Of Our Times (Spring / Summer 2008) by Michael McCabe

BA Irish Music and Dance student Nicholas Yensen during his end of year performance, 2007.

Contents Lunchtime Concert Series Seminar Series Special Events Bealach/Community Cultural Pathways Cónaí/Artists in Residence Clár/Postgraduate Programmes Scholarships Other Programmes and Arts Offices

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Soirbheas

LISTENING TO THE WIND The vision of the Irish World Academy is a radical one. It is concerned with the creative turning of the ground on which we stand into a common cause. In our case we look to music and dance within sound and gesture to investigate this possibility and to facilitate its movement. Over the next three years we will be extending this search to include Story in its ritual and theatrical contexts. We do this in Ireland within our own time and within a rapidly globalising world. We look to Asia, Africa, and the indigenous cultures of the Americas as well as to European heritages and North American sensibilities in our search. At the recent European Cultural Forum in Lisbon in September last, attempts were made to respond to the May 2007 European Commission’s Communication on a European Agenda for culture in a globalising world. Three objectives for such an agenda were proposed in that Communication: • Intercultural Dialogue (2008 as European Year for Intercultural Dialogue). [How we relate within Europe to each other] • The Economy of Culture. [How we ‘mind’‘our’ culture] • Europe and the Rest of the World. [How we relate to those outside Europe] Within the Lisbon debate, one strand devoted itself to the theme: ‘Education Systems – the key to the future’. It asked four central questions:

1. Should culture/creativity be better promoted in education/life-long learning so as to foster innovation/entrepreneurship spirit and competencies? 2. Is intercultural competence a key competence to develop the competitiveness of the EU? 3. How should we address the role of culture and art education in fostering such competitiveness? 4. How should the European Year for Creativity and Innovation 2009 contribute in that respect? These central questions are in themselves revealing in that they collectively ask how we can use education to foster competitiveness. There is a deeper question – perhaps one that is taken for granted by everyone, although again perhaps not. • Why, in the first place, should culture/ creativity be better promoted in education/ lifelong learning? Fostering entrepreneurship through education is of course only one of the pathways that can open up out of the educational relationship. To adjust that relationship in such a way as to foster anything without keeping a firm grasp on the underlying process might well be the tail wagging the dog.

MA Contemporary Dance Performance student Mary Wycherly, end of year performance May 2007

We educate to release a life already present. In facilitating its release, we are mindful of the temporal practicalities that underpin human existence. Yet our fundamental task is to facilitate the release of a personal global community of voices within which our satellite view – our ‘bird’s eye view of a bird” as Seamus Heaney has it – can focus in on Europe: a Europe we can never understand in terms of its dynamism of change without first sensing its wider context.

the rich diversity of deeply rooted local cultures within this Community – is the globus. In this way we recognize the essential dynamic at the heart of the creative process at work as a kind of global listening within which – in this instance – Europe is within the inner ear. Within us is ‘the rest of the world’, and ‘the rest of the world’ is that within which we dwell. The local self listens both within itself and outside itself, and in so doing invites a reciprocal listening – a lobal listening.

Again in the second question above, we are being asked how we might get to know each other better so that as a team we can compete better. It’s as if the object of the exercise undermines the exercise itself. By implication, if for some reason we cannot get a competitive team together out of the exercise, a central reason for getting to know each other in the first place is null and void. Perhaps instead we need to develop intercultural competence through intercultural competencies. Competition must be a secondary consideration within interculturalism just as innovation and entrepreneurship is a secondary consideration within cultural-based education.

This ‘feedback’ generates a sustainable cultural energy that is renewed between human beings in positive dialogue. It is akin to the’ information feedback’ encountered through a creative interaction of the wide angle lens meeting the seeing eye. In photography we learn to find the focal point. That focal point is the exact point of lobality within intercultural conversation. It is Eliot’s ‘still point of the turning world’, and it is where the dance is.

Our third question asks how to foster these competencies (those that facilitate better competitiveness). But again perhaps the answer lies in fostering competencies of a deeper kind – those around intercultural knowing, respect for difference, and human trust. In a way, the combination therefore of all three areas of discussion at the Lisbon Forum must firstly be experienced as a holistic undertaking. Our locus in this instance – even if we freely acknowledge

Soirbheas – Fair Wind, Meg Bateman (Edinburgh: Polygon 2007) pp. 82/83

We are seeking new ways to think the world. We are seeking new ways to be in the world. The artistic impulse, the calling to express, the voice of poetics, the reassembling of cultural stories, the invention of fresh pathways, the living bridge between the sciences of the heart and the heart of knowing – all of these will bring us to the other side of the river and to the other side of ourselves where we will of needs all meet each other. In the times within which we live, our communities are less and less about the flag and more about the wind. The Irish World Academy is dedicated to listening to that wind through

the inspiration of its students, of its faculty, and of its many creative visitors. Music, Dance, and Story meet here in the swirling currents of the river Shannon and in the minds of our searchers and researchers. Let us wish a fair wind for all with the words of Scots Gallic poet, Meg Bateman, from her poem Soirbheas [Fair Wind]: Gus an leig an gaol anail a-null thar nan sruth, ’s e a’ lìonadh ’s a’ crathadh nan seòl agus is ionann a shaora ’s m’ aoibhneas san t-soirbheas ud làn ùrnaigh. Until love breathes out Across the tide-race, Fills and cracks the sails, And its freedom becomes My joy In that prayerful fair wind. 1

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

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

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Dr Catherine Foley Director MA Ethnochoreology/MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Phone: + 353 61 202922 Email: catherine.e.foley@ul.ie Professor Jane Edwards Director MA Music Therapy (On sabbatical) Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie Dr Simon Gilbertson Acting Course Director MA Music Therapy Phone: + 353 61 234358 Email: simon.gilbertson@ul.ie Alison Ledger Lecturer Music Therapy (half-time). Email: Alison.ledger@ul.ie Dr Helen Phelan Director MA Ritual Chant and Song Phone: + 353 61 202575 Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

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

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

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

Niall Keegan Director MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Phone: + 353 61 202565 Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

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

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

Alexandra Balandina Acting Director MA Ethnomusicology Phone: + 353 61 202966 Email: alexandra.balandina@ul.ie Sandra Joyce Director BA Irish Music & Dance Phone: + 353 61 202159 Email: sandra.joyce@ul.ie

Melissa Carty Assistant Administrator Phone: + 353 61 202590 Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie Ellen Byrne Press & Publicity Phone: + 353 61 202917 Email: ellen.byrne@ul.ie

Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Lecturer in Dance BA Irish Music & Dance Phone: + 353 61 202159 Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie

www.irishworldacademy.ie

Sean-nós singer and tutor at the Irish World Academy Iarla Ó Lionáird during a lunchtime concert performance, Autumn 07

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Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Lunchtime Concert Series Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00p.m.

January to April 2008

Venue: Performing Arts Centre, Lower Ground Floor, Foundation Building, University of Limerick. Admission Free All Welcome

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Thursday January 31st

Tuesday February 5TH

Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan violin, Robin Michael cello, Mary Dullea piano).

Tim Collins (concertina) The concertina music of Tim Collins draws on a rich tapestry of cultural history from his iconic homeland in Sliabh Luachra, a region of astonishing natural beauty that straddles west Limerick, north Kerry and northwest Cork. Birthplace of poetic luminaries like Aogán Ó Rathaille and Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, as well as fiddle masters, Pádraig O’Keeffe and Denis Murphy, Sliabh Luachra is also a storehouse of Irish concertina music.

Programme Michael Nyman – Yellow Beach Ravel – Piano Trio

Fidelio Trio

The award-winning Fidelio Trio launch their debut CD Bulb on NMC D147 of Irish composers Donnacha Dennehy, Deirdre Gribbin, Ed Bennett and Kevin Volans in this national tour, presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award. Celebrated champions of new music they have performed at the Purcell Room, Royal Opera House, London, Casa da Musica, Porto and for West Cork Music and in Hong Kong, Italy and South Africa. They broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3 and other CD releases in 2008 include Delphian Records, NMC and their own pop-archive on FT label. …intense expressivity…pounding vigour… (The Daily Telegraph) www.fideliotrio.com (The Fidelio Trio’s recital will be followed by a seminar from 3 – 4.30 pm, where the Trio will discuss, demonstrate and perform music from the expansive 20th and 21st century piano trio repertoire. Composers featured will include Salvatore Sciarrino, Edison Denisov, Deirdre Gribbin,Donnacha Dennehy,Haflidi Hallgrimsson and Kevin Volans).

Tim Collins

Wednesday February 6TH Pavlos Kanellakis (guitar)

Pavlos Kanellakis

Born in Athens, Greece, Pavlos Kanellakis took up the classical guitar with Elena Papandreou at The Philippos Nakas Conservatory and studied there on a full scholarship from 1995 to 1997, earning his diploma in 1998. During the summer of 1997 he attended Oscar Ghiglia’s guitar master classes; three years later he became a student at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland, where he got the Solisten Diplom, the Academy’s highest grade. His studies there were covered by a three year scholarship from the A. Onassis foundation. A prize winner of national and international guitar competitions, Pavlos recently received a

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also appeared worldwide as a member of the international folk trio, Helicon, the all-star Celtic fusion group, Skyedance, the acclaimed early music group, The Baltimore Consort and across Europe with Concerto Caledonia. Norman’s flute playing can be heard featured in the Oscar winning soundtrack of Titanic as well as Hollywood films, Soldier and the forthcoming Stone of Destiny. He has appeared on more than forty CD releases over the past twenty years. As a composer Chris has received commissions for a variety of solo, chamber, and orchestral works. His compositions been featured on National Public Radio, the CBC in Canada and the BBC. He founder and director of the Boxwood Festivals and Workshops taking place in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Rotorua, New Zealand.

second prize and, for the best interpretation of music by J. S. Bach, the Gianluigi Fia Prize, at the Gargnano International Guitar Competition. For the last ten years he has been collaborating with the Greek contemporary composer, N. Mamangakis, recording a number of CD’s of music for solo guitar and music for guitar and voice. Since last September he has been a PhD student at the Dublin Institute of Technology holding a scholarship from the Institute until 2011.

Thursday February 7th Viola Recital MA in Classical String Performance Students: Lisa Dowdall (viola)/Mary McCauge (piano)

Thursday February 14th

Tuesday February 12TH

From Dogs and Gods with Love Debbie Armstrong (piano), Martin Doyle (flute/whistle), Elizabeth Petcu (flute).

Chris Norman (flute) Chris Norman’s influential work as a performer, composer, recording artist and teacher has brought the simple wooden flute to the forefront as an alternative voice to the modern orchestral instrument. Born in Halifax Nova Scotia, his busy performing schedule includes solo engagements and concerts with a variety of ensembles, appearing frequently as soloist with orchestra and touring with his own Chris Norman Ensemble. In years past Chris has Chris Norman

Martin Dolye, Debbie Armstrong, Elizabeth Petcu

These three Irish musicians began to play together about a year ago and their innovative formula has proved very popular everywhere. They have prepared a special Valentine’s Day programme for the day that’s in it. Debbie Armstrong Debbie holds a doctoral degree from McGill University in Montreal. She has a busy, varied career which includes

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performing, teaching, accompanying, coaching and collaborative work with composers.

MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance at the University Limerick. Currently, he tutors on the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme.

Martin Doyle Sought after internationally as a flute maker, teacher and performer, Martin comes from a long heritage of traditional Irish musicians. He lives in the tranquility of West Clare where he also has his workshop.

Nicole McKeever began her dancing career in the competitive arena of the Irish step dancing world. Her early training took place in New Jersey. She holds a BFA in the Visual Arts from Rutgers University, in New Jersey, and an MA degree in Irish Traditional Dance Performance from the University of Limerick. Currently she is dancing with the internationally acclaimed show Ragús, and tutors on the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Elizabeth Petcu Elizabeth is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and also has an M.A. in Music Therapy from U.L. Following a long career as an orchestral musician, she is now exploring new contexts for her flute playing. Andrej Mikulka

Tuesday February 19TH Dance Concert with Andrej Mikulka (step dance), Nicole McKeever (step dance) and Piedra Alba (flamenco). Andrej Mikulka was born in Myjava, Slovakia. He holds an MA degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Comenius University, Bratislava. During His dancing career in Slovakia he studied various step dancing styles such as: buck dancing, flatfooting, Canadian tap and body percussion. He trained as an Irish step dancer with the Michael Ryan School of Dancing and in May, 2007, he completed an

Nicole McKeever

Piedra Alba was born in Seville (Spain) in 1980. She began Spanish dance studies in 1993 with the flamenco Master Matilde Coral and Rocío Coral. She was trained in the flamenco dance style known as the “Seville School of Flamenco Dancing”, of which Matilde Coral is a central figure. In 2004 she completed a History degree from the University of Seville and the following year she successfully completed a Postgraduate programme “Interdisciplinary approach to Flamenco” at the same University. In 2006 Piedra Alba completed and MA Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy.

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Wednesday February 20th

Thursday February 28th

Brigitte Cloarec (song)

Mozart String Quartet

Brigitte is a Breton singer whose repertoire comes from both Breizh Izel (Western Brittany) and Haute-Bretagne (Eastern Brittany), thus taking in French and Breton language songs. Brigitte spent 20 years in Wales and is a fluent English and Welsh-speaker with a multilingual repertoire. She sings with both her daughters in French, Breton, English and Welsh in the trio KANTA.

MA Classical String Performance students Marzia Ricciardi & Clara Sanfilippo on violin, Lisa Dowdall on viola and Federico Veccio on cello.

Tuesday March 4th Simon Thoumire (concertina), David Milligan (piano)

Brigitte Cloarec

Thursday February 21st Romantic Violin Recital MA in Classical String Performance students Aingeala DeBurca & Orla Ni Bhraoin on violin, accompanied by Una Hunt on piano

Tuesday February 26th Traditional Music Performance

David Milligan & Simon Thoumire.

An acknowledged concertina virtuoso, Simon Thoumire has dazzled audiences with his playing in his native Scotland, Europe and the North America. A winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989, he has released many records over the years including two Simon Thoumire Orchestra CDs, delving into jazz, folk and composition. Simon also wrote “Ceilidh”, a piece to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Yehudi Menuin’s Live Music Now!, which was performed at The Barbican, London for HRH Prince Charles. He is also a director of Foot Stompin’ Records. David Milligan is one of the highest regarded pianists in Scotland. Born in the Scottish Borders in 1971, and a Post-Graduate of the City of Leeds College of Music, David is heavily involved in a wide variety of projects within the UK music scene. His principle reputation lies in his work as a jazz pianist, but in recent years he has been exploring and developing a unique crossover style of piano playing. “dazzling display of technical skills and invention”(Jazz UK).

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Emma Small Town Irish Music group. Her family moved to Ireland when she was 17 where she became part of the music scene in Kildare, becoming a member of the band Cathú with whom she sang and played until she moved to Cork, where she completed a four year degree in music at UCC. She now lives in East Clare and is a student of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at the Irish World Academy.

Thursday March 6th County Limerick Youth Choir

Wednesday March 5th Emma Small (fiddle) Emma Small hails from Cape Town, South Africa. She became interested in Irish traditional music from a young age and became a proficient enough player to be accepted into the Cape

County Limerick Youth Choir

The County Limerick Youth Choir has 30 members aged 16 to 22 years. The choir was set up in September ‘06 and has won first prize at Feis Maitiu and ‘Best Moment of the Festival’ at Limerick’s Sacred Music Festival in February. The group traveled to Vienna in December 2007 to perform in the Advent Festival. The County Limerick Youth Choir is funded by the Arts Office at Limerick County Council.

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appeared all over the world with Shetland fiddling sensations,‘Filska’, Scottish super group, ‘Deaf Shepherd’ and ‘Dochas’, winners of ‘Best Up and Coming Band’ at the 2004 Scots Trad Music Awards.. In 2007 Jenna’s band performed at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, premiering a new six-piece band especially for the event. Following the success of her first album, Jenna was invited by Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas to perform on the third series of the Transatlantic Sessions on BBC 2 television. Nominated as ‘Best Instrumentalist’ at the 2007 Scots Trad Awards, Jenna’s career continues to go from strength to strength.

Friday March 7th International Women’s Day Dance Performance

Jenna Reid

International Women’s Day is a global day connecting women around the world and celebrating the achievements of women past and present. A performance to mark International Women’s Day, sponsored by the Equal Opportunities Office, will feature students and staff of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance and the BA in Irish Music and Dance. Celebrate this inspirational day with us and see these talented performers provide their interpretation of women’s lives and impact on society. Contact Dympna Healy, Equal Opportunities Office, University of Limerick / dympna.healy@ul.ie for further details.

Wednesday March 13th John Billing (Lyre)

Tuesday March 11th Jenna Reid (fiddle) Since releasing her debut solo album in 2005 and being awarded ‘Best Up and Coming Artist’ at the 2005 Scots Trad Music Awards, Jenna Reid has undoubtedly remained one of the brightest young talents ever to grace the traditional music scene. A protégé of the greatest names in Shetland fiddling, Dr Tom Anderson MBE and Willie Hunter, Jenna has

John Billing

John Billing was born in England in 1952, went to Art College after school, played folk/blues guitar and learnt to play the lyre while working in special needs education in 1976. He studied Music Therapy in Berlin 1980 and taught school music from 1984 in Australia. Since 1995 he has been an independent composer and performer with lyre, working as a music teacher with special needs adults and children in Camphill Communities in Northern Ireland. Since 1999, he has been director/conductor of the Celtic Lyre Orchestra in Northern Ireland, as well as composer/performer with Castalia Eurythmy since spring 2006. When not touring he lives in Stroud, England. (John will speak at a Music

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Tuesday March 18th

Therapy Seminar after the lunchtime concert, at 2.30 in Room B, Foundation Building)

Mossie Griffin (bodhrán) Marcus Moloney (banjo)

Thursday March 14th Chant and Cello

Oscar Mascarenas

Ferenc Szucs

Oscar Mascareñas voice, Ferenc Szucs cello This concert features an exploration of the sound of medieval chant and polyphony through the instruments of the human voice and the cello. The programme will include two-voice compositions from the Organa of Winchester (Xth c.) and pieces from aquitanian monasteries of the XIIth century, as well as compositions from the Gregorian repertoire, both in its Frankish and Roman transmissions, dating from the Xth to the XIIth centuries. In medieval times, it was common that two human voices performed polyphonic works in which one of the voices sings an already existing chant melody, while the other follows the rules of organum to move below and above the chant in a sometimes moderate, sometimes florid manner. There is indirect evidence that instruments were used to perform one – or more – of the voices (particularly in three and four-voice settings). In this concert we are experimenting with the sound of the cello and the voice towards the re-creation of a sound that was probably never heard, perhaps lost, or possibly only found in the breath of the unforeseeable à venir.

Marcus Moloney

Banjo player Marcus Moloney is an East Limerick man. His distinctive style is unique and his dexterity are noted making him a buy session musician. He has appeared on several albums and is held in high esteem for his imaginative, percussive improvisational style. Marcus is in huge demand for his flamboyant technique and eclectic repertoire of foreign and Irish material. He made his debut with the Brian Roebuck Band in 2004 joining the band for a series of Luke Kelly tribute concerts in Ireland and the UK.

Tuesday March 25th Alan Colfer (guitar)

Alan Colfer

Alan Colfer is a second year student of the MA in Irish Music Performance at the Irish World Academy. He completed a BA in Irish Music at the Academy in 2006, which included a semester at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Originally from Waterford, he is a founder member of the blues and roots ensemble Little Red Bike, which has an almost cult following in the southeast – a euphemism for musically obscure and commercially unsuccessful. One of Ireland’s finest finger style guitarists, he teaches guitar at the Irish World Academy.

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Carlow Young Artists Choir

Thursday March 27th

Tuesday April 1st

Carlow Young Artists Choir

Traditional Music Performance

The Carlow Young Artists Choir (CYAC) was formed in September ’97 by Mary Amond O’Brien to facilitate young people to discover, nurture and experience the ‘artist’ within. The choir promotes, develops and achieves self-growth and self-enjoyment in young people by educating a musicianship that lasts throughout and beyond their schooling. In April 2003 they completed the groundbreaking project “The Pleasure of Compulsive Self-Destruction” a temporary public artwork by artist Finola Jones as part of Visualise Carlow, the advance programme to VISUAL - the centre for contemporary art. The Irish Times and Irish Examiner referred to the performance as ‘remarkable’ and Mary Amond O’Brien’s conducting as ‘vigorous and dynamic’. This performance along with winning the National Competition for Church Music at the Cork International Choral Festival in April 2004 cemented this reputation as the most original youth choirs in Ireland, and one of the best choirs in Ireland. CYAC embarked on their first national tour in November ’06 with performances of Fauré Requiem.

Wednesday April 2nd Afghan Music with John Baily, Veronica Doubleday and Students of the MA Ethnomusicology John Baily riginally studied psychology and physiology at Oxford University 1962-65. In 1973 he began his long association with anthropologist and ethnomusicologist John Blacking at Queen’s University Belfast, with research on the relationship between human movement and music structure. He carried out a year’s fieldwork on long-necked lutes in the city of Herat, in western Afghanistan. After a year as a Senior Associate Member in the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford, he was appointed Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Queen’s Belfast. In 1984 he was awarded a Leverhulme Film Training Fellowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute at the National Film and Television School, and directed two feature-length 16mm documentary films, Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician’s Life in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Lessons from Gulam: Asian Music in Bradford. In 1990 he moved to Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he is now Reader in Ethnomusicology.

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Tuesday April 8TH Pick of the Litter

Pick of the LItter

Pick of the Litter is a new 6-piece Traditional Irish music band based in Limerick. With members from Dublin, Cork, Laois, Donegal and Leitrim, this young group use their rich and varied backgrounds to explore traditional music in a fresh and exciting way. Pick of the Litter are: Lughaidh Ó Broin (whistle, bouzouki) and Rob O’Connor (flute, bodhrán, cajon), both from Dublin. Mícheal Bolton (fiddle) from Co. Laois, Cathal Flood (guitar) from Co. Cork, Yvonne McGinley (piano accordion) from Co. Donegal and Róisín Breathnach (vocals) from Co. Leitrim.

Thursday April10th Contemporary Dance Performance Veronica Doubleday

Thursday April 3rd Music from Bohemia with the Dvorak String Quintet MA Classical String Performance Students: Aingeala DeBurca & Orla Ni Bhraoin violin; Lisa Dowdall viola, Peter Varay cello; Paul Stephens double bass

Peter Varay & Lisa Dowdall

Students of the M.A in Contemporary Dance Performance are delighted to invite you to attend a short programme of Ensemble and Sol choreographies. The programme will include “Delete O” directed by Yoshiko Chuma and “The Birthday Experiment” (A collaborative voice and dance composition) directed by Mary Nunan, and devised in collaboration with Oscar Mascareñas and Mary Wycherly. The programme will also include extracts from Solo works devised by the students themselves. Performed by Aisling Keating, Andrea Knonbauer, Madira Pavic, Antje Schneider, Cathy Walsh, Gimauro Vitorio.

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Tony McManus

Tuesday April 15TH

Tony McManus (guitar)

Contemporary Dance Day

In little over ten years as a professional musician, Tony McManus has come to be recognised throughout the world as the leading guitarist in Celtic music. With the loyal support of Greentrax Recordings in Scotland Tony’s first self titled recording in 1996, followed by Pourquoi Quebec in 1999 led to worldwide recognition. However, it was with the release of Ceol More in 2002 that Tony’s stature as a first class musician reached a new level. Having heard his session work on several albums Nashville based Compass Records released “Ceol More” in North America to universally ecstatic reviews. Having been nominated as Musician of the Year by both the BBC Folk Awards and The Scottish Traditional Music awards, in 2002 “Ceol More” hit the Critic’s Album of the Year list in Acoustic Guitar magazine and named “Live Ireland Awards” Album of the Year. He is now invited annually to the Chet Atkins Festival in Nashville, and recently appeared at the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in the “All Star Guitar Night” featuring Béla Fleck and Victor Wooten and headlined by the legendary Les Paul.Today his live work ranges from intimate solo performance through various duos with friends Bruce Molsky, Liam O’Flynn, Martin Simpson, Kevin Burke, Alison Brown, Natalie MacMaster, Mairead ní Mhoanaigh and Dermot Byrne, Jean Michel Veillon, Ewen Vernal and Andy Irvine.

On Tuesday 15th April the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance in association with the Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland, will host a one- day workshop by visiting guest artists David Gordon and Ain Gordon. We are delighted to have the opportunity to provide the current and past M.A students in Contemporary Dance Performance with the opportunity to participate in the wokshop under the direction of such highly respected international artists and we would like to thank Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland for their support for this.

Thursday April 17th Ritual Chant and Song Featuring solo and ensemble performances from the students of the Irish World Academy’s MA Ritual Chant and Song.

Tuesday April 22nd Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance 1.15 and 5 pm)

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Wednesday April 23rd Students of the MA Ethnomusicology Solo and ensemble performances from the students of the Irish World Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MA Ethnomusicology, under the direction of Dr Alexandra Balandina. 5 pm: Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance

Thursday April 24th The University of Limerick Gospel Choir (In aid of Hope and Homes for Children, Romania) Since its inception, the University of Limerick Choir has performed a wide-ranging repertoire, from oratorios to spirituals and from chant to world folk music. Recently the choir has taken a new direction as the UL Gospel Choir under the guidance of Gerry Culloty, director of the Modern Gospel Ensemble, and Dave UL Gospel Choir

McGuiness, a member of this Dublin-based group. The UL Gospel Choir continues a long established affiliation with Hope and Homes for Children, Romania and performs two fundraising concerts a year to support the work of this organization. Engagements during 2006/2007 included an appearance on the Late Late Show, as backing vocals for Westlife and appearing as the opening act at a concert supporting North Tipperary Disability Support Services. Admission is free, but donations towards the work of Hope and Homes in Romania would be gratefully accepted. 5 pm: Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance

Friday April 25th Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance

Tuesday April 29th Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance (1.15 and 5 pm)

Wednesday April 30th Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance (1.15 and 5 pm)

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Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

Seminar Series 2.30 – 5 p.m.

Harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh during a lunchtime concert performance, Autumn 07

January - April 2008

Venue: Music Room B, Lower Ground Floor, Foundation Building, University of Limerick. Admission Free All Welcome

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Wednesday February 20th Dance Research Forum Ireland Seminar: ‘Ballet in Ireland’ DanceResearchForumIreland (DRFI) was founded by Dr Catherine Foley in 2003. It is a non-profit, international, interdisciplinary, inclusive, and all-embracing society for scholarship of dance in Ireland, conceived in both local and global senses. The purpose of DRFI is to encourage, promote, develop and support scholarship of Irish dance, in all its manifestations, in Ireland and abroad. The Forum provides a platform for presentation, discussion, and critical reflection on issues relating to dance in Ireland and welcomes dance scholars and dance artists, both in Ireland and abroad, from all scholarly traditions interested in dance. It is important that Ireland is represented within the global discourse in dance studies and all perspectives and disciplines relating to dance in Ireland are included in these discourses. These include, Ethnochoreology, Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore, Dance History, Gender Studies, Irish Studies, Diaspora Studies, Reconstruction, Documentation and Performance Studies. Speakers: Dr. Gráinne Mc Ardle is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama and Theatre

Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. Her PhD research at the Beckett Centre focused on Dance on the Dublin Stage between 1729 and 1743. She is an independent dance researcher and teaches dance history. Gráinne also runs a ballet school in County Kildare. Paper Title: Ballet on the Dublin Stage during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Anica Lowe was born in South Africa and attended her first ballet class at 3 years old. Anica later studied Dramatic Art in Pretoria University. In the late 1970s Anica came to Ireland and established Shawbrook Dance School in Co Longford in response to what she felt was a great need for serious dance training in Ireland. Shawbrook Dance School started in a grain barn for local student and has grown into a hideaway and retreat centre for dancers from around the world. Paper Title: Ballet, its place in Ireland today with regard to preparing students for 3rd level education abroad. Stephen Brennan started dancing lessons at the Elliott-Clarke School in Liverpool before continuing training at Bush Davies School, Sussex, graduating in 1984. Since then he has danced with many of Europe’s ballet companies including London Ballet Theatre, Malmö Stadsteater Balett (Sweden), The

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National Norwegian Ballet and The Scottish Ballet. Stephen joined Ballet Ireland in 1999 and since his appointment as Educational Officer a year later has developed the company’s extensive outreach programme. He has choreographed two short works for Ballet Ireland, ‘Figaro, Faktotem’ (2003) and ‘School for Lovers’ (2004). Stephen is the first member of his family to return to Ireland after his grand parents’ departure. Paper Title: Outreach work and the development of an informed Irish ballet audience. Dr Geraldine Morris is a senior lecturer at Roehampton University London. After training and performing with the National Ballet School and Company (Ireland), she danced with The Royal Ballet from 1963 to 1971 during which time she worked with some of the foremost choreographers in ballet in the 20th century. These include Frederick Ashton, Bronislava Nijinska and Antony Tudor. Geraldine subsequently entered higher education and completed a PhD in 2000. Paper Title: Irish Ballet Rachel Goode a graduate from Ballet Rambert, London, is an experienced teacher an administrator, a registered teacher of The Royal Academy of Dance and the Imperial Society of teachers of Dancing. She has been teaching

since 1989 and has had 100% success rate in all graded and vocational exams Paper Title: Transition Year Dance Module Chair: Victoria O’Brien trained at the Irish National College of Dance and with Dublin City Ballet. She completed her undergraduate studies in Performance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Her postgraduate studies were awarded from the Laban Centre, London, and the University of Limerick. In 1992, Victoria helped to establish, and then directed for six years, a full-time post-leaving certificate dance programme at Sallynoggin College of Further Education, Co. Dublin. After teaching in Paris for five years,Victoria returned to Ireland to continue her studies into the history of Irish ballet. She is currently completing a PhD thesis entitled: “A History of Irish Ballet from 1927 to 1963.”

Wednesday March 5th ‘Lines and Spaces: The Role of Music in the Creation of Community’ Speakers: Mary Louise O’Donnell (Irish World Academy) Mary O’Donnell is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin B. Mus (hons) and also holds a Higher Diploma in Education and a Masters in Musicology from University College Dublin. She

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has toured extensively with different groups throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Mary is an Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Science Government of Ireland Scholar at the Irish World Academy. Her PhD research is entitled ‘Custodians of Culture: A Social, Musicological and Cultural History of the Irish Harp and its Patronage from 17901840’. She is working under the supervision of Professor Tom Moylan (Utopian Studies), Dr Ruan O’Donnell (Irish History) and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance). Paper Title: Between the lines: the Irish harp and its utopian space from 1780-1820 Robert Hunter worked in props and scenery in theatre, film and television production, with occasional forays into cultural studies teaching. He is an amateur musician with a developing research interest in music theatre. Paper Title: Utopian Transformation in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Der Silbersee On the cusp of the Weimar Republic’s transition to the Nazi era the production and public reception of these works by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Kaiser embody the social and ideological conditions of the time and were founded on a critique of these same conditions. With particular

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reference to Weill’s musical gests this paper will explore how these works dramatise Utopia as explicitly modelled content, represented desire and transformative agency.

Ruth Leviatas

Ruth Leviatas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol where she has taught since 1979. She was co-founder and from 1988 to 2006 Chair of the Utopian Studies Society Europe, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on Utopian themes, and is currently Chair of the William Morris Society. She has written widely on aspects of utopia, as well as on contemporary political discourses, inequality and social exclusion. The Concept of Utopia, first published in 1990, is shortly to be re-issued in the Ralahine Classics series. She is currently working on a book on the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, which looks at utopia as quest and method, the first part of which will address the relationships between music, art and utopia. A second project is concerned with memory, utopia and place drawing on William Morris’s legacy in Hammersmith, where she grew up. Paper Title: ‘In eine bessre Welt entrückt’: music and utopia’

Chair: Professor Tom Moylan (University of Limerick)Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English and Director of the Ralahine Center for Utopian

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Studies at the University of Limerick. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin; and he has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, the Crawford College of Art, George Mason University, and Liverpool John Moores University. He has held visiting research fellowships at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies in Wisconsin-Milwaukee; the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; the Faculty of Arts at NUI-Galway, and the Institute for Irish Studies at Queens University, Belfast. He has served as Director of the Ecology Studies Program, University of WisconsinWaukesha, and the Center for the Study of the Americas, George Mason University. He is the author of Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination; Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia; and numerous essays on sf, utopia, theology, and cultural studies. He is co-editor of Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch (with Jamie Owen Daniel); Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination (with Raffaella Baccolini); Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (with Raffaella Baccolini): and Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (with Michael J. Griffin). He is Series Editor (with Joachim Fischer) of the Ralahine Utopian Studies book series. The series publishes scholarship and creative work that addresses or expresses the theory and practice of utopianism in any of its

historical or contemporary manifestations. He is currently supervising two PhD students: Deirdre ni Cuanachain, “Utopianism and the Irish Cultural Imagination 1720-1820: Language, Literature and Memory,” and Mary Lou O’Donnell, “Utopian Dimensions of the Irish Harp.”

Wednesday March 12th Music Therapy Seminar

Andrea Intveen

Speakers: Andrea Intveen was born in Freiburg, Germany, where she completed her social work studies in 1993. One year later, she moved to Ireland and worked in two anthroposophical Camphill Communities in Counties Wexford (Duffcarrig) and Kilkenny (Ballytobin) as a carer for children and adults with special needs and as a music therapy assistant. In 2000 she began to study music therapy at the MA in Music Therapy at the “Irish World Music Centre” (now called “Irish World Academy of Music and Dance”) of the University of Limerick. Since her qualification in 2002, she has mainly worked with children and adults with special needs as a music therapist in various special schools and other facilities in Counties Cork and Limerick. She was the music skills tutor in the MA in Music Therapy at the University of Limerick from 2002 to 2006. In the

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second half of 2006 she moved to Northern Ireland briefly to work, until she returned to Germany in December 2006 to take up the post as a scientific assistant in the music therapy department of the Berlin University of the Arts. Andrea is holding a state registration as a music therapist with the U.K. Health Professions Council and is currently undertaking PhD studies dealing with anthroposophical music therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick (supervised by Dr. Jane Edwards), while still continuing her work in Berlin. John Billing John Billing was born in England in 1952, went to Art College after school, played folk/blues guitar and learnt to play the lyre while working in special needs education in 1976. He studied Music Therapy in Berlin 1980 and taught school music from 1984 in Australia. Since 1995 he has been an independent composer and performer with lyre, working as a music teacher with special needs adults and children in Camphill Communities in Northern Ireland. Since 1999, he has been director/conductor of the Celtic Lyre Orchestra in Northern Ireland, as well as composer/performer with Castalia Eurythmy since Spring 2006. When not touring he lives in Stroud, England. Paper Title: “The Modern Lyre in Therapy and Performance”

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Chair: Professor Jane Edwards (Irish World Academy, UL) Professor Jane Edwards, Senior Lecturer, is Course Director of the MA Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. She holds a Guest Professorship at the Institute for Music Therapy in the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, and is a By-Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Jean Edwards

She is Chair of the Commission for Government Accreditation in the World Federation of Music Therapy. She is a reviewer for the Australian Journal of Music Therapy and serves on the Editorial Board. She has published in a number of the music therapy journals including Music Therapy Perspectives, Arts in Psychotherapy, Australian Journal of Music Therapy, British Journal of Music Therapy, and the New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy. Her past research has focussed on the role of music therapy in meeting the needs of children who are hospitalised for injury or illness. She is currently researching the role of music therapy in addressing the needs of older adults who are receiving care in hospital.

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Wednesday March 19th Community Music Seminar ‘Community Music in Ireland’ East Clare Community Musician and graduate of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (IWA) at University of Limerick, Paul Browne, will introduce Dr Lee Higgins of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Phil Mullen of SoundPeople UK and Jean Downey, Chairperson of the Community Music board (Irish World Academy) This seminar will review current activities in Ireland, the UK and internationally. Participants will discuss and consider in open forum, the challenges and obstacles that lie ahead here and at how community musicians might learn from international experiences while planning together for the future.

Speakers: Paul Browne (Irish World Academy, UL). Based in East Clare, Paul Browne has been engaged in Community Music projects in the Health, Criminal Justice and educational sectors. He is editor of ‘Community Music Ireland’ the newsletter for community musicians. A multiinstrumentalist, specialising in guitar, he has a wide and varied performance background that includes Jazz, Blues, Country, Bluegrass and traditional Irish styles.

Dr. Lee Higgins (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts . Dr. Lee Higgins, of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts is chair of the International Society of Music Education’s (ISME) commission for Community Music Activity and joint editor of the International Journal of Community Music http://www.intellectbooks.com/. As a community musician he has worked across the education sector as well as within health settings, prison and probation service, youth and community, and orchestra outreach. As a musician he plays guitar, mainly electric popular styles, Brazilian hand held percussion and Cuban congas. He has worked as a composer, primarily in collaboration with other art forms, particularly dance. His professional practice embraces a gamut of music genres; most notably samba drumming, improvisation, pop/ rock, and music technology also combining the non-traditional performance space such as the use of site-specific and environmental possibilities in performance. Phil Mullen (Goldsmiths College London) Phil Mullen is an Irish community musician based in London and working in Southern England and internationally. He specialises in training community musicians which he did for Goldsmiths College, London University from 1990 to 2007. He now continues this work

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John Baily, Professor of Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, has researched and performed Afghan music since the 1970s. In 1984 he was awarded a Leverhulme Film Training Fellowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute at the National Film and Television School, and directed two feature-length 16mm documentary films, Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician’s Life in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Lessons from Gulam: Asian Music in Bradford. This film is about his recent work on Afghan music in London and London’s musical communications with Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora, funded by the AHRC’s Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme.

with a number of universities and community based training organisations. He directs a performance based educational project, the Open Ear Orchestra for the London Philharmonic Orchestra which focuses on composition and improvisation. He runs a 12 person community music team Soundpeople in London and the South east of England specialising in working with young people both inside and outside school environments. Phil has been involved with the ISME CMA since 1996 and was chair of the commission in 2004.

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Projection of film Scenes of Afghan Music. London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin. (97 mins). Followed by discussion with Professor John Baily.

Music Therapy Seminar

Veronica Doubleday and John Baily

David Aldridge

Speakers: David Aldridge David Aldridge has the Chair for Qualitative Research in Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke Germany. He specializes in developing research methods suitable for various therapeutic initiatives, including the creative arts therapies, complementary medicine and nursing. He teaches and supervises research in medicine, music therapy, the creative arts and nursing. He is also Visiting professor for the Creative Arts

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Therapies in the Dementia Care Group at the University of Bradford UK. Along with Lutz Neugebauer, he is co-director of the Nordoff/ Robbins Zentrum in Witten, Germany where they offer musical resources to the local community. He has worked in various community research programs bringing together medicine and the arts. In the 1980s he was Senior Research Fellow at St: Mary’s Medical School, London and participated in the inception of The Marylebone Project. This project included a general medical practice, various complementary medical approaches, music therapy and Christian healing within the same building. From this experience he also contributed to the literature regarding complementary medicine, including the first handbook of research methodologies in this field (Lewith, G and Aldridge, D. Clinical research methodology for complementary therapies. Hodder and Stoughton: London 1993). In recent years this work concerning spirituality has been extended and culminated in his book ‘Spirituality, healing and medicine: Return to the silence’ Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London 2000 as part of his work in integrated medicine. His work with music therapy was published in 1997 as ‘Music therapy research and practice in medicine’ by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London. The same publisher presents his newest books ‘Melody in Music Therapy: a Therapeutic Narrative Analysis’ 2008.

Paper Title: Performing health. Health is not a commodity but an activity that is structured like improvised music. In this presentation, we will see in a variety of video examples how people respond to music and making music in various health-related contexts.

Dr Simon Gilbertson

Dr. Simon Keith Gilbertson Dr. Simon Gilbertson is Junior Lecturer on the MA in Music Therapy program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. As a music therapy clinician he has worked in England and Germany in a range of clinical settings including work with children and adolescents with autism, children and adults with cancer, neurological illness and disease. He has extensive experience working with people affected by traumatic brain injury and completed his doctoral research on music improvisation with people with traumatic brain injuries related to road traffic incidents in 2004. He has worked as a research assistant on a systematic literature review project led by Professor David Aldridge at the Chair of Qualitative Research in Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany. Simon Gilbertson has presented internationally and been published in a number of peerreviewed journals. He is developing a focus on qualitative research methods that incorporate musicological and video analysis and is an avid supporter of the creative rights of people affected by illness and trauma. He has written

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two book chapters on music therapy with people who have experienced traumatic brain injury and has written his first book on the subject together with David Aldridge for Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Guitarist Dennis Cahill gives guitar workshop during Blas Summer School 2007

Paper Title: Music Therapy with People with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Light on a Dark Night Abstract Worldwide, survival of severe traumatic brain injury is increasing as the number of fatalities is reducing. Road traffic incidents are responsible for over 50% of all traumatic brain injuries and in terms of prevalence, road traffic accidents have been projected to increase from being the ninth most common cause of disability in 2002 to the third most common cause of life-years spent with disability (DALYs) in 2020 (World Health Organization, 2002). To meet the needs of these individuals we are challenged as a society to find adequate responses and to develop relevant and effective therapy strategies in rehabilitation. Internationally, music therapy has increasingly been applied to meet these needs successfully during the past three decades. In this paper, Dr. Simon Gilbertson will present the background, methods and results of the first research study which investigates the use of music improvisation in the early neurorehabilitation with people who have experienced severe traumatic brain injury related to road traffic incidents.

Singer Len Graham during a lunchtime concert performance at the Irish World Academy, Autumn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;07 www.mauricegunning.com

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Research and is a previous chair of the NEA Dance Programme and a previous Chair of the NEA Dance Program.

Tuesday April 15th Contemporary Dance Day On Tuesday 15th April the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance in association with the Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland will host a one day workshop by visiting guest artists David Gordon and Ain Gordon. We are delighted to have the opportunity to provide the current and past M.A Contemporary Dance Performance students with the opportunity to participate in the workshop under the direction of such highly respected international artists and we would like to thank Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland for their support for this.

David Gordon

David Gordon is a director/choreographer/ editor whose commissions for directing &/or choreographing include: American Ballet Theater, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dance Theater of Harlem, White Oak Dance Project, British Dance Umbrella, Barbican Centre, On The Boards, Joyce Theater, Theater For a New Audience, Guthrie Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave, Serious Fun@Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival USA, The Actors Studio, PBS/WNET Great Performances, PBS/KTCA Alive TV, BBC 1 & 2, Channel 4, UK. He is a current member of The Actors Studio and the Center for Creative

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Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award winning writer, director, and actor, a two-time NYFA fellow and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in playwriting. Currently, Gordon is developing an alternative historical portrait of Lexington, KY, funded by the NEA and Rockefeller MAP Fund, for production this coming spring by LexArts in association with the Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guild. Previously, Gordon has been commissioned/ produced/presented by Soho Rep, New York Theater Workshop, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, Dancing In The Streets, the Public Theatre (all in NYC), and (with David Gordon) by American Repertory Theatre (MA), American Conservatory Theater (CA), and American Music Theater Festival (PA). He has also written for the NBC series Will & Grace. He has received fellowships/grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Peg Santvoord Foundation among others. As a performer, Gordon was most recently seen in the extended Off-Broadway run of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell at the Minetta Lane Theatre.

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Thursday 26th – Sunday 29th June Dance Research Forum Ireland’s 2nd International Conference hosted by The Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry Dance Research Forum Ireland’s (DRFI) 2nd International Conference takes place at the Institute of Technology, Tralee, Co. Kerry, in June 2008. The theme of the conference is: Mediating Movement: Communication and Dance. The conference, in keeping with the aims and objectives of DRFI, provides a platform for both dance academics and dance artists in Ireland and abroad. Included in its programme are academic-based paper presentations, practice-based research presentations, lecture demonstrations, dance workshops, a student poster exhibition, and dance performance contributions. Please visit DRFI’s website: www. danceresearchforumireland.org The conference explores the diverse concepts and methods through which we perform, research, communicate and contextualise dance. What are the challenges and rewards of embracing 21st century culture and how do we share our experience, knowledge and histories of dance? How and what does dance communicate? What are the evolving methodologies for looking at communication and dance? What is the performer-audience relationship? What is the teacher-student

relationship? How are aesthetics in dance or other cultural movement systems communicated? These and other issues relating to dance and communication will be discussed and performed at DRFI’s 2nd International Conference. For further information please contact Dr Catherine Foley at +353 61 202922 or email Catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

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June 23RD – July4th BLAS SUMMER SCHOOL OF IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE The Irish World Academy this year hosts its thirteenth annual Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music & Dance at the University of Limerick from June 23rd – July 4th. Blas offers the very best of tuition from some of Ireland’s most respected traditional musicians and dancers, including Colin Dunne, Kevin Burke, John Carty, Martin Hayes, Andy Irvine and many more. Blas is unique among summer schools in that it offers a strong academic as well as a practical content for which university accreditation is available. Classes are small to allow for further one-to-one access to the expertise of the tutors. On-campus accommodation is available in the University’s luxurious student villages. As well as intensive tuition, lectures and master classes, students can expect a whole range of activities including field trips, sessions, concerts & céilís. Further information on Blas: Carl Corcoran, Director, Blas Summer School, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Phone: + 353 61 213431 + 353 Email: carl.corcoran@ul.ie www.blas.ie

Martin Hayes gives fiddle masterclass during Blas Summer School 2007

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Community Cultural Pathways at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

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ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings

l-r Bruno Giuranna, Mariana Sirbu, Ferenc Szucs, Michael Wolf, tutors on the Academy’s MA Classical String Performance

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 Giurana (Viola), Mariana Sirbu (Violin), and Michael Wolf (Double Bass). The Cello programme is taught by the Course Leader of the MA Classical String Performance, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szucs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings. ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. 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 an unique opportunity for

the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards. ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings will be formally launched at it first public concert which will take place at The Button Factory, Curved Street Temple Bar on Wednesday March 26th, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust, with a preview performance at the Daghdha Dance Company Space, John’s Square Limerick on Tuesday March 25th.

CRUINNIÚ Cruinniú is the title of an Irish World Academy outreach initiative which has seen staff from all walks of university life engaging in weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music each Wednesday at 1.15 pm. 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. A wide range of instruments and interests are represented. Cruinniú launched an album of the same name in October 2007, the proceeds of which are being 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. The CD is available from noel.mccarthy@ul.ie .

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sponsored three Ph.D Fellowships towards the furtherance of higher education links between Northern Ireland, Scotland and Ireland. In certain cases, awards may be made at Masters level as appropriate. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, a Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye, designated as a Centre of Excellence by the emerging University of the Highlands and the Islands, and the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick are the central partners in the operation of these Fellowships. More information can be obtained from the Irish Project Officer, Michelle Ní Chróinín, at ccille@udaras.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. With a view to nurturing, networking and cooperative 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.

LEIGHEAS AN CHEOIL – MUSIC AND HEALING

COLM CILLE (The Columba Project) Colm Cille is a tripartite initiative between Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is dedicated to the aims of strengthening the Gaelic language links between the two countries and promoting a positive image of the Irish language and culture. Iomairt Cholm Cille has Matt Molloy, Niall Keegan and Paddy Moloney at the Academy’s Sionna Festival, Nov 07

Senator Cecilia Keaveney (third from left) with Professor Jane Edwards and students of the MA Music Therapy

The MA in Music Therapy provides a regular programme of activities to promote knowledge of music therapy in the wider community. Aptly titled Leigheas an Cheoil, or ‘Music and Healing’; clinical outreach, public seminars and media publicity all come under its remit. Every semester students of the MA in Music Therapy undertake clinical programmes in a range of health and educational settings in Ireland and occasionally abroad where qualified music therapists are employed. In addition, music therapy seminars and other outreach events promote music therapy professional practice as a mainstream healthcare practice in Ireland and beyond. The seminars are used to

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promote music therapy research that has been conducted in Ireland as well as making links with researchers internationally and inviting them to present. Note the Music Therapy seminars 2008 will be held on March 12th and April 9th - see seminars section of this brochure for further details. Further information: Professor Jane Edwards, Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie

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 three 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 recentlyappointed 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

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 Travellers 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. 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. A distance learning diploma in Music is due to commence in September 2008. Further information: Niall Keegan, Nomad Project Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 202565 /Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

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2007, the Sanctuary Project facilitated three unique publications – an album, and two books, detailing the stories of a number of people who have come to Ireland to build a new life through music, poetry, painting and storytelling, all of which were launched at an event entitled ‘Sharing the Story’ during the Irish World Academy’s Sionna Festival of Music and Dance. Further information: Dr Helen Phelan, Phone: + 353 61 202575, Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

THE SANCTUARY PROJECT Sanctuary 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. In addition, Sanctuary has coordinated a number of music therapy and community music projects, several world music workshops and co-sponsored a conference on ‘Music and Migration’ with the NOMAD initiative. It has sponsored the publication of two books and several CDs including ‘To Lingana’ by ‘Elikya’, the first Congolese choir in Limerick and ‘Tu es ma lumière’ by ‘Bondeko’, an Ennis based group of musicians from the DRC, Kosovo, Italy and Ireland. Sanctuary is also committed to researching the challenges and opportunities of multiculturalism in Ireland, including the first ever comprehensive review of refugees and persons with leave to remain in Limerick city to be carried out by the Reception and Integration Agency in association with the Limerick Development Board. Sanctuary works in partnership with Doras Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Limerick. In November

SHANNON FELLOWSHIP SHANNON FELLOWSHIP

Jean Ryan Hakizimana at the ‘Sharing the Story’ launch, Nov 07

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

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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 MusicA Europa in partnership with the Irish World Academy The Irish World Academy of Music and Danceunder the directorship of Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – has promoted a fruitful and flourishing collaboration with Musica Europa. The partnership, together with our other European partners, formed part of the success of winning the European Union’s Competition for Culture grant every year since 2001. Musica Europa has close links and a working relationship with the MA in Classical String Performance programme - directed by Ferenc Szűcs. This includes exchange of faculty and students, organising events, concerts, and a continuous sharing of ideas. The larger vision of the International Festival for Young

Musicians is however not limited to classical music, but encourages the dialogue between cultures, faiths, traditions, art and music of all kind within Europe and - as it is in the case of the World Youth Orchestra - the vision is extended and inclusive of all continents. AWARDS TO IRISH WORLD ACADEMY STUDENTS The EMI Music Sound Foundation has provided funding to three MA in Community Music students – Susanna Earley, Elaine Lambe and Laura Henebry The Knights of the Round Table have provided funding for 6 M. Ed (Music) students – Linda Collins, Deirdre Kinnane, Evelyn Hearns, Noeleen McCarthy, Regina Mc Carty and Mary O’Brien to travel to London to further their research at the Institute of Education, University of London The The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíonn have provided funding under Community Travel and Training to Susanna Earley, MA in Community Music student Wexford County Council Arts Office has provided an Artist’s Bursary Award to Paul Brady, MA in Community Music student

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Culture Ireland/Fulbright Ireland Fellowships

Tim Collins

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. In 2007, Irish World Academy Graduates Jimmy O’Brien Moran (PhD) and Tim Collins (MA) were awarded Culture Ireland/Fulbright Ireland Scholarships to the Irish Studies programmes at Boston College and Glucksman Ireland House, New York University respectively

Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship

[Nic Gareiss pic]

Nic Gareiss and Peter Varay

The recipient of the 2007/2008 Scholarship is Mairéad O’Connor, who is studying on the Irish World Academy’s MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. Applications to Dr Catherine Foley Phone: + 353 61 202922,

Mairead O’Connor

Gareiss teaches American clogging and tap dance locally through the Wheatland Music Organization and Vision Studio of Performing Arts in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He has studied a broad variety of percussive movement forms, focusing primarily on the dance traditions associated with North American fiddle music. In his teens, Gareiss received dual scholarships from the Wheatland Music Organization and the Augusta Heritage Center to apprentice with the internationally recognized company, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble. The grant from the Professor Don Barry allows him to further his study of Irish Traditional Dance and to continue to exert a wonderful influence on the Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance by his presence.

RTE lyric fm Scholarship recipients

President’s Grant Professor Don Barry, UL President, has awarded a special grant to Nic Gareiss, a student of music and anthropology at Central Michigan University, to extend his stay to a full year at the Irish World Academy, where he spent the Autumn 07 semester as a JYA student. Nic

Lisa Dowdall and Aodan O Dubhghaill, Director of RTE Lyric fm.

Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Director of RTÉ lyric fm with Péter Varáy (cello) and Lisa Dowdall (violin), both of whom have just been awarded RTE lyric fm Scholarships to complete the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Mr Ó Dubhghaill, in awarding the scholarships commented: “The MA in Classical String Performance has been a spring-board for so many musicians who have gone on to careers throughout the world. RTÉ lyric fm, through its scholarship programme, is delighted to have

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helped so many musicians and we continue to monitor their careers as they rise both nationally and internationally”

MusicA Europa in partnership with the Irish World Academy

IRISH TRADITIONAL DANCE AWARDS Jennifer Madisson from County Meath learned her dancing at Scoil Rince Ni Chearra O Baoláin. This year she won the Leinster title at Oireachtas Laighean in Mullingar. She is a second year student on the BA Irish Music and Dance. Michelle Enright from Limerick is a final year student on the BA Irish Music and Dance . She is currently the Senior Ladies Champion for the Muster Region and learned her dancing at Scoil Uí Nualláin . Michelle Enright & Jennifer Madisson

Both are students of the Irish World Academy’s BA Irish Music and Dance and will represent their respective provinces at the 2008 World Championships in Irish dance which will be held in Belfast in March.

Mariana Sirbu with student at the Irish World Academy

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance has promoted a fruitful and flourishing collaboration with Musica Europa. The partnership, together with our other European partners, formed part of the success of winning the European Union’s Competition for Culture grant every year since 2001. Musica Europa has close links and a working relationship with the MA in Classical String Performance programme - directed by Ferenc Szűcs. This includes exchange of faculty and students, organising events, concerts, and a continuous sharing of ideas. The larger vision of the International Festival for Young Musicians is however not limited to classical music, but encourages the dialogue between cultures, faiths, traditions, art and music of all kind within Europe and - as it is in the case of the World Youth Orchestra - the vision is extended and inclusive of all continents.

Lebanese singer Marie Keyrouz performing at St Mary’s Cathedral during the Sionna Festival, November 2007

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Cónaí: Artists in Residence at the University of Limerick

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LUCERNARIUM Lucernarium is a vocal ensemble based at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and directed by Dr. Helen Phelan and Óscar Mascareñas. The ensemble is run in association with the MA in Chant and Ritual Song and it specialises in Gregorian chant and other religious ritual vocal repertoires. While the ensemble sings primarily within liturgical contexts, national recitals include performances at the Chester Beatty library and as part of the Anáil Dé, Breath of God Festival of World Sacred Music. The ensemble also sang the Good Friday liturgy which was broadcast for RTE television from St. John’s Cathedral, Limerick, in 2004. The group released its first CD. ‘Cuairt/Visitation’ in Autumn 2005 and performed at the Irish World Academy’s Sionna Festival in 2007.

IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The Irish Chamber Orchestra is highly distinguished national institution fulfilling a broad remit both nationally and internationally. Consisting of top Irish and international string players, the orchestra has gained a reputation as a vibrant, refreshing, impacting and influential force on the classical and contemporary music scene. Under the dynamic leadership of music director Nicholas McGegan, the Irish Chamber Orchestra excels in repertoire ranging from the Irish Chamber Orchestra

baroque and classical, through the romanticism of Tchaikovsky and Elgar, to modern day masterpieces by Philip Glass and commissions by Irish composers such as Raymond Deane, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Bill Whelan. While enjoying a very busy touring schedule within Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s unique personality has charmed audiences the world over; most recently, it undertook a tour to five of the new E.U. member states, a groundbreaking tour of South Korea and China and has also toured to the U.K., France, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia and the U.S. performing in venues including the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican in London, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Kennedy Centre in Washington. The orchestra maintains associations with celebrated international artists including English violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy, Italian viola player Bruno Giuranna, violinists Mariana Sirbu (Principal Guest Director), Ernst Kovacic and Günter Pichler and pianists Maria Joao Pires, Stephen Kovacevich and Hugh Tinney.The Irish Chamber Orchestra is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Chief Executive: John Kelly Artistic Director: Anthony Marwood General Manager: Nicholas Winter Press Officer: Charlotte Eglington Marketing Manager: Boris Hunka Friends: Margaret Kelly Sponsorship and Development: Nick Fielding Further information: + 353 61 202620 Email: ico@ul.ie www.icorch.com

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UNIVERISTY OF LIMERICK GOSPEL CHOIR

University of Limerick Gospel Choir

Since its inception, the University of Limerick Choir has performed a wide spectrum of repertoire, ranging from oratorios to spirituals and from chant to world folk songs. Under its directo Gerry Culloty, the choir is exploring new terrain and has re-invented itself as the UL Gospel Choir. Mr. Culloty is also the director of the Dublin-based Modern Gospel Ensemble. The choir continues its long established affiliation with’Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a yearfor the organisation. In addition, it performed as part of the multiculturalconcert celebrating International Human Rights Day for Doras Luimní.

SÍLE DENVIR DOCTORAL SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE Rugadh agus tógadh an t-amhránaí seannóis agus an cláirseoir Síle Denvir i nGaeltacht Chonamara. Bhain sí amach céim BA sa Ghaeilge agus sa cheol in Ollscoil na hÉireann Maigh Nuad i 2002. Chuaigh sí as sin chuig Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh, áit ar bhain sí amach Máistreacht sa Ghaeilge. Mar chuid den mháistreacht sin scríobh sí tráchtas dár teideal ‘Dearcadh an tSaoil – Amhráin Chiaráin Uí Fhátharta’, eagrán criticiúil d’amhráin a chum an t-amhránaí Conamaraíoch Ciarán Ó Fátharta, maille le

Sile Denvir

réamhaiste chomhthéacsúil. Foilseoidh Cló IarChonnachta an tráchtas seo i 2007. I 2004 bhain sí amach Dioplóma Iarchéime in Oideachas an Cheoil in Ionad Cheol Cruinne na hÉireann agus d’fhan sí san áit chéanna i 2005 chun Máistreacht i dTaibhléiriú an Cheoil Traidisiúnta a dhéanamh. Faoi láthair tá sí ag tabhairt faoi thráchtas dochtúireachta faoi stiúir an Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire agus an Ollaimh Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Síle Denvir is a harp player and sean-nós singer from the Connemara Gaeltacht. She received her BA in Irish and Music from NUI Maynooth and then went on to do a Masters degree in Irish in NUI, Galway. Her Master’s thesis, ‘Dearcadh an tSaoil – Amhráin Chiaráin Uí Fhátharta’ is an edition of songs composed by the Connemara songwriter Ciarán Ó Fátharta, including a critical analysis of the songs and their context. This thesis will be published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta in 2007. In 2004 she completed the Graduate Diploma in Music Education at the Irish World Academy and in 2005 she received an MA in Traditional Irish Music Performance also at the Academy. She is currently working on a doctoral thesis under the joint supervision of Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

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Mary Louise O’Donnell IRCHSS Scholar-in-Residence

Mary Louise O’Donnell

Mary O’Donnell is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin B. Mus (hons) and also holds a Higher Diploma in Education and a Masters in Musicology from University College Dublin. She has toured extensively with different groups throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Mary is an Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Science Government of Ireland Scholar at the Irish World Academy. Her PhD research is entitled ‘Custodians of Culture: A Social, Musicological and Cultural History of the Irish Harp and its Patronage from 17901840’. She is working under the supervision of Professor Tom Moylan (Utopian Studies), Dr Ruan O’Donnell (Irish History) and Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance).

MAURICE GUNNING PHOTOGRAPHER-IN-RESIDENCE Maurice Gunning has been working as Photographer in Residence since 2004 with the Irish World Academy. Concentrating on fine art documentary photography as well as specializing in dance, music and theatre photography Maurice has worked with many of the country’s leading traditional & classical musicians and contemporary & traditional dancers. Maurice is currently studying for an

Maurice Gunning

MFA at the University of Wales is travelling to Argentina in spring 2008 to work on a large photographic project. He has received grants from the Irish Heritage Council as well as commissions from theatre companies, actors and independent musicians. CD artwork and design are also incorporated into his commissioned work. There have been several solo photographic exhibitions in recent years and a forthcoming photo book. The photographs throughout this brochure are all examples of his work documenting events at the Irish World Academy. www.mauricegunning.com info@mauricegunning.com

Students of the BA Irish Music and Dance perform at the Sionna Festival, Nov 07

Fiddler Frankie Gavin and box-player Christy Leahy, lunchtime concert Autumn ‘07

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Clár Programmes at the Irish World Academy Of Music and Dance

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BA IRISH MUSIC & DANCE Sandra Joyce, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202159, Email: Sandra.joyce@ul.ie Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, Lecturer in Dance Phone: + 353 61 202159, Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie Mats Melin, Lecturer in Dance Phone: + 353 61 202542, Email: mats.melin@ul.ie

MA MUSIC THERAPY: Professor Jane Edwards, Course Director. (On sabattical) Email: jane.edwards@ul.ie Dr Simon Gilbertson, Acting Course Director Phone: + 353 61 234358, Email: simon.gilbertson@ul.ie

MA IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Niall Keegan, Course Director Phonr: + 353 61 202565, Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie

MA RITUAL CHANT AND SONG: Dr Helen Phelan, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202575, Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

MA CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE: Ferenc Szucs, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202918, Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

MA ETHNOMUSICOLOGY: Alexandra Balandina, Acting Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202966, Email: alexandra.balandina@ul.ie

M. Ed (Music) GRAD. DIP EDUCATION (Music): Jean Downey, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 213160, Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

MA COMMUNITY MUSIC:

Alison Ledger, Lecturer, Music Therapy (half-time). Email: Alison.ledger@ul.ie

Community Music Board: Jean Downey (Chair) Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Dr. Helen Phelan Phone: + 353 61 202590, 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

MA ETHNOCHOREOLOGY: 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

Tommy Peoples and Siobhan Peoples, lunchtime concert series, Oct 07

Dancer Colin Dunne during a workshop at the Blas Summer School 2007

SCHOLARSHIPS

AT THE 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.

Traditional Performance. The Trustees of Muckross House have generously donated a scholarship which is available to students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance.

Patrons Sir George Martin Sir Paul McCartney Yoko Ono Sir Simon Rattle Sir Cliff Richard Diana Ross Mstislav Rostropovich Tina Turner

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

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

The PADDY CLANCY Memorial Scholarship for Traditional Song Mary Clancy, wife of the late Paddy Clancy, has established this scholarship to honour Paddy’s pioneering work with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Further information: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone + 353 61 202990 Email: sandra.joyce@ul.ie

THE RTÉ lyric fm SCHOLARSHIP FOR TRUSTEES OF MUCKROSS HOUSE

CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE

SCHOLARSHIP FOR

Irish Traditional Dance The Muckross House Folk Museum in Killarney Co Kerry has links with the Irish World Academy through Dr Catherine Foley, director of the MA Irish

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

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is available to students wishing to study on the MA in Classical String Performance. Applications to Ferenc Szucs, Director, MA Classical String Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202918/ Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

IOMAIRT CHOLM CILLE DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS Iomairt Cholm Cille is a tripartite initiative between Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is dedicated to the aims of strengthening the Gaelic language links between the two countries and promoting a positive image of the Irish language and culture. Iomairt Cholm Cille has sponsored three PhD Fellowships towards the furtherance of higher education links between Northern Ireland, Scotland and Ireland. Sabhal Mór Ostaig, a Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye, designated as a Centre of Excellence by the emerging University of the Highlands and the Islands, and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick are the central partners in the operation of these Fellowships. More information can be obtained from the Irish Project Officer, Michelle Ní Chróinín, at ccille@udaras.ie

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY RESEARCH FEE WAIVERS

available for PhD research students at the Irish World Academy. There is no application deadline for these fee waivers, which will be discussed as part of the consultative process in assessing any research application. Enquiries for doctoral research should be addressed in the first instance to the appropriate course director specialist or to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202590, Email: Melissa.carty@ul.ie In the case of all scholarships, the deadline for receipt of applications is March 1st 2008. Late applications will be considered for any scholarships still available after the March 1st deadline. All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.

AMHRÁNAÍ CÓNAITHE AR AN SEAN-NÓS (Sean-nós Singer-in-Residence) Tá iarratais á lorg d’amhránaí cónaithe ar an sean nós in Ionad na nAmhrán, Damh Cruinne Éireann, Ollscoil Luimnigh. Is faoi choimirce Fhoras na Gaeilge atá an ceapachán á mhaoiniú. Roghnófar an t-iarrthóir is fearr ar a c(h)omhghníomhú le haon cheann de na cúrsaí M.A. ag ICCÉ. Rinne roinnt de na hamhránaithe a ceapadh cheana staidéar ar an MA Cantaireachta agus Amhrán an Deasghnátha agus are an MA san Eitneacheoleolaíocht. Feicfear sonraí na gcúrsaí atá ar

A limited number of full or partial fee waivers are

Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo performing at the Sionna Festival, Nov 2004

fail ag an ICCÉ ina n-iomláine ar shuíomh idirlín an ionaid [www.irishworldacademy.ie]. Ba chóir d’aon iarrthóir gur spies leis/leí tuilleadh eolais faoi choinníollacha aon chúrsa ar leith teagmháil a dhéanamh, de réir an tsuímh idirlín, le Stiúrthóir an chúrsa sin. Ba cheart iarratas, le CV a sheoladh chuig ‘Amhránaí Cónaithe ar an sean-nós’. Ionad na nAmhrán, Ionad Cheol Cruinne Éireann, Ollscoil Luimnigh, Luimneach. Tuilleadh eolais: Teil: + 353 61 202149; Ríomhphost: melissa.carty@ul.ie

SEAN-NÓS SINGER-IN-RESIDENCE (Amhránaí Cónaithe ar an Sean-nós) The Irish World Music Academy of Music and Dance invites applications for Sean-Nós Singer-in-Residence. This initiative is sponsored by Foras na Gaeilge. The successful applicant will be chosen on the understanding that he or she will undertake one of the Irish World Academy’s MA programmes during the year-long residency. Previous Sean-Nós Singers in Residence at the Academy have engaged in both the MA in Chant and Ritual Song and the MA in Ethnomusicology. Details of all Irish World Academy MA programmes is available on the website at www.irishworldacademy. ie Applications with a CV should be sent to ‘Sean-Nós Singer in Residence’, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick. Further information: Phone + 353 61 202590; Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie

OTHER PROGRAMMES & ARTS OFFICES

Other Programmes

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: GRADUATE DIPLOMA/ MASTER OF ARTS IN DANCE (Part Time)

College of Informatics & Electronics: The Interaction Design Centre (IDC) MA in Interactive Multimedia

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: Ms. Teresa Leahy, Department: Physical Education and Sport Sciences. Phone:353-61-202807, Email: Teresa.Leahy@ul.ie

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 Fernstrom, Phone: + 353 61 202606, Email: mikael.fernstrom@ul.ie www.csis.ul.ie

College of Informatics & Electronics: The Centre for Computational Musicology & computer Music MA/MSc in Music Technology

The Master’s Degree in Music Technology is a 12month 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

cross-campus ventures with the Irish World Music Centre. Faculty Dr. Gareth Cox (Head of Department) Dr. Paul Collins Dr. Michael Murphy Gwen Moore Dr. John O’Flynn Karen Power (Music Technician) Colette Davis (Staff Accompanist) Departmental Enquiries: Secretary: +353 61 204507 e-mail: musicinfo@mic.ul.ie Website: www.mic.ul.ie

ARTS OFFICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK 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 2,700. 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 @ €6,600 p.a. plus fee waiver available). Regular choral and chamber concerts (see website) are a vital part of the life of the Department. There are close ties and many

ARTS OFFICER: Patricia Moriarty Phone + 353 61 20 2130 patricia.moriarty@ul.ie VISUAL ARTS OFFICER: Yvonne Davis Phone + 353 61 21 3052 Yvonne.davis@ul.ie IRISH LANGUAGE OFFICER/ Stiúrthóir NA GAEILGE: Deirdre Ní Loingsigh Phone: + 353 61 213463 deirdre.niloingsigh@ul.ie

FURTHER INFORMATION ON ALL MA PROGRAMMES, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FEE WAIVERS CAN BE HAD FROM THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY WEBSITE: