E V E 2019/2020 N T S EVENTS CALENDAR CLA E ND A R The start of a new academic year offers great of his most-loved orchestral masterpieces opportunity to once again delve into the conducted by James Cavanagh with master storehouse of talent that lodges in the Royal pianist, John O’Conor, at Christ Church Irish Academy of Music. Whilst exciting plans Cathedral in May. We are hugely excited to are well in train for the physical redevelopment announce that the acclaimed British composer of our wonderful institution, the treasure trove and viola player Sally Beamish will pay a of current talent at both student and staff five-day visit to the Academy in December level is both exciting and challenging in the to collaborate with staff and students in the creation of a performance programme for the inaugural ChamberFest Dublin, culminating in a 2019/20 Season when the public will have ample performance of her powerful Spinal Chords by opportunity to listen and actively engage with a thrilling new ensemble, Ensemble Interforma, our activities. directed by our dynamic Head of Strings and This season we continue to extend our reach Chamber Music, Sarah Sew. beyond our Westland Row premises with We are equally proud to present the début significant performance partnerships with a performance of another new ensemble, the number of our cherished cultural institutions Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Ireland’s first and important education establishments, national orchestra for disabled musicians. This in addition to collaborations with vibrant hugely significant event at the Athlone Institute festivals including the Dublin Chinese New Year of Technology in September is the climax of Festival and New Music Dublin. We are proud months of collaborative preparation supported to continue our partnership with the National by Creative Ireland under its National Creativity Gallery of Ireland where we will once again shine Fund. the spotlight on a number of our distinguished We continue our important journey of International Visiting Artists in concert, and increasing the output of work by women across also take inspiration from its impressive our season. Works by Jane O’Leary and Ina National Portrait Collection and the colourful Boyle will be enjoyed by audiences attending our canvasses of the Spanish artist, Joaquín RIAM Philharmonia concerts, our 11:11 coffee Sorolla. Building on a successful partnership morning concerts will continue to feature already established between the RIAM and the works by women across the series, and we are National Museum of Ireland in 2018, we are delighted to further develop our partnership delighted to announce a new concert series with the National Museum of Ireland this year at Collins Barracks – the RIAM/NMI Music by working collaboratively on the presentation and the Collections Series - which will engage of our Saluting the Feminists event on with the themes and stories of the Museum International Women’s Day. In addition, we pay collections through music. Our valuable annual homage to two leading women of the Twentieth collaboration with IADT Dún Laoghaire, will once Century, Ireland’s pioneer of architecture and again provide opera lovers with another chance design, Eileen Gray, in a concert at the NMI, to preview the next generation of operatic and the iconic Anne Frank with a performance stars, on this occasion in Francesco Cavalli’s of James Whitbourn’s poignant setting of her both bawdy and beautiful La Calisto directed celebrated diary by the RIAM Chorale. by Sinéad O’Neill at the Project Arts Centre in I am grateful to all my colleagues for their spirit January. of adventure and their enthusiastic and expert Two composers receive special focus in input in the assembly of our exciting programme the season ahead. We salute the musical for the 2019/20 season and hope that you enjoy colossus, Ludwig van Beethoven, on the 250th the rich output of concerts, masterclasses, Anniversary of his birth by presenting the touring, and education and outreach projects complete cycle of his peerless piano sonatas we will deliver throughout 2019/20. throughout 2020, collaborating with the National Concert Hall in their own special Ciara Higgins Head of Artistic Programming celebration of the composer at the National Gallery of Ireland in March and delivering two 2 3 13/20/27 Bravi Tutti - A History of Culture Night 20 the Orchestra SEP SEP Date Friday 13th, 20th and 27th, September Date Friday, 20th September Time 11.00 am Time 5.30 pm to 11.00 pm Venue RIAM Venue RIAM Admission €120 for Six Sessions/€20 per Admission Free Session Once again the Academy is proud to throw This autumn, the Academy’s Director, open its doors to curious culture vultures Deborah Kelleher, invites audiences to join for its annual feast of music-making on her on a fascinating musical journey as she Culture Night. charts the evolution and development of This year the musical menu features a the “ultimate instrument” – the Orchestra. birds-eye view of the Academy’s hugely Beginning with the motley band of popular pre-instrumental course for young the Baroque era, this lively orchestral children, a number of instrument try-out expedition will take participants through sessions for eager musical beavers and a rich abundance of live music provided by the birth of the modern orchestra in the some of our finest emerging young talents Age of Enlightenment to the transformed and seasoned stars. and dynamic musical landscape of today. A fun, informal and highly-engaging evening Bravi Tutti – A History of the Orchestra, is of entertainment guaranteed to send young a series of six engaging talks by the most and old home with a musical spring in entertaining of maestri. Tutti welcome! their step! Coffee, tea and sweet treats served from 10.30am, lecture from 11.00 am to 12.15 pm. 22 Group Teaching and Multipiano SEP Repertoire Workshop with Nadia Lasserson Date Sunday 22nd September Time 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm Venue RIAM Admission €40 Author of “Piano needn’t be lonely...it’s fun playing with friends” a guide to chamber music and multipiano repertoire, pianist Nadia Lasserson, visits the Academy this September for what is bound to be a fascinating insight into her impressive experience of teaching and working with young musicians. Soprano, Clodagh Kinsella Photograph Mark Stedman 5 4 22 Centre Stage SEP at Killruddery Date Sunday, 22nd September Time 3.00 pm Venue Killruddery House and Gardens Admission €21 and €5 (Under 18s) Musical fireworks are guaranteed in the magical surroundings of Killruddery House and Gardens this September with the fragrant Orangery of this fascinating Elizabethan Revival mansion providing the picturesque backdrop for a concert firmly placing gifted RIAM musicians centre stage. An array of dazzling artists from the RIAM Young Scholar Programme, an immersive music programme for talented musicians of school-going age, invite audiences from Bray and beyond to join them for a veritable feast of music. Open Youth Orchestra 29 of Ireland Début Presented in collaboration with Killruddery SEP Performance Date Sunday, 29th September RIAM Piano Duet-athon 28 Time 3.00 pm SEP Venue Athlone Institute of Technology Admission Free Date Saturday, 28th September The Royal Irish Academy of Music is Time 12.00 noon to 3.00 pm proud to present the début performance of the Open Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Venue RIAM the country’s first national orchestra for Admission Free disabled musicians. Following months of preparation, music ensembles from the Piano duets a-plenty are on the bill of fare four provinces join forces to present a this September when staff, students past concert embracing equality, celebrating and present, and special guests of the RIAM difference and acknowledging ability at Keyboard Faculty roll out reams of duo every level. A collaborative, inclusive and repertoire on site at Westland Row. Join an exciting giant musical step for aspiring array of pianists and evolving musical talent musicians. as they raise funds for the RIAM Student Scholarship Programme during this Supported by the Creative Ireland fun-filled event. Programme under its National Creativity Danielle Rogan and David Banfield Fund and the Social Innovation Fund Photograph Mark Stedman Ireland 6 7 Bravi Tutti- A History of the RIAM/NGI International 4/11/18 11 Orchestra Visiting Artists Series OCT OCT Date Friday 4th, 11th and 18th October Date Friday, 11th October Time 11.00 am Time 1.05 pm Venue RIAM Venue National Gallery of Ireland Admission €120 for Six Sessions/€20 per Admission €8/€5 (concessions) & session First50Free Wielding the baton, RIAM Director, The Academy is proud to list Ann Murray, Deborah Kelleher, continues her musical one of Ireland’s most exceptional and charge of the ultimate instrument – the Orchestra. In the final three sessions of accomplished musical ambassadors, on its this fascinating series, Deborah’s own distinguished roster of International Visiting orchestra, the audience, will delve into the Artists. Her enviable international operatic colourful worlds of the Romantics, the engagements have taken her to London, Modernists and today’s musical movers Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, and shakers. Paris, Zurich, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, Vienna, Salzburg, the Chicago Lyric Opera, Coffee, tea and sweet treats served from Los Angeles Opera and the Metropolitan 10.30am, lecture from 11.00 am to 12.15 pm. Opera, New York. In concert she has worked with the world’s great orchestras and Piano Masterclass with 8 collaborated with countless distinguished John O’Conor OCT musicians in recital. In the closing weeks of the National Gallery Date Tuesday, 8th October of Ireland’s exhibition “Sorolla: Spanish Time 10.00 am to 1.00 pm Master of Light”, the Academy is delighted Venue RIAM to present a concert, led by this esteemed Admission Free International Visiting Artist, which takes Deeply committed to the development of inspiration from the colourful works of one young pianists in Ireland, John O’Conor of the most celebrated artists in his native gives the first in a series of public Spain, Joaquín Sorolla.