Lunchtime Concert Series 1.15 - 2.00pm
September - December Venue: Tower Theatre Irish World Academy University of Limerick
MA Classical String student Peter Sebestyen, lunchtime concert, Spring 2010.
Irish World Academy Lunchtime Concert Series
Admission Free All Welcome
Photograph Š Maurice Gunning
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John Carty
Michelle Mulcahy
Simon Thoumire
Tuesday September 14
Tuesday September 21
John Carty (Fiddle/Banjo)
Brian McGrath (Piano/Banjo), Michelle Mulcahy (Harp/Concertina/Box etc!) & Simon Thoumire (Concertina)
Born in London, John Carty developed his love for fiddle, banjo and flute, all of which he has mastered, through his multi-instrumentalist father who was a member of the Glenside Ceili Band in London in the 1960s. He relocated to Ireland in the 1990s, settling in Boyle, Co Roscommon. In his 1994 debut banjo album, The Cat that Ate the Candle was released to critical acclaim and his first fiddle album, Last Night’s Fun, was released 1996. This album has been described as a milestone in recorded fiddle music. In 1997 he formed ‘At the Racket’, a free-spirited dance band named after an old Flanagan Brothers 78 rpm recording. The group has recorded three highly acclaimed CDs, At the Racket, Mirth Making Heroes and It’s Not Racket Science and has toured all ‘the major European festivals. Awarded TG4‘s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003, Carty now performs regularly with Chieftains’ flautist Matt Molloy exploring the North Connaught tradition. A CD of their music, accompanied by Arty McGlynn, entitled Pathway to the Well was launched in late 2007.
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Brian McGrath
Brian McGrath comes from Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh. His first work in the professional field was with the group Dervish as banjo and mandolinist. He then joined Four Men and a Dog and played on the award winning album Barking Mad. He has accompanied many traditional musicians including Noel Hill, Paul Brock, Frankie Gavin. He now plays with ‘At the Racket’, and is a very much sought after session musician on piano, banjo and mandolin. Michelle Mulcahy from Abbeyfeale Co Limerick, is a multi-instrumentalist, no less impressive on fiddle, concertina, harp, and piano. From a very well known musical family, she has recorded with her father Mick and sister Louise, the most recent album being Notes from the Heart (2009). She is currently a student of the Irish World Academy’s PhD Arts Practice programme. An acknowledged concertina virtuoso, Simon Thoumire was winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989. He has always been keen to explore different genres of music, releasing many records over the years delving into folk, jazz, improvisation and composition. As a composer, he is hugely in demand, and was commssioned to write the music for the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.
Réamonn Keary & Miriam Roycroft
Mattias Perez
Tuesday September 28
Miriam Roycroft (cello) Réamonn Keary (piano)
Mattias Perez (Guitar) & Mats Berglund (Fiddle)
Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Further studies included a period in Banff, Canada with Aldo Parisot. She has performed as soloist with the RTE NSO and has played most of the major concerti for cello with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland. She has been a guest leader of the cello sections of the NSO, the BBCSSO and the Northern Sinfonia and has also guest co-lead the cello sections of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBCCO. A native of Galway, Réamonn Keary began his piano studies in Limerick with Gerard Shanahan. While studying music at Trinity College Dublin he also studied piano with John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has worked with Ireland’s most distinguished instrumentalists and singers. He is a frequent broadcaster and lecturer on the topics of piano teaching and interpretation and was for many years John O’Conor’s teaching assistant at the RIAM.
Swedish traditional musicians Mattias Perez and Mats Berglund are regular performers on the European folk music festival circuit, with focus on Swedish traditional music as well as their own compositions and arrangements. Mattias Pérez is a 12-string guitarist and much sought-after accompanist to artists including vocalist Åström Rune, with his own trio MP3, and with Outhouse Allstars. He is a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music in Sweden
Irish World Academy Lunchtime Concert Series
Thursday September 23
Dancer and PhD Arts Practice student Breandán de Gallaí, lunchtime concert, Spring 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning
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Gwendolyn Masin
Sergio Neves
Thursday September 30 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Gwendolyn Masin, violin, Sergio Neves, clarinet, Tara-Lee Angell, cello, Jovanni-Rey de Pedro, piano Gwendolyn Masin has been described as “a natural performer with an authority most violinists would envy” (The Irish Times). She has performed extensively in Europe and South Africa to critical acclaim and has toured as a soloist with orchestras such as the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra and the State Symphony Orchestra of Belarus. She currently completing a doctoral thesis on 20th century and contemporary violin pedagogy for Trinity College in Dublin. Gwendolyn’s award-winning book on violin teaching, Michaela’s Music House, The Magic of the Violin, was published in 2009 by Müller & Schade. Tara-Lee Angell holds degrees from The Royal Irish Academy of Music Dublin, Utrecht Conservatorium, Holland and Trinity College of Music London. While studying for her Masters degree in London, she was awarded a place on the Mentorship scheme with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In September 2009 she established the Munster Music Academy in Killaloe, Co Clare. She is in demand as a cello teacher and chamber music coach in Ireland and and abroad having previously taught in the Young European Strings School in Dublin and Royal Academy of Music Junior Department London. Filipino-American pianist Jovanni-Rey V. de Pedro has performed extensively throughout Asia, North
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Tara-Lee Angell
Jovanni-Rey de Pedro
The Band of 1st Southern Brigade
America and Europe. As a student at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, he was honoured with the 2003 Boesendorfer Stipendium and the overall prize of the Fidelio Competition. He completed his Master of Musicdegree from Trinity College of Music London in 2008 with the highest recognition - the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal for Performance Excellence. Portuguese clarinettist Sérgio Neves studied at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco. He completed his Masters degree at Trinity College of Music, London, graduating with the award for “Excellence in Clarinet Studies”. He is an international prizewinner having been awarded 1st Prize in the Wilfred Hambleton clarinet competition 2008, (England): 1st Prize FOLEFEST 2007, Chamber Music (Portugal) and 1st Prize in The Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition 2007, (England).
Tuesday October 5 The Band of 1st Southern Brigade The Army No. 2 Band was formed in April 1925 at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. It was posted to Cork the following year, where it is currently stationed at Collins Barracks. The numerical titles of all bands, with the exception of the Army No.1 Band, were later changed to territorial styles; thus the Army No.2 Band became The Band of the Southern Command. Its current title, The Band of 1 Southern Brigade, dates from a re-organisation of the Defence Forces in 1997. In addition to its military commitments, the band plays a major part in the musical and cultural life of the southern region of the country. The band’s Schools Concert programme is a muchappreciated part of the Defence Forces contribution to the community.
Wednesday October 6 Ghandi Day The Irish World Academy is delighted to host the second annual Gandhi Day celebrations in Limerick. Organised by Abed Al Dakar, Intercultural Officer with Doras Luimní, Gandhi Day (October 2nd) is an international day of peace and non-violence. The Limerick celebrations will take place on October 6th at the Academy and will kick-off with a lunchtime concert of Indian music, followed by workshops by the performers. An evening reception with music and Indian food will celebrate the cultural contributions of the growing Indian and Pakistani community in Ireland.
Paul Roe
Thursday October 7 Paul Roe (clarinet) Music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet In this very attractive and wide-ranging concert Paul plays music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet from Ireland and the U.S.A. This programme features a number of pieces in a variety of styles including jazz, classical and folk elements, demonstrating the richness of contemporary writing for these instruments. Paul Roe is a one of Ireland’s most creative and versatile musicians (clarinet and bass clarinet). He was AssociatePrincipal Clarinet of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland from 1987-2000. Since then he has given solo and ensemble performances throughout Europe, Asia and North America with musicians including: Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo String Quartet (Romania/Ireland) and Finghin Collins (Piano-Ireland). He teaches Clarinet at The Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Klezmer performance at Mannes College, New York with David Krakauer. Paul has a PhD in Music (Performance Practice) from the University of York, a Masters Degree in Community Music from the University of Limerick and is a Fellow of Trinity College, London. Paul’s latest CD [Between-Solos and Duos] was released in April 2010 on the Diatrible label Further information from: www.paulroe.org
Tuesday October 12 Jean-Michel Veillon Jean-Michel Veillon is best known as the flute player with the Breton groups Kornog and Pennou Skoulm.
Jean-Michel Veillon
Rex Levitates Dance Company
He pioneered the use of the wooden flute in Breton music, and is also an excellent player of Irish tunes. He was born in Frehel, near St. Brieuc in Cotes D'Armor Brittany, in 1959. He began playing wooden flute in 1977, and developed a great interest in Irish music and culture, learning tunes from Irish players Desi Wilkinson and Paddy O’Neill. His highly regarded first solo album, E Koad Nizan is the first record dedicated to Breton music on transverse wooden flute.
12 Minute Dances is a collection of short works that were first performed at the Absolut Dublin Fringe Festival 2009 with lighting design by Sinead Wallace and commissioned music by New York composers Ed Rosenberg and Joel Mellin. The pieces are inspired by different sources in poetry, art and music and appear as a wash of colour, movement, rhythm and emotion; human embodiment as a dynamic event. The audience completes the picture.
Wednesday October 13
“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer”. Mark Rothko (painter 1903 – 1970)
Rex Levitates Dance Company 12 Minute Dances This semester, choreographer-in-residence and director of Rex Levitates Dance Company will be working again with the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance, developing a new ensemble choreography which explores “dependency” and “reliance on others”. She will teach a daily class, followed by intensive periods of studio-based research towards the creation/ rehearsal of the new work. Her Dublin based dance company Rex Levitates, will be in residence throughout the week of October 11th - 15th. During this period the students of the MA in Contemporary Dance will be invited join the company in training and rehearsal, and also to spend time developing new choreographic material.
This Autumn Rex Levitates will also be performing 12 Minute Dances at Le Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, The Capstone Theatre Liverpool and The Hawk’s Well, Sligo. Rex Levitates is supported by The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Dublin City Council.
“…It was full of graceful instinct as the dancers literally seemed to lose themselves in their own and each others’ shape and gesture... an eloquent piece of subtle technical composition”. Irish Theatre Magazine 2009
“5 stars... elegantly crafted choreography that’s confident in its understatement.... the five 12 minute dances will undoubtedly reward repeated viewings”
Irish World Academy Lunchtime Concert Series
Ghandi Day
The Irish Times. Sept 8th 2009
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Duncan Honeybourne
Aogán Lynch
Thursday October 14
Wednesday October 19
The Piano Music of EJ Moeran Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
Aogán Lynch (Concertina), Oisín MacDiarmuda (Fiddle), Kevin Crawford (Flute) & Kevin Burke (Fiddle)
English composer EJ Moeran was best known for his richly romantic and picturesque piano music, which was inspired by Ireland’s landscapes and people. He died sixty years ago in Kerry. In addition to playing some of E.J. Moeran’s most distinctive piano works, Honeybourne will tell the composer’s compelling and tragic story, revealing that in the west of Ireland he found a spiritual home where he was able to unravel the complexities of his mature artistic identity. Moeran, an inveterate folksong collector, was deeply affected by places and people and the picturesque titles and warm lyricism of his piano music reflect his rural preoccupations. English pianist Duncan Honeybourne made his Irish debut at the National Concert Hall in 1998, and has since played frequently in Ireland. At home in the UK he has played concertos and given many solo recitals at major venues in London. He has also broadcast as a soloist for BBC Radio 3. He has taken a particular interest in the works of 20th and 21st century British and Irish composers. His double CD, Piano Music from the Midlands, was released in 2008.
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Kevin Crawford
Aogán Lynch was born and raised in Ovens, Co. Cork. Postgraduate studies brought him to Dublin in ’97, where he recorded an album with cousin (guitarist) Gavin Ralston, and fiddler Michelle O Brien, and in 1999 Aogán received the TG4 Gradam Ceóil Young Musician of the Year award. Oisín Mac Diarmada is a graduate in Music Education from Trinity College Dublin/RIAM. He began playing fiddle at a young age in Co. Clare, subsequently moving to Co. Sligo and developing a deep interest in the playing style of the North Connacht region. Following the release of acclaimed solo album, Ar an bhFidil (Green Linnet) in 2003, the Irish Echo’s Earle Hitchner hailed him as “one of the most gifted and creative traditional fiddlers playing today.” He is founder of the noted group Téada. Kevin Crawford was born in Birmingham. His early life was one long journey into Irish music and Co. Clare, to where he eventually moved while in his 20s. A virtuoso flute player, Kevin has recorded two solo albums, D’Flute Album and In Good Company. He is now a member of the hugely successful band Lúnasa. Kevin Burke is one of the seminal figures in the story of Irish traditional music. From his early days with the ground-breaking and now legendary Bothy Band in the mid-70s to his tours with the Irish supergroup Patrick Street, he is widely respected as both an ensemble player
Oisín MacDiarmuda
Kevin Burke
and a dynamic solo performer. Born in London of Irish parents from County Sligo in 1950, he took up the fiddle at age eight, acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style. In 2002, he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, a lifetime honour presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA. “Lyric, fluid and precisely as tricky as he needs to be…Kevin Burke is probably the greatest Irish fiddler living." (The Village Voice, New York)
Liz Davis Maxfield, Fulbright Ireland scholar 09/10 on the Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Music Performance in concert, May 2010. Photograph © Maurice Gunning
Mark Patrick Hederman
Conal O’Grada
Wednesday October 20 From Ballads to Byzantium: The Spiritual Journey of W.B. Yeats with Nóirín Ní Riain and Mark Patrick Hederman In this specially formatted performance for The Tower Theatre at the Academy based upon their recent acclaimed presentation at the National Library of Ireland, Mark Patrick Hederman and Nóirín Ní Riain celebrate the spiritual journey of W.B.Yeats in a program of words and song. William Butler Yeats had the music of Ireland in his veins, and Sligo, where his mother’s family came from, and where he spent time as a child, formed the backdrop and geography of his poetic imagination. He was a natural poet, which is sometimes a danger in the sense that poetry can come too easily to one so gifted. His early poems became world-renowned best-sellers. This presentation takes us from those early days of popular lyrics through his three major obsessions which were Ireland, art and Maud Gonne, to his spiritual journey symbolised by the place where Christianity developed its first and most characteristic art form: Byzantium in the 6th Century. Nóirín Ní Riain is an internationally acclaimed singer of spiritual songs from many traditions. Her Masters Degree from UCC was on the subject of Religious Song from the Irish Tradition. She was awarded the first ever Doctorate in Theology from the University of Limerick in 2003 for which she coined the term ‘Theosony’ which means ‘the sound of God’. This thesis will be published shortly by the Mellen Press USA. Her latest publication was an autobiography entitled ‘Listen with the Ear of the Heart’ (Veritas).
Mark Patrick Hederman is Abbot of Glenstal Abbey in county Limerick. A former headmaster of Glenstal Abbey School, he is author of a number of books including Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheonrd Doors, Veritas, 2008, which contains reflections on W.B.Yeats. His most recent book is Underground Cathedrals, (Columba Press, 2010).
Thursday October 21 Solo and ensemble pieces from the students of this year’s Classical String Programme at the Academy
Tuesday October 26 Conal O’Grada (Flute) & Hugh Healy (Concertina) Conal Ó Gráda is Irish Traditional Flute Player from Co Cork. He has released two solo CDs; The Top of Coom, released in 1990 and Cnoc Buí, released in July of 2008. He has also guested on a number of other CD’s, including with with Kevin Burke/ Jackie Daly, Eoin Ó Riabhaigh, Colm Murphy and others. He teaches flute in Cork (Coláiste Cholm, Ballincollig) and Baile Bhuirne as well as at many of the summer schools both here and abroad. He also runs a ‘Guided Listening Course’ on Traditional Music for Junior/ Leaving Cert students as well as an Arts Management course for Transition Year students.
Irish World Academy Lunchtime Concert Series
Nóirín Ní Riain
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Wednesday October 27 Wednesday 27th October Venue: IW2-25 (Dance Studio, 2nd Floor) Time: 2.30
Jean Butler Day Jean Butler will perform extracts from her current performance project, a solo entitled “DAY”, choreographed by New York based artist, Tere O'Connor. After the performance Jean will talk about the work and the process of creation and collaboration. A questions and answers forum will follow. DAY was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre (Ireland) and was co-presented by Dublin Dance Festival 2010. It explores the ways we come to know a person beyond the narrative of his/her life. The work questions how well we can know someone and if our projections constitute our knowing more than the truth. O’Connor moves away from episodic theatrical structures in this work, using non-causal sequencing to create a meditation on consciousness. Through extreme contrasts in rhythm, tone and reference DAY mirrors the mercurial, unfixed nature of the human mind. He has created a choreographic system in which persona shifts constantly, and where strands of affect, artifice and suggestion are woven around the real performer. Devised in silence O'Connor’s dense rhythmic phrases create a grammar for the work. DAY is a departure from Jean’s long history and training in Irish Dance. The work can be seen as a dialogue between two uniquely different artists. O'Connor and Butler’s personal histories and shared aesthetics combined illuminate the ability of dance to process information in alternative ways. The work features a score by O'Connor's long time collaborator James Baker.
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The work was premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival 2010 and also performed at the International Tanzmesse Festival in Düsseldorf, August 2010. The work will have its New York premiere at St. Marks Church, hosted by Danspace Project in November 2010.
Jean Butler (performer) has been dancing for over 30 years. Her current solo work has been commissioned and supported by the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (Artist in Residence 2003-5), the Irish Arts Council, The Dublin Dance Festival, The Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Culture Ireland, Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick), Plankton Productions (Japan), Movement Research (New York), and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin). Choreography and performance credits include Riverdance, the Show, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, The StepCrew, Greyage, does she take sugar?, and thicker than this. Her current performance piece commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, entitled DAY, is a solo choreographed by Tere O'Connor. She currently lives in New York and is an editor at ciritcalcorrespondence.com. Tere O’Connor (choreographer) has been making dances since 1982 creating over 35 works for his company, Tere O’Connor Dance, which has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works; among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep; Dance Alloy; and Zenon. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he also created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He recently completed a solo for Jean Butler, which premiered in May 2010 at the Dublin Dance Festival. Tere O'Connor is a 2009 USArtist Fellow and the recipient of a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is currently a professor of dance at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.
Jean Butler Photograph © Michael O’Connor
Alan Kelly
Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari
Thursday October 28
Thursday November 4
Academos, Irish World Academy Strings (directed by Katherine Hunka, Irish Chamber Orchestra)
Mattu Noone & Ciro Montanari North Indian Sarod & Tabla players
ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Today’s concert will be directed by ICO Leader, Katherine Hunka.
Tuesday November 2 Alan Kelly (Piano Accordion) One of Ireland’s most accomplished musicians in any genre, Alan Kelly is piano accordionist, composer and arranger. Born into the rich musical landscape of Roscommon in 1972, Alan began playing whistle at the age of 5, before moving onto fiddle, piano and accordion 4 years later. His critically acclaimed 1997 debut album Out of the Blue exploded onto the traditional scene with such impact that he is generally credited with ‘making the piano accordion hip again’. July 2000 saw the release of Kelly’s second solo album Mosaic. Produced by Arty McGlynn, Mosaic’s South American rhythms and cinematic jazz feel brought Alan’s music to a whole new audience. This album was voted one of the top ten trad’ albums by both the Irish Times and Hot Press Magazine. By now, Kelly had firmly established himself as one of Ireland’s top musicians touring with artists such as De Dannan, Arty McGlynn and Eddi Reader. He guested with Lúnasa and also collaborated with Alison Brown, the Grammy award winning banjo player on her Irish tour in 2001. His current band is the Alan Kelly Quartet, along with fiddler Tola Custy, flute player Steph Geremia and guitarist Donogh Hennessy.
Mattu and Ciro are part of an emerging movement in Ireland to re-interpret North Indian Classical music and bring it to a new found prominence. Since 2003, both musicians have been spent extensive residencies in Kolkata with their respective gurus, learning the intricacies of swara (melody) and tal (rhythm). Both players have toured extensively with their teachers across Europe and India and have been given blessings to begin teaching. Since 2006 they have been teaching individuals and large groups the fundamentals of Indian Classical music in workshops in France and Ireland. They have performed classical recitals all over Europe and are founding members of Galway based fusion group, the Bahh Band who have performed at Electric Picnic and Dun Laorighe festival of World Cultures. Ciro has performed extensively on Italian television and Mattu has collobrated with Ronan O’Snodaigh on soundtrack work for RTE. In 2010, Mattu was granted a travel and training award by the Arts Council to attend a master class in Kolkata and received an individual artist bursary to complete an album of fusion material with his band. Irish World Academy Lunchtime Concert Series
Academos
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Laoise Kelly
Tuesday November 9 Laoise Kelly (Harp) Laoise Kelly is from Westport Co Mayo. She first came to prominence in the television series ‘A River of Sound’ in 1995 and has since become a highly experienced musician, participating in over 50 recordings, with artists including Donal Lunny, The Chieftains, Mary Black, Sinéad O’Connor and Kate Bush. She has two acclaimed albums to her credit Just Harp and Ceis.
Thursday November 11 Students of the MA Ritual Chant & Song Solo and ensemble pieces by students of this years Ritual Chant and Song programme.
Wednesday November 17 East Clare Day
choreographies are performed as part of the student's final performance exam. The programme for this lunchtime performance features a number of short extracts selected from works being created under the direction of guest artists Jean Butler, Cindy Cummings, Liz Roche, Nigel Rolfe, Mairead Vaughan and Course Director Mary Nunan.
Tuesday November 23 Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme present a lunchtime concert of solo and ensemble works. These include traditional and new contemporary theatrical dance pieces devised and mentored by tutors on the programme, including Olive Beecher, Breandan de Gallaí, Katarina Mojzisova, Mairead O’Connor, Michael Ryan, and Catherine Foley, Director of the programme.
Today’s lunchtime concert features performances by a number of east Clare traditional musicians including fiddler Martin Hayes who curates the concert and a seminar directly afterwards at 2.30 pm.
Thursday November 25
Thursday November 18
UL Gospel Choir brings together students and staff from the UL community to perform a repertoire that ranges from spirituals to funk, working songs to celebration anthems. The choir is under the direction of Kathleen Turner, a graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The choir continues its long standing affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children and performs two fundraising concerts every year for the organisation.
Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance
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Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance
Ritual Chant & Song students
Each year students of the MA in Contemporary Dance performance, working under the direction of guest artists and tutors, create a number of original choreographic works and improvisational scores. The process of creating these works is central to this programme and the emergent solo and ensemble
University of Limerick Gospel Choir (In aid of Hope & Homes for Children, Romania)
Wednesday December 8th NASC DVD Launch NASC features Cruinniú (staff traditional group), Céim (staff and student set dancing group) and pupils from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh performing songs in Irish. A twenty-track DVD, with all proceeds going to Gaelscoil Caladh an Treoigh will be launched at the Academy in December 2010. Nasc (join, link or bond together) took seven months to complete, starting in May and finishing in November 2010. The DVD was recorded at the new Irish World Academy Building; NASC was one of the first groups to record here. Nasc features over thirty five members of Cruinniú and Céim, and over 225 children from Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh playing music, singing and dancing. The DVD was filmed/recorded by students from CSIS Dept in UL and LIT. This outreach project created social and community links between Gaelscoil Chaladh an Treoigh and the University of Limerick. It’s a coming together of University Staff with children from the Gaelscoil to celebrate our Music, Dance, Irish Language and Songs.