CIIMDA and the Irish World Academy are also actively engaged in developing a programme which will support faculty and student exchange in the future. Professor Meki Nzewi and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin are both former students of the renowned ethnomusicologyist John Blacking, who was Chair of Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. This CIIMDA/Irish World Academy shared initiative reflects the global influency of Blacking on World Music and Dance education

Stepping Stones The Stepping Stones initiative is a five year development plan for the strategic growth of the Irish World Academy. The initiative is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies (TAP) and coincides with the development of a specialist physical space for performing arts at the University of Limerick. Stepping Stones will expand the current performance focus of music and dance to include ‘theatrical’ arts as well as the development of arts practice research at the doctoral level. This development also incorporates new faculty and administrative posts to support growth across programmes. The Stepping Stones scholarships will target international students from culturally rich but economically challenged parts of the world, who wish to study Voice or Dance as part of the Academy’s new BA programme in Voice and Dance.

Certificate of Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy The Irish World Academy’s Certificate in Music and Dance had its first intake of students in September 09, and the first class has successfully completed semester one. The certificate is a progression and access based programme, with the course being offered on a two-year part time basis from different sites, or on full-time basis for one year. The Certificate differs significantly from other music and dance programs on offer as it involves learning by distance, enabling the learner to complete modules from home, community centres or while in employment. Designed to suit the needs and timetable of the individual learner, the course is both flexible and diverse. Those who graduate from the Certificate will be considered for a place in second year of the full-time BA Irish Music and Dance offered at the Irish World Academy. Criteria for progression will be based on

a number of places available, relevance of performance and academic achievement on the Certificate. Current students are completing the course from as far away as Donegal, West Cork and Carlow the chosen delivery modes of the Certificate have proven very successful. Ensemble weekends and exams were delivered over four sessions in total, these coupled with healthy online discussions, Sulis examination, regional practicum, lessons, weekly ‘Skype’ tutorials and flash-based academic lecture materials. This blended learning approach has proven popular with students: ‘I have all the information I need with theory and examples. I like viewing lectures on cd rom as it gives me a chance to learn at my own pace and look for my own examples online while I learn’ ‘I prefer the cd rom to the on campus lectures I have attended as I can learn at my own pace and really absorb the information and understand it fully’ For further information please contact: Julie Tiernan at +353-61-234747 or julie.tiernan@ul.ie

ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the Graduate Orchestra of the Classical Strings Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings will tour internationally each year as an integral part of its educational programme. Orchestra members are fulltime registered postgraduate students on the two-year MA Classical String Performance programme. The internationally acclaimed Visiting Professors are Dr Bruno Giuranna (Viola), Mariana Sirbu

Maoin Cheoil an Chlair

(Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS. ACADEMOS operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. The leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra along with the line leaders combine with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings in its international touring schedule thus providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards. ACADEMOS was formally launched in 2008 at it first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust. ACADEMOS had its European debut in Paris on March 13th 2009, supported by Culture Ireland in the Centre Culturel Irlandais and its US debut takes place in New York on February 4th 2010 at the Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, hosted by the Irish Arts Centre New York.

Cruinniú and Céim Cruinniú (meaning ‘Gathering’) and Céim (meaning ‘Step’) are the titles of two Irish World Academy outreach initiatives which have seen staff from all walks of university life engaging in weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music (Cruinniú) and set-dancing (Céim) each Tuesday Wednesday from 1 – 2 pm in music room B, on the lower ground floor of the Foundation Building. These sessions are open to all, with beginners especially welcome. The sessions are facilitated by a number of people within the group, as well as by some students and staff of the Irish World Academy. Cruinniú launched an

album of the same name in October 2007, the proceeds of were donated to St Vincent’s School, Lisnagry. The group also took part in a ‘Wren Day’ fundraising drive on the UL campus in December, raising further funds for St Vincent’s. New members are always welcome. Further information from noel.mccarthy@ul.ie

Leigheas an Cheoil: Music and Healing The MA in Music Therapy, and the Music and Health Research Group undertake regular actions to promote knowledge of music therapy in the wider community. Aptly titled Leigheas an Cheoil, or ‘Music and Healing’; clinical outreach, free open-access public seminars, and media publicity all come under its remit. In June 2009, Grand Rounds were presented in three of the major medical centres in Limerick for example. Students of the MA in Music Therapy undertake supervised fieldwork practice training in a range of health and educational settings in Ireland, and occasionally abroad. Free public music therapy seminars and other outreach events promote music therapy as a mainstream allied health discipline in Ireland and beyond. Staff of the music therapy programme undertake research, consultancy, and development advisory work in collaboration with qualified music therapists and health service managers.

Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC) Maoin Cheoil an Chláir was set up through Rural Resources Development in 1993. Designed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in consultation with Fr Harry Bohan and Clare Music Council, MCC is a music school, which caters equally for classical and traditional music. The school acts as a potential model for other similar music schools in other local authority areas throughout Ireland. In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of Co Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir is a local co-operative model serving the musical needs of County Clare through its headquarters in the 18th century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy in Ennis. Maoin Cheoil an Chláir has a special relationship with the Irish World Academy with two of its faculty on the MCC Board (chaired by Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, with Irish World Academy director of the Music Education Programmes. Jean Downey). The recently-appointed new director of Maoin Cheoil is Hans Böller, a graduate of the Irish World Academy’s Ritual Chant and Song programme. Further information on Maoin Cheoil an Chláir: + 353 65 6841774

Further information: Professor Jane Edwards, Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Bealach

Selina O Leary

The Nomad Project The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has a strong community outreach aspect built into its design. The Nomad project has attracted visionary funding from the Higher Education Authority to facilitate access to the performing arts cultures of the Irish Traveller community to a University environment. Directed by Niall Keegan and Sandra Joyce, Nomad explores relevant aspects of Traveller culture and to enable increasing interaction between the Traveller community and the University of Limerick. The project has facilitated community outreach, performances, workshops and seminars and has a wide educational remit, as well as significance beyond third level and the Traveller community. As well as ongoing education and community music projects Nomad funded a gamelan project in summer ’09. Nomad welcomed approximately 80 members of the Traveller community from Galway, Limerick, Tipperary and Carlow to the Irish World Academy to be part of the Gamelan Orchestra. The Nomad Project funded a scholarship to the Academy’s Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance in June 2009 which was taken up by Selina O Leary a young singer from Carlow, who spent a week at Blas taking part in workshops and masterclasses in Irish traditional music and dance. She subsequently registered as a student on the Certificate in Music and Dance in September 09 and was subsequently awarded the Arts and Culture prize at the 2009 Traveller Pride Awards

Further information: Julie Tiernan, Nomad Project Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Email: julie.tiernan@ul.ie

Sanctuary / Irish Chamber Orchestra Global Song Programme

Culture Ireland / Fulbright Ireland Fellowships

In September, 2008, Sanctuary embarked on a Global Song programme with Presentation Primary School, Limerick. One of the most multicultural schools in the city, Presentation Primary has a strong commitment to multicultural education and integration through the arts. The global song programme, facilitated by Kathleen Turner (Education Officer, Irish Chamber Orchestra) and students from the MA Ritual Chant and Song at the Academy, culminated in a performance of song, movement, art and readings by the children. In 2009, the Irish Chamber Orchestra came on board as partners in the initiative and a new global song programme will commence in September, 2009. Targeted at the youngest classes, it will include weekly sessions in global song and culminate in a final performance which will feature members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and students of the Irish World Academy.

Fulbright Commission awards scholarships for Irish citizens to lecture, research or study in the United States and for U.S. citizens to lecture, research or study in Ireland. The 2009/2010 Culture Ireland Fulbright Ireland Fellowship have been awarded to Dr. Nan McIntyre Associate Professor Director of the ISU Folklore Archives at the Department of English at Indiana State University USA and to Liz Davis Maxfield, music graduate from Berklee College of Music Boston.

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

The Chieftains Fund (In memory of Derek Bell)

The Chieftains Fund recognises the increasing role played by universities around the world in supporting research and performance programmes in Irish traditional music and dance. With a view to nurturing, networking and co-operative communication between these programmes, The Chieftains Fund was established in 2003 in memory of harper, Derek Bell. The Chieftains Fund is based at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and administered from there. Initial consultant partners with the Irish World Academy are The Irish Studies Program at Boston College; The Irish Studies Program at Glucksman Ireland House (New York University) and the Music Department at University College Cork.

Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, November 09 Photograph ÂŠ Maurice Gunning

Cr Colin Quigley (left), Director of the MA Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy at the donation of his extensive personal library to UL’s Glucksman Library December 2009 (with Academy Director Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Library Director Gobnait Ó Ríordan). Photograph © Press 22

Iarla Ó Lionáird, Breandán de Gallaí, Sharon Lyons and Michelle Mulcahy, the first students of the PhD Arts Practice at the Academy, October 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

The Irish World Academy hosted a tenth anniversary celebration for RTÉ lyric fm at the Irish Chamber Orchestra studios in November 2009 with a recital by ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings. (left to right) John Kelly, CEO Irish Chamber Orchestra, Professor Don Barry, President, University of Limerick donating a framed picture to Aodán Ó Dubhghaill director of RTÉ lyric fm and Clare Duignan, Managing Director RTÉ Radio.

Cónaí Artists in Residence at the University of Limerick

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Cónaí

Donal Lunny The first traditional music-linked member of the Irish Arts Council-sponsored Aosdána, Dónal 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 countermelodies 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 another of Ireland’s seminal groups, The Bothy Band, producing four albums in four years including Out of the Wind and into the Sun and After Hours'. In 1980, Planxty reformed and Dónal 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. Dónal 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 BBC 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 intensive week-long workshops in July 2009 with students of the Academy’s BA and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, as well as a major concert where he was joined by some 30 of these students on stage at the Daghdha Dance Space in Limerick. In November 2009, he spent a further two days at the Academy with Mozaik, another of the innovative bands he’s been directly involved in founding. His tuition at the Academy continues in the 2010 Spring Semester and he will make a repeat visit to the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance in June of this year. He is currently appearing in the TG4 series Lorg Lunny which sees him travelling around Ireland in search of talented young traditional musicians to form a new band.

Liz Roche Born 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, and since the company’s inception in 1999, has choreographed nine full-length works. She has also choreographed a number of productions for the Gate Theatre, The Abbey Theatre and Opera Ireland, and a full-length work for The National Ballet of China. Roche has recently choreographed Rex Levitates, ‘12 Minute Dances’ at the Absolute Fringe Festival Dublin, Kilkenny Arts Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Speaking on her appointment as Choreographer-inResidence at the Irish World Academy, Roche said; “This is a very exciting and inspiring opportunity. Over the next three years I will be working with the very talented MA students in Contemporary Dance as well as developing my own choreographies within the artistic hub of The Irish World Academy.”

LIz Roche

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. Other artists who have held the position of dancer-in-residence at the Academy include former Riverdance lead dancers Colin Dunne, Jean Butler and Breandán de Gallaí. Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Professor of Music and Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University welcomed the appointment in saying; “The association of Irish choreographer, Liz Roche with the Irish World Academy contemporary dance programme is a further indication of creative networking with a vibrant contemporary dance community in Ireland.” As part of her residency, which will unfold over a period of 3 years, Roche will create a series of original choreographic works for students of the Irish World Academy’s MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, while developing her own choreographic works and dance practices with her company Rex Levitates. In 2009/2010, she will work with Rex Levitates’ associate dance artist Katherine O’Malley on re-staging “The All Weather Project” with the MA Contemporary Dance students at the Academy. Extracts from this work will be performed in site-specific locations on the UL campus, including the pedestrian bridges that cross the river Shannon. For some of the performances, the students will be joined by core company members from Rex Levitates. In addition to working with the dance students, the residency will also provide opportunities for the development of projects with other members of the cultural community working and studying across a range of arts practices, at the Irish World Academy.

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Cónaí

Irish Chamber Orchestra Cantoral

The Chieftains

Cantoral

Irish Chamber Orchestra

The Chieftains are not only Ireland’s premier musical ambassadors but also the most enduring and influential creative force in establishing the international appeal of Irish music. Paddy Moloney, the group’s founder and front man, first brought together a group of local musicians in Dublin in 1962, fashioning an authentic instrumental sound that stood in sharp contrast to the slick commercial output of most Irish music at the time. The group’s first four albums, recorded between 1963 and 1974, established their worldwide reputation even as the group continued to perform on a semiprofessional basis. In 1988, they joined forces with fellow countryman Van Morrison on Irish Heartbeat which began an historic series of collaborations including recordings with James Galway, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Tom Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Ry Cooder and many others. They also continued their acclaimed work in soundtracks, on such films as Treasure Island, Tristan And Isolde, The Grey Fox and Far and Away. In 1992, they recorded the double Grammy-winning Another Country, with performances by such country and bluegrass stars as Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson, Chet Atkins and Don Williams. They returned to Nashville in 2002 for Down the Old Plank Road, their 40th career album, featuring such special guests as Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride and others. Their continued association with the Irish World Academy takes shape annually in a concert at the University Concert Hall Limerick, featuring students of the BA Irish Music and Dance.

Cantoral is an all female chant ensemble, specialising in Western plainchant and early polyphony, with a particular interest in medieval Irish repertoire. The ensemble was formed in 2008 and had its first international appearance in March, 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. The Artistic Director of Cantoral is Catherine Sergent, an acclaimed early music singer who has performed and recorded extensively with several early music ensembles. Her primary recordings have been with the Paris-based female schola Discantus, who have been awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or award for several of their recordings including Hortus Deliciarum, a collection of chants by Hildegard von Bingen, Eya Mater, a collection of Marian chants which explore the theme of motherhood and Campus Stellae, which features chants associated with Santiago de Compostela. Most of the members of Cantoral are graduates of the Masters in Ritual Chant and Song, UL and have a strong scholarly grounding in reading manuscript sources and are therefore able to prepare their own musical editions from original sources. The group is currently working on a programme which explores the pre-Christian and Christian festivals surrounding early February, or Imbolc in the Celtic calendar - the beginning of Spring, and the coming of the light after the darkness of winter, also known as Ogronios or the ‘end of cold’. This programme will include chants for the Feast of St. Brigid (February 1st) from the 15th century Office of St. Brigid (Trinity College Dublin collection, TCD 80), as well as chants from the Feast of the Presentation (February 2nd) and St. Blaise (February 3rd) which commemorate the presentation of ‘the Light’ to the world and the blessing of candles. Cantoral includes singers from Ireland, France, the US, Japan and Mexico. The ensemble made its debut in Paris in March of this year, at the Centre Cuturel Irlandais, along with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings and will again join ACADEMOS in New York on February 4th 2010 as guests of the Irish Arts Centre, New York.

The Irish Chamber Orchestra is a hand-picked group of players who have built a reputation for the highest level of musical excellence, a vivid energy and a refreshing sense of warmth and wit. Violin virtuoso Anthony Marwood was appointed Artistic Director of the Orchestra in 2006 and has spurred them on to ever greater artistic heights. Under his leadership an imaginative mix of some of the world’s finest musicians have been invited to work with the orchestra, including Maxim Vengerov, Nigel Kennedy, Steven Isserlis and Sinéad O’Connor. The ensemble has consolidated its reputation as not just Ireland’s premier ensemble, but one of the finest of its kind in the world - recent tours include across Europe, Australia, South Korea, China and the US. Outside the concert hall the orchestra takes an active role in the wider community - working in marginalised communities to promote engagement in education and using music as a tool to increase self-confidence, enhance leadership skills and encourage creative problem solving. The Irish Chamber Orchestra is resident at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick and is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Chief Executive: John Kelly Artistic Director: Anthony Marwood Orchestra Manager: Gerard Keenan Press: Charlotte Eglington Marketing Manager: Boris Hunka Education Outreach: Kathleen Turner Friends/Accounts: Margaret Kelly Further information: + 353 61 202620 Email: ico@ul.ie www.irishchamberorchestra.info

Martin Hayes The Irish World Academy is delighted to announce Martin Hayes as an incoming Artist-in-Residence. Martin 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 residency will commence in June 2010 to coincide with the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, where he will conduct workshops and masterclasses.

Martin Hayes in concert at St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick as part of the Blas Summer School, July 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Maurice Gunning

Alison Ledger

Dr Nan McEntire Shane Colvin

University of Limerick Gospel Choir Gospel is a powerful vocal tradition, intended to inspire, uplift and engage both the audience and the singer. The UL Gospel Choir embodies this intention in its performances, through a wide repertoire that ranges from traditional and contemporary Gospel to other related genres such as Blues, Soul and Funk. This year the choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy and director of the city based ‘Limerick Gospel Choir.’ The choir continues its long established affiliation with ‘Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation.

Maurice Gunning Maurice Gunning has been working as Photographerin-Residence with the Irish World Academy since 2004. Concentrating on fine art documentary photography as well as specialising in dance, music and theatre photography, Maurice has worked with many of the leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary dancers. He received his MFA from the University of Wales in 2009 after a period of time spent working with the Argentine Irish community of Buenos Aires. This work has been exhibited in the UK, and is planned to been shown in Buenos Aires in 2010. Working with funding from the Irish Heritage Council over the past three years on a project dealing with Ireland’s Traditional Boating Heritage has culminated in the first showing of this work in the Cultural Centre, Athens. Commissions for CD artwork and design are also incorporated into his commissioned work. The photographs throughout this book are examples of his work documenting events at the Irish World Academy.

For further information see: www.mauricegunning.com Email: info@mauricegunning.com

Liz Davis Maxfield

Scholars-in-Residence at the Irish World Academy

Liz Davis Maxfield

Alison Ledger

Liz Davis Maxfield received a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a master’s degree in traditional Irish music performance at the University of Limerick. A cellist since the age of 5, she grew up performing in her family’s touring folk band, Fiddlesticks. After attending Brigham Young University as a classical cello performance major, Maxfield transferred two and a half years ago to the Berklee College of Music, a premier non-classical music program in Boston. She studied cello folk music there and also performed in several groups including a quartet she formed called the Folk Arts Quartet that recently released its first CD. Maxfield herself has 10 CDs to her credit, many of which she composed the music for. Her newest release is titled “Big Fiddle.”

Health Research Board Fellow (Music Therapy) Doctoral Research scholar in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy, Alison Ledger is the 08/09 recipient of the Health Services Research Training Fellowship Award. The Health Services Research Training Fellowship is one of a number of research grants offered by the Irish Health Research Board (HRB). This particular fellowship aims to enable recipients to carry out Health Services Research in Ireland and to fulfil requirements of a postgraduate degree. Recipients receive a salary for up to 3 years, as well as additional funding for running costs. This is the first time the HRB has funded research on a music therapy topic.

Shane Colvin George J Mitchell Scholar-in-Residence (Music Therapy) Shane Colvin hails from Kalispell, in Montana USA, and is one of just 12 recipients of a 2008 George J. Mitchell Scholarship, often called the Irish Rhodes Scholarship. He was selected from over 300 applicants across the USA. Formerly a Montana State University undergraduate, he served as student body president. Shane, a senior with three majors (biochemistry, music and cell biology), will use the two years of postgraduate study in Ireland funded by the scholarship to complete the MA in Music Therapy in 2009.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (Traditional Music Performance)

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board grant winners are selected on the basis of their academic and professional achievements as well as demonstrated leadership in their fields. She is the first cellist ever to have been accepted to the Academy’s MA in Traditional Music Performance.

Dr Nan McEntire Culture Ireland Fulbright Ireland Fellowship Dr. Nan McEntire, an associate professor of English at Indiana State University and director of the ISU Folklore Archives, has been named a Fulbright scholar for the spring semester of 2010. She will be researching traditional tune acquisition in the Shannon region of Ireland. Dr. McEntire has done extensive research in folklore and ethnomusicology locally, focusing on Indiana folklore and folk music, and internationally, focusing on the folklore and folk music of the Scottish Orkney Islands.

Clár Programmes at the Irish World Academy

Dancer and Choreographer Jan Ritsema (The Netherlands) at ‘Making Work, Sustaining Practice’ seminar jointly hosted by Dance Ireland and the Irish World Academy, October 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Clár

BA Irish Music & Dance

MA Ethnochoreology

Dr Aileen Dillane, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202159 Email: aileen.dillane@ul.ie

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

Mats Melin, Lecturer, Dance Phone: + 353 61 202542 Email: mats.melin@ul.ie Ernestine Healy, Acting Lecturer, Music Phone: + 353 61 202653 Email: ernestine.healy@ul.ie

BA Voice & Dance Óscar Mascareñas Garza, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 233762 Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

MA Music Therapy Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. Phone: + 353 61 213122 Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie Dr Simon Gilbertson, Lecturer Phone: + 353 61 234358 Email: simon.gilbertson@ul.ie

Mozaik in concert at the Academy, Nov 09

Donal Lunny filming his Lorg Lunny Series for TG4 at the Academy, Oct 09

MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Niall Keegan, Course Director (on Sabbatical) Sandra Joyce, Acting Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202565 Email: sandra.joyce@ul.ie

MA Ritual Chant & Song Eri Hirabayashi, Acting Course Director Email: eri.hirabayashi@ul.ie

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

MA Community Music Jean Downey Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160 Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

MA Contemporary Dance Performance

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

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

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

M. ED (Music) Grad. Dip Education (Music) Jean Downey, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160 Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

Certificate in Music & Dance Julie Tiernan, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 234743 Email: julie.tiernan@ul.ie

Scholarships Scholarships at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Percussionist Mel Mercier (Head of Music School University College Cork) performing at the ‘Fair Play’ concert, St Mary’s Cathedral Limerick Sept 09 Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Scholarships

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 is extending its remit to cover the Irish World Academy in Ireland. A Bursary of €8000 has been made available on an annual basis towards the establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Applicants should normally be under 25 years of age and should have applied for admission to the MA Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, bursary applications may be considered with applications for admission to Irish World Music Academy other than Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner will include the excellence of the CV submitted as well as evidence of financial need. 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 Melissa Carty, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Patrons: Sir George Martin, Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana Ross, and Tina Turner. 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:

Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship for Irish Traditional Dance

Irish World Academy Research Fee Waivers

The Muckross House Folk Museum in Killarney Co Kerry has links with the Irish World Academy through Dr Catherine Foley, director of the MA Irish Traditional Performance. The Trustees of Muckross House have generously donated a scholarship which is available to students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. This year’s scholarship, valued at €6,750.00 has been awarded to Meabh Felton.

A limited number of full or partial fee waivers are available for PhD research students at the Irish World Academy. There is no application deadline for these fee waivers, which will be discussed as part of the consultative process in assessing any research application. Enquiries for doctoral research should be addressed in the first instance to the appropriate course director specialist or to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.

Applications to Dr Catherine Foley Phone: + 353 61 202922 Email: catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

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.

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.

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

Melissa Carty, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Phone: + 353 61 202590; Email: Melissa.carty@ul.ie

Professor Don Barry, President UL and Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Director RTÉ lyric fm at the stations 10th anniversary concert UL, November 09

Shannon Fellowship The William V. Shannon Fellowship at Boston University was established in l989 in memory of William Shannon to commemorate his dedication to education and to Ireland. Appointed United States Ambassador to Ireland by President Jimmy Carter, Shannon served from l977 to l981. Upon his return from Ireland, and until his death in l989, Ambassador Shannon was a University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. The Shannon Fellowship provides funding for a graduate student from Ireland to attend Boston University for a year or more. Since the Fellowship was established, a number of Fellows have studied at Boston University. They travelled B.U. from the University of Limerick, Trinity College, University College Dublin, and from Dublin City University. The Fellowship continues to facilitate links between the music education programmes at Boston University and at the Irish World Academy by funding students from the Irish World Academy to complete their teaching practice in Boston public schools. The Fellowship also facilitates on-going post-graduate research in music education.

Further information: Jean Downey, Course Director, Grad Dip Education (Music)/M. Ed Education (Music): Phone + 353 61 213120 Email: jean.downey@ul.ie Further information on all MA Programmes, Scholarships and Fee Waivers can be had from the Irish World Academy website:

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Bulgarian Nikola Parov of Mozaik during the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lunchtime concert and workshop at the Academy, Nov 09 Photograph ÂŠ Maurice Gunning

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Other Programmes & Arts Offices

Other Programmes and Arts Offices At The University Of Limerick: 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 Iinformatics & Electronics: The Centre for Computational Musicology & Computer Music MA/MSC In Music Technology The Master’s Degree in Music Technology is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for musicians from all disciplines. The course is aimed at graduates who are interested in combining technological competence with artistic endeavour.

Director: Jürgen Simpson Phone: + 353 61 202782 Email: jurgen.simpson@ul.ie www.csis.ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics: The Interaction Design Centre (IDC) MA inInteractive Multimedia The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for art and design graduates who are interested in pursuing studies, which combine technological competence with design/artistic endeavour. The convergence of computer and media technologies offers unique opportunities for design/ artists to exploit their potential in new areas, across a wide range of activities, such as recording, multimedia, software, broadcasting and education. Director: Mikael 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 at €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 Moore Ailbhe Kenny Dr. John O’Flynn Dr. Karen Power (Music Technician) Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist) Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: musicinfo@mic.ul.ie www.mic.ul.ie

Arts Offices at The University Of Limerick Arts Officer: Patricia Moriarty Phone: + 353 61 20 2130 Email: patricia.moriarty@ul.ie Visual Arts Officer: Yvonne Davis Phone: + 353 61 21 3052 Email: yvonne.davis@ul.ie Irish Language Officer/ Stiúrthóir Na Gaeilge: Deirdre Ní Loingsigh Phone: + 353 61 213463 Email: deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie Further information on the Irish World Academy’s courses, concerts, seminars and special events: Phone: + 353 61 202917 / Fax: + 353 61 202589 Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie www.irishworldacademy.ie

Front Cover photograph: African Kora player Tunde Jegede in concert at St Mary's Cathedral, as part of the Fair Play concert, jointly hosted by UL’s Localisation Research Centre and the Irish World Academy, Sept 09

Design: Joseph Gervin

Back Cover photograph: ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings, directed by Irish Chamber Orchestra Leader Katherine Hunka (centre) performing at their US debut in New York, February 2010 © Erin Baiano

Inside Back Cover photograph: Contemporary dancer Katherine O’Malley at the Irish World Academy, Autumn ‘09 © Maurice Gunning

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