Chamber Choir Ireland, in collaboration with the National Concert Hall Education, Community and Outreach Programme, will host a series of Tuesday lunchtime lectures in January and February 2017. Curated by Stuart Kinsella, the series will explore the Chamber Choir’s history and origins by examining the tradition of choral music in Ireland, amateur and professional, both in Ireland and within a wider European context. Some of the talks will include musical illustrations by members of Chamber Choir Ireland.
CHORAL MUSIC IN IRELAND: HISTORY & EVOLUTION National Concert Hall Lecture Series January – February 2017 Kevin Barry Room National Concert Hall 1.10pm – 2.00pm Free of charge Tickets must be reserved in advance from www.nch.ie or 01 417 0000
Tuesday 17 January
Tuesday 24 January
Tuesday 14 February
MEDIEVAL SACRED MUSIC –1540
GEORGIAN GLEES, CATCHES & CLUBS 1700–1850
CHAMBER CHOIRS: THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 1990–
Dr Triona O’Hanlon, Marie SklodowskaCurie Research Fellow in the School of Arts, English and Languages at QUB will examine the traditions of choral singing, private and public, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Leo Samama, composer, musicologist and former managing director of the Nederlands Kammerchor, for his lecture will draw on his wide knowledge of Tenso: the European network for professional chamber choirs.
Frank Lawrence (University College Dublin)
Tríona O’Hanlon (Queen’s University Belfast)
Dr Frank Lawrence, lecturer in early music studies at UCD will speak on the early church origins of choral music in Ireland and trace its development through innovations in sacred music.
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Leo Samama (TENSO network)
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Tuesday 31 January
Tuesday 7 February
Tuesday 21 February
SINGING AND SOCIETY 1540–1700
IMPERIAL TO INDEPENDENT 1850–1930
BROADCASTING 1930–1990
Professor Raymond Gillespie of the Department of History in Maynooth will deliver a wide-ranging lecture on the role of choral music and singing in society in Ireland within the early modern period.
Professor Harry White of the School of Music in UCD traces the cultural changes in Irish choral music from the imperial colony of the nineteenth century to the independent state of the twentieth.
Helen Gubbins, a doctoral candidate at Sheffield will bring her knowledge of the history of Radio Éireann and RTÉ to examine the history and evolution of the professional broadcasting choir in Ireland.
Raymond Gillespie (Maynooth University)
Harry White (University College Dublin)
Helen Gubbins (University of Sheffield)