Of Our Times (Autumn 08) by Michael McCabe

Altan accordioist Dermot Byrne at a lunchtime concert, April ‘08

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Contents Lunchtime Concert Series Seminars Special Events Bealach/Community Cultural Pathways Cónaí/Artists in Residence Clár/Irish World Academy MA and BA programmes Scholarships Other Programmes and Arts Offices

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Cothrom na Féinne do Chultúir na Cruinne FAIR PLAY FOR WORLD CULTURES A new logo/strap line for the Irish World Academy is ‘Cothrom na Féinne do Chultúir na Cruinne’, with its English translation - ‘Fair Play for World Cultures’. A less informal translation might have been ‘Parity of Esteem for World Cultures’, but the notion of ‘fair play’ is one well embedded in the consciousness of HibernoEnglish, and it carries with it a resonance with play as performance. It also has a sympathetic resonance with ‘fair trade’. ‘Fair play to you’ is a very common phrase used in Ireland to mean ‘well done’. It has also appeared in Irish language conversation as ‘fair play dhuit’ (from duit = to you). Our contribution to fair play for world cultures is through performing arts education and research. To that end we have two new degree programmes in action or in the offing. The first is a four-year BA Voice and Dance which commenced in September 2008 with its very first intake of students. Designed to bring singers and dancers together from many cultures, it was launched this year by Bobby McFerrin at a historic concert in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, where this great global singer took to the stage with some thirty singers and dancers from the Irish World Academy. A second programme, PhD Performance Studies, will begin in 2009 to coincide with the opening of the new 5000 square meter home of the Irish World Academy on the banks of the Shannon. Situated on the Clare side of the

University of Limerick campus, the Academy building (designed by French architect, Daniel Cordier) will house two performance theatres, an extensive suite of music and dance studios, and a specially designed research centre for doctoral studies along with many other features. The presence of the research centre and the performance theatres alongside one another represents clearly the interplay between research and performance, between thinking and doing, that is such a vital part of the Academy’s ethos. The Stepping Stones initiative is yet another forthcoming energy at the Irish World Academy. Over the next two years, new programmes in theatre-linked arts will be announced and brought on stream to interface with the music and dance programmes already in action. The first international gathering of consultants from USA, Canada, Brazil, and Europe took place in 2008, and the Stepping Stones vision is already beginning to emerge. Of the many innovative actions in our programmes over the past year, one stands out for its particular breath of vision: ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings. This graduate orchestra led by members of the resident Irish Chamber Orchestra was launched at its inaugural Dublin concert in 2008. A DVD on the project is available for viewing on our website www.irishworldacademy.ie. Plans are also underway for equivalent ensemble initiatives in other Academy programmes.

Singer Bobby McFerrin during a workshop at the Irish World Academy, May ‘08

Building work has commenced on the new Irish World Academy home, and the foundations of many of its features are already visible. Standing beside it is the newly opened home of the Irish Chamber Orchestra with it’s specially designed Rehearsal Hall, recording facilities, office suites, and rooms for visiting artists. And all of this is approached by The Living Bridge, The University of Limerick’s most impressive architectural statement in a pedestrian bridge across the Shannon that is itself a cultural experience. Computer simulated films of both the Academy building and the Living Bridge may also be viewed on www.irishworldacademy.ie. In all of this (and not least in our forthcoming practice-linked PhD Performance Studies) the challenge in the interplay of poetics and politics, of the possible and the practical, of the imagined and the existent is dependant for a balanced outcome on fair play. The power within each energy to answer to the other is noted by Seamus Heaney. …I wanted to affirm that within our individual selves we can reconcile two orders of knowledge which we might call the practical and the poetic; to affirm also that each form of knowledge redresses the other and that the frontier between them is there for the crossing.1

The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (London: Faber and Faber 1995) p.203

The Living Bridge at the University of Limerick may be taken as a symbolic invitation towards a free crossing between both such orders. That the geography of the emerging campus has placed the Irish World Academy at ‘the other side’ of the Bridge is its own statement of position.

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

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

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

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

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

Jean Downey Director Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) M. Ed (Music) Chair: MA Community Music Board (On Sabattical)

Francis Ward Acting Lecturer in Music BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202653 Email: francis.ward@ul.ie

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

Ernestine Healy Acting Course Director Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) Phone: + 353 61 213160 Email: ernestine.healy@ul.ie

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

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

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

Sandra Joyce BA Irish Music & Dance (on sabattical)

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

Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Acting Course Director BA Irish Music & Dance Phone: + 353 61 202159 Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie Aileen Dillane Lecturer BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: + 353 61 202470 Email: aileen.dillane@ul.ie

Niall Keegan Director MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Phone: + 353 61 202565 Email: niall.keegan@ul.ie Oscar Mascareñas Director BA Voice and Dance Phone: + 353 61 233762 Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie Paula Dundon Administrator Phone: + 353 61 202149 Email: paula.dundon@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

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance Emma Small, South African student of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance, April ‘08

Lunchtime Concerts Tuesdays & Thursdays 1.15 – 2.00p.m.

September to December 2008

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

www.irishworldacademy.ie

Gerry O’ Connor

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Tuesday September 16TH Patricia Clarke (fiddle) Josie Harington (song)

Patricia Clarke, Josie Harington

Josie Harrington & Patricia Clark first met in Ennis, Co.Clare, where they both now reside. Singer/ songwriter Josie Harington was born in Cork, where she began playing music with her brothers at a very young age. She is currently recording her debut album after studying sound engineering & music management in UCC and UL. Renowned for her distinctive voice, rhythmic guitar playing and innovative songwriting, in 2000 she recorded an album with the band Bruadar and also features on Patricia’s album, “The Lark’s March”. Hailed as ‘one of the Tradition’s great players’ by Siobhán Peoples, Patricia Clarke began playing the piano at a very early age, studying classical and, later, jazz. At the age of fourteen she became interested in Irish music and is currently studying for a BA in Traditional Music & Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick. In 2008 she released her solo CD entitled “The Lark’s March”.

Tuesday September 23RD Aidan O’Donnell (fiddle) Ciaran Ó Maonaigh (fiddle) Ciarán Ó Maonaigh and Aidan O’Donnell are two young fiddle players who hail from opposite ends of that most musical of counties,

Aidan O’Donnell, Ciaran Ó Maonaigh

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Donegal. Ciarán is from the Gaoth Dobhair gaeltacht in north Donegal while Aidan hails from Dunkineely in the south of the county. They are are rapidly forging a reputation for exhilarating and challenging music that draws on the rich heritage of their native place. Ciarán Ó Maonaigh was heavily influenced by his extended family when growing up including his grandfather, Francie Mooney, Altan members Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy, Derry fiddle player Dermot McLaughlin as well as the Donegal fiddle legend John Doherty. His first album Ceol a’Ghleanna/The Music of the Glen (SPINCD1008) was released in 2004 and was honoured with the TG4 “Young Traditional Musician of the Year” award in 2003. Aidan O’Donnell has been described as one of the finest young Irish musicians at present and has been acknowledged as one of the foremost emerging exponents of the fiery southwest Donegal style of fiddle playing In 2007, he won the prestigious ‘Oireachtas na Geailge’ fiddle title, and has been a regular tutor at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, at the University of Limerick for the past number of years. He released his critically acclaimed debut album in 2006, with Mayo flute player Kieran Munnelly, called ‘In Safe Hands’, which has been described as ‘a salute to the players who have gone before’ (Matt Molloy, The Chieftans). Ciarán Ó Maonaigh & Aidan O’Donnell’s album – “Fidil” was released to huge critical acclaim in Summer 2008.

Seámus Begley at the major Breton Festival de Cornuaille, Quimper. Independently, Gerry has participated in projects with such prominent musicians as Dónal Lunny, Breton guitarist Gilles Bigot and Italian pianist Antonio Breschi as well as a number of solo performances.

Cathal McConnell (flute, whistles) Gerry O’Connor (fiddle) Cathal McConnell needs little introduction to lovers of Irish music. As a founding member of The Boys of the Lough, his influence on the world of whistle playing is immense with many modern whistle players citing their exposure to Cathal McConnell as their reason for taking up the instrument. A fine traditional singer also, he has a large repertoire, including the long ballads and serious songs and also some more humorous pieces. He has featured on over twenty albums, with many of these receiving top awards as well as Grammy (USA) and Deutschen Schallplatten (Germany) nominations. McConnell’s longawaited solo CD, Long Expectant Comes At Last was released in 2002 to great critical acclaim. “Sparkling”, “immaculate” and “with dazzling ability,” said members of the national press recently to describe the music of Dundalk-born fiddler Gerry O’Connor. A founding member of the highly regarded group Skylark, Gerry recorded four albums with Skylark for Claddagh Records which featured musicians Len Graham, Garry Ó Briain and the internationally renowned button accordion player Máirtín O’Connor. He then went on to form his own very distinctive band Lá Lugh, which featured the acclaimed singer/composer Eithne Ní Uallacháin. Lá Lugh have toured extensively throughout Europe and collaborated with Anúna, and Steve Cooney and Cathal McConnell

Thursday September 25TH Aindrias de Staic (violin/storytelling)

Aindrias de Staic

Aindrias de Staic was born in Galway. His style of fiddle playing is unique to the Corrib district between Tuam & Joyce Country and is akin to the style of travelling fiddlers in Tuam & north Connemara. Also a noted story-teller, actor & playwright, Aindrias de Staic has enjoyed recent success in film, music and theatre. His solo performances include not only violin playing but also lilting (mouth music) Jaws Harp playing, singing and story-telling. His 2007 self-written one-man-show ‘Around the world on 80 Quid’ was winner of the Sweet Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 and winner of Best solo show at the New Zealand Fringe 2008. His latest show ‘The Year I got Younger’ was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe in August of this year. The documentary of the same name on Aindrias by Genevieve Bailey won best documentary at the 2008 Galway Film Fleadh. Aindrias is a graduate of the MA Community Music at the Irish World Academy and is very much looking forward to his return for this special performance.

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Neil Boland lives in Ennis, County Clare. After an extended musical training in Manchester and London, he worked for many years in Japan and New Zealand. He has performed extensively as a pianist in many countries and has been based in the west of Ireland since 2001. Traditional Dance Performance programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Tuesday September 30TH Brian Finnegan (flute) & Friends

Brian Finnegan

Brian Finnegan from Armagh, is best known for his work with the ground breaking group Flook, with whom he has played for the past 10 years. His background is firmly rooted in Irish Traditional music, and in his teens he won the prestigious All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil for flute and whistle on 6 occasions. His playing is unique, drawing influences from music the world over and combining a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance with a bold, adventurous musical imagination. His work with Flook has taken him all over the world and has produced 3 highly acclaimed albums: Flatfish, Rubai and Haven. “....he stands out in a nation of wonderful flute players, as much more than a technical virtuoso, his playing having the freewheeling lightness of touch and inspired musical understanding that flows into improvisation in real time, at reel speed” The List, May 2002

Thursday October 2

Neil Boland

Kevin Crawford

Album, Kevin has now recorded an album of duets with some of his heroes, eight of Ireland’s legendary fiddlers. In Good Company features Tommy Peoples, Martin Hayes, Frankie Gavin of DeDannan, Tony Linnane, Conor Tully, James Cullinan, Manus McGuire of Moving Cloud, and Seán Smyth of Lúnasa. Special guest musicians include guitarist Arty McGlynn, bodhrán player Jim Higgins and keyboardist Carl Hession of Moving Cloud.

Maher Aldoughy is the only Syrian to win the first prize at the Clarinet Youth Competition in Latakia, Syria in 1997. He began to study at the Damascus High Institute of Music and Drama with Anatoly Moratof.He appeared as clarinettist, singer and composer in performances around the world including performances with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra in Syria and in most of the Arab countries with Solhi AlWadi conducting the Zeriab band. Maher has also worked in Holland as a solo clarinettist for the Orpheus Opera under the conductor Jan Eizendom.

Thursday October 9TH Péter Zoltán Sebestyén (cello) Péter Zoltán Sebestyén graduated from the Franz Liszt University of Music in Budapest, Hungary. He received prices on the Kertesz and Starker Cello Competitions and special award on the Hungarian National Cello Competition in 2007. Apart from his classical music studies he also plays folk music and performed with awards winning the Zither Ensemble. Peter is currently completing his Master degree in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy.

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Kevin Crawford (flute) and Friends Maher Aldoughly (clarinet) & Neil Boland (piano) This concert is supported by Sanctuary outreach project at the Irish World Academy.

Péter Zoltán Sebestyén Kevin Crawford is one of the exceptional flute players in Irish traditional music. His virtuosity fuels the dynamic Irish band Lúnasa and the classic instrumental group Moving Cloud. Following his acclaimed solo debut ‘D’ Flute

Marmara Piano Trio: Mine Dogantan Dack (piano), Pal Banda (cello), Philippa Mo (violin) Marmara Piano Trio (was established in 2007, and has already won a major award from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council

Marmara Piano Trio

of the UK) for their research on classical chamber ensemble practice. Mine Dogantan was born in Istanbul. She studied with Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School of Music (BM, MM), and received her PhD in Music Theory from Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Scholarship of the Turkish Ministry of Education for Young Artists, and the William Petschek award for piano performance. Mine has recorded the music of JS Bach and Scriabin for WNCN, and was recently awarded an AHRC grant for her research in chamber music performance. She is currently a Research Fellow at Middlesex University, London. Pal Banda was born in Budapest, and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with his father Ede Banda, György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. A British Council Scholarship took him to Prussia Cove where he studied with Ralph Kirshbaum. Pal was Principal Cello in the Camerata Academica Salzburg and a member of The Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He was also the cellist of the Katin Piano Trio, the Fitzwilliam Quartet and the Allegri Quartet. Pal teaches at the Purcell School and is director of the Paxos International Festival. His cello is by T&L Carcassi, 1752. Philippa Mo studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London and

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and the USA and has made many appearances with Irish orchestras including giving several first performances of new works. Una has also toured throughout Europe including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy with her violinist sister Fionnuala. The duo has made a highly successful CD Irish Fantasy which was particularly well received in America and has resulted in several invitations to tour the US since 1993. The Hunt sisters featured on an hour long nationally syndicated programme broadcast to six million people right across America on National Public Radio. Her active interest in the music of Irish composers has led to a recent recording of a CD of the music of the Ulster pianist/composer Joan Trimble on the NAXOS Marco Polo label and she also recorded the piano music of E. J. Moeran, G. A. Osborne. Una Hunt is an RTE producer and broadcaster and has made several ground breaking radio documentaries, particularly in relation to Irish composers and their music.

at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Her studies were supported by the Belmore Woodgate Scholarship and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She is a founding member of Convergence Quartet, and has championed works for two violins. Various works have been written for her by David Matthews, John McCabe, Sadie Harrison, Paul Pellay, Luis Tinoco, Simone Fontanelli, Michael McIntyre and Gunther Wulff. Philippa plays a violin by Julius Cesare Gigli from 1786.

Thursday October 23

Aingeala De Burca (violin) & Una Hunt (piano)

Una Hunt

Aingeala de Burca began her study of the violin first with Sidney Griller and then Maeve Broderick at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and was awarded an honours degree in music from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1993. In addition to her freelance performing career, she is a registered music therapist and has become a nationally respected music workshop facilitator in both educational and healthcare settings, most recently with the National Concert Hall. She is also a qualified teacher of the Alexander Technique (ITM). Currently, she is in her second year of an MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy. Una Hunt is one of Ireland’s leading pianists. She has played recital programmes in Britain, Ireland

Tuesday October 28TH Dordán

Dordán Galway musicians Mary Bergin, Dearbhaill Standun and Kathleen Loughnane, collectively known as Dordán, are highly acclaimed musicians who perform a distinctive and exciting mix of traditional Irish and European music. The diversity of their musical interests is reflected in their wide ranging repertoire

which includes the liveliest of Irish reels, jigs and haunting slow airs as well as work by the European baroque composers all their music is arranged and adapted by the group members and emerges with a very exciting sound and a distinctly Irish feel.

Thursday Oct 30TH Students of MA Classical String Performance Solo and ensemble pieces from the students of the MA Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy.

Thursday November 6TH Orla Ni Bhraoin (violin) & Una Hunt (piano) Orla Ni Bhraoin

Orla Ni Bhraoin began learning violin at the age of four. Highlights of her musical career have included recitals in the NCH John Field Room, the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre and the RDS Concert Hall and touring Europe, Russia and Brazil with the European Union Youth Orchestra. She regularly performs with a variety of ensembles and orchestras from local to international level while continuing her studies towards completing the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy.

Beòlach

Tuesday November 11TH Beòlach BEÒLACH is a Gaelic word meaning ‘lively youth’. Beòlach is also one of Cape Breton’s most exciting new young bands. The group performs an energetic mix of Cape Breton, Scottish, and Irish tunes featuring piano, pipes, whistles, guitar, and two fiddles. Beòlach began at an impromptu session at the Celtic Colours Festival in 1998, and after a strong initial response has gone on to play festivals in North America and Europe. The group recorded their self titled debut album in the summer of 2001 at Lakewind Sound in Point Aconi Cape Breton. Beòlach’s performances showcase energetic performances, witty presentation and their versatility as step dancers. Although presenting these tunes in a contemporary style, Beòlach maintains a respect and understanding of Cape Breton music.

Niall Keegan

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MA Ritual Chant & Song

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Tuesday November 25TH

Students of the MA Ritual Chant and Song with Lucernarium

Contemporary Dance Performance

Students of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Students from the MA Ritual Chant and Song will present a programme of Gregorian chant, Irish traditional religious song and other ritual vocal repertoires. They will be joined by Lucernarium, a vocal ensemble based at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in association with the MA Ritual Chant and Song programme. The ensemble is currently directed by Paul McKeever and specialises in sacred vocal repertoire including chant, early polyphony, global sacred song and contemporary Irish compositions.

Tuesday November 18TH Niall Keegan (flute), Aileen Dillane (piano) Irish World Academy staff members Niall Keegan and Aileen Dillane come together for this oneoff performance. Niall Keegan is director of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at the Academy and one of Ireland’s best-known traditional musicians. His virtuosic fluteplaying style has garnered him huge critical acclaim both in Ireland and abroad. Born in the south east of England, he began playing Irish traditional flute at an early age amongst the community of first and second-generation

“AND” “There is a crack, a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.” Anthem, Leonard Cohen

musicians in and around London. He has performed extensively throughout the country and abroad in a variety of contexts and venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Project Arts Centre in Dublin, the University of Limerick Concert Hall, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Waterfront Hall in Belfast and the Galway Arts Centre. He is the author of articles concerning issues of style and literacy in traditional Irish music. “Keegan’s playing is clever and full of invention...much of his playing is nothing less than breath-takingly spectacular” (The Examiner) Aileen Dillane is a performer (flute, piano) and ethnomusicologist with interests in ethnomusicological theory and practice, critical and cultural studies, and the traditional, ethnic, and popular musics of Ireland, USA and Australia. She currently lectures on the BA in Irish Traditional Music and Dance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick and will shortly be submitting her PhD to the University of Chicago where she was a Century Fellowship recipient and a Fulbright Scholar.

Students of the M.A in Contemporary Dance Performance will present a programme of contemporary dance. Entitled “AND”, the programme will comprise a series of short compositions that the students will have created through out the first semester. These compositions will have emerged from their explorations of the cracks and connections, real and imagined, between stillness AND movement AND time AND space AND sound AND silence. The students will dance their findings for you in this programme of short solo, duet and ensemble pieces. We would be delighted if you could join us for the dance. MA Contemporary Dance

Monday November 24TH Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance 1.15 pm and 5 pm

Today’s programme will present a dance concert of selected pieces from both the repertory and specifically choreographed original work. The concert will include both solo and ensemble work. 5.10 pm: Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance MA Irish Traditional Dance

Wednesday November 26TH Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance 1.15 pm and 5 pm

UL Gospel Choir

Thursday Nov 27TH University of Limerick Gospel Choir In aid of Hope and Homes for Children, Romania. 5.10 pm Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance

Friday November 28TH Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance

December 1ST, 2ND, 3RD 4TH & 5TH Students of the MA Irish Traditional Music Performance 2nd, 3rd & 4th December 5.10 pm

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Seminars Scottish musicians Simon Thoumire (concertina) and David Milligan (piano), lunchtime concert, February ‘08

WEDNESDAYS 2.30 – 5 P.M. October – November 2008

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

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Title: Collaborative Processes and Aesthetics of Interaction in Chamber Music Practice

Lets get practical…..what means to what ends? Speakers: Marmara Piano Trio - Middlesex University, London: Mine Dogantan Dack (piano), Pal Banda (cello), Philippa Mo (violin) Mary Nunan – Irish World Academy, University of Limerick Chair: Ferenc Szücs – Irish World Academy, University of Limerick

Ferenc Szücs

The pursuit of practice-as-research or practicebased research had become increasingly important during the last decade within the research cultures of the performing arts. It represents a major theoretical shift in the performance disciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of performing arts are complemented and extended by research pursued through the actual practice of them. This seminar presents two examples of the latest cutting edge research in this area from the aspects of classical music and contemporary dance:

Mary Nunan Title: Sensation, Surface, Space: Accidents and Emergencies in the process of creating original choreographic work

Marmara Piano Trio

Wednesday October 15TH

Marmara Piano Trio

Abstract: This presentation will give an account of the knowledge-political issues that have to be considered by artists who wish to place the examination of their own process of creating work at the centre of their practice-based research. It will highlight the issues that cluster around the question of writing, specifically the role and function of writing in examining and reflecting the process of creating original choreographic works. I will give an account of how these issues have shaped the design of my interdisciplinary, interpraxiological, mixedmode practice-based research frame. This frame comprises two inter-related strands of investigation. The aim of the first, studio- based, strand is to undertake an investigation into three abstract concepts, Sensation, Surface and Space, towards the creation, production and performance of two original choreographic theories “Audience (1) Waltzers” and “Return Journey”. The aim of the second text-based strand is to examine how writing might be integrated as a generative strand of the process of creating these choreographic works. The overall aim of the research is to evolve a heuristic, a cluster of replicable methods, to facilitate the creative integration of both strands of the research towards the production of original choreographic theories.

Abstract: The Marmara Piano Trio aims to present a case for the research status of classical chamber music practice by demonstrating the processes of knowledge production that emerge during the collaborative activities of co-performers in the context of a piano trio. Established institutional musicology has long regarded performers as ‘doers’, whose role is to transmit the composer’s intentions to the audience. This agenda, however, limits the inquiry into an epistemology of music in general, and of musical performance in particular, by failing to acknowledge the aesthetic, creative decision-making processes that are involved in the preparation of a performance interpretation, and the cognitive/ affective interactions between collaborating performers as generating knowledge not only about performance psychology but also about the music being interpreted. Our presentation, which is part of an AHRC-funded research project (www.mdx.ac.uk/alchemy), aims to counter-balance this situation in contemporary performance studies by identifying the various knowledge-producing processes in the reflective collaborative practice of the Marmara Piano Trio, and theorizing about the aesthetics of interaction between co-performers.

Mary Nunan

Marmara Piano Trio (Mine Dogantan Dack – Piano, Pal Banda – Cello, Philippa Mo – Violin) was established in 2007, and has already won a major award from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK) for their research on classical chamber ensemble practice. Mary Nunan is a contemporary dance choreographer and performer. She has been Director of the M.A in Contemporary Dance performance at the University of Limerick since 1999. Her professional performing career began when she joined Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1980-1986. She was founder member and first Artistic Director of Daghdha Dance Company from 1988-1999. Works Mary has choreographed have been presented by invitation in prestigious festivals and venues nationally and internationally including London (Purcell Room, South Bank Centre) Berlin, (Tanz-im-August Festival) Munich (Dance Festival) and Paris (Pompidou Centre) and Mexico (Festival Cervantines) New York (Lincoln Centre, Dance for Camera Festival. She is currently undertaking a practice-based M. Phil/ PhD at Middlesex University in the UK. Mary was a member of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaoín from 2005 to 2008. Ferenc Szücs is Director of the Master’s programme in Classical String Performance at the University of Limerick. He performed

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in over 50 countries and has associations with orchestras, ensembles and institutes worldwide and given master classes in Italy, England, Ireland, Hungary, China and the USA. Ferenc held appointments as principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, New Queens hall Orchestra and Oxford Orchestra de Camera and is currently member of Triantán Irish Piano Trio. He recorded for ASV, BMG, Hyperion, Arte Nova, Future Classics and RTE Lyric fm labels. He has contributed to seminars and symposiums in Ireland, UK, USA, and was involved in a wide range of collaborative research projects. His current research focuses on performance practice and he is working towards his doctorate at Middlesex University in London.

Terence Lancashire

Wednesday October 22ND Japanese Ritual Music

Speakers: Terence Lancashire (Osaka Ohtani University, Japan). Eri Hirabayashi (Irish World Academy, University of Limerick)

About the Speakers: Terence Lancashire took an MA in ethnomusicology (Social Anthropology) at The Queen’s University and an MA in Japanese Area Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, before completing his doctorate at Osaka University, Japan. He has written on subjects ranging from the ritual theatre of Iwami kagura in western Japan to the popularisation of Japanese court music – gagaku, and Japanese popular music. He currently teaches cultural studies and Japanese Studies at Osaka Ohtani University in Japan.

Terence Lancashire Title: The Japanese Folk Performing Arts – Multiple Identities Abstract: In shrines and temples throughout the Japanese Archipelago, seasonal festivals take place which mark periods of ritual celebration. Often some form of musical accompaniment, dance or theatre will be performed and these may serve to purify places of worship, summon and entertain deities, or serve as prayers for a profitable year. Japanese scholars call these performances minzoku geino or the folk performing arts. They represent performance ritual/entertainment of a pre-industrial society and can, therefore, offer a window on Medieval Japan. They are also significant in that they were the impetus for elaborate secular forms of urban entertainment most notably noh and kabuki. This paper introduces some of the major ritual entertainment forms and examines their function in a modern society as local and central government policy determines new roles for performance practice. Eri Hirabayashi Title: The function and impact of ritual music on group behaviour, with specific reference to the music of sacred and secular rituals in modern Japan: a case study on Mikomai-shinji

Eri Hirabayashi

Eri Hirabayashi was born in Japan and acquired her BA in Music Education from the Tokyo College of Music in Japan. She also studied western classical music theory, the piano and vocal music. In 2005, she graduated from the Chant and Ritual Song programme at the Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick and obtained her Masters degree. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at the University of Limerick and the focus of her research is the function and impact of ritual music on group behaviour-particularly that of Shinto and Buddhist music-in modern Japan.

Wednesday November 12TH ‘Fair Play to You!: Cultural Globalisation and The Academy’ Speakers: Dr Peadar Kirby (Department of Politics and Public Administration University of Limerick) Dr Colin Quigley (Irish World Academy, University of Limerick) Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (Irish World Academy, University of Limerick) Peadar Kirby

Helen Phelan

Chair: Dr Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy, University of Limerick) Dr Peadar Kirby Title: ‘Responding to globalisation’s impact on culture: Resisting marketisation’ Abstract: This paper will begin by briefly surveying the principal approaches in the social science literature to analysing the impact globalisation is having on culture - homogenisation, heterogeneity or hybridisation. The argument will be advanced that these miss the essentially novel feature of today’s globalisation, the intense marketisation of cultural production and dissemination. The consequences of this are examined before an approach to countering this is developed. The paper will end with some

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reflections on the prospects for cothrom na féinne do chultúir na cruinne in the context of the global crisis of sustainability now upon us. Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Title: ‘Fair Play for World Cultures: Hope and Hospitality at the Irish World Academy’. Abstract: This seminar launches the new logo/strap line of the Irish World Academy: Cothrom na Féinne do Chultúir na Cruinne /Fair Play for World Cultures. This paper charts some of the activities of the Academy that have engaged with intercultural dialogue through music and dance since its inception in 1994. Dr Colin Quigley Title: Fair Play for World Cultures: A challenge to ethnomusicology

Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Abstract: From its inception the field of ethnomusicology has perforce been engaged in the examination of differing music cultures throughout the world. But the increasingly complex interrelationships among these in our age of globalization are posing new challenges to established paradigms. The very notions of a music culture, musical tradition, or traditional music have become themselves problematic. The idea of “fair play” is a provocative one to consider in relation to the tensions that often emerge as individuals and groups traverse the field of musical production. A striking example from a particular village in Transylvania will

serve to illustrate and open up to scrutiny ways in which music and dance construct and configure both links and ruptures in the social fabric that characterizes traditional music making today.Colin Quigley Colin Quigley has research interests in European and EuropeanAmerican traditional music and dance, and specializes in folklore, ethnochoreology, and ethnomusicology. He has taught in the Folklore Department of Memorial University, Newfoundland, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at its Centre d’Etudes FrancoTerreneuvien. Quigley was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Romania during 1997-98, and served as curator for the Romanian program in the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival . Quigley has taught and performed Anglo-, Celtic-, and Franco-American traditional music and dance throughout the United States and Canada. His monograph, Close to the Floor: Fok Dance in Newfoundland (1985), is an investigation of relationships between dance forms and dance events. Quigley’s book, Music From the Heart (1995), examines the interplay of creativity and tradition in the composition of French Newfoundland fiddle music. Quigley is an associated member of the Section On Cultural & Social Anthropology of The Institute For Cultural Anthropology at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. He is currently investigating the impact changes in ideologies of national and ethnic identity have on folklore performance in post-communist Europe. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Memorial University, Newfoundland.

He has recently taken up a full-time post as the Irish World Academy’s director of its MA Ethnomusicology.

Alba Perez, Student of the MA Ethnochoreology, February 08

About the Speakers: Peadar Kirby, BA, BD, H Dip in Ed, PhD (LSE), is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick. His latest published books are Contesting the State: Lessons from the Irish Case, co-edited with Maura Adshead and Michelle Millar (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Taming the Tiger: Social Exclusion in a Globalised Ireland, coedited with David Jacobson and Deiric Ó Broin (Tasc with New Island Books, 2006). Earlier in 2006 he published Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalisation (Pluto Press, 2006). Other books include Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-First Century Challenges (Sage, 2003) The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland (Palgrave, 2002), Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy, co-edited with Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin (Pluto Press, 2002), Poverty Amid Plenty: World and Irish Development Reconsidered (Trócaire and Gill & Macmillan, 1997), and Rich and Poor: Perspectives on Tackling Inequality in Ireland, co-edited with Sara Cantillon, Carmel Corrigan and Joan O’Flynn (Oak Tree Press in association with the Combat Poverty Agency, 2001). He has recently written a study on the relationship between growth and poverty in the Irish growth model for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) which is being published as part of

a larger international study on policy regimes and poverty reduction. He has published journal articles in New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, The European Journal of Development Research, Globalizations, Trócaire Development Review, Irish Studies in International Affairs, The Irish Review and Administration. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (www.mosmusic.ie) is Chair of Music and founder/director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Noted for his development of a uniquely Irish traditional piano style, he has recorded extensively with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He was awarded an Honorary D.Mus from the National University of Ireland at his Alma Mater, University College Cork in 2005 for his contribution to music in Ireland over the past thirty years. His most recent recording with the DVD Irish Destiny: music for the historic 1925 silent movie of the same name (Irish Film Institute: Dublin 2006). His most recent publication was ‘Parallel Universes: Poetics, Politics and the State of Play’: a keynote address to the European conference Arts Research: The State of Play (Dublin 2008). His most recent compositions include Francesco Walks for Baroque band and Irish traditional Donegal fiddlers (commissioned by Ar Ais Arís Festival, Buncranna 2008); and UNSUNG for piano, cello, bass clarinet and sean-nós singer, commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival for Rex Levitates Dance Company, with choreography by Liz Roche (Carlow 2008).

Medira Gregurek, student of the MA Contemporary Dance during final exam performance, entitled ‘Delete 0’ directed by choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, May ‘08

Academos Irish World Academy Strings at their debut performance at the Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, March ‘08

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Alison Ledger has received a Health Services Research Fellowship from the HRB. Based in the Irish World Academy, the fellowship will support Alison in the completion of her PhD supervised by Professor Edwards. She is studying the ways in which expert music therapists have established new professional positions in hospitals. Two books to be launched at the event are, Music: Promoting health and creating community edited by Professor Jane Edwards, and Music therapy and traumatic brain injury: Light on a dark night by Dr Simon Gilbertson and David Aldridge. Simon’s book describes people affected by traumatic brain injury in terms of their communicative, expressive and reflective potentials. A vision of the integral role music therapy can have in the process of rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury is presented. Jane’s book has collected a range of perspectives about music in healthcare from practitioners and researchers in the areas of Hospital Arts, Music Psychology, Music Sociology, and Music Therapy. Further programme details are available from Professor Jane Edwards, Jane.Edwards@ul.ie Tel +353 61 213122.

Friday November 29TH Reflecting the vision: Celebrating 10 years of the MA in Music Therapy at the Irish World Academy 1998-2008 The MA in Music Therapy was established with the vision of creating a unique place for practiceled study and reflection within the suite of Masters offered at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Developed in consultation with a group of international experts including Kaja Jensen (USA), Tony Wigram (Denmark/UK), and Leslie Bunt (UK), the MA in Music Therapy has produced a wide range of achievements in the decade of its existence. It remains the only music therapy qualification available in Ireland. The first cohort of students entered their studies at the commencement of the 1998 academic year. From small beginnings the programme has grown from one full-time staff member to three. The graduates make up a body of practitioners serving in a range of healthcare, education, and community settings in Ireland, Canada, England, Northern Ireland, and Germany. The current group of 18 students are from Ireland, the USA, Northern Ireland, Greece, England, and Norway. This celebratory event will comprise reflections from current and former staff and students as to key events in the development of the programme and its achievements. Two new books will be launched and the awarding of a Health Research Board (HRB) fellowship will be marked.

The Chieftans

Sunday November 2nd The Chieftains in Concert, With students of the BA Irish Music and Dance, University Concert Hall, Limerick In what has now become an annual event, The Chieftains, who are artists-in-residence at

the Irish World Academy, will perform at the University Concert Hall on November 2nd, joined on stage by students of the BA Irish Music and Dance, who will have workshopped with the individual members of the band in the days leading up to the concert. There will also be several special guests at what has become the highlight of the traditional music calendar. Tickets and information from 1890 61 61 61.

November 24th-28th Nigel Rolfe

Nigel Rolfe Residency UL Arts Office and Irish World Acadmey of Music and Dance have collaborated to invite Nigel Rolfe to visit the University for a short residency from. The primary focus of his residency will be to tutor the students of the M.A in Contemporary Dance Performance together with students from the Limerick College of Art and Design towards the creation of live performance works. The residency will be supported by athe UL Arts Office, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Limerick College of Art and Design. Born in the Isle of Wight in 1950, Nigel Rolfe lives and works in Dublin. His work encompasses many media that include sound and audio production, video

and photography. His primary reputation for the past thirty years is working live, making performances throughout Europe, and the former Eastern Block, North America and Japan. In the 1980s and 90s he worked with the pan European group Black Market International. Since the late 1990s he has made solo performances In Ireland at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork in 1998, the Cork Film Centre in 2002, The Church Gallery, Limerick in 2003 and Mountshannon Co. Clare in 2004 both as part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s National programme. In 2004 he took part in the European Performance Art Festival in Lublin, Poland and made a performance in the Images 04 Festival in Vevey, Switzerland. He has exhibited in Biennales in Kwangju in 1997 and Sao Paulo in 1998. His retrospective Archive was shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1994, and Nigel Rolfe Videos, 1983 – 1996 was exhibited as an installed retrospective at The Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1996. He has also had one person exhibitions of works with photography in Ireland, New York, France and Germany. He is Visiting Professor in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in London, and Senior Visiting Critic to postgraduate fine art courses in the United States and Europe.

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Andrea Knonbauer, student of the MA Contemporary dance during final exam performance, entitled ‘Delete 0’ directed by choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, May ‘08

Donal Lunny with Irish World Academy MA student Katie Boyle at a lunchtime concert performance during the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditionail Music and Dance, June ‘08

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STEPPING STONES

Ronald Grimes, Christopher Frayling and Micheal O Suilleabhain during the Stepping Stones Symposium, April 08

STEPPING STONES is an initiative funded by TAP (the Atlantic Philanthropies) to support the the development and expansion of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The new vision for the Academy, envisaged by Stepping Stones, include an expansion beyond its current specialisations in music and dance, to include other forms of performance expression including story, puppetry, mime and festival. In April, 2008, Stepping Stones hosted an international symposium with several internationally recognised scholars and performers, including Sir Christopher Frayling (Chairman of the British Arts Council and Rector of the Royal College of Art) to begin its first phase of international consultation. Stepping Stones is also committed to expanding the international student base of the Academy, particularly through the new BA Voice and Dance programme, with an emphasis on supporting students from developing countries.

CERTIFICATE OF MUSIC AND DANCE at THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY The Irish World Academy will present a Certificate in Music and Dance in 2008 and 2010. This programme is the first level 6 programme

introduce students to music through a series of eleven Community Music workshops and to explore cooperative creative music making. Participants were introduced to a wide variety of musical instruments including Guitar, Violin, Percussion and Voice. ‘Self Build’ instruments were also presented discussed and played. Music genres were explored that included African and South American Rhythms, Popular Rock, Metal and Choral works. Most of the participants expressed a wish that workshops might be available in future school terms and that they might have an opportunity to own and learn to play a musical instrument.

(with 60 ects credits) offered by the Academy and is provided as a new and innovative mode of access for musicians and dancers to third level education. The certificate is based on the current first year in the BA Irish Music and Dance and, in its initial phase, may allow for the progression of some successful students from the certificate to the second year of the BA. It will be offered in both full-time (one year) and part-time (two year) modes and can be offered by distance using technologically enhanced learning and supervised local resources. The programme will be cross-genre and will focus on the development of performance practice, vocational skills and academic skills and knowledge. The programme specifically serves the needs of HEA targeted access communities. For further information contact Niall Keegan at +353-61-202565 or niall.keegan@ul.ie or see www.ul.ie/~iwmc/certificate.html

NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON RACISM AND INTERCULTURALISM An Coiste Comhairleach Náisiúnta ar Chiníochas agus Idirchultúrchas

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OUTREACH at St Enda’s School The Irish World Academy recently undertook an outreach project at St Enda’s Community School on the Kilmallock Road in Limerick. Music is not yet a subject at the multidenominational, co-educational school. The project was directed by Jean Downey, Chair of the MA in Community Music course at the Academy and was facilitated by Paul Browne and Antonio Garcia-Lopez, both graduates of the course. The purpose of the project was to

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin presenting an award to poet Bisi Adigun for his contribution to interculatural dialogue through the arts on World Refugee Day, June ‘08

Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is National Ambassador for NCCRI for 2008. This year is being celebrated across the EU as European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Under the slogan “Together in Diversity” the Year is providing an opportunity for citizens to make their contribution to intercultural dialogue; acknowledging and celebrating diversity as well as strengthening a shared sense of place and social cohesion. Given the important role played by the Arts in promoting intercultural

interaction, understanding and collaboration, they have been a key focus for the European Year in Ireland. Among the wide range of events that have taken place during the year includes The Festival of Jewish Culture in Cork on 18-19th October. Klezmer groups from London as well as Dublin and Kerry will perform at the festival and participants will have the opportunity to learn Yiddish Songs and Klezmer dance. “Shalom Ireland” a documentary on the history of the Jewish Community will also be shown. For information on European Year of Intercultural Dialogue go to www.nccri.ie or www.dialogue2008.eu

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

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Performance, Hungarian cellist Ferenc Szücs, who is also Artistic Director of ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings. ACADEMOS operates in full association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s leading international orchestra which has been resident at the Irish World Academy since its inception in 1994. The leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra along with the line leaders combine with ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings in its international touring schedule thus providing a unique opportunity for the graduate performers to further their professional knowledge and experience to the highest standards.

Cruinniú

ACADEMOS was formally launched at its first public concert which took place at The Button Factory, Temple Bar Dublin, on Wednesday March 26th, in association with Temple Bar Cultural Trust.

LEIGHEAS AN CHEOIL – Music and Healing

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 from 1 – 2 pm in music room B, on the lower ground floor of the Foundation Building. These sessions are open to all, with beginners especially welcome. The sessions are facilitated by a number of people within

the group, as well as by some students and staff of the Irish World Academy. 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 2007, raising further funds for St Vincent’s. New members are always welcome. Further information from noel.mccarthy@ul.ie

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, free open-access public seminars, and media publicity all come under its remit. Students of the MA in Music Therapy undertake supervised clinical practice training in a range of health and educational settings in Ireland, and occasionally abroad. Free public music therapy seminars and other outreach events promote music therapy as a mainstream allied health discipline in Ireland and beyond. Staff of the music

therapy programme undertake research, consultancy, and development advisory work in collaboration with qualified music therapists and health service managers. 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 recently-appointed new director

The Nomad Project

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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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 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. Sanctuary is currently compiling a database of musicians and performing artists in the Munster area. Further information: Dr Helen Phelan, Phone: + 353 61 202575, Email: Helen.phelan@ul.ie

Culture Ireland/Fulbright Ireland Fellowships 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 Sanctuary Project Event November 07

College and Glucksman Ireland House, New York University respectively. The 2008/2009 recipient is Dr. Drew Beisswenger. Dr. Drew Beisswenger the Head of the Music Library at Missouri State University, occasionally teaches, as an adjunct professor, MUS 239 “Introduction to World Music” and MUS 399 “Traditional Music of the Ozarks.” He received a Ph.D. in Musicology: Regional Studies at the University of Memphis in 1997, and an M.L.S. from the University of Alabama in 1992. He has worked as a librarian at MSU since 1998. His research interests have revolved primarily around fiddle music, and he has published books and articles, given conference presentations, and created a website on that topic. His first book, Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine, was published by the University of Mississippi Press in 2002, and his current book currently in production at Mel Bay Publications is Ozarks Fiddle Tunes: 306 Tune Featuring 30 Legendary Fiddlers. As a librarian Beisswenger occasional teaches LIS 101 “Introduction to the Library.”Head of the Music Library at Missouri State University, occasionally teaches, as an adjunct professor, MUS 239 “Introduction to World Music” and MUS 399 “Traditional Music of the Ozarks.” He received a Ph.D. in Musicology: Regional Studies at the University of Memphis in 1997, and an M.L.S. from the University of Alabama in 1992. He has worked as a librarian at MSU since 1998. His research

interests have revolved primarily around fiddle music, and he has published books and articles, given conference presentations, and created a website on that topic. His first book, Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine, was published by the University of Mississippi Press in 2002, and his current book currently in production at Mel Bay Publications is Ozarks Fiddle Tunes: 306 Tune Featuring 30 Legendary Fiddlers. As a librarian Beisswenger occasional teaches LIS 101 “Introduction to the Library.”

The Chieftains Fund (In memory of Derek Bell)

The Chieftans

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 co-operative communication between these programmes, The Chieftains Fund was established in 2003 in memory of harper, Derek Bell.The Chieftains Fund is based at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and administered from there. Initial consultant partners with the Irish World Academy are The Irish Studies Program at Boston College; The Irish Studies Program at Glucksman Ireland House (New York University) and the Music Department at University College Cork.

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Donal Lunny (r) conducting a masterclass at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, June ‘08

Dancer Colin Dunne during a lunchtime concert performance at the Irish World Academy’s Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, June ‘08

Andrea Knonbauer, student of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance during site-specific performance piece, May ‘08

‘Shadow Dolls’ final performance of students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance, May ‘08

Singer Karan Casey during a lunchtime concert performace at the Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, June ‘08

Cónaí Artists in Residence at the University of Limerick

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Breandán De Gallaí

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BREANDÁN DE GALLAÍ

THE CHIEFTAINS

Breandán’s professional dancing career began with Riverdance in Eurovision ‘94, and spanned 10 years. As Principal Dancer for 7 of those years, he performed in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and led the company at the opening ceremony of the World Special Olympic Games in 2003. He has shared the stage with the principals of The Royal Ballet, Darcy Bussell and Wayne Sleep and has shared headline status with José Carreras. He has performed live for Presidents McAleese and Robinson of Ireland. He has also performed for the late King Hussein of Jordan, the Emperor of Japan, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Rainier of Monte Carlo and Queen Sonia of Norway. In 2007 he returned to Riverdance as Dance Director. He regularly presents TV programs for RTÉ and TG4 and was external examiner for the MA in Irish dance performance in the University of Limerick from ’04 until ‘08. Breandán has completed “Balor”, a 90 minute contemporary Irish dance show to music composed by Joe Csibi. Breandán won a scholarship to study Ballet and Modern dance at the Gus Giordano dance academy in ‘87 and holds an honours degree in Applied Physics from DCU. He is delighted to be a student again, studying an MA in Ethnochoreology at the Irish World Academy.

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

The Chieftans

Gill, Lyle Lovett, Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride and others. Their continued association with the Irish World Academy takes shape annually in a major concert featuring students of the BA Irish Music and Dance.

LUCERNARIUM

Lucernarium

Lucernarium is a vocal ensemble based at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. The ensemble is run in association with the MA in Ritual Chant and Song and 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. ‘Cúairt/Visitation’ in autumn 2005 and performed at the Irish World Academy’s Sionna Festival in 2007. The current conductor and artistic director of Lucernarium is Paul McKeever. Further information: paul. mckeever@ul.ie

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 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.

UNIVERISTY OF LIMERICK GOSPEL CHOIR Since its inception, the University of Limerick Gospel Choir has performed a wide spectrum of repertoire, ranging from oratorios to spirituals and from chant to world folk songs. Under its director Kathleen Turner, the choir is exploring new terrain and has re-invented itself as the UL Gospel Choir. The choir continues its long

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established affiliation with ‘Hope and Homes for Children’ and performs two fund-raising concerts a year for the organisation. In addition, it performed as part of the multicultural concert celebrating International Human Rights Day for Doras Luimní.

MAURICE GUNNING PHOTOGRAPHER-IN-RESIDENCE

Maurice Gunning www.mauricegunning.com info@mauricegunning.com

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. 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.

BOBBY MC FERRIN PATRON OF THE BA VOICE AND DANCE The internationally renowned multi Grammy Award-winning singer Bobby McFerrin visited the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in

Bobby Mc Ferrin conducting a vocal workshop with students of the Irish World Academy, May ‘08

May 2008 to conduct an intensive collaborative workshop in which he shared his pioneering ideas with Academy students. The workshop culminated in an evening performance at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, where he was joined on stage by students of the Academy’s MA programmes in Contemporary Dance, Irish Traditional Music Performance and Ritual Chant and Song. His visit to the University of Limerick also marked the launch of the newest undergraduate programme at the Irish World Academy, the BA Voice and Dance, which commenced in September of this year. Bobby McFerrin’s interaction with the Academy students was one he enjoyed so much that he has lent his name to the BA Voice and Dance, becoming Patron of this innovative interdisciplinary programme. Commenting on the announcement of Bobby McFerrin’s patronage of the new BA Voice and Dance, Dr Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, director of the Irish World Academy said: “Bobby McFerrin is a musician of global dimensions. His is a global voice in that it has found a way out and through the challenge of cultural globalization – while firmly grounded in local traditions. The Irish World Academy is deeply honoured that he is now to Patron our BA Voice and Dance, a programme which was inspired directly by the kind of cultural inclusivity and imagination carried so eloquently by this singer of singers. It is the hope of the Irish World Academy that this auspicious beginning will chart the course of this new programme in its initial all-important years”.

Professor John Baily of Goldsmiths College London with students of the Irish World Academy’s MA Ethnomusicology, March ‘08

Clár Programmes at the Irish World Academy Of Music and Dance

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BA IRISH MUSIC & DANCE Sandra Joyce, Course Director (on sabattical) Phone: + 353 61 202159, Email: sandra.joyce@ul.ie Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, Acting Course Director Phone: + 353 61 202159, Email: orfhlaith.nibhriain@ul.ie Aileen Dillane, Lecturer Phone: + 353 61 202470 Email: aileen.dillane@ul.ie Mats Melin, Lecturer in Dance Phone: + 353 61 202542, Email: mats.melin@ul.ie Francis Ward, Lecturer in Music (Acting) Phone: + 353 61 202

BA VOICE AND DANCE Oscar Mascareñas, Course Director Phone: + 353 61 233762 Email: oscar.mascarenas@ul.ie

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

MA IRISH TRADITIONAL DANCE PERFORMANCE

MA CONTEMPORARY DANCE PERFORMANCE:

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

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

MA IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE: Niall Keegan, Course Director Phone: + 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC: Community Music Board: Jean Downey (Chair) (on Sabattical) Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Dr. Helen Phelan Phone: + 353 61 202590, Email: jean.downey@ul.ie

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

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

M.Ed (Music) GRAD. DIP EDUCATION (Music): Jean Downey, Course Director (on Sabattical) Ernestine Healy, Course Director (Acting) Phone: + 353 61 213160, Email: ernestine.healy@ul.ie

American choreographers David and Ain Gordon during ‘Contemporary Dance Day’ at the irish World Academy, April ‘08

Scholarships AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE

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SCHOLARSHIPS

THE EMI MUSIC SOUND FOUNDATION

EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997 to commemorate the centenary of EMI Records. EMI Music Sound Foundation is an independent charity. EMI Music Sound Foundation is now the single largest sponsor of Specialist Performing Arts Colleges in England and has created vital bursaries at music colleges to assist needy music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation is extending its remit to cover the Irish World Academy in Ireland. A Bursary of €8000 has been made available on an annual basis towards the establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Applicants should normally be under 25 years of age and should have applied for admission to the MA Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, bursary applications may be considered with applications for admission to Irish World Music Academy other than Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner will include the excellence of the CV submitted as well as evidence of financial need. There is no separate application form. A relevant CV should be included with the application form for admission to the relevant degree programme along with a covering

letter applying for the bursary and sent to Melissa Carty, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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

THE RTÉ lyric fm SCHOLARSHIP FOR

be addressed in the first instance to the appropriate course director specialist or to Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202590, Email: Melissa.carty@ul.ie All applications in the first instance should be sent to the course director of the appropriate MA programme. Late applications may be accepted.

CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE AMHRÁNAÍ CÓNAITHE AR AN SEAN-NÓS RTÉ lyric fm has been a strong supporter of the Irish World Academy since RTE launched its classical music station in 1999. The RTE lyric fm Scholarship is available to students wishing to study on the MA in Classical String Performance. Applications to Ferenc Szucs, Director, MA Classical String Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Phone: + 353 61 202918/Email: ferenc.szucs@ul.ie

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

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY RESEARCH FEE

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which is available to students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. This year’s recipient is Anna Shalabudova from Russia who takes on the MA Irish Traditional Dance performance this September. Applications to Dr Catherine Foley Phone: + 353 61 202922, Email: catherine.e.foley@ul.ie

WAIVERS

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 Traditional Performance. The Trustees of Muckross House have generously donated a scholarship

A limited number of full or partial fee waivers are available for PhD research students at the Irish World Academy. There is no application deadline for these fee waivers, which will be discussed as part of the consultative process in assessing any research application. Enquiries for doctoral research should

Alba Perez, student of the MA Ethnochoreology during a lunchtime concert, February ‘08

(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 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 yearlong 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. Applications with a CV should be sent to ‘Sean-Nós Singer in Residence’, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick. Details of all Irish World Academy MA programmes are available on the website at www.irishworldacademy.ie Further information: Phone + 353 61 202590; Email: melissa.carty@ul.ie

SHANNON FELLOWSHIP The William V. Shannon Fellowship at Boston University was established in l989 in memory of William Shannon to commemorate his dedication to education and to Ireland. Appointed United States Ambassador to Ireland by President Jimmy Carter, Shannon served from l977 to l981. Upon his return from Ireland, and until his death in l989, Ambassador Shannon was a University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. The Shannon Fellowship provides funding for a graduate student from Ireland to attend Boston University for

Accordionist Máirtín Ó Connor performing at one of the Blas Summer School concerts, July ‘08

a year or more. Since the Fellowship was established, a number of Fellows have studied at Boston University. They travelled B.U. from the University of Limerick, Trinity College, University College Dublin, and from Dublin City University. The Fellowship continues to facilitate links between the music education programmes at Boston University and at the Irish World Academy by funding students from the Irish World Academy to complete their teaching practice in Boston public schools. The Fellowship also facilitates on-going post-graduate research in music education. Further information: Jean Downey, Course Director, Grad Dip Education (Music)/M. Ed Education (Music): Phone + 353 61 213120, email: jean.downey@ul.ie Further information on all MA programmes, scholarships and fee waivers can be had from the Irish World Academy Website: www.irishworldacademy.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

of the Department. There are close ties and many cross-campus ventures with the Irish World Music Centre.

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

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

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

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

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: