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Irish World Academy of Music and DanceUniversity of Limerick

Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus Ceol Ollscoil Luimnigh

Spring 2015 / Earrach 2015

Niamh Ní Bhriain performing at the Waking St Munchin event at Dance LimerickPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Front cover photo: Marketa Formanova (Czech Republic) and Vivian Brodie Hayes (Ireland), MA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhotograph © Maurice Gunning

2 INTRODUCTION

4 FACULTY & STAFF AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

6 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES

12 THE TOWER SEMINAR SERIES

20 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES

24 SPECIAL EVENTS

28 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS AT THE ACADEMY

34 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS

AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

38 CÓNAÍ / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

42 TAIGHDE / RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY

48 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES

52 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

56 CLÁR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES

60 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES

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CreditsGeneral Editor: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin

Text Editors: Gráinne O'Donovan and Eilín Mulcahy

Photography: Maurice Gunning

Design: Joe Gervin

Space Booking Coordination: Melissa Carty

Ag Féachaint Siar/Recent Events: Jennifer de Brún (Media Office)

Tower/Logos Module Coordinator (Colloquium): Aileen Dillane

Thursday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Ferenc Süzcs

Tuesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinators: Sandra Joyce/Niall Keegan

Taighde/Research Editor: Helen Phelan

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Dr Helen Phelan

to relocate the orchestra to the University of Limerick campus in accordance with a recommendation from the Arts Council. This decision birthed a relationship between the orchestra and the Academy, which has spanned two decades.

If the chamber orchestra was the first artistic-ensemble to establish itself at the Academy, it was preceded by an earlier artistic residency at Thomond College of Education, which was dissolved and integrated into the University of Limerickin 1991. In 1986, Mary Nunan was appointed Dancer-in-Residence at Thomond College, and in 1988, with support from the Arts Council, Thomond College and Mary Immaculate College of Education, she founded Daghdha Dance Company at Thomond College. Mary was Daghdha’s artistic director until 1999, when she became a full-time member of faculty at the Academy.

In 1995, Toyota Ireland gifted IR£500,000 to the Academy. The donation resulted in the creation of the Toyota Performing Arts Initiative, a five-year programme of artistic residencies, commissions and festivals managed by Margaret O’Sullivan. In 2000, a publication entitled Bosca commemorated the initiative, and in its introduction, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin likened the bosca that had emerged during the five-year period to things as diverse as the alchemist’s vas hermeticum – the sealed container of wisdom; the hazelnut of Irish mythology, cracked open to reveal the purple bubbles of imbas, or inspiration; and the egg-shaped beehive huts of medieval, monastic Ireland, dotting the banks of the River Shannon (Sionna) and creating beads of education and artistry, threaded together by the river. Bosca, in this sense, is Sionna’s box; a gift waiting to be opened by those who would spend time on her banks.

The Toyota Performing Arts initiative resulted in commissions and publications from artists such as Raymond Deane, Gerald Barry, Kenneth Edge, Tommy Hayes, Michael Alcorn, John Buckley, Elaine Agnew, Mary Nunan, Terry Moylan, Niall Keegan and Desi Wilkinson. James Keane from Labasheeda, Co Clare became the first Irish traditional dancer in residence at any university in the world. Other artists-in-residence included Peggy McTeggart, Dara Bán MacDonnacha, Cindy Cummings, Stephen Scott, James Scanlon, Subroyo Roy Chowdhury and Saibal Chatterjee.

The Irish World Academy building has emerged as a physical manifestation of the imagined spaces of Sionna’s bosca. In the middle of the foyer there is a pit,

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Sionna’s Box: Artists-in-Residence at the Irish World Academy

In its earliest manifestations, the Academy was not a physical entity but an imagined space, often referred to playfully as a ‘bosca’, or ‘box’, by its founder-director, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. This bosca was no ordinary cube with six faces but a magician’s box with false walls and escape hatches; a Pandora’s Box of curiosity, creative subversion and mischief; a box of tricks where anything could happen. It was also imagined as a reliquary: a sacred box housing precious and valuable impulses; and a sanctuary and safe haven: a place where scholarly and artistic searchers could explore, experiment and be nourished by the sharing of the journey. Most tellingly, the Academy was imagined as a junction box: a bordered space where energies and currents could meet and electrify each other.

The junction box of the Academy allows for the flow of energy through the curricula – or circuits – of its educational programmes. Scholarship and performance grow out of this box as branches from the trunk of a tree. The Greek (puxos) and Latin (buxis) for ‘box’ derive from the boxwood tree. Indeed, writing and scholarship literally grew out of the boxwood tree, whose wood was favoured for early wood-block printing. With its finely grained, high-density texture and resistance to chipping, music also grew out of the boxwood tree in the form of tail pieces, chin-rests and tuning pegs for stringed instruments, Baroque recorders, uilleann pipes and Great Highland bagpipes.

Flowing around the circuitry of the Academy is the wider world of musicians, dancers, singers, story-tellers, clowns, acrobats and global performers. The Academy connects outwards to these energies through access programmes such as NOMAD, which celebrates Irish Traveller culture; SANCTUARY, which celebrates new migrant cultural communities; and numerous community-based, educational and therapeutic projects.

Just as the Academy reaches out into local and global creative communities, it also welcomes these worlds of performance into its bosca in the form of artists-in-residence. Over the last two decades, the Academy has facilitated more than 40 artistic residencies. The establishment of a Chair of Music at the University of Limerick in 1994 coincided with an impulse to professionalise and decentralise the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s premier chamber string orchestra. A dialogue between the orchestra’s chief executive, John Kelly, and the Academy’s newlyappointed Chair, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, resulted in a decision by the then Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D. Higgins (now President of Ireland),

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sunk into the foundations at the time of construction in the tradition of ritual pits built to consecrate newly constructed buildings. The 11th-century Kasyapasilpa, a Sanskrit treatise on art, architecture and literature, describes the ritual for placing a deposit box in the pit. Known as garbhanyasa – ‘the placing of the embryo’ – the ritual describes the constructed deposit box as ‘the womb house’, the place of gestation, fertility and birth. The ritual pit in the Academy has a bag of hazelnuts, a pair of bones, a bodhrán and a replica bronze-age horn, all symbols of the Academy’s own quest for creativity and wisdom.

The Academy building is a space of hospitality for artists who continue to interact with the bosca in a variety of ways. Musicians-in-residence, including Lajos Szücs, the Bellatrix Piano Trio, Donal Lunny, the Chieftains, Martin Hayes, Tommy Peoples, Mickey Dunne, Paul Brady and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, have all made rich contributions during their residencies as teachers and musicians and have provided students with the invaluable opportunity of performing with their heroes and mentors. Dancers-in-residence Colin Dunne, Jean Butler, Breandán de Gallaí, Liz Roche and the Liz Roche Dance Company (formerly Rex Levitates) have led the artistic and intellectual dialogue on future directions in Irish dance, dance in Ireland

and dance in the world. Irish language song has been supported by the efforts of Foras na Gaeilge with the appointment of Iarla Ó Lionáird and Áine Uí Cheallaigh as Foras na Gaeilge artists-in-residence. Pecker Dunne became the first ever Traveller musician-in-residence in an Irish university through the NOMAD initiative, while the contemporary Nigerian dancer Peter Badejo was appointed SANCTUARY’s artist-in-residence to work with new migrant communities in Limerick. Fidget Feet, Ireland’s foremost Aerial Dance Theatre Company, became artists-in-residence in 2013 to mark the launch of a new postgraduate programme in festive arts.

Artistic energy fuels the creative and scholarly endeavours of the Academy but it also responds to, subverts, represents and questions the Academy’s identity and ethos. If the bosca that is the Irish World Academy is a junction box of connectivity, artists who reside and spend time here provide an essential aspect of its weave and wattle. Sionna’s box is an invitation. It is waiting to be cracked open. Come to her riverbanks and join the celebration.

Dr Helen PhelanProgramme Director, PhD Arts Practice Irish World Academy

Dr Helen Phelan is programme director of the PhD Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy. From 2000 to 2009, she directed the MA Ritual Chant and Song. She has served as associate director and acting director of the Academy and as associate director, academic affairs of the UL College of Humanities (now the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences). She was appointed Herbert Allen and Donald R. Keough Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame in 2012. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of ritual and performance studies.

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Dr Sandra JoyceDirector Course Director, MA Irish Traditional Music PerformancePhone: +353 61 202065Email: [email protected]

Professor Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinFounding DirectorChair of Music, University of LimerickPhone: +353 61 202030Email: [email protected]

Dr Niall KeeganAssociate DirectorDirector, Undergraduate StudiesPhone: +353 61 202465Email: [email protected]

Paula DundonAcademy AdministratorPhone: +353 61 202149Email: [email protected]

Barbara ChristieSenior AdministratorPhone: +353 61 202030Email: [email protected]

Melissa CartyAssistant AdministratorPhone: +353 61 202590Email: [email protected]

Jennifer de BrúnPerforming Arts CoordinatorPhone: +353 61 202917Email: [email protected]

Dr Ferenc SzucsCourse Director, MA Classical String PerformancePhone: +353 61 202918Email: [email protected]

Dr Yonit KosovskeLecturer in Classical Piano Chamber Music PerformanceMA Classical String PerformancePhone: +353 61 234922Email: [email protected]

Dr Orfhlaith Ní BhriainCourse Director, MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformancePhone: +353 61 202470Email: [email protected]

Jean DowneyCourse Director, Professional Diploma in Education (Music), MEd (Music), MA Community Music Phone: +353 61 213160Email: [email protected]

Dr Helen PhelanProgramme Director, PhD Arts PracticePhone: +353 61 202575Email: [email protected]

Dr Mary NunanCourse Director, MA Contemporary Dance PerformanceEmail: [email protected] (Currently on sabbatical)

Dr Tríona McCaffreyLecturer, MA Music TherapyPhone: +353 61 234358Email: [email protected]

Alpha WoodwardCourse Director, MA Music TherapyPhone: +353 61 213122Email: [email protected]

Dr Mats MelinLecturer in Dance, BA Irish Music and DancePhone: +353 61 202542Email: [email protected]

Dr Catherine FoleyCourse Director, MA EthnochoreologyPhone: +353 61 202922Email: [email protected]

Dr Niamh NicGhabhannCourse Director,MA Festive ArtsPhone: +353 61 202798Email: [email protected]

Dr Óscar MascareñasLecturer, BA Voice and Dance Phone: +353 61 202990Email: [email protected]

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Dr Colin QuigleyDirector, MA EthnomusicologyEmail: [email protected](Currently on sabbatical)

Thalita Reis (Brazil), MA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhotograph © Maurice Gunning 5

Pamela CotterLecturer, BA Irish Music and Dance Phone: +353 61 202966Email: [email protected]

Dr Aileen DillaneActing Course Director, MA Ethnomusicology Phone: +353 61 202159Email: [email protected]

Hannah FaheyCourse Coordinator, MA Ritual Chant and SongPhone: +353 61 213762Email: [email protected]

Nora RodriguezLecturer, BA Voice and Dance Phone: +353 61 234967Email: [email protected]

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Esteban La Rotta (Colombia) playing theorbo at a classical string performance at the AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE

Venue: The Tower, Irish World Academy (unless otherwise stated)1.15pm

ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

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extended to incorporate voice and other instruments, including ethnic instruments. Among the artists who have played with the ensemble are violinist Alexander Balanescu, tabla player Federico Sanesi, cellist Rohan de Saram, pianist Peyman Yazdanian and singers Cristina Zavalloni, Sarah Leonard and Elena Vassilieva. The many ethnic instrumentalists who have played with the group include Liu Fang (pì’pa) and Dai Ya (dizi) from China, Khaled Jubran (Oud) from Palestine, Gevorg Dabagyan (duduk) from Armenia, Tamami Tonu (sho) from Japan and Sliabh Notes (traditional musicians) from Ireland.

For more information, visit www.xeniaensemble.it

Thursday February 12th

Stylus Fantasticus

Anita Vedres (violin), Malachy Robinson (viola da gamba) and Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord)

Stylus fantasticus (‘fantastic style’) was a seventeenth-century virtuosic instrumental style where freely ornamented lines were supported by an accompanying bass line. Seventeenth-century musicologist Athanasius Kircher wrote that the stylus fantasticus ‘is the most free and unrestrained method of composing; it is bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic subject…’ Girolamo Frescobaldi wrote in the preface to his second book of keyboard toccatas (1637) that ‘This manner of playing should not be fixed to the beat … making it now slow, now fast or, even, held suspended according to the emotion or sentiment of the words...’ This concert in the stylus fantasticus features works by Biber, Bertali, Marini, Castello, Schmelzer and Frescobaldi.

Anita Vedres (violin) studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in Utrecht’s Musik Conservatorium. Under the tutelage of the renowned Swiss baroque violinist MayaHomburger, she obtained a first class honours master’s degreein professional studies at the Cork School of Music. She is a

Wednesday January 28th

Hear Our Song 2015!

County Cork School of Music

County Cork School of Music (CCSM) presents a showcase of young musicians performing in the classical, popular and traditional genres. This concert showcases the school’s extensive ‘Let’s Play Together’ programme of performance-based activities. ‘Hear Our Song 2015!’ embodies the CCSM’s core philosophy… young people and teachers who are passionate about sharing their music with the community at large.

County Cork School of Music is one of Ireland's most dynamic multi-campus music schools. CCSM offers high-quality social, cultural and educational experiences and provides instrumental tuition programmes in classical and traditional Irish music styles. The school also incorporates a range of ensembles, bands, musicianship classes and other music-making activities. As part of its ‘Let’s Play Together’ programme, the school gives regular public performances and works with partner schools on Junior Certificate, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate music programmes. CCSM is committed to forging links with communities and has reached over 3,100 students through its partners, which include schools, organisations and centres.

For more details, visit www.ccsm.ie.

Wednesday February 4th

A Taste of Italy, Past and Present

Ensemble Xenia

Adrian Pinzaru (violin), Eilís Cranitch (violin), Daniel Palmizio (viola) and Claudio Pasceri (cello)

This performance covers a timespan of approximately 90 years and presents four very distinct compositions. Two of the works were written by young composers who represent contemporary trends and the other two were written, one in 1920 and the other in 1990, by important and innovative composers who greatly influenced the course of contemporary music in Italy. The pieces are: Albero Colla: Quartetto N.2 “Diario di giorni ordinari/Diary of ordinary days” (2013) Stefano Pierini: Kairos (2012) Niccolò Castiglioni: Romanze – Adagio/Andatino/Adagietto/Larghetto (1990) Alfredo Casella: Valse Ridicule and Foxtrot from “Cinque Pezzi per quartetto”(1920)

Ensemble Xenia was founded in Turin in 1995 by four musicians with a shared interest in contemporary music. Ensemble Xenia regularly participates in international festivals and concert seasons, including the Ravenna Festival, MiTo Settembre Musica Festival, the Piccolo Regio Laboratory series (Turin), Holland Festival, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Ilkom Festival (Tashkent), Arts Square Festival (Saint Petersburg), Morgenland Festival (Germany), Lieu Unique (Nantes), Meridian Festival (Bucharest) and the Icebreaker Festival (Seattle). Xenia´s basic formation, the string quartet, can be

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founding member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and a former member of both the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber music activity includes playing with groups such as Camerata Kilkenny, Armoniosa, Trio Quattro, the Eidola Trio and the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. She plays on a Viennese violin by Johann Joseph Stadlmann.

Malachy Robinson (violin) is a prize-winning graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music and holds a master’s degree in historical musicology from the University of London. He has appeared with period-performance bands, the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the OAE, the Sixteen and the English Concert and has founded some groups of his own: Trio Quattro, Armoniosa, the Eidola Trio and the Gregory Walkers, in which he plays violin. Malachy is also principal double-bassist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, a founder member of the Crash Ensemble and director of the Robinson Panoramic Quartet.

Yonit Kosovske performs on both modern and historical keyboard instruments, including harpsichord, fortepiano, modern piano and chamber organ. With a playing repertoire that includes compositions from the sixteenth century to contemporary music, Yonit performs as a soloist, chamber artist and orchestral player. She holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her book Historical Harpsichord Technique: Developing La douceur du toucher was published by Indiana University Press in 2011. Dr Kosovske lectures in music at the Irish World Academy, where she is active as both a teacher and accompanist in piano, harpsichord, chamber music, historical performance practice, music history and literature.


Edith Piaf: Story and Song

Patsy McCoy and Mairtín Ó Briain

Edith Piaf was a street singer who became France’s national diva and one of its greatest international stars. Her music was often autobiographical with her songs reflecting her life story. In this tribute, Patsy McCoy and Mairtín Ó Briain bring Piaf’s story to life through a repertoire rich in the passion of love and the pain of loss and sorrow. As Piaf tries to find herself anew, the narrative sometimes reflects a postmodern Ireland. In this concert the performers breathe new life into such classics as La Vie en Rose and Non, Je ne Regrette Rien.

Patsy McCoy, a native of Limerick city who comes from a well-known musical family, has worked as a pianist, singer and entertainer throughout Ireland for many years. She has performed at many festivals and venues, including the Galway Races, Listowel Races and in the Butler Arms Hotel in Waterville, Co Kerry. Patsy has covered the work of several artists and has a particular affection for the life and songs of Edith Piaf. She has performed these songs in many intimate settings, including Rouen in France and the Lime Tree Theatre in her native Limerick during the City of Culture 2014.

Mairtín Ó Briain, a Limerick native, has been involved with music and drama for many years. He has worked extensively with choirs, which regularly perform in Italy and Germany. Mairtín taught French and Irish for many years in Laurel Hill Secondary School, Limerick. He speaks several languages and has a particular affection for French culture. In 2014, Mairtín’s choir performed some of the acclaimed works of Duke Ellington at the Limerick Jazz Festival and he narrated the story of Edith Piaf in the Lime Tree Theatre as part of the City of Culture celebrations.


The Inishowen Song Project Live: Singers and Songs of the Peninsula

Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and Jim MacFarland

The Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal is home to a rich contemporary and historical tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing in the English language. The Inishowen Song Project (ISP) Tour is an introduction to the singers and songs from this tradition in live performance and online. This lunchtime concert features singers Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and Jim MacFarland of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. The concert will focus on songs collected and learned from family and friends in the Peninsula.

Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and Jim MacFarland are active members of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. The group organises monthly singing sessions and workshops, hosts the annual Inishowen International Folk Song & Ballad Seminar and is the publisher of the online Inishowen Song Project. Brian Doyle is providing technical support on this occasion.

Thursday February 26th Man, Woman + Child

Len Graham, Róisín de Faoite, Fergus Russell, Róisín Gaffney, Jim MacFarland, Grace Toland, Hammy Hamilton and Sandra Joyce

Man, Woman + Child is a research and performance project based on The Child Ballad Collection, a collection of traditional songs collected by the American collector Francis J. Child in England and Scotland (1882–1898).The project pairs a male singer with a female singer in performance with the aim of breathing new life into songs from the Child Ballad Collection. The Man, Woman + Child project is devised and coordinated by Michael Fortune and is supported by the National Library of Ireland and the Arts Council.

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County Cork School of Music Ensemble Xenia Anita Vedres Malachy Robinson Yonit Kosovske Patsy McCoy Mairtín Ó Briain Singers from the Inishowen Song Project Man, Woman + Child

Thursday March 19th

Collailm Duo

Karina Gallagher and Aiveen Gallagher

Cork sisters Karina and Aiveen Gallagher combine their skills and expertise to form the violin and viola ensemble Collailm Duo. Drawing inspiration from the many countries in which they have lived and studied, they perform an eclectic mix of compositions. Since the Duo’s debut in July 2014, they have performed in Lithuania, Italy, Poland and Belgium and have been invited to undertake a winter residency at the world-renowned Banff Centre, Canada in early 2015. Lauded for their expressiveness and wonderful flair on stage, they will perform music from Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and the USA.

Violinist Karina Gallagher graduated with a first class honours B. Mus. from the Royal College of Music, London and a first class honours MA from the University of Limerick. Karina finessed her skills with Massimo Quarta in Lugano, Salvatore Accardo inCremona and Daniel Rubenstein in Brussels. Upon completion of her European studies, she served as teaching assistant to international virtuoso Stefan Milenkovich at the University of Illinois and held the position of String Department Teaching Assistant at the University of Miami and Junior Department Professor at the Frost School of Music, Florida.

Violinist Aiveen Gallagher graduated with first class honours in performance from the Cork School of Music. Having accepted a prestigious international scholarship to Western Illinois University, she graduated with a first class honours Master of Music degree. In recognition of her outstanding musicianship, Aiveen was appointed ‘Master of Chamber Music Co-ordinator’ for the Bureau of Cultural Affairs by the Dean of Western Illinois University, where she ran her own concert series. By personal request of leading US ensemble the Amernet String Quartet, Aiveen served as String Department Teaching Assistant at Florida International University until 2013.

Thursday March 5th

Hidden Treasures from Russia and Ireland: Tchaikovsky and John Field

Deirdre Moynihan (voice) and Fionnuala Moynihan (piano)

The songs of Tchaikovsky, one of Russia’s most popular composers, are full of beauty, intrigue and dramatic intensity. Rarely heard in concert, Tchaikovsky’s art songs have the ability to enchant the listener and create a magical atmosphere. This concert is a unique opportunity to hear the hidden treasures of the Russian master. John Field spent a great deal of his active musical life in St Petersburg, where he became the city’s most celebrated composer and performer. Creator of the Nocturne, Field’s far-reaching legacy influenced generations of Russian pianists and composers such as Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

Deirdre and Fionnuala Moynihan have performed extensively together. In February 2013, they opened the Russian Festival of Culture with a recital in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. They have been invited to perform there again this year. Also in 2013, they gave concerts to celebrate the inauguration of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Benczur Palace, Budapest and Chopin University of Warsaw. In July 2014, they gave a concert tour in Japan.

For further details, please view: www.deirdremoynihan.comwww.fionnualamoynihan.com

Thursday March 12th

Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings (Theatre 1)

Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy (Director Katherine Hunka) with CIT Cork School of Music, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

This spring, an exciting collaborative project led by members of the dynamic Irish Chamber Orchestra and directed by Katherine Hunka sees string students from three of the country’s foremost academies come together as part of the newly established Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy initiative. This lunchtime performance of Richard Strauss’s seldom-heard masterpiece Metamorphosen at the Irish World Academy is one of a series of three performances by this group of rising young stars. For details on the performances in Cork and Dublin, see page 26.

Katherine Hunka, Leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), appears as both a soloist and chamber artist across a wide range of repertoires. She directs and performs as a soloist with the ICO both in Ireland and beyond. She frequently performs at chamber music festivals throughout Ireland and plays in a trio with accordionist Dermot Dunne and bassist Malachy Robinson. A guest leader of various ensembles, Hunka has been a guest soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. She teaches at both the CIT Cork School of Music and at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

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Deirdre Moynihan Fionnuala Moynihan Katherine Hunka Collailm Duo

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Thursday March 26th

MA Classical String Performance

MA Classical String Performance students and faculty members

This lunchtime concert offers a selection of current performance projects by MA Classical String Performance students and features collaborative work with members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra and with Irish World Academy faculty.

Thursday April 9th

Take You There

Sean’s Walk: Sean Ó Dalaigh (guitar and vocals), Alec Brown (cello and backing vocals) and Ciarán McLoughlin (piano & backing vocals)

Drawing from varied influences including traditional Irish music, jazz, blues, folk and funk, this performance will incorporate both upbeat and aggressive songs suitable for energising a festival audience as well as more lyrical and atmospheric works. Since the band’s conception by Sean Ó Dalaigh, Alec Brown and Ciarán McLoughlin in the summer of 2012, Sean’s Walk has performed all over Ireland. Formed by two graduates of the Irish World Academy and a current PhD student, the band has a unique sound. They have supported artists such as Kila, Paddy Casey, Hermitage Green, The Outside Track and The Original Rudeboys as well as performing their own shows at Electric Picnic 2014 and the Helium Festival 2013. The interplay between the musical instruments of guitar, cello and piano, which is underscored by powerful vocals with meaningful lyrics, creates a futuristic musical sound.

Thursday April 16th

MA Festive Arts

MA Festive Arts Class 2014/15

The MA Festive Arts programme combines creative performance, arts management and production along with research into festivity and its role in society. This lunchtime concert is curated and presented by the MA Festive Arts class 2014/15.

Thursday April 23rd

Nexus: In the Deep Heart’s Core

Sonas, the UL Global Choir and students of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song

Featuring students of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song (MARCS) programme and Sonas, the UL Global Choir, Nexus (Latin for “Link”) is the spring manifestation of the MARCS Locus+Nexus series. Nexus explores connections between people, places and experience. The concert will feature ensemble and solo songs of love, family, joy, hope and adoration.

Sonas is a collective of students from Irish World Academy programmes combined with members of the broader UL community. The group explores vocal ensemble music of many times and places, from Irish traditional, Latin American, Ars Nova and Qawwali to Gospel, Georgian, Medieval and Monteverdi.

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Deirdre Moynihan Fionnuala Moynihan Katherine Hunka Collailm Duo MA Classical String Performance students Sean’s Walk Festive Arts Sonas

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Renee Neeson (Ireland) and Kayvon Sesar (USA), MA Classical String Performance studentsPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

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MA Traditional Music Performance student Yoann an Nedeleg (Brittany) playing bombard with his uncle, Youen Peron, on binioù-kozh (breton bagpipe)Photograph © Maurice Gunning


Venue: The Tower, Irish World Academy4pm to 5.30pm (unless otherwise stated)


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modern and contemporary music from many different cultures and countries for the past 20 years. Performances cover a wide range, including “Ghost Opera” by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, the works of Avro Part from Estonia, Franghis Ali Sade from Azerbaijan, Dimitri Yanov Yanovsky from Uzbekistan and the Irish composer Gerald Barry.

Violinist Eilís Cranitch was born in Cork. After obtaining a B. Mus. and an MA degree in musicology from University College Cork, she completed her violin studies in Italy at the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatoire in Rome. During her career, she has played with the Hilliard Ensemble in their programmes dedicated to the composer Arvo Part and with I Solisti Aquilani, with whom she frequently performed as soloist at the most important festivals and concert seasons in Europe and the US. Since 1990, she has been living in Turin, where she teaches quartet. She is one of the founder members and violinist of Ensemble Xenia.

Cellist Claudio Pasceri was born in Turin and obtained his diploma with Renzo Brancaleon at the Turin conservatoire. He continued his studies with Rocco Filippini at the W. Stauffer in Cremona, at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg and at Mozarteum in Salisburgh with Julius Berger. He has performed as a chamber musician at prestigious festivals and concert series with well-known musicians such as Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Dora Schwarzberg, Rocco Filippini, Rohan De Saram and Gilles Apap. Festivals where he has performed include Lingotto Musica in Turin, Associazione Dino Ciani in Stresa, Eckelhausen Festival at the Lincoln Center, New York, Mak e Lockenhaus Musikfest in Vienna and Unione Musicale in Turin. He has played cello with Ensemble Xenia since 2012.

Wednesday January 28th

LANDscape research cluster meeting – Moving through Landscapes

Presenters: Billy Mills and Niall KeeganChair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Irish World Academy) and Dr Anna Ryan

This Tower seminar is part of the interdisciplinary LANDscape research cluster. Featuring presentations by poet Billy Millsand musician and lecturer Dr Niall Keegan, the seminar explores ideas of moving through landscape in different contexts. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the cluster, the seminar will explore Mills’s explorations of movement,landscape, song and language in his poetry. Following this, Niall Keegan will discuss the intersections of music, performance, language and landscape. The LANDscape research cluster is open to all and is convened by Dr Anna Ryan and Dr Niamh NicGhabhann.

Further information on the LANDscape cluster can be found at http://landscapeul.tumblr.com.

Dublin-born Billy Mills is a poet, editor and literary journalist at guardian.co.uk. After some years spent in Spain and the UK, he currently lives in Limerick. He is co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardPressed poetry. His Lares/Manes: Collected Poems was published by Shearsman in 2009, and his Imaginary Gardens and Loop Walks were published by hardPressed poetry in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Dr Niall Keegan is a traditional Irish flute player and an ethnomusicologist. His PhD, The Art of Juncture – Transformations of Irish Traditional Music, focused on the language-based

structures used by traditional musicians to account for and shape their performance practices. His research also engages the diasporic experience of traditional music, particularly in the UK. He has performed extensively throughout the world with musicians such as Sandra Joyce, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Clive Carroll.

Dr Anna Ryan is an architect and cultural geographer. She graduated with a B.Arch from the School of Architecture, University College Dublin in 2000 and attained her PhD from the Department of Geography, University College Cork in 2008. Since 2007 she has been a full-time lecturer in architecture at the University of Limerick. A monograph arising from her PhD research, Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of Landscape, Representation and Spatial Experience, was published by Ashgate in 2012. Her research interests include landscape, the coast, modes of writing, drawing and photography.

Wednesday February 4th (3pm to 4.30pm)

Is “Belcanto” alive and well in Italy today?

Presenters: Eilís Cranitch and Claudio Pasceri (Ensemble Xenia) Chair: Dr Ferenc Szücs (Irish World Academy)

Italy has always been considered the home of opera, and the lyricism of “belcanto” is to be found in the genes of every Italian. How does this manifest itself in diverse artistic expressions such as the art music of today and in the popular music of Italy, from Berio to Mina, from Sciarrino to Modugno? Discover the answer through the eyes of Ensemble Xenia, a Turin-based string quartet that has performed programmes of

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Developing Community Circus in Europe

Presenters: Ulla Hokkanen, Stephen Cadwell and Will ChamberlainChair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Irish World Academy)

This seminar marks the collaboration between the MA Festive Arts and the ERASMUS+ project on youth and social circus development in Europe. Working with a range of research partners across Europe, the CIRCUS+ project aims to explore pedagogical and development needs for youth and social circus. The seminar features Ulla Hokkanen of Galway Community Circus, Dr Stephen Cadwell, a postdoctoral researcher on the CIRCUS+ project, and Will Chamberlain from Belfast Community Circus. The seminar will officially launch the partnership between the MA Festive Arts programme and ISACS – the Irish Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network, which aims to build industry links between the MA Festive Arts and the wider festival industry, producers and artists.

Ulla Hokkanen is the circus director at Galway Community Circus. She is a board member of the European Youth and Social Circus Network Caravan and currently chairs ISACS. She is originally from Finland, where her love of youth circus started over 20 years ago. She has a BA (Hons) in Social Science from University of Tampere, Finland and is a graduate of the University of Limerick, where she studied Politics and International Relations in 2003/04.

Dr Stephen Cadwell is a postdoctoral researcher with CIRCUS+ (Research Project on Youth and Social Circus Pedagogy). This two-year research project will map the current educational opportunities available to students and professionals interested in youth and social circus. Stephen has followed up his PhD thesis, What Is the Matter with Modern Art: A Critical Analysis of Arthur Danto's Theories of Art, with a continuing interest in art, aesthetics and emotion and with research on the impacts of

youth and social circus internationally. He is a founding member of both the Global Institute for Circus Studies and the UK & Ireland Circus Research Network. He is also a filmmaker.

Will Chamberlain has worked in the field of circus since graduating from Manchester University with a degree in Economics and Social Administration in 1984. He founded 2 social circus organisations in England and enjoyed 12 years as a professional clown and comedy juggler in England and Switzerland before moving to Belfast in 1996 to run the Belfast Community Circus School. Will guided the organisation through taking possession of Ireland’s only purpose built Circus building and he now presides over the delivery of an extensive participatory programme which works with more than 400 children and young people each week. Since he first began juggling in inner city Manchester in the 1980’s, Will has been a passionate advocate of thetransformative power of circus participation. Thursday February 12th

H.I.P. (Historically Informed Performance)

Presenters: Anita Vedres, Malachy Robinson and Yonit KosovskeChair: Dr Yonit Kosovske (Irish World Academy)

“Early Music,” “Period Performance” and “Historically Informed Performance” are terms that are used to describe certain scholarly and performative trends in classical music, usually of repertoire before 1800. Often considered to be outside of mainstream classical music, such titles have been associated with the “Early Music Movement.” This seminar features musicians who are immersed in diverse styles of performance practice and strives to bridge communities that are oftentimes viewed as separate from one another with their contrasted value systems and approaches to music-making. What does it mean to present an “historically informed performance”? How is this manifest in Period instruments compared to their later, Romantic counterparts?

Musicians Anita Vedres, Malachy Robinson and Yonit Kosovske perform as soloists, chamber artists and orchestral players playing both period instruments and later Romantic or modern instruments on a repertoire which spans the early Renaissance through Contemporary, newly-composed music. The musicians bring decades of professional experience and insight to their discussion of the role that “Historical Performance Practice” plays in their music-making here in Ireland and on the international stage.


Dancing Identities

Presenters: Jennifer de Brún and Ras Mikey CourtneyChair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

This seminar examines the process of dance training in a variety of cultural contexts and explores the experience of the teacher, student and choreographer in a higher educational setting. In particular, it explores the influence of training in codified dance techniques, not only on a dancer’s movement vocabulary but also on the perception and performance of the multiplicity of identities embodied therein. Jennifer de Brún and Ras Mikey Courtney, two ethnochoreologists and dance artists who have collaborated on several projects, examine the agency of the dancer and choreographer within the choreographic process and discuss how these concepts relate to their own professional practice as well as their current doctoral research.

Jennifer de Brún is a Limerick-based professional dance artist and ethnochoreologist. She is a qualified teacher of Cecchetti classical ballet with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance and has completed the BA Voice and Dance and MA Ethno-choreology at the University of Limerick, achieving first class honours in both. Jennifer is a board member of Dance Research Forum Ireland and is currently undertaking doctoral research at the Irish World Academy.

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Niall Keegan Anna Ryan Niamh NicGhabhann Eilís Cranitch and Claudio Pasceri with other members of Ensemble Xenia Ferenc Szücs Ulla Hokkanen Stephen Cadwell Will Chamberlain Anita Vedres Malachy Robinson Yonit Kosovske Jennifer de Brún

Dr Kristin McGee is Associate Professor of Popular Music in the Arts, Culture and Media Department at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She has written on the subject of jazz, gender, popular music and audiovisual media for a variety of articles and books, including her manuscript Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). She is currently completing a manuscript on the crossover jazz scenes of the Netherlands. She is a saxophonist and sometime theatre music composer.

Wednesday March 11th

In Time with the Music: Music, Interaction and Entrainment

Presenter: Professor Martin ClaytonChair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy)

Human beings have a remarkable and almost unique capacity to coordinate their actions: to be ‘in time’ with one another. Where does this ability come from and what are its implications for the understanding of musical performance? Entrainment is a process whereby different rhythms interact with each other, leading in some circumstances to synchronisation. By examining the coordination of musical ensembles in the context of entrainment, we can develop new and productive perspectives as well as raise some challenging questions for ethnomusicology. This presentation outlines the fundamentals of this approach, presents some case studies and briefly discusses some of the issues raised.

Martin Clayton is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Durham University. He studied at the School of Oriental and African studies in London and has previously worked at the Open University and the University of Chicago. His publications include the books Time in Indian Music (2000); Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s: Portrayal of the East; (2007) The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction (2nd ed. 2012) and Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (2013).

Ras Mikey Courtney completed his MA in Ethnochoreology at the University of Limerick, where he currently acts as a guest lecturer while undertaking his PhD in Arts Practice Research. He also holds a BFA in Modern Dance Performance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught, performed and choreographed dance and other performing arts worldwide with his company Fore I’m a Versatile Entertainer (F.I.V.E.) Productions (www.fivedance.com). Ras Mikey’s works are a reflection of his spirit and passion for the performing arts as both a cultural and social movement. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Dance Research Forum Ireland.


The Inishowen Song Project Online: Field Recordings of the Singers and Songs of the Peninsula

Presenter: Grace Toland Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy)

Grace Toland will present a guided audiovisual tour of the Inishowen Song Project (ISP). Launched in 2012, ISP gives free online access to sound and video field recordings made by Jimmy McBride of over 600 songs from more than 200 singers from the Peninsula. Hosted by the Irish Traditional Music Archive, ISP provides a rich resource of song material as well as a unique insight into the place of song in this local community. Grace will introduce the singers, highlight the local singing style and discuss the place of the Inishowen tradition within a wider English language song context.

Grace Toland is a member of staff at the Irish Traditional Music Archive and an active member of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. The ITSC organises monthly singing sessions and workshops, hosts the annual Inishowen International Folk Song & Ballad Seminar and is the publisher of the online Inishowen Song Project.

This seminar will be followed by a reception to mark the launch of the new traditional song research group at the Irish World Academy.

Wednesday March 4th

Popular Jazz, Digital Aesthetics and Transnational Networks in the New Europe

Presenter: Dr Kristin McGeeChair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy)

The rejuvenation of popular, mixed-genre vocal jazz in Northern Europe arises from a nostalgic fascination with the symphonic, dance-oriented styles of Hollywood’s ‘golden decades.’ This presentation highlights the intermediated nature of European popular jazz by investigating the complex engagements of a variety of European musical participants as they promote flexible, cosmopolitan and neo-jazz identifications, which in turn invites a critique of gentrification and multiculturalism in the New Europe. The mimetic configurations guiding Caro Emerald’s musical recordings and live performances are examined to illuminate the intersections between dance music, digital media and transnational jazz collaborations as producers accommodate eclectic musical fascinations within late-capitalist systems of articulation in European jazz aesthetics.

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Òrain Caimbeulaich a’ Ghnìoba: Music and a Sense of Place in a Gaelic Family Song Tradition

Presenter: Mary Ann KennedyChair: Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy)

The Campbells of Greepe (a tiny crofting township on the Isle of Skye) have been dubbed the ‘first family’ of Gaelic song. Pipers and singers who also love to dance, they are considered the masters of puirt-à-beul and their songs bring to life an old Gaelic world and community where music and song accompanied every aspect of daily life. With third-generation performer Mary Ann Kennedy, this session will address the challenges of presenting Gaelic song to non-Gaelic speaking audiences in the context of family, history, contemporary performance and archive, landscape, community and story.

Mary Ann Kennedy is a Glasgow Gael who is part of a dynasty of traditional singers and pipers from the tiny township of Greepe on the Isle of Skye. Classical training and a traditional music upbringing along with 20 years’ broadcasting experience on the BBC have earned her a place as one of the most authoritative performers and commentators in Scottish music today. She is a singer and instrumentalist as well as a writer, composer, producer, choral director and broadcaster and is never happier than when singing with others. She is co-author of Fonn: The Campbells of Greepe, Gaelic Book of the Year 2013 and winner of the 2013 National Gaelic Arts and Culture Award.


Dance, Colonialism, Postcolonialism

Dr Catherine Foley and Dr Avanthi MeduriChair: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (Irish World Academy)

Dance plays a significant role in the socialisation process but can also be an expression and embodiment of cultural politics, protest and resistance, and power relations. This seminar focuses on dance within two different cultures: step dancing in Ireland and Bharatanatyam in India. It explores issues relating to colonialism, subalterity, postcolonialism and cultural identity formations through the lens and practice of dancing.

Emerging Webs of Formation: Step Dancing Then and NowPresenter: Dr Catherine Foley

This presentation examines step dancing in Ireland as it was reconfigured and shaped within colonial and political discourses during the early decades of the twentieth century. The seminar also explores the postcolonial representations of step dancing from the 1980s and 1990s, when the dance form was globalised through spectacular stage shows. Different embodiments of step dancing in theatre and in third-level education worldwide are considered.

Bharatanatyam: Local/Global Perspectives Presenter: Dr Avanthi Meduri

In this seminar, Bharatanatyam is discussed as a dance example to consider postcolonial identity formation within a national and transnational framework. Focusing on the neo-liberal period of the 1980s and 1990s, the presentation will show how Indian nationalist discourse on Indian performing arts was internationalised. This resulted in the complex globalisation of Indian performing arts in the US and UK in the 1990s, continuing into the present.

Dr Catherine Foley is a dancer and musician and founding course director of both the MA Ethnochoreology and the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes at the Irish World Academy. She is founding chair emerita of Dance Research Forum Ireland and is founding director of the National Dance Archive of Ireland. She chairs the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Catherine has published and performed widely; her monographs include Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry (North Kerry Literary Trust 2012) and Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (Ashgate 2013), which was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2014.

Dr Avanthi Meduri is a scholar, dancer, actress, playwright, curator and arts administrator. Born in India, she received her PhD in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of Arts, New York University, in 1996. Currently a reader in dance and performance studies, Meduri is convener of the first postgraduate South Asian dance studies programme at Roehampton University, London. A fellow at the International Research Centre, Freie University, Berlin, Meduri is co-founder of the Asian Performing Arts Forum, London, a consortia of three London universities engaged with Asian dance, theatre and performance. She is the recipient of several national and international awards and fellowships and has over 50 publications to her name.

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Ras Mikey Courtney Grace Toland Sandra Joyce Kristin McGee Aileen Dillane Martin Clayton Mary Ann Kennedy Mats Melin Avanthi Meduri Catherine Foley

BA Voice and Dance student Kathy YoungPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Rebeca Mateos Morante is a professional Danza Española and Flamenco dancer who is currently studying for her PhD at the Irish World Academy. A philosophy graduate with a first class honours master’s in Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies, she trained at the renowned conservatory Centro Coreográfico Mariemma in Madrid. She subsequently toured extensively as a Flamenco soloist both with Riverdance and the critically acclaimed Compañía Elvira Andrés led by the ex-director of the National Ballet of Spain. She has also performed in many other prestigious choreographies, including the last production of the famous Bodas de Sangre, which was overseen by its celebrated choreographer, the late Antonio Gades.

Lisa McLoughlin trained at the Rambert School, London. As a dancer, she has performed extensively across the globe with companies such as the Liz Roche Dance Company, Daghdha, Coisceim, Marguerite Donlon, Citog, IMDT and Opera Ireland. As a choreographer, she was awarded the Jane Snow Award for her choreography Tender hooks of honesty. She also co-produced and choreographed the critically acclaimed Fourtold (2011) and Below the Tide (2012), both of which were funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. She currently lectures in dance at the Irish World Academy and is completing her MA thesis on dance and psychology.

Dr Neil Kenny has an honours BA in Psychology from UCD as well as a PhD from NUI Maynooth. In addition, he is a psychologist with 10 years’ experience of working directly with children, young people and families affected by autism spectrum disorder. He currently lectures in psychology in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Limerick.

Wednesday April 8th

Dance, Embodiment, Psychological Analysis

Presenters: Professor José-Miguel Marinas, Rebeca Mateos Morante, Lisa McLoughlin and Dr Neil KennyChair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

This seminar offers scholars from the disciplinary frameworks of psychoanalysis and psychology the opportunity to investigate the relationships between the body, dance and embodiment.

The Subject is the BodyPresenter: Professor José-Miguel Marinas

Philosophical reflection coupled with psychoanalysis presents an interesting meeting-point when considering a theory of the body and the image of the dancer. Commencing with the construction of the image of the subject from the dialectic of desire, that desire, defined as desire de l’autre, demonstrates the constitution of the body as a subject of alterity. ‘The Mirror Stage’ and ‘Discourse of the Other’ are two Lacanian expressions that carry the discussion from the theory to praxis.

Embodying the Mirror: The Construction of the Dancing Body through Its Specular ImagePresenter: Rebeca Mateos Morante

Corporal events are not only embodied in the immediacy of their execution but also in the anticipation of their completion – a corporal schema that pre-empts corporal events. Likewise, the dancer in front of the mirror produces an associated ideal ‘as-if’ structure that is held by the specular image itself. The specular image ‘as-if’ structure in action must be simulated by the

dancing body; this results in the dancing body increasingly becoming more mirror than flesh.

Moved to Dance: an exploration of dancers’ phenomenological perceptions of what influences their movement while dancing and how they view themselves as dancersPresenters: Lisa McLoughlin and Dr Neil Kenny

Research by Van Staden, Myburgh and Poggenpoel in 2004 showed that professional dancers’ self-concept is strongly influenced by their profession. This study explored six dancers’ phenomenological perceptions of what influences their movement and their personal identity as dancers. An interpretive phenomenological analysis framework was used to interpret the qualitative data, and the results suggest that dance played a central role in participants’ identity.

José-Miguel Marinas is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he coordinates the master’s in Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory. He also collaborates with the official Spanish state agency for scientific investigation and lectures as part of the Ortega y Gasset Foundation. He has published extensively on many themes, including analysis of the culture of consumption (codes, conflicts and values), ethical psychoanalysis and the relationships between narrative constructions of identity and new forms of political linkages. He currently directs the ‘Community and Violence: The Political Culture of the Society of Consumption’ project.

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Femke Van Der Kooij performing at the Waking St Munchin event at Dance LimerickPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Wednesday April 15th

The Music in Music Therapy

Presenter: Dr Julie SuttonChair: Alpha Woodward (Irish World Academy)

The powerful, therapeutic effect of music is widely appreciated. This seminar explores how we can experience and come to understand the therapeutic aspects of music in different ways. Drawing together clinical and research findings from recent work with audio examples, some theoretical thinking that links with our unique, individual experience of music is proffered. The underlying focus is a recognition of the subtle, complex ways everyone can perceive music; how musical training and experience amplify this capacity; and the fundamental humanity we find and connect with in music.

Dr Julie Sutton works in a regional adult psychiatry NHS service in Northern Ireland. She has a clinical and research supervision practice across Europe and is an international presenter, lecturer and examiner. She was former head of training for Nordoff-Robbins London, consulted for the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, is a trustee of the British Association for Music Therapy, past editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Music Therapy and vice president of the European Music Therapy Association. With many chapters and articles, she has written two books: Music, Music Therapy & Trauma (2002) and The Music in Music Therapy (2014).

Wednesday April 29thPotential and Possibilities for Arts in Health in Ireland: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Presenters: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Dr Amanda Clifford, Dr Tríona McCaffrey, Dr Olive Beecher and Dr Hilary Moss Chair: Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy)

The role of the arts in healthcare is increasingly being recognised and developed in Ireland. It is a broad field of practice that encompasses a diverse range of disciplines and approaches, all of which are committed to promoting health and wellbeing through creativity. This seminar celebrates such diversity by reflecting upon the role of the arts in health from the perspectives of ethnochoreology, arts practice and creative arts therapy. The seminar considers the possibilities and potentials for this multi-disciplinary field while recognising the rich pathway that this offers for building a sense of connection, collaboration and community.

Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain lectures at the Irish World Academy and is course director of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance. Her research interests include Irish dance among the diaspora, creative processes in competitive Irish solo step dance and arts in health as well as collaborative research on set dancing and Parkinson’s with Dr Amanda Clifford and Joanne Shanahan at the University of Limerick. She is a registered Irish dance teacher and adjudicator with An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha and is an accomplished musician, singer and dancer. Orfhlaith has travelled throughout the world as a tutor and dance accompanist and has authored a book entitled The Terminology of Irish Dance.

Dr Amanda Clifford graduated with a BSc in Physiotherapy from King’s College London and worked clinically in both the NHS and private sectors in the UK as a senior orthopaedic, out-patient and sports physiotherapist. She has worked with elderly, neurological, rheumatologic, acute and chronic patient groups. Amanda’s PhD, from King's College London, is on postural control following anterior cruciate ligament injury. She has

worked for the past 10 year at UL as a lecturer on the BSc in Physiotherapy and Grad Dip/MSc in Clinical Therapies programmes. Her current research interests include the use of movement analysis in the assessment of movement and fall risk and exercise programmes (including dance) for optimising function and preventing falls.

Dr Tríona McCaffrey is a qualified music therapist and lecturer on the MA Music Therapy programme at the Irish World Academy. Having studied music and Irish at Trinity College Dublin, she completed her music therapy training at the Academy before taking up a full-time music therapy post at Mayo Mental Health Services. Having practised in the areas of recovery, community mental health and psychiatry of old age, she has a broad experience of mental health services. In 2012, she was awarded a Conversion Diploma in Psychology from the Open University. Tríona’s recently completed doctoral studies focused on the service-user evaluation of music therapy in treating mental health issues.

Dr Hilary Moss is Director of Arts and Health at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital. In addition to her MBA in Health Services Management, she is a music therapist with particular experience of working with older people and in mental health services. Her research interest lies in aesthetic deprivation. In 2014, she was awarded her PhD from the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Olive Beecher (BA, MA, PhD) is a professional dancer and dance academic. She trained at Nikolais/Louis Dance School in New York and was a founder member of Daghdha Dance Company under the artistic direction of Mary Nunan. Olive has performed in New York, the UK and in theatres throughout Ireland. In 2005, she completed her PhD, entitled Dance Experience and Sense of Being – Therapeutic Applications of Contemporary Dance. She has presented papers at seminars and conferences internationally and was selected to present at the CORD/SDHS Conference in Paris in 2007. She continues to choreograph and has taught dance at the Irish World Academy since 2005.

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José-Miguel Marinas Rebeca Mateos Morante Lisa McLoughlin Neil Kenny Julie Sutton Alpha Woodward Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Amanda Clifford Tríona McCaffrey Hilary Moss Olive Beecher

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LOGOS is a series of events taking its place alongside the long-established public Tower Seminar and Lunchtime Performance series.

Venue: Conference RoomFirst Floor, Irish World Academy10am to 12 noon


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technologies to perpetuate late-nineteenth-century constructions of the Orient. The research highlights the configuration of a musical, kinetic and visual aesthetic and aims to ameliorate the imbalance of Orientalist studies (which prioritise male creativity) to highlight female Orientalist performers.

See page 16 for a biographical note on Dr Kristin McGee.

Thursday March 12th

Studying Musical Entrainment: Methods and Challenges

Presenter: Professor Martin ClaytonChair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy)

This seminar discusses the study of musical entrainment in depth. What methods have been used to analyse interpersonal coordination, and which of these might be applied in the context of ethnographic music research? Quantitative analyses can complement ethnographic research in various ways, but does this approach serve to strengthen or to undermine an ethnomusicological approach? Does ethnomusicology have as much to teach cognitive science as vice versa, and, if so, what is it?

See page 16 for a biographical note on Professor Martin Clayton.


Finding the Beat: Music, Perception and the Mind

Presenter: Dr Alexander Khalil Chair: Dr Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy)

This seminar explores the interdisciplinary space between ethnomusicology, music performance and cognitive science in its discussion of music, perception and the mind. Khalil’s research on music, culture and cognitive development will provide a starting point for dialogue around these issues.

Alexander Khalil is an ethnomusicologist, performer and composer. He holds a doctoral degree in music from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His doctoral dissertation, “Echoes of Constantinople: Oral and Written Tradition of the psaltes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”, explores the complex process of interpreting written music. Khalil has spent the past five years conducting research in cognitive science. He was a postdoctoral scholar and trainee at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at UCSD, where he conducted research on music, culture and cognitive development. He currently continues this work as a project scientist at the Institute for Neural Computation, La Jolla, California.


“There Was a Lord Who Lived in This Town” – Early Classic Ballads in the Irish Song Tradition

Presenter: Jerry O’Reilly Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy)

Jerry O’Reilly will present his research on the early classic ballads in the Irish song tradition, featuring archival presentations as well as songs from the singers featured in the Man, Woman + Child project (see page 9).

Jerry O’Reilly is a noted singer who has given many talks on the Child ballads and traditional song in general. He is one of the organisers of the Góilín Traditional Singers Club in Dublin. The Góilín is regarded by many as the foremost singing club in Ireland and has been running for 35 years.

Thursday March 5th

Exploring Orientalism and Erotic Multiculturalism in Popular Culture Media

Presenter: Dr Kristin McGeeChair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy)

Said’s groundbreaking monograph Orientalism (1978) incited a critical examination of Western ‘Orientalist’ discourse. This seminar examines the continued relevance of this work by illustrating connections between early twentieth-century erotic representations of a ‘feminised Orient’ and contemporary negotiations of sex and gender in audiovisual contexts. Using two case studies, Dr Kristin McGee will explore how Orientalist-inspired female performers consistently incorporate new

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Murni Omar and Faillul Adam (Malaysia), MA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Thursday March 26th

Postcolonial Dance Negotiations

Presenter: Dr Avanthi MeduriChair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

Taking Bharatanatyam as a case study, this seminar explores issues relating to postcolonial identity formations. Utilising a historical perspective, Dr Avanthi Meduri examines the power politics of colonialism, Orientalism and Indian nationalism and traces its impact on Indian performing arts. The seminar engages with postcolonial themes of double consciousness, hybridity and subalterity and discusses these through the lens and practice of dance production and transmission.

See page 17 for a biographical note on Dr Avanthi Meduri.

Thursday April 9th

Social Construction of the (Dancing) Body

Presenter: Professor José-Miguel MarinasChair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy)

This seminar considers the social construction of body representation: principally, the body as a subject-object in dance. The body might not be regarded as a social problem until a culture of consumption is established. Body as lineage, body as labour and body as consumption form a sequence of three repertoires in which our culture has been growing through patterns of defining identity between the intimate and the public; at the same time, they form three simultaneous records of the complex way in which we name ourselves. Correspondingly, dance allows us to see the body as a scenario and as a show.

See page 18 for a biographical note on Professor José-Miguel Marinas.

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Murni Omar and Faillul Adam (Malaysia), MA Contemporary Dance PerformancePhotograph © Maurice Gunning

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traditional music by exploring this repertoire as well as American and Scottish traditional musics. Alec will be accompanied by several Irish World Academy graduates who are accomplished in the Irish music tradition as well as other genres.

Alec Brown is an American cellist from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. After finding a deep love of Irish traditional music following an injury to his hand, he completed the MA in Irish traditional music in the Irish World Academy on both traditional flute and the cello. His doctoral research focuses on how to expand the role of the cello within Irish traditional music by expanding the technical arsenal of cello players within the tradition.

Tuesday May 26th

(YeBunna Alem/A Coffee World)7pm, Tower Theatre 2, Irish World Academy

Ras Mikey CourtneyThis presentation is the first of Ras Mikey Courtney’s two Ethio-Modern Dance PhD in Arts Practice performance works. Ethio-modern dance is Ras Mikey’s embodied understanding of Ethiopian traditions as seen through the lens of Western contemporary performing arts. This performance work centres on the concept of coffee as a global culture. Known as bunna in Amharic, Ethiopia’s national language, coffee originates from Kaffa, a small region in Ethiopia. This dance performance examines the ways in which coffee/bunna has spread from Kaffa to the world. Ras Mikey will use the performing arts as a platform to illustrate how cultures from around the globe are connected through coffee, hence the title ‘A Coffee World’.

See page 16 for a biographical note on Ras Mikey Courtney.


Inishowen Song Project singing session 9pm, Scholar’s Bar, UL

Featuring singers from the Inishowen Song Project (see page 9), this special singing session in UL’s Scholar’s Bar will give people an opportunity to experience the fun and companionship of traditional singing. All are welcome.

Thursday March 5th

Irish World Academy Traditional Music and Dance Concert 8pm, University Concert Hall

Students, tutors, faculty and alumni of the Irish World AcademyFollowing on from the success of last year's concert featuring traditional music and dance from the Irish World Academy, this concert showcases a variety of interpretations and performance practices. The concert will feature Irish World Academy students, tutors, faculty, alumni and special guests.

Thursday March 12th

Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings 1.15pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy

Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy (Director Katherine Hunka) with CIT Cork School of Music, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance present Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen – see page 10 for details. In addition to the performance at the Irish World Academy on March 12th, the students will perform the piece in Cork and Dublin as follows:

CIT Cork School of MusicCurtis Auditorium Friday, March 13th at 1.10pm

Royal Irish Academy of Music, DublinVenue TBCSaturday, March 14th at 2.00 pm

See page 10 for a biographical note on Katherine Hunka.

Tuesday April 7th

Transcending Liminality: (Re)Locating Thebrowncello 7pm, Tower Theatre 2, Irish World Academy

Alec BrownThis is the first of two performances by Alec Brown to comply with the doctoral requirements of the PhD Arts Practice programme at the Irish World Academy. ‘Thebrowncello’ represents the symbiotic relationship between the performer and his instrument. Combining a range of techniques and influences gathered through Alec’s lived experience, Transcending Liminality shows how the role of the cello can be expanded in Irish

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June 22nd to July 3rd 2015

Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and DanceIrish World Academy

The 19th Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance takes place from June 22nd to July 3rd 2015. Attracting students (aged sixteen and over) from around the world to spend two weeks gaining access to the expertise of some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists, Blas is now firmly established as one of Ireland’s most prestigious summer schools. Previous artists who have participated in Blas include Colin Dunne, Martin Hayes, Jim Higgins and Steve Cooney.

In 2010, musician, singer and composer Paul Brady made available bursaries that continued for three years. A new stream of Paul Brady Bursaries was made available in late spring 2013 and will continue for 2015. The recipients of the scholarships benefit from master classes from Ireland’s most distinguished traditional musicians, singers and dancers. Applications for the Blas Brady Bursary 2015 have been available since October 2014.

For further information on the Blas Summer School, see www.blas.ie or contact Ernestine Healy, Director, at [email protected] or by phone at 061-202653.

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Inishowen Song Project Irish World Academy Traditional Music and Dance Concert 2014 Katherine Hunka Alec Brown Ras Mikey Courtney Colin Dunne Martin Hayes Jim Higgins Steve Cooney

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A BACKWARD LOOK

RECENT EVENTS AT THE ACADEMY

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Michael Flatley gifts Steinway Grand Piano to the Irish World Academy

The Lord of the Dance, Michael Flatley, welcomed Sir Cliff Richard to his home at Castle Hyde with a special event to celebrate the star's unique contribution to the music industry. During the event, Michael Flatley announced that he would be gifting a Steinway Concert Grand Piano to the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at UL.

Blas International Summer School of Traditional Irish Music and Dance

Celebrating its 18th year, the Blas International Summer School of Traditional Irish Music and Dance has developed a reputation for quality and innovation. Blas 2014’s two-week programme featured some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists working alongside local musicians, singers, dancers and academics to deliver first-rate tuition through interactive master classes, daily lunchtime concerts and evening performances. In addition to formal lectures and a public seminar, innovative events on the programme included daily Irish classes, an excursion to a number of Ireland’s greatest tourist attractions in Co Clare and an Irish traditional table quiz. Artists who attended Blas 2014 included Matt Molloy, Martin Hayes, Steve Cooney, John Carty, Donal Lunny, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Michelle Mulcahy, Louise Mulcahy and many more.

Enjoying themselves at the Blas ‘Ladies Concert’ were, from left to right, Katie Boyle, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Ernestine Healy (Blas Director), Michelle Mulcahy and Louise Mulcahy.

Michael Flatley, Sir Cliff Richard and David Cronin of UL Foundation sitting at Flatley’s Steinway Concert Grand Piano

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Step-Up: Dance Project 2014

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance played host in July 2014 to some of Ireland’s most promising contemporary dance graduates as part of the Step-Up: Dance Project 2014. The overall aim of the project is to create a bridge between contemporary dance education and professional contemporary dance practice in Ireland. The 2014 project provided seven of Ireland’s most talented young contemporary dancers with the opportunity to create and perform a new contemporary dance under the direction of guest choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan. The selected dancers were Ailish Maher, Aifric Ní Chaoimh, Marion Cronin, Magda Herzak, Juan Urbina, Adam Faillul and Murni Omar. Also working on the piece were six dancers from Fabulous Beast Dance Company, who mentored the seven young dancers throughout the project. The work was shown in Limerick, Dublin and Cork.

Developed as a shared initiative between the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Dance Ireland and the Arts Council, the 2014 project included Dance Limerick and Fabulous Beast Dance Company as partners. The project’s general manager was Lisa Hallinan, and members of the steering committee included Dr Mary Nunan (Irish World Academy), Paul Johnson (Chief Executive, Dance Ireland), Dr Victoria O’Brien (Dance Advisor to the Arts Council) and Jenny Traynor (Dance Limerick).


JULY2014

Launch of WATERMARK exhibition by Professor Sir Christopher Frayling

Drawing its title from Dan Beachy-Quick’s poem Exegesis of the First Word Spoken (Ishmael), this exhibition began by bringing together the work of three visual artists – Fiona Hallinan, Aaron Lawless and David Lilburn – and that of the playwright, actor and documentary theatre maker Helena Enright. Commissioned to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, WATERMARK “(sing above or sing below the wave’s back)” draws on the rich archive of sounds, images and memories within the Academy itself as well as on the daily flow of music, voices and activity throughout the building and, of course, the parallel flow of the river Shannon at its banks. The exhibition was launched by historian, writer and award-winning broadcaster Professor Sir Christopher Frayling.

Professor Sir Christopher Frayling launches the WATERMARK exhibition.

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Dr Catherine Foley

Dr Catherine Foley elected chair of the International Council for Traditional Music’s (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology

Dr Catherine Foley of the Irish World Academy was elected chair of the International Council for Traditional Music’s (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology in July, 2014. The ICTM is a non-governmental organisation in formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Its aims are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance, including folk, popular, classical and urban music and dance of all countries. Ethnochoreology is the academic study of dance and human movement of all cultures, and the Study Group on Ethnochoreology is the largest group within the ICTM and the oldest scholarly community of dance in the world. Currently, the group has a membership from over 45 nations worldwide. The increased presence since the 1990s of ethnochoreology and dance anthropology programmes at universities in Europe is evidence of the growing interest in the field of dance, human movement practices and culture. The Study Group on Ethnochoreolgy provides an important forum and network for all scholars working and researching in this multidisciplinary field.

JULY2014

Michael Flatley and cast of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games rehearse at the Irish World Academy

The Irish World Academy played host to Michael Flatley and the cast of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games as they rehearsed ahead of the show's premiere in the legendary London Palladium on September 1st 2014. The Irish-American dancer, choreographer and musician has also rehearsed with his troupe in the impressive studios at the Irish World Academy for his recent ITV programme A Night to Remember.

Michael Flatley and cast member rehearse at the Irish World Academy (Photo © Brian Doherty)

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Field Trip to North Kerry

Postgraduate students from six MA programmes in music, song and dance – academic based and practice based – at the Irish World Academy recently participated in a field trip to North Kerry with Dr Catherine Foley. Dr Foley has been involved in field research in the area since 1980, initially as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance for Muckross House, Killarney and later for her own personal research into traditional dancing in the area. Organised as part of the module on fieldwork methods, the trip focused on Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, and afforded students the opportunity to participate in traditional Irish music, song and dance workshops with professional members of Siamsa Tíre (Jonathan Kelliher, Nicky McAuliffe, Tom Hanafin, Joanne Barry and Anne O' Donnell). Participants also attended the Siamsa Tíre production Clann Lir, performed with members of the theatre at Culture Night and visited the Kerry Museum and Teach Siamsa, Finuge. The postgraduate students attended a public interview between Dr Catherine Foley and Fr Pat Ahern (founding artistic director of Siamsa Tíre) and a public lecture by Dr Muiris Ó Laoire (Institute of Technology Tralee). The students also found time to participate in local music and dance sessions.

Postgraduate students from the Irish World Academy enjoy music and dancing on a recent field trip to Kerry.

Launch of Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2012

Co-edited by Elsie Ivancich Dunin and Dr Catherine E. Foley, Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2012 was launched by Irish World Academy Director Dr Sandra Joyce on Wednesday September 24th at the Academy. The ICTM symposium was held at the Irish World Academy in July 2012. As a non-governmental organisation in formal consultative relations with UNESCO, the aims of the ICTM are to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance, including folk, popular, classical and urban music and dance of all countries. The Study Group in Ethnochoreology is the oldest scholarly dance community in the world, and the 27th symposium at the University of Limerick welcomed contributions from participants from Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and the USA.

Attending the book launch were Mary McLaughlin, Dr Sandra Joyce,Dr Catherine Foley, John Dawson and Mark Dawson

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Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company appointed Dance Company in Residence

Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company has been appointed Irish World Academy Dance Company in Residence for an additional three years following a year of creative interaction with the Academy’s newest programme – the MA Festive Arts. Originating in Donegal, Fidget Feet is Ireland’s leading aerial dance theatre company and is internationally renowned for creating spectacular indoor and outdoor productions for both theatres and festivals. The company’s dynamic work draws on dance, aerial circus, theatre, music and video art. Founded in 2004 by choreographer Chantal McCormick and musician Jym Daly, Fidget Feet work with an outstanding production team to create productions that are both original and fresh.

Fidget Feet

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‘A Meditation for Michael at Michelmas’

A performance for President Michael D. Higgins by Professor Mícheál O Súilleabháin took place in the Milk Market, Limerick on the occasion of the awarding of the Freedom of the City to the president.

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins with Professor Mícheál O Súilleabháin of the Irish World Academy

SEPTEMBER2014

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The Darkest Midnight ConcertPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

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COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

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Maoin Cheoil an Chláir

In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of County Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC) is a local cooperative model serving the needs of County Clare from its Ennis headquarters in the eighteenth-century Erasmus Smith School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy. MCC celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2014. With members of faculty from the Irish World Academy on its board (Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Jean Downey along with former board member Helen Phelan), MCC enjoys a special relationship with the Academy. MCC Director Hans Boller is a graduate of the Academy’s MA Ritual Chant and Song programme. MCC is a member of the Clare Music Education Partnership, which was awarded €450,000 from Music Generation (funded by U2 and The Ireland Funds) in 2014.

For more information on Maoin Cheoil an Chláir, email [email protected] or call +353 65 6841774.

Cruinniú

Cruinniú, the Irish World Academy’s outreach initiative, sees staff from all walks of life at UL engaging in free weekly classes/sessions of Irish traditional music. The sessions have been facilitated by a number of players within the group and by students of the Irish World Academy. All members of UL staff are welcome to participate, so come along if you fancy a tune! Sessions take place at the Irish World Academy from 1pm to 2pm every Wednesday in Room IW2.51.

For more information, contact Noel McCarthy at [email protected], telephone 061 213326.

Ionad na Cruite (Irish Harp Research Centre)

Ionad na Cruite was established at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in 2013 and was formally launched with a special performance by The Chieftains. Ionad na Cruite aimsto stimulate scholarship, performance and advanced research on the Irish harp. It also aspires to being a national and international centre of excellence for the Irish harp at doctoral and postdoctoral level, to building effective links with colleagues in the field of harp research and performance internationally and to providing a stimulating environment for performances, research and interdisciplinary projects at the University of Limerick. Ionad na Cruite recognises the centrality of The Chieftains Fund (in memory of Derek Bell) in its founding.

National Dance Archive of Ireland

The National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI) at the Glucksman Library, University of Limerick was founded in 2009 with a seed funding award from the Arts Council. The NDAI works in partnership with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Dance Research Forum Ireland.

The NDAI is devoted to the collection, preservation and promotion of dance in Ireland and is accessible to all. It chronicles dance in Ireland in all its manifestations (contemporary dance, traditional step dancing, set dancing, ballet, social dance, urban dance and world dance) and conveys an understanding of the different processes and practices of creating, performing and writing about dance in Ireland. The archive helps to raise the profile of dance in Ireland and internationally and provides a greater understanding and appreciation for how dance has developed in this country in the past, the present and into the future. Dance in Ireland is a valuable cultural resource; the NDAI offers all genres of dance the opportunity to gain visibility and to be appreciated in its historicity.

For further information, please contact NDAI’s founding director, Dr Catherine Foley, at [email protected], telephone +353 61 202922 or Special Collections Librarian Ken Bergin at [email protected], telephone +353 61 213158. Alternatively, email [email protected] or telephone +353 61 202690. Visit the NDAI at www.nationaldancearchiveireland.ie. Access to the National Dance Archive of Ireland is by appointment only.

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ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy

A new initiative entitled ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy has been established to mark the occasion of the 20th anniversary the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick and the 20th anniversary of the renaissance and relocation of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) to UL. Featuring a central full-time, two-year programme at master’s level offered jointly by the ICO and the Irish World Academy, students at ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy will interact with the ICO throughout the two-year period. Individual classes will be taught by ICO leaders, and students will engage in ensemble work with orchestral members. Classes, workshops, seminars and performances with a host of international performers, conductors and directors with whom the ICO works on a regular basis will be a feature of the programme. Members of ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy will have regular opportunities to engage with acclaimed ICO community music public outreach programmes. Graduates of the ICO Academy will be able to apply for a place on the innovative PhD Arts Practice (a four-year structured doctoral programme) at the Irish World Academy while maintaining ongoing contact with the ICO.

The ICO resides in its own specially designed expansive building beside the Irish World Academy in a wooded area on the banks of the river Shannon on UL’s north campus. The location also includes the university’s Graduate Entry Medical School, Health Sciences, superb sports facilities and three modern student villages.

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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCEAT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

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Irish Chamber Orchestra

The Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) has gained a remarkable reputation as a fresh and vibrant force on the Irish and international music scene and is recognised as one of Ireland’s world-class cultural assets. The ICO excels in a diverse repertoire that ranges from classical to modern-day masterpieces and new commissions. Outside the concert hall, the ICO stimulates minds and hearts with vitality unmatched by other ensembles. It offers music as an instrument of social change; by introducing children to music, creativity, innovation, understanding and openness, it helps them to reach their full potential as individuals. The ICO resides on UL’s north campus adjacent to the Irish World Academy and is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

The Chieftains

Interacting with up to 80 student musicians and dancers from Irish World Academy programmes, The Chieftains continue their iconic association with the Academy through their occa-sional concerts at UL. In memory of their late harper Derek Bell, The Chieftains Fund has been in operation at the Academy for a number of years, and it is through this fund that the Academy launched Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research Centre, in 2013.

Dance Limerick

Since its inception, the contemporary dance programme at the Irish World Academy has sought to twin-track its activities with the professional contemporary dance energy in Limerick city. The emergence of Dance Limerick at the former Daghdha Space in St. John’s Square sets the scene for a new level of cooperative dance activity. The Irish World Academy is proud to be associated with Dance Limerick and looks forward to reclaiming the original spirit of contemporary dance cooperation in Limerick.

Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company

Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company has been appointed Irish World Academy Dance Company in Residence for an additional three years following a year of creative interaction with the Academy’s newest programme – the MA Festive Arts. Originating in Donegal, Fidget Feet is Ireland’s leading aerial dance theatre company and is internationally renowned for creating spectacular indoor and outdoor productions for both theatres and festivals. The company’s dynamic work draws on dance, aerial circus, theatre, music and video art. Founded in 2004 by choreographer Chantal McCormick (Donegal) and musician Jym Daly (Cork), Fidget Feet work with an outstanding production team to create productions that are both original and fresh.

Elements of aerial dance have already begun to permeate aspects of the curricular offerings of the Irish World Academy’s programmes.

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RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY

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Burns, Shannon(2014) Performing Knowledge: Assessing Learning through Student Performance, Performing Identity: Embodying Knowledge Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 19 June 2014.

(2014) Musicianship for Dancers: Perspectives from a Dancer and a Music Teacher, Dance Research Forum Ireland 5th International Conference: Dance Legacies, DanceHouse, Dublin, Ireland, 3 July 2014.

(2013) Transmitting Music Theory: A Performative and Pedagological Exploration, Society for Music Education Ireland 3rd Annual Conference: The Music Education Gathering: Legacies, Conversations, Aspirations, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland, 1 November 2013.

Cotter, Pamela(2013) ‘Foreigners in the Session: An Examination of Participation and Authenticity at the Costello’s Irish Music Session’ in Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology, Elphinstone Institute Occasional Publications 9, eds. Ian Russell and Catherine Ingram. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, in association with the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, pp. 198-215.

de Gallaí, Breandán(2013) Neither Here nor There: Exploring the Tranformative through Choreography, TEDx Talk, Dublin City University, accessible at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxOVws8O_o.

(2013) The Rising, Choreography for a play be Joe O’Byrne, The Rising, Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin.

(2013) Imeall-Siúl: A Choreographic Exploration of the Expressive Possibilities in Irish Dance, unpublished thesis (PhD), University of Limerick.

(2013) 'Re-Visioning the Rite: An Exploration of the Expressive Possibilities of Irish Dance' in Sacre Celebrations: Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning, York University Toronto: Society of Dance History Scholars, accessible at http://sacre.info.yorku.ca/files/2013/10/de-Gallai.pdf.

(2013) 'Noctú – New Dances New Community', in Melin, M., and Ní Bhriain, O., eds., Connecting Communities Through Dance, Proceedings of Dance Research Forum, Ireland’s 4th International Conference, University of Limerick: Limerick.

Dillane, Aileen(2014) Sound and Envisions: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ and the case for Pierrot’ in David Bowie: Critical Perspectives, ed. Devereux, Power, Dillane. New York: Routledge.

(2014) ‘Sonar-Cities: Learning Culture Through City Soundscapes’. World Of Music, 3(1).

As the Academy celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it continues to pioneer new research specialisations and to attract one of the highest proportions of international research students in the university. With six new candidates accepted for the PhD Arts Practice across a variety of research areas, from choral conducting to aerial dance, and with a number of new research PhDs in community festivity, traditional dance and a range of other subject specialisations, PhD numbers at the Academy continue to rise.

As well as being recognised as a global leader in Irish traditional music and dance studies, the Academy has developed research initiatives in music and dance ethnography, arts practice research, music and health and, most recently, festive and community arts.

In the area of Irish music and dance studies, the Academy has recently established Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research Centre, to promote scholarship around the Irish harp. Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (Ashgate) by Catherine Foley has been shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2014.

Ethnographic inquiry in music and dance continues to inform our faculty’s collective expertise in ethnochoreology, ethnomusicology and related areas. The Proceedings of the 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology was launched on 24 September, 2014. From 13 to 15 September, 2015, the Academy will host the first ever collaboration of the International Council for Traditional Music and the Society for Ethnomusicology: Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis through Activism and Community Engagement. In addition, the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) will hold its annual conference at the Academy from 16 to 20 September.

The LimerickSoundscapes interdisciplinary research cluster held an international conference entitled ‘Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship’ in the Academy in March 2014. The cluster is currently editing a special edition for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies on this theme. The Discourse, Power, and Society research cluster held a conference entitled ‘In the Frame: Public and Political Discourses of Migration’ at UL in April 2014. Rowman and Littlefield commissioned a book series from the cluster, and the first book will include expanded papers from the conference. Members of the Performance, Text, Context Cluster @ UL collaborated with the Department of French (Mary Immaculate College) to host an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Performing Identities, Embodying Knowledge’ at MIC in June 2014. Expanded papers will feature in a special journal edition in 2015. The Popular Music Popular Culture cluster will hold a conference in spring 2015 on ‘Songs of Social Protest’. The publication David Bowie: Critical Perspectives, which is based on the 2012 David Bowie Symposium held in UL, will be published by Routledge in 2015.

Since the formation of its structured PhD in Arts Practice (the first of its kind in Ireland), the Academy has become a national leader in advocating for the recognition of arts practice research. Recently, one of the Academy’s doctoral students was one of the first scholars to be awarded funding by the Irish Research Council for an arts practice doctorate in performance. As well as coordinating a faculty panel on arts practice research at the Society for Musicology conference and the Society for Music Education conference, the Academy hosted a national symposium on arts practice research at NUI Galway in November 2014 in cooperation with the Burren School of Art and the Huston School of Film & New Media. Among the invited guests was the Director of the Irish Research Council, Dr Eucharia Meehan.

The Music & Health Research Group continues to publish a range of research actions and interests in three thematic areas: music and everyday life; music, health, and society; and the applications of music for health and in healthcare. A current area of interest of this group relates to the inclusion of service user perspectives in health research.

Since the foundation of the MA Festive Arts programme in September 2013, strong links have been established across the festival community and industry in Ireland. Recent research-related initiatives include a partnership with ISACS (the Irish Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network), an extension of the residency arrangement with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company, and becoming a partner with Galway Community Circus on an ERASMUS+ funding proposal around the development of community circus pedagogy in Europe. This two-year project involves research partners across six European countries working together to identify youth and social circus professional profiles and training and professional development needs. The MA Festive Arts programme is also part of the UL-based LANDscape research cluster, which focuses on ideas of place-making and the experience of the festive space.

Artists-in-residence enhance the rich, creative environment withinwhich both traditional and practice-based research occurs. TheAcademy hosts numerous performance events as well as a weekly,interdisciplinary public seminar (the Tower seminar series) and amore specialist postgraduate seminar based around invitations tovisiting scholars (the LOGOS seminar series).

Recent publications (2013/14) at the Academy include Baines, Susan(2013) Music Therapy as an Anti-Oppressive Practice. Arts in Psychotherapy, 40, 1-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.003.

(2013) 'A Brief Anti-Oppressive Analysis of Music Pedagogy, the Professional Musician, and the Music Business: A Case for Music Therapy'. Music: Social Impacts, Health Benefits and Perspectives, Nova Sciences Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY.

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(2014) ‘I Can Have Both: A Queer Reading of Morrissey’, with Devereux, E. and Power, M., Journal of European Popular Culture, 5(2).

(2014) ‘Aislings and Avatars: Irish (Traditional Music), Performativity, and Cultural Intimacy’, 25th Annual Sean Ó Riada Memorial Lecture, ed. Mary Mitchell-Ingolsby and Mel Mercier. Cork: University College Cork Traditional Music Society.

(2013) 'Composing Identity, Fiddling with (Post) Ethnicity: Liz Carroll's 'Lake Effect''. MUSICultures Special Edition: Atlantic Roots and Routes. Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, 40(1).

(2013) ‘Ethnomusicological Theory and Practice: Towards an Irish Ethnomusicology.’ Crossroads Conference: Education and Traditional Music, ed. Fintan Vallely et al. Dublin: Whinstone.

(2013) 'Nostalgic Songlines and the Performance of Irish Identity'. Bealoideas Special Edition, Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, Vol. 81.

(2013) ‘Jim Donoghue’ in ICTM Ireland Fieldwork. An annotated CD publication of fieldwork recordings from Ireland by the International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland.

Downey, Jean(2013) ‘Performing Skills at Second Level’: A Hands on Musical Approach. 12 October. PPMTA Conference, Athlone

Edwards, Jane(2013) Examining the role and functions of self-development in healthcare therapy trainings: a review of the literature with a modest proposal for the use of learning agreements. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15(3), 214-232.

(2013) (With Simon Gilbertson and Alison Ledger) Exploring potentials for the use of music and music therapy in antenatal care: A review and discussion. Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapies, 7(1), 36-41.

(2013) (With Alison Ledger and Michael Morley) A change management perspective on the introduction of music therapy to interprofessional teams. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 27(6), 714-732.

(2013) (With Annemieke van den Tol) Exploring a rationale for choosing to listen to sad music when feeling sad. Psychology of Music, 41, 440-465.

Foley, Catherine(2014) Performance of Molyneaux Traditional Dance Material at Culture Night, 26 September, Siamsa Tíre, National Folk Theatre of Ireland, Tralee.

(2014) 'Proactive Archiving, Partnerships, and Applied Ethnochoreology: The National Dance Archive of Ireland. MUSICultures: Journal of The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales. Ronald Labelle and Heather Sparling (Eds). Special Issue 40(2).

(2014) With Elsie Ivancich Dunin (Eds.) Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Limerick: Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (333 pages, including Labanoted samples and coloured photographs).

(2014) ‘Negotiating the ‘Native Self’ and the ‘Professional Self’: Ethnochoreological and Ethnomusicological Challenges in the Field’. In Anne Margrete Fiskvik and Marit Stranden (Eds.) (Re)Searching the Field. Festschrift in honor of Egil Bakka. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. Pp. 227-242.

(2013) Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (print and electronic). Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series (General Editor, Derek Scott). Farmham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

(2013) ‘Irish Traditional Dance Within Third Level Education’. In Fleadh Cheoil na Mumhan Programme. University of Limerick: Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann. Pp. 147-155.

Joyce, Sandra(2014) Klangfestival Naturstimmen Festival. Song Performance. 8 June. Toggenburg, Switzerland. Katholischen Kirche, Alt St. Johann. KlangWelt Toggenburg. Invited event.

(2014) Naturstimmen Klangfestival im Toggenburg. CD recording. Track 4, 'The Haymaking Song' and Track 17 'Gemeinsamer Ausklang' (CD2).

(2014) Splanc Concert. Performance of new material by Hazelwell. 24 April. University Concert Hall, Limerick. Irish World Academy event. Material arranged by Hazelwell.

Kjeldsen, Svend(2014) Mancunian Irish: Identity, Cultural Intimacy and Musical Hybridization. Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 19-20 June 2014.

(2014) Urban Ethnomusicology and Irish Music in the British/Irish Diaspora. The Tower Seminar Series, March 26th, 2014, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick.

(2013) Mancunian Irish: Identity, Ownership and Musical Hybridization. ICTM Postgraduate Conference, November 9th, 2013, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin.

(2013) Mancunian Irish: Musical Hybridization and Cultural Intimacy. Urban Ethnomusicology and Cultural Mapping.

The XXIX Seminar in Ethnomusicology, 4 - 8 September 2013, Institute of Musicology & Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland.

(2013) ‘Bodhrán’ in White, H. and Boydell, B. (General Eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press.

(2013) ‘Bones’ in White, H. and Boydell, B. (General Eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press.

(2013) Bodhrán: Lytning og kontekst. Roskilde. Lirum Larum Forlag.

(2013) Groove Toget: Ostinater, Grooves og Riffs i Bodhrán-spil. Roskilde. Lirum Larum Forlag.

(2013) ‘Peter Horan and Batty Sherlock: Basket of Turf/Geese in the Bog’ in ICTM Ireland Fieldwork. An annotated CD publication of fieldwork recordings from Ireland by the International Council For Traditional Music, Ireland.

Kosovske, Yonit(2014) ‘A Night in Bethlehem.’ Irish Chamber Orchestra. Bregenz, Austria / Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany.

(2014) ‘Magic of Marwood.’ Irish Chamber Orchestra. RDS Concert Hall, Dublin / University Concert Hall, University of Limerick.

(2014) ‘Two Harpsichord Recital.’ Yonit Kosovske & Colin Booth. Sligo Festival of Baroque Music. Sligo.

(2014) ‘Polish Keyboard Music 1500–1700.’ Solo Harpsichord Re-cital. Culture Night. Polish Arts Festival. Millennium Theatre, Limerick Institute of Technology. Limerick.

(2014) ‘Keyboard Chromaticism: Vocal Models, Instrumental Contexts.’ Solo Harpsichord–Faculty Lecture Faculty Recital. San Francisco Early Music Society–Baroque Workshop. Sonoma State University. Rohnert Park, California, USA.

(2014) ‘Venetian Glory.’ Faculty Chamber Concert. San Francisco Early Music Society–Baroque Workshop. San Francisco Early Music Society–Baroque Workshop. Sonoma State University. Rohnert Park, California, USA.

(2014) ‘Musical Offering, J.S. Bach.’ Killaloe Chamber Music Festival, Joachim Roewer, artistic director. Killaloe, Co Clare.

(2014) ‘Ireland's Golden Age.’ USA Concert Tour. Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett, director. Shalin Liu Performance Center. Rockport, Massachusetts. / Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. UConn, Storrs, Connecticut. / Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Center. Manhattan, New York.

(2013) "Continuum." Contemporary Solo Harpsichord Recital, Works from 1970–2013. Hilltown New Music Festival. Westmeath. Radio Broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s NOVA of Ailís Ní Ríain’s ‘2 Steep 4 Sheep (some hills are).’

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Contexts and Creative Processes', MUSICultures. Special Issue: Atlantic Roots and Routes, Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, eds. Heather Sparling, Kati Szego, and Frances Wilkinson, 40(1).

(2013) 'Visual Learning in the 21st Century: Cape Breton Step Dance on the Small Screen and as a Learning Tool in the Dance Class', Canadian Folk Music, 46(4), 1-6.

Ní Bhriain, Orfhlaith(2014) Shanahan J, Clifford A, Bhriain Ni O, Volpe D. and Morris ME. Dance for people with Parkinson’s disease: what is the evidence telling us? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Available online September 2014.

(2013) Contemporary Irish Dance Choreography: T is for Tradition, Trophy, Theatre and Time to Dance. An essay on contemporary Irish step dance commissioned by Dance Ireland.

(2013) Shanahan J, Clifford A, Bhriain Ni O, Volpe D. and Morris ME. (2013) “A randomized controlled feasibility trial to determine the effectiveness of set dancing for people with Parkinson’s disease: Protocol” available: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01757509?term=set+dancing&rank=1.

(2013) Introduction in Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Melin, Mats eds. Dance Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June to 1 July, 2012. Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland.

NicGhabhann, Niamh(2014) ‘That Kind of Beauty’, Dublin Review of Books accessible at http://www.drb.ie/essays/that-kind-of-beauty.

(2014) Editor, WATERMARK, curated exhibition and accompanying catalogue, published by the University of Limerick.

(2013) Edited section on the historiography of Irish art, Journal of Art Historiography, ed. Richard Woodfield, Vol. 9, accessible at http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/.

(2013) Curated exhibition, Shaping Identities Together: Ag Cruthú le Chéile, with Colin Martin, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Hughie O’Donoghue, Geraldine O’Reilly and Robert Russell, at the Institute for Ireland in Europe, Leuven, Belgium.

(2013) Editor, ‘Founts of meaning: five contemporary artists and the books of the Irish Franciscans in Europe’, in the exhibition catalogue Shaping Identities Together: Ag Cruthú le Chéile, Dublin: Graphic Studio Dublin.

Noone, Matthew (Mattu)(2014) Moonlight on Galway Bay: The Songs Our Fathers Used

(2013) ‘Omaggio a Corelli.’ Festival Orchestra Concert. Hiro Kurosaki and Veronika Skuplik, directors. Barockstage Festival at Melk Monastery. Vienna, Austria.

(2013) ‘Ireland's Golden Age.’ Concert Tour. Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett, director. Grand Masonic Lodge, Dublin / Cork School of Music. Cork / Barockstage Festival at Melk Monastery. Vienna, Austria.

(2013) ‘Vivaldi's Gloria.’ Maynooth Chamber Choir, Michael Dawson, director. National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

(2013) ‘A Concert of Choral Music.’ DkIT Choir. Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman, Newry, Ireland.

Mascareñas, Óscar(2014) BA Voice and Dance Women’s Chorale. Artistic Director. 1000 Voices for Peace International Choir Festival. 3 to 9 November. Gent and Brussels, Belgium.

(2014) E.D.G.E. For voice - Choreosonography for Peyee Chen. 18 October. INTIME2014 Symposium of Experimental Music. Coventry, England.

(2014) From With-In Not With-Out. Work for mixed instrumental and vocal ensemble. 18 June. Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Commisioned by the Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2014) String Quartet. Performed by ensemble NURE. 18 June. Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2014) Choreosonography for 24 bodies. May 15. Theatre 1. Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Limerick, Ireland.

(2013) A Bedtime Story for Molly Bloom. For guitar, vibraphone and timpani. 18 December. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from the National Council for the Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the National Institute for the Fine Arts (INBA). Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013) 21 SOLOS PARA CUERPO. Choreosonography for 21 bodies and instrumental ensemble. 18 December. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013) IN-SIMUL. Choreosonography for 100+ performers. 4 December. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from CONAC-ULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013) Imágenes | Voces | CuerposTextosEXPUESTOS: Sobre el Proceso Creativo la Obra y el Proyecto El Cuerpo Exhausto. Essay-Performance for Six Bodies. 20 November. Escuela Superior de Músi-ca y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013). Sonography for 100 Voices. TEDxYouth@GarzaGarcía. 16 November. San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico.

(2013) TRANSLATIONS. For orchestra. 23 October. Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Commissioned by the Faculty of Music of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013) String Quartet. Performed by ensemble NURE. 12 June. Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Commisioned by the Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico.

(2013) No Nos-Otros (Not Us-Others). Multidisciplinary work. Artistic Director. 11 January. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico.

McCaffrey, Tríona(2014) (With Sue Baines, Jane Edwards and Jason Noone) Including service user perspectives in research: Reflections of the Music & Health Research Group at the University of Limerick. Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists Journal, 2(1), 1-39.

(2014). Evaluating music therapy through art, song and words: A service user perspective. Conference presentation at Refocus on Recovery 2014, London, UK: The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.

(2013) Music therapists’ experience of self in clinical improvisation in music therapy: a phenomenological investigation. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 40(3), 306-11.

(2013). Embracing recovery in music therapy in mental health: What is your experience of music therapy? Music therapy and mental health recovery symposium. Conference presentation at 9th European Music Therapy Congress, Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Music Therapy Association.

Melin, Mats(2014) The Piper’s Schottische. Choreography, couple dance. Ceolas Summer School, 7-11 July, South Uist, Scotland.

(2013) Introduction in Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Melin, Mats eds. Dance Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June -1 July, 2012. Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland.

(2013) 'Step Dancing in Cape Breton and Scotland: Contrasting

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(2013) The Bahh Band. Indian Tour. Pondicherry, Indian Surf Festival (26 January); Bangalore, B flat Club Festival (30 January); Chennai, Global Music festival (2 February); Pondicherry, Auroville (2 February); Bangalore, Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music (9 February). Supported by Culture Ireland.

(2013) The Bahh Band. Live Performance. 21 June. Body N Soul festival, main stage, Ballinalough, Westmeath.

(2013) Between the Reels and the Ragas. Live Performance with Tommy Hayes. Galway Fringe Festival, Arus na Gael, Galway (12 July); Spirit of Folk Festival, Westmeath; Pearse Museum & City Hall, Dublin (20 September-25 October); Cork Folk Festival, City Hall, Cork (10-13 October); Diwali celebrations, Mansion House, Dublin (1 November).

Nunan, Mary(2014) In the Bell’s Shadow. Dance Film. Premier December 2104. Collaborative artist and performer. Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

(2014) ‘Starting with T’. Dance Film. Installation/Premier October 2014. Director/choreographer. Funded by Limerick City of Culture, Limerick City Gallery and Create.

(2013) ‘Dancers’. Ensemble choreography. Premier October 2013. Choreographer. Daghdha Space, Dance Limerick, funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Nzewi O’dyke(2014) Performance Composition: For Effective Classroom Music Education. Saarbrucken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

(2014) (With Meki Nzewi and Rose Omolo-Ongati) Integration of the Arts in the Classroom: A Practical Sharing Experience. International Society for Music Education (ISME), 31st International conference. Porte Alegre, Brazil 20-25th July 2014.

(2014) Libation: An intercultural ensemble music performance. 8th May. 1st PhD performance. Irish world academy for music and dance, Limerick, Ireland.

(2013) ‘Embedding the traditional concept of community within contemporary, indigenous musical arts training in Africa’, in Gaunt, H and Westerlund, H (eds). Collaborative Learning in Higher Music Education, Ashgate Publishers, pp. 199-204.

Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál(2014) IMBOLC, a composition for soprano and female chant ensemble. First performance by Sharon Lyons (solo) and Cantoral at Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, April 2014.

(2014) Country Cycle, a limited edition CD of County Cycle for Piano and String Orchestra by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, performed and directed by the composer with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Produced for the Ernie O’Malley Symposium on Modern Ireland and Revolution at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University (April 2014).

(2014) Pioneers and Aviators: A Century of Irish Aviation, a limited edition publication (Book/DVD/CD) by AVOLON to mark the film documentary by Alan Gilsenan with orchestral score by Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, performed by the composer with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

(2014) A Celebration of Seamus Heaney, 23rd April, National Concert Hall Dublin, Poetry Ireland, Performance.

(2014) The Arts in Higher Education, A Symposium, Friday 9th May, Higher Education Authority, Croke Park Conference Centre Dublin, Invited Address on Irish World Academy and Artists in Residence

(2014) The Plains of Boyle, Opening Concert Boyle Arts Festival, 1 August.

(2014) A Celebration of Seamus Heaney, Opening Concert Lorient Interceltic Festival, 2 August, Municiple Theatre Lorient, Performance.

(2014) Phoenix Rising: The Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, 4th September, RTE Concert Orchestra, National Concert Hall Dublin, Termon, Port na bPúcaí, An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Francesco Walks, Madison’s Descent. Rcorded by broadcast by RTE lyric fm.

(2014) Vertical Man: Remembering Seán O Riada, Clifden Arts Festival, 19th September, Performance.

(2014) Bright Vision: Music from a Hidden Ireland, Pavilion Arts Centre Dublin, 21 September.

(2014) ‘In the Quiet Places of the Heart’: A Meditation for Michael at Michelmas, Freedom of the City award to President Michael D Higgins, 29th September, Milk Market Limerick, Performance.

(2014) ‘O’Neill’s Music of Ireland’, a Lecture Recital, The Hibernian Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 3 October(2013) Bóthar na Sop, a composition for violin and guitar issued on CD Go Mairir i Bhfad/Long Life to You by Zoe Conway (violin) and John McIntyre (guitar).

(2013) So Merrily Dance, new version for symphony orchestra. First Performance: BBC Ulster Orchestra, Belfast.

(2013) Film music for Let’s Talk Film Series: six short films on death, dying, loss and care. Compassionate Communities Project, Milford Care Centre, Limerick.

(2013) Three Sean-Nós Songs for Singer and Symphony Orchestra.

First Performance: RTÉ Concert Orchestra, soloist Iarla Ó Lionaird (NCH Dublin; broadcast RTÉ lyric fm).

(2013) Madison’s Descent: A Masque in Ten Movements for sopra-no, piano, chamber orchestra. European Premiere, Junction Festival Chamber Orchestra and Choir (broadcast RTÉ lyric fm).

(2013) Phoenix Rising: for symphony orchestra and piano – music for the film documentary by Alan Gilsenan on Irish aviation. First Performance: RTÉ Concert Orchestra, soloist Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (broadcast by RTÉ 1).

(2013) Between Worlds: for Piano and String Quartet. Performance: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin with Notre Dame String Quartet (DeBartolo Center for Performing Arts, University of Notre Dame)

Phelan, Helen(2014) ‘Sionna’s Box’ essay for Watermark, Academy 20 exhibition publication, 32-36.

(2014) Cantoral. Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud! / Laetabundus decantet hybernicorum cetus. CD. IWA001.

(2014) Cantoral CD Launch performance. 29 October. Limerick City of Culture, Dance Limerick.

(2013) Cantoral ensemble performance. 17 July. The Irish Seminar, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.

(2013) Cantoral international tour. 15–17 October. Class of 1959 Chapel, Harvard, and Debartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Quigley, Colin(2014) Dance Revival Activism and Ethnochoreological Research: The Hungarian Dance House Example. Festschrift for Egil Bakka. Ed. Anne Fiskvik and Marit Stranden. Trondheim: Akademia Academic Press.

(2014) György Martin’s Place in Applied Ethnochoreology. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, pp. 279-289. Budapest: Akademia Kiado.

(2014) The Hungarian Dance House Movement and Revival of Transylvanian String Band Music. The [Oxford] Handbook of Music Revivals. Ed. Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill, pp. 180-200. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2013) Tradition as Generative Process: An Example from European/Euro-American Fiddling. Musical Traditions: Discovery, Inquiry, Interpretation, and Application. Ed. Pál Richter. Budapest: HAS, Research Centre for the Humanities, pp. 45-55.

(2013) Editor, Ethnomusicology Ireland: The Journal of the ICTM Irish National Committee. Volume 2/3: 111 pp.

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(2013) ‘An Online Digital Facsimile of the Lugo Codex,’ DM Thesis, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Accessible at www.lugocodex.org, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17230 and http://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/3781.

(2013)’A 'Fach' System for Singing Chant and Medieval Song? Range, Tessitura, Voice Type and Other Practical Considerations for Singers and Ensemble Directors’, Opening paper at the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

(2013) “I cried out to the Lord”: Hymns and Choral Concertos with Ensemble Cherubim, Marika Kuzma, director. Naxos Records (CD).

Szücs, Ferenc(2014) ‘Creative processes in Western arts music performance practice with reference to the journey of a professional cellist’, Middlesex University, London, UK. Available: http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13340/

Vaughan, Mairéad(2014) ‘TerrainSkin’, a three-screen dance installation in collaboration with Dara O’Brien, supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

(2013) ‘Emanating awareness: tracing the impact of Bharatanatyam and Iyengar yoga on my contemporary dance and choreographic practice’. Issue 1.1, The Journal of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities, Intellect Publishers.

(2013) ‘A corporeal dialogue: the influence of Bharatanatyam and yoga in choeographic practice’. Dance Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June – 1 July, 2012. Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland.

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IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES

ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy

ACADEMOS is the graduate string orchestra of the MA Classical String Performance programme at the Irish WorldAcademy. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS performs as a larger chamber orchestra, as a collegium and in smaller chamber groups and has toured internationally. In 2014, with the establishment of the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy, ACADEMOS now represents a living bridge between the Irish World Academy and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO). Leaders of the ICO teach weekly master classes, and many opportunities have arisen for interaction between ACADEMOS members and the ICO programme itself.

Hazelwell

Hazelwell is a female vocal ensemble that focuses on Irish traditional repertoire and repertoires from related traditions such as Scottish and American (particularly Appalachian and Americana). Its repertoire and focus is influenced by the diverse musical backgrounds of its members: Sandra Joyce, Róisín Ní Gallóglaigh and Joanna Hyde. At its heart, Hazelwell is an a capella group, although it is open to experimenting with instruments played by its members and with guest musicians. Its arrangements are influenced by many musical genres,including Scandinavian traditional song and classical music. Its roots and repertoire are strongly in traditional song, but it is open to exploring diverse sounds, influences and ideas.

Cantoral Voice Ensemble

Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University of Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western plainchant and early polyphony and has a particular interest in medieval Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish World Academy, the ensemble had its first international appearance in 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Other highlight performances include Imbolc, a programme of chant and Irish language song for St. Bridget, which premiered in New York in 2010, and a programme for the Galway Early Music Festival entitled … sed diabolus irrisit (‘… but the devil laughed’) in the same year. In April 2011 Cantoral sang for the Dalai Lama during his visit to Ireland, and in April 2012 the ensemble conducted a public seminar and a concert of Irish medieval music for Holy Week at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Cantoral Artistic Director Catherine Sergent is an acclaimed Paris-based singer who has performed and recorded extensively with several early-music ensembles, including Discantus and Obsidian. Catherine is a chant tutor for the MA Ritual Chant and Song programme at the Academy. The singers in Cantoral are graduates, doctoral students and members of faculty at the Irish World Academy and are from Ireland, France, the United States and Mexico. International performances in 2013 took place at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and at Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Cantoral issued its first CD recording, Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud/Laetabundus Decantet Hybernicorum Cetus, in 2014. The CD was recorded on location at Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo with the assistance of the Keough Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Sonas UL Global Choir

Started in 1992 by Clem Garvey as the UL Choir and in recent years embodied as the UL Gospel Choir under the direction of MARCS alumnae Kathleen Turner (to 2010), Jaimee Jensen (2011-2012) and Dr Robin Garner (current director), Sonas is a UL global choir in the truest sense. Sonas is the new banner flying above the twenty-year history of the UL Choir: faithful to the University’s and the Irish World Academy’s ethos of diversity and global music and cultural exchange, Sonas explores vocal ensemble music of all times and places, with a special focus on repertoires, timbres and styles outside the remit of the Western classical vocal tradition. All of the music is learned aurally, and the ability to read music is not a prerequisite. A compulsory ensemble for students in the MA Ritual Chant and Song (MARCS) programme, Sonas is also open by audition to other students and staff at the Irish World Academy and the University of Limerick and to interested members of the community.

For more information about Sonas, please contact [email protected].

Lucernarium

Lucernarium is the chant schola and chamber music ensemble of the MA Ritual Chant and Song (MARCS) programme. Lucernarium is dedicated to the vocal music repertoires of Western chant, medieval monophonic and polyphonic song. The ensemble also performs vocal chamber music of the Renaissance and Baroque as well as contemporary choral music whose aesthetic is oriented towards the early- and world-song sound worlds. As part of the MARCS programme’s Locus+Nexus concert series, Lucernarium performs on and off campus several times a year during the regular term.

Please contact [email protected] for further information.

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SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Mattu Noone

An Irish Research Council Doctoral Award has been made to Mattu Noone, a candidate on the PhD Arts Practice programme at the Irish World Academy.

Originally involved in the post-rock scene in urban Australia, Mattu has travelled an eclectic musical route via North India to Ireland. A student of the sarode (25-stringed India lute) since 2004, he has spent many years studying Indian classical music with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and more recently with K Sridhar in the UK. He completed his MA (1st Honours) in Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy and has been supported by both Culture Ireland and the Music Network to tour India and develop a new sarode, particularly for playing Irish music.

Mattu’s research topic is Reclaiming the Mongrel: Irish Traditional and North Indian Classical Musical Connections – a practice-based exploration of hybridisation. This research is an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between Irish traditional and North Indian classical music. Grounded in ethnomusicological theory (Rice, 1994; Aubert, 2007), the research utilises an arts practice approach, theorising complex musical relationships through practice, analysis and the production of new hybrid musical works. The methodology draws upon the concept of ‘critical meta-practice’ (Melrose, 2002) to employ musical skill sets to generate data and pursue research questions.

Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Jack Talty

Doctoral student Jack Talty is the recipient of an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship Award for his study entitled Exploring Fifty Years of Institutionalisation in the Transmis-sion, Pedagogy and Performance of Irish Traditional Music in Irish Higher Education from 1963 to 2013. This study looks at the relationship between the ‘Ivory Tower’ – a metaphor for the university, commonly misconceived as being removed from reality and social contact with others (Phillips and Pugh 2000) and the ‘Commons’ – the perceived ‘community-owned’ prac-tices of Irish traditional music (McCann 2001; Smith 2006). New discourse is offered to the ethnomusicological record to present a critique of prevailing perceptions on the intra-communal rela-tionship between academic and extra-academic representations of Irish traditional music discourse, pedagogy, transmission and performance.

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Mairéad Vaughan received Arts Council research bursaries in the academic years 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 in support of her Arts Practice PhD, which she is undertaking at the Irish World Academy under the supervision of Dr Mary Nunan. Mairéad’s PhD researches the deep symbiotic relationship between body(mind)and environment through the creation of a choreography for camera and a site-specific installation performance. To seeMairéad’s work, visit www.shakramdance.com.

Marc Fitch Foundation Grant: Niamh NicGhabhann

Dr Niamh NicGhabhann of the Irish World Academy has been awarded a publication grant of St£2,000 from the Marc Fitch Fund to put towards the publication of her forthcoming book Building on the Past: Medieval Buildings in Ireland, 1789-1915 (forthcoming with Four Courts Press).

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Roche Continents: Sinéad Ryan

Roche Continents – Youth! Arts! Science! is a project grown from a partnership between Roche and the Salzburg Festival. One hundred students from across Europe are selected to participate in this exceptional challenge; participants are students of life sciences, chemistry, the fine arts or music and are between 20 and 29 years of age. Roche is well known for promoting culture in novel settings, and Roche Continents is an example of this commitment. Participants attend concerts and talks by guest speakers and are given the opportunity to join discussions with artists and take part in group workshops.

Irish World Academy graduate Sinéad Ryan has been awarded a place at this year’s Roche Continents challenge in Salzburg. Sinéad is from Croom, Co. Limerick and is a harpist and pianist. She recently graduated from the Irish World Academy with a first class honours in the Professional Diploma in Education (Music). In 2013, Sinéad was awarded a first class honours BA in English and Music from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and won the First Place Medal for Music. She is currently undertaking a master’s degree in modern English literature at Mary Immaculate College.

EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music 2014/15: Kate Corkery, Sharon Howley, Siobhán Nelligan, Andrew O’Grady, Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Kate Scales

The 2014/15 EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music was awarded to MA in Community Music students Kate Corkery, Sharon Howley, Siobhán Nelligan, Andrew O’Grady, Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Kate Scales. 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 supported by Universal Music Group. 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 music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation extended its remit to cover the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. A bursary was made available on an annual basis for the establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music at the Irish World Academy. Applicants should normally be under 25 years of age, have been born in either the UK or Ireland and have applied for admission to the MA in Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, bursary applications may be considered with applications for admission to Irish World Academy programmes other than Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner include the excellence of the CV submitted and 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 Jean Downey, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Telephone: +353 61 202030; Email: [email protected].

EMI Music Sound Foundation Patrons: Sir George Martin, Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana Ross and Tina Turner.

For more information, visit http://musicsoundfoundation.com/index.php/site/archives/303

Kate Corkery, Siobhán Nelligan, Kate Scales and Sadhbh O’Sullivan

Slingshot: Jakari Sherman

Irish World Academy MA Ethnochoreology student Jakari Sherman was selected as one of 150 Irish students to participate in Slingshot, an entrepreneurial event that brings the best and brightest Irish student thinkers and doers together with inspirational business leaders and academics committed to innovation and entrepreneurship. Slingshot comprises Ireland’s leading student innovators who have excelled in fields from the areas of science, business, sport and the arts. Jakari joined the other selected students at Dublin Castle on November 18th to share ideas, experiences and knowledge and to create future opportunities and partnerships. The event included a range of panel and round-table discussions and presentations led by CEOs, prominent academics and student leaders.

Sinéad Ryan

Jakari Sherman

The Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship for MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance

Through Dr Catherine Foley’s connection since 1979 with Muckross House as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance, the Trustees of Muckross House have awarded a scholarship to the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance since the programme’s inception in 1999. The Trustees of Muckross House Scholarship 2013/14 was awarded to Luis Sanchez from Mexico.

Further information and application queries should be directed to Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Director, MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Phone: +353 61 202922; email: [email protected].

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BA Irish Music and Dance students performing at the AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning


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Certificate in Music and DanceDr Niall Keegan, Director, Undergraduate [email protected]; +353 61 202465

BA Irish Music and DanceDr Niall Keegan, Director, Undergraduate [email protected]; +353 61 202465

BA Voice and DanceDr Niall Keegan, Director, Undergraduate [email protected]; +353 61 202465

MA Classical String PerformanceDr Ferenc Szücs, Course [email protected]; +353 61 202918

MA Community MusicJean Downey, Course [email protected]; +353 61 213160

MA Contemporary Dance PerformanceDr Mary Nunan, Course [email protected]; +353 61 213464

MA EthnochoreologyDr Catherine Foley, Course [email protected]; +353 61 202922

MA EthnomusicologyDr Aileen Dillane, Acting Course [email protected]; +353 61 202159

MA Festive ArtsDr Niamh NicGhabhann, Course [email protected]; +353 61 202798

MA Irish Traditional Dance PerformanceDr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Course [email protected]; +353 61 202470

MA Irish Traditional Music PerformanceDr Sandra Joyce, Course [email protected]; +353 61 202065

MA Music TherapyAlpha Woodward, Course [email protected]; +353 61 213122

MA Ritual Chant and SongHannah Fahey, Course Coordinator(Dr Helen Phelan and Dr Óscar Mascareñas, Course Directors)[email protected]; +353 61 213762

Professional Diploma in Education (Music)Jean Downey, Course [email protected]; +353 61 213160

Master of Education (Music)Jean Downey, Course [email protected]; +353 61 213160

PhD Arts Practice (Structured Programme)Dr Helen Phelan, Programme [email protected]; +353 61 202575

MA (Research)Please contact relevant supervisor/faculty member or contact Paula Dundon, Academy [email protected]; +353 61 202149

PhD (by dissertation)Please contact relevant supervisor/faculty member or contact Paula Dundon, Academy [email protected]; +353 61 202149

BLAS International Summer School in Irish Traditional Music and DanceErnestine Healy, [email protected]; +353 61 202653

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EU:AustriaBelgiumCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHollandHungaryIrelandItalyNetherlandsNorwayPolandRomaniaSlovakiaSpainSwedenUK

INTERNATIONAL:AustraliaBrazilCanadaChinaChileColombiaEthiopiaGeorgiaIndonesiaIsraelJapanMalaysiaMexicoNepalNew ZealandNigeriaPalestineRussiaSingaporeSouth AfricaTaiwanTurkeyUSAVietnam

RTÉ ConTempo String Quartet performing a lunchtime concert at the AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Back cover photo: Detail of Esteban La Rotta (Colombia) playing theorbo at the AcademyPhotograph © Maurice Gunning

Faculty of Education and Health Sciences: Graduate Diploma/MA in Dance (part-time)

The Graduate Diploma in Dance is a one-year, part-time programme of study that enables participants to acquire the necessary skills to teach Leaving Certificate Physical Education. Students who satisfy the necessary require-ments may be considered for admission to the master’s programme.

Course Director: Brigitte MoodyEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 202807Website: www.ul.ie/ehs

Faculty of Science and Engineering, Centre for Computational Musicology & Computer Music: MA/MSc in Music Technology

The MA/MSc in Music Technology is a one-year, intensive course designed for graduate musicians from all disciplines who are interested in combining technological competence with artistic endeavour.

Course Director: Nicholas WardEmail: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 234246Website: www.csis.ul.ie

Faculty of Science and Engineering, Interaction Design Centre (IDC): MA in Interactive Multimedia

The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a one-year, intensive course designed specifically for art and design graduates who are interested in pursuing studies that combine technological competence with design/artistic endeavour.

Course Director: Mikael FernstromEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 202606Website: www.idc.ul.ie

Association of Irish Choirs

The Association of Irish Choirs supports and promotes excellence in choral music in Ireland. It does this by providing information and advice and presenting a range of programmes and activities designed to respond to the needs of members, the wider choral community and the public.

CEO: Dermot O’CallaghanEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 202715Administrator: Michelle HynesPhone: +353 61 234823Email: [email protected]: www.aoic.ie

University of Limerick Arts OfficeArts Officer: Patricia MoriartyEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 202130

University of Limerick Visual Arts Administrator: Yvonne DavisEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 213052

Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC)Director: Jürgen SimpsonEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 202759Website: www.dmarc.ie

Irish Language Office/Aonad na GaeilgeDeirdre Ní Loingsigh, Stiúrthóir na GaeilgeEmail: [email protected]: +353 61 213463

Ciara Considine,Oifigeach Margaíochta/Riarthóir FeidhmiúcháinEmail: [email protected] +353 61 234754

Department of Music, Mary Immaculate College, UL

The Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) offers music for the BEd and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other postgraduate degrees to doctoral level by research. Regular choral and chamber concerts are a vital part of the life of the department and there are close ties with the Irish World Academy. MIC has a 500-seater performing arts venue, the Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre.ie).

Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Department); Dr Paul Collins; Dr Michael Murphy; Dr Gwen Moore; Dr Ailbhe KennyDepartmental enquiries: [email protected] +353 61 204540 Website: www.mic.ul.ie

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Maurice Gunning is an Irish photographer and documentary filmmaker. He studied at the University of Wales, Newport for his MFA in Documentary Photography.

In 2012, Maurice was invited by Dance Ireland to become artist in residence at Dance House, Dublin. Over the course of the year, he created a new body of photographic work and dance films. This work was premiered in May 2013 with a large permanent solo show throughout the Dance House building.

Maurice has worked extensively in Buenos Aires with the Argentine Irish Diaspora over a number of years. In 2010, he brought his solo show, Encuentro, back to Buenos Aires, exhibiting at the Centro Cultural de Recoleta with support from Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy. This work has also been shown in several UK galleries and at the Irish National Photographic Archive as one of the main invitational exhibits of the 2012 PhotoIreland Festival.

The Irish Heritage Council funded a three-year project from 2006 to 2009 to enable Maurice to document Ireland’s traditional maritime heritage. This work has had large solo shows at the Cultural Centre, Athens and the Hunt Museum, Ireland.

Since 2006, Maurice has been the resident photographer at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. He continues to collaborate with many national and international artists through this residency. His work was celebrated in 2010 in the form of a permanent exhibition at the Irish World Academy.

Maurice was the cinematographer on The Chile 33, a documentary filmed during the mining incident of 2011. Produced by Huw Roberts, the film was aired internationally with the History Channel and distributed by Off the Fence Productions.

In 2013, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest invited Maurice to be their first artist in residence. The work Maurice produced during this residency will be premiered in Budapest at the Liszt Academy in 2015 with support from Culture Ireland, the Arts Council and the Irish Embassy.

In May 2014, Maurice launched a photo book and exhibition with Hope & Homes for Children (Romania) with support from the Irish Embassy in Bucharest. The photographs were exhibited in the National Parliament and in the National Library, Bucharest. This project is an extension of Maurice’s exploration of humanitarian work, which began when he was appointed artist in residence with the Burren Chernobyl Project in Belarus.

www.mauricegunning.com

Jamie Smith performing a lunchtime concert with Barrule, the Manx Celtic Power Trio Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Maurice Gunning

www.irishworldacademy.ie

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