Irish World Academy of Music and Dance SPRING University of Limerick EARRACH Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus Ceol OF OUR TIMES Ollscoil Luimnigh 2017 COMHAIMSEARTHA 2 INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR DON BARRY, UL PRESIDENT 4 FACULTY AND STAFF Contents 6 EMERITUS FACULTY 9 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES 19 TOWER SEMINAR SERIES 27 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES 31 SPECIAL EVENTS 37 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS

45 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS 49 CÓNAÍ / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 53 TAIGHDE / RESEARCH 61 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES 63 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

69 CLÁR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES 72 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES

Credits General Editor: Dr Sandra Joyce Editor and Comhaimseartha Coordinator: Jennifer de Brún Text Editors: Fran Garry, Hannah Fahey Photography: Maurice Gunning Design: Joe Gervin Venue Coordinator: Melissa Carty Tuesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Dr Sandra Joyce/Dr Niall Keegan Front cover: Máirtín O'Connor and Brendan McCarthy Wednesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Jean Downey performing at the Irish World Academy Thursday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Lisa McLoughlin Photograph © Maurice Gunning Tower and Logos Coordinator: Dr Aileen Dillane Taighde/Research Editor: Professor Helen Phelan Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance Ag Féachaint Siar/Recent Events and Special Events Coordinator: Jennifer de Brún Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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UL continues to be the only third-level institution offering The research profile of the Academy is unparalleled dance on the island of Ireland and it is heartening to across the disciplines of music, dance and performing note that the Contemporary Dance stream of the arts. There are currently some 40 PhD students based new BA Performing Arts is the first programme in at the Academy, many of whom have been awarded IRC contemporary dance in the Republic, addressing a need and other scholarships. A number of research clusters outlined in a recent Arts Council of Ireland Dance and have blossomed in recent years in areas such as Arts Education report (2016). and Health, Song, Dance and Arts Practice research. Another innovation is the World Music Stream, which Many conferences have been hosted at the Academy will enable the Academy to accept musicians from any in recent years, with many more planned, most notably genre and to introduce them to a world of sound. This the ICTM World Conference in July 2017, which is is being led by the new Chair of Performing Arts, expected to draw up to 1,000 delegates. The recent PRESIDENT DON BARRY Professor Mel Mercier and I wish this venture well. philanthropic gift from The Atlantic Philanthropies has ensured that the Academy is at the cutting edge A new MA programme in songwriting will commence in A Chairde, of technical provision for performing arts teaching and September 2017 – another first on the island of Ireland. I am privileged to introduce this edition of Comhaimseartha research, including the Tommy Makem recording suite, This will draw on the unique contribution Ireland has and to celebrate this latest phase of the evolution of which will be launched in 2017. made to the world of popular music and songwriting in the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance at the particular. This new programme has been inspired by University of Limerick. interaction with Professor Joseph O’Connor, Frank Mc- There are many new and exciting initiatives to be Court, Chair in Creative Writing, and the MA Creative considered in this publication as a roadmap along the Writing offered by AHSS. ground-breaking path being pioneered by the Academy. I welcome the Academy’s recently launched collaboration The new BA Performing Arts is starting in September with the Willie Clancy Summer School, the oldest and 2017, evolving from the BA Irish Music and Dance most internationally renowned Summer school of and BA Voice and Dance. With five new streams: Irish Irish Traditional Music and Dance, in partnership with Music; Irish Dance; Voice; Contemporary Dance; and our own Blas International Summer School of Irish World Music, it is sure to attract students from across Traditional Music and Dance. This innovative collaboration the globe just as its predecessors have done over the will offer an accredited programme hosted both at the years. University of Limerick and Miltown Malbay.

Kathleen Turner and Dávid Szabó, performing at the Irish World Academy 2 Photograph © Maurice Gunning The development of public performances remains at Academy outreach and civic engagement activities I am mindful that this is likely to be last opportunity I will the heart of the Academy’s mission and, fittingly, these continue to grow as welcome and valued contributions have to acknowledge the work of theAcademy formally in performances happen in local, national and interna- to the University’s mission. Recent examples include the my capacity as President and I want to say how much I have tional contexts. These include: the recent acquisition Sonas is Sláinte series with the Graduate Entry Medical appreciated its contribution to the life of UL over the past of a Gamelan orchestra and the planned development School, taking place in University Hospital, Limerick; ten years. In this brief review of the many endeavours that of the Academy as an important centre for Gamelan the Irish World Music Cafe, in association with Doras earn the Academy its reputation as a crucible of creativity, performance; the annual Academy showcase in University Luimní, taking place on O’Connell Street; and ongoing it can be seen that it is thriving and finding new paths to Concert Hall; a range of collaborative performances interaction with Music Generation, Limerick City. explore so that we may examine, consider and know more in Dance Limerick; the continued development of the And as we bid farewell to respected Academy colleagues of ourselves and our cultures, across Ireland and around ACADEMOS project between the MA Classical Strings such as Dr Mary Nunan and others who have illuminated the world. programme and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, in association our campus over many years, it is also fitting to mark Ar aghaidh libh! with other third level institutions and international the retirement of Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, performances by students and faculty in locations such Founding Director of the Academy. Mícheál’s remarkable as Switzerland, the US, the UK and Mexico. contribution to the Irish World Academy, and to the The Artist-in-Residence programme continues to be an University, leaves us a legacy that enriches Irish and Don Barry important part of the Academy, bringing new creative world cultures. President December 2016 energies from across the cultural landscape and including particularly active residencies by leaders in their fields, such as Martin Hayes, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company.

3 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH FACULTY IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE, & STAFF UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

Melissa Carty Barbara Christie Pamela Cotter Jennifer de Brún Dr Aileen Dillane Dr Alan Dormer Jean Downey Administrator Senior Administrator Director, BLAS International Performing Arts Coordinator Lecturer, Academy Technical Officer Course Director, [email protected] [email protected] Summer School of Irish [email protected] BA Irish Music and Dance [email protected] MEd (Music), +353 61 202590 +353 61 202030 Traditional Music and Dance +353 61 202917 [email protected] +353 61 202726 Professional MEd (Music) [email protected] +353 61 202159 [email protected] +353 61 202653 +353 61 213160

Paula Dundon Dr Catherine Foley Eleanor Giraud Dr Sandra Joyce Dr Niall Keegan Dr Yonit Kosovske Dr Óscar Mascareñas Academy Administrator Course Director, Course Director, Academy Director Academy Associate Director Lecturer, Lecturer, [email protected] MA Ethnochoreology MA Ritual Chant and Song MA Classical String BA Voice and Dance Course Director, Director of +353 61 202149 [email protected] [email protected] Performance [email protected] MA Irish Traditional Music Undergraduate Studies +353 61 202922 + 353 61 234743 [email protected] +353 61 202990 Performance [email protected] +353 61 234922 [email protected] + 353 61 202465 +353 61 202065

4 Dr Triona McCaffrey Lisa McLoughlin Dr Mats Melin Professor Mel Mercier Dr Hilary Moss Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Lecturer, Lecturer, Course Director, Chair of Performing Arts Course Director, Course Director, MA Music Therapy BA Voice and Dance MA Irish Dance Studies [email protected] MA Music Therapy MA Irish Traditional Dance [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] + 353 61 202918 [email protected] Performance +353 61 234358 +353 61 234967 +353 61 202542 +353 61 213122 [email protected] +353 61 202470

Professor Helen Phelan Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Dr Colin Quigley Kathleen Turner Mary Wycherley Programme Director, Course Director, Course Director, Course Director, Course Director, PhD Arts Practice MA Festive Arts MA Ethnomusicology MA Community Music MA Contemporary Dance [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Performance + 353 61 202575 +353 61 202798 +353 61 202966 + 353 61 213762 [email protected] +353 61 213464

Naomi Harris, MA Irish Traditional Dance student Photograph © Maurice Gunning 5 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH EMERITUS FACULTY JANE EDWARDS MARY NUNAN MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN FERENC SZŰCS Professor Jane Edwards Emeritus Associate Professor Jane joined the Academy in 1999 as course director for the new MA Music Therapy. She founded the Music & Health Research Group in 2004, with initial funding from the Euro- pean Science Foundation. As project leader for UL’s successful funding bid to found Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy, she subsequently directed the start-up of Clinical Therapies. Jane was Director of Psychology at UL for 4 years overseeing the founding of the psychology department. She was an elected UL Governor, Chair of the Advisory Commit- tee for the Graduate Education Medical School, and Assistant Dean for Research in FAHSS. While at UL she held research fel- lowships at the University of Cambridge, and Queen Margaret University, and was a Guest Professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She is a founding member, and was inaugural President, of the International Association for Music & Medicine.

Jane is currently Associate Professor for Mental Health at Deakin University, Australia, and was recently appointed as the first Australian Editor-in-Chief for The Arts in Psychotherapy. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy (2016), a 50 chapter resource featuring international contributions, including those from UL music therapy staff and graduates. She is regularly sought after for healthcare advisory roles, and has recently delivered keynote speeches at conferences in Australia, Canada and the UK.

6 JANE EDWARDS MARY NUNAN MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN FERENC SZŰCS

Dr Mary Nunan Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Dr. Ferenc Szűcs Emeritus Lecturer Emeritus Chair of Music and Emeritus Senior Lecturer Mary Nunan is a contemporary dance artist – choreographer, Founding Director Dr. Ferenc Szűcs has worked as Senior Lecturer at the Irish performer and teacher. Her professional career began when World Academy, University of Limerick since 1998 and had a Inaugural Emeritus Chair of Music and Founding Director of the she joined Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre (1981-86). key role in establishing the Masters programme in Classical Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of She was founder Artistic Director of Daghdha Dance Company String Performance, which he directed until 2015. He initiated Limerick, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is noted for his development (1988-1999) and Course Director of the MA Contemporary the innovative collaboration with the Irish Chamber Orchestra of a uniquely Irish traditional piano style. He has recorded exten- Dance Performance at the University of Limerick (1999-2016). and was the first Artistic Director of ACADEMOS Irish World sively with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and has released some She is visiting guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London Academy Strings. 15 recordings overall – most recently ELVER GLEAMS: New and for this current academic year. Throughout her career Mary has Selected Recordings (EMI 2010), and the DVD Irish Destiny (Irish As a professional cellist, he has performed in over 50 countries created a substantial body of critically acclaimed solo and ensemble Film Institute 2006) with the RTE Concert Orchestra. and has associations with numerous orchestras,ensembles and choreographies that have been performed in national and institutes worldwide. He made radio and television broadcasts international venues. Artists with whom she has collaborated In 2004 he was appointed inaugural Chair of Culture Ireland and recordings for BBC, RTE and MRT. and published CDs on include: Yoshiko Chuma, Joan Davis, Oscar Mascarenas, Katherine (the statutory Irish governmental body for promoting Irish arts ASV, BMG, Hyperion, Arte Nova, Future Classics and RTE Lyric O’Malley, Karen Power, Jurgen Simpson, Monica Spencer, worldwide) and was reappointed in 2008. fm labels. Nigel Rolfe and Mary Wycherley Mary was a member of the He was awarded an Honorary DMus from the National University Arts Council (2005-2008). She was the Chair of the Special He played as principal cellist with several orchestras including of Ireland at University College Cork (2005), the inaugural Committee that produced the Arts-in-Education report, ‘Points the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, New Ollamh na hÉigse (Professor of Arts) by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí of Alignment’. She earned her PhD from Middlesex University. Queens Hall Orchestra, Oxford Orchestra of Camera, Philharmonia, Éireann (2005), Boston College Honorary Alumnus Award (2006), Royal Philharmonic, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Gradam Cheoil (Irish language television award 2011), O’Donnell English Symphonia, Orchestra of St. John’s, London Mozart Chair of Irish Studies at the Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Players and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Studies (University of Notre Dame 2012), and honorary citizen- ship and the Freedom of Clonmel – his native town – in 2016. His research focuses on creative decision-making processes within expert-professional performance practice and argues for In 2017 he will tour the USA with the Irish Baroque Orchestra knowledge status of arts-professional expertise in academia. featuring his music, and will also tour internationally with the He was the first person to complete Middlesex University's Arts National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. Doctorate in Music.

Mariela Argüello Retana, MA Contemporary Dance student Photograph © Maurice Gunning 7 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH 8 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES VENUE: THE TOWER THEATRE, IRISH WORLD ACADEMY (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) 1.15PM ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Anniversary Concert at the University Concert Hall Photograph © Maurice Gunning 9 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH TUESDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS VISHTÈN CORK ETB SCHOOL OF MUSIC BART KIELY

JANUARY Tuesday January 24th Cork ETB School of Music is one of Ireland's most dynamic multi- campus music schools and is committed to reaching out to Vishtèn EVERY TUESDAY communities to enhance the quality of young people’s lives. For the past decade the members of Acadian powerhouse The school provides diverse instrumental tuition programmes EVERY TUESDAY AT 1.15PM IN THE TOWER THEATRE, THE trio, Vishtèn, have acted as Francophone musical ambassadors in the classical and traditional Irish music styles and offers an ACADEMY WILL FEATURE A TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND / OR throughout the world. This award-winning Canadian trio has exciting portfolio of ensembles, bands, musicianship classes and dazzled audiences with its fiery blend of traditional French other music-making activities. The school has an extensive public DANCE PERFORMANCE WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF TRAD- songs and original instrumentals fusing Celtic and Acadian performance “Let’s Play Together” Concert Series and works ITIONAL PERFORMING ARTISTS WHO ARE VISITING THE genres with a modern sensibility of rock influence. closely with partner schools to support formal school music ACADEMY DURING THAT WEEK. programmes at Junior, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate Hailing from Prince Edward Island’s Evangeline area and from Levels. the most remote reaches of Quebec, the windswept Magdalen TRAD CAFÉ Islands, twin sisters Emmanuelle and Pastelle Le-Blanc join musical forces with Pascal Miousse to form a sophisticated Thursday January 26th sonic signature. They combine tight sibling harmonies, Bart Kiely EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 1.15PM FROM JANUARY 25TH layered foot percussion and virtuoso acoustic instrumentation Currently pursuing a PhD in Arts Practice Research at the Irish TO MARCH 8TH, FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS FROM THE BA to create an expansive sound that would be difficult to repro- World Academy, Bart has become increasingly interested in duce, in its sheer complexity, by a quintet. Their trademark IRISH MUSIC AND DANCE WILL PERFORM MATERIAL THEY the creative possibilities and flexibility afforded by integrating blend of fiddle, guitar, accordion, whistles, piano, octave ARE PREPARING FOR THEIR FINAL PERFORMANCE EXAMS. digital music making into live performance. This raises inter- mandolin, bodhrán, jaw harp and percussive dance makes for a COME ALONG AND ENJOY THEIR MUSIC AND HAVE A BITE esting issues in regard to what constitutes liveness in modern unique tour de force of traditional and contemporary sounds. TO EAT OR A CUP OF COFFEE IN THE RELAXED, INFORMAL music and what defines musical sound, blurring the lines between music and noise, organic and digital, and grooving and SURROUNDINGS OF CAFÉ ALLEGRO IN THE UNIVERSITY Wednesday January 25th chaotic. Please join him for this live set composed and directed CONCERT HALL BUILDING. THE STUDENTS’ FINAL PERFOR- Hear Our Song 2017 from behind the drum kit. MANCE EXAMS WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE IRISH WORLD Cork ETB School of Music FEBRUARY ACADEMY BETWEEN THE 15TH AND 19TH OF MAY 2017. Cork ETB School of Music is pleased to present a showcase of Wednesday February 1st young musicians in the classical, popular and traditional genres, Hear Our Song 2017 representative of some of the school’s extensive “Let’s Play Cork ETB School of Music together” programme of performance-based activities. “Hear (See details under Wednesday, January 25th). our Song”, the school’s signature tune, embodies young people The students performing today are from the Early Music and and teachers who are passionate about sharing their music Baroque Ensemble Programme. with the community at large. The students today are from the Traditional Music Department. 10 ACADEMOS ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN NATHANIEL GOW’S DANCE BAND MAOIN CHEOIL AN CHLÁIR WRONGHEADED FILM. LAUREL HILL COLÁISTE FCJ STUDENTS LIZ ROCHE COMPANY. PHOTO: EWA FIGASZWESKA.

Thursday February 2nd Alexander Bernstein is an Artist Diploma Candidate at Vocalists and instrumentalists will take to the stage to entertain Shenandoah Conservatory, studying with John O’Conor. you with traditional tunes and classical pieces. So come along and ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings Performance Alexander received a Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard enjoy the talents of our future musicians and singers from County The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and Irish Chamber University in May 2010, studying privately with Stephen Drury Clare. Orchestra present ACADEMOS Irish World Academy Strings. and Patricia Zander of the New England Conservatory. This Spring, an exciting collaborative project, led by members Thursday February 9th Since his debut in 1999, Alexander has performed concerti of the dynamic Irish Chamber Orchestra and directed by with numerous orchestras, recently including Rachmaninoff’s Theatre 1 Katherine Hunka, brings string students from four of the Concerto No. 3 with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra Mediated Performance: Dance on film screening country’s foremost academies together as part of the in Ireland, the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice Genova in Liz Roche, Lucy Cash and Mary Wycherley ACADEMOS Irish World Academy strings initiative. Italy, and the Shenandoah University Orchestra in Virginia. This event brings together a selection of short films by nationally Students from the Irish World Academy, CIT Cork School of Alexander recently won 3rd Prize in the 2015 Gian Battista and internationally acclaimed choreographers and film directors Music, Royal Irish Academy of Music and DIT Conservatory Viotti International Piano Competition, 3rd Prize in the 2015 including works by Liz Roche, Lucy Cash and Mary Wycherley. of Music and Drama will perform works by Glass, Adams and Verona International Piano Competition, and 2nd Prize in the Embracing themes that deal with both historical and current Britten. This tour will also feature a recording to be broadcast 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition. political and social issues, the event invites reflection on that which by RTE Lyric FM later in the year. is relevant to lives today. The screening is an exquisite example of Tuesday February 7th how the fields of dance, film and music come together. February 2nd, 1.15pm Theatre 1, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band University of Limerick Traditional Lunchtime Concert Wednesday February 15th (part of the Past Present Scottish Pulse special event) Blas an Earraigh February 3rd, 1.15pm Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ Students Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music, Cork Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band reimagines the Scottish dance band from the 1780s, exploring 18th century sources for music This concert aims to provide a snapshot of the musical life of our February 4th, 1.15pm and dance, and performing on period instruments with a line-up school with a variety of performance ensembles. From choral John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin of Scottish smallpipes, gut-strung fiddles, cello and piano. The singing to solo singing, from classical to traditional, and from Monday February 6th group brings together early music specialists Aaron McGregor, renaissance to popular music, we hope to give you a flavour of our David McGuiness and Alison MacGillivray with some of the most musical year. Theatre 1 experienced and creative personalities in Scottish traditional Alexander Bernstein - Innisfail music, including fiddler Lauren MacColl and dancer, viola player, Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ is a Catholic Voluntary Secondary School for girls in the heart of Limerick City, where Irish is the medium of Award-winning American pianist Alexander Bernstein performs and singer Mairi Campbell. instruction. The holistic development of every child is at the core Innisfail, a major piano work by Irish composer Ryan Molloy Wednesday February 8th of the school’s ethos, and music plays a vital role in this journey. and released on the eponymously titled CD earlier this year. Choral, orchestral and traditional music are accessible to all, and The programme also includes other works by Molloy and Chopin. Leaving Certificate Music Students of Maoin Cheoil an Chláir every voice is cherished no matter how small. Students from Maoin Cheoil an Chláir will unite to showcase their talents and performing skills in both group and solo performances. 11 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH CLAUDIA SCHWAB RÚNDA PÁDRAIG ENRIGHT PROFESSIONAL MASTER OF EDUCATION (MUSIC) STUDENTS ELLA CLARKE

Thursday February 16th Tuesday February 21st The Professional Master of Education (Music) is an inter-faculty programme taught by the School of Education and by the Irish Claudia Schwab: Attic Mornings (CD launch) Rúnda World Academy, UL. The Claudia Schwab Quartet: The Blas Summer School at The Irish World Academy and The Meitheal Residential Summer School first developed their Claudia Schwab (fiddles and vocals) Thursday February 23rd synergy for a number of co-operative projects in 2011. Hannah James (accordion, foot percussion and vocals) 42 Rúnda, the recipients of the group award to play a lunch- Stefan Hedborg (percussion and vocals) Ella Clarke Marti Tärn (electric bass and vocals) time concert at The Irish World Academy are a newly formed group from the Munster area comprising five members: Conor Ella Clarke Choreography presents “42”, a personal examination “Attic Mornings” is the title of Claudia Schwab's second solo Daly (guitar), Maura O' Connor (concertina), Pádraig Enright of how a dancer becomes an artist. Originally commissioned as album, due for release on February 12th, 2017. Featuring Stefan (flute, whistles), Thomas Ahern (banjo, mandolin, bodhrán) a lecture, detailing her arts practice, for the 2011 Absolut Fringe Hedborg (SE), Marti Tärn (EST) and Hannah James (UK), as well and Seamus O' Gorman (fiddle). The group were formed at Festival Artists Symposium, it has since evolved as a performed as guest musicians from Ireland and Austria, this collection of Meitheal 2016 and are influenced by both traditional and artistic biographical response. genre-hopping, yodelling, contemplative and life affirming modern music. Music plays a big role in the life of each Ella explains that “42” is “formed from the attempt to understand musical adventures reflects the cross-cultural spirit of the musician member and they hope to continue with it in the future. what makes me an artist, what governs my practice, why I love and her collaborators. Rooted in Irish, Austrian and Indian Pádraig Enright is also the recipient of the Paul Brady precisely ordered chaos and what use it will all be when the music traditions, Claudia steps out to explore the sounds Meitheal scholarship to Blas 2017. A flute & bodhrán player plane goes down in flames. Using montage, excerpts from some evoked by her current home in Ireland, memories of her home from Listowel Co. Kerry, he is a member of Lixnaw Comhal- major ballets, and some of my favourite things, I’ve been writing place in Austria and newly discovered sounds from her ventures tas. His style has been influenced by the playing of Mike this dance for years”. around the world. McGoldrick, Brendan Mullholland and Brian Finnegan. He has Ella Clarke graduated from the Perm State Ballet School in 1993. Claudia Schwab is an Ireland based, originally Austrian been enjoying Meitheal Summer School since 2013. She performed as a soloist with Perm Youth Ballet and Wexford fiddle player, composer and yodeller. Stomping rhythms, fiery Festival Opera before radically retraining her technique to that reels, consoling Indian raags and funk-beat yodelling abound in Wednesday February 22nd of a contemporary dancer and working with most of Ireland’s Claudia's blend of Irish, Indian, Swedish and Eastern European Professional Master of Education (Music) Students major companies and choreographers. folk music styles overlaid with Austrian yodelling. She is Lunchtime Concert A further transformation saw her evolve as a post-modernist described by Professor Mel Mercier, Irish World Academy, The Professional Master of Education (Music) students from solo performer. Her theatre work includes award-winning work as “one of the most creative artists on the Irish music scene years one and two join with guest artist Geraldine Mooney with Selina Cartmell at the Gate Theatre and Jason Byrne at The today”. Claudia’s debut album Amber Sands (2014) features Simmie to present a variety of performances which are the Abbey. She has lectured in dance at The Conservatory of Vocal regularly on Irish national radio and has received culmination of their combined ensemble music-making Opera and Drama, DIT, for 16 years. She has journeyed from impressive reviews by magazines such as FATEA, Folkworld experiences. The performers are inspired by their diverse the heart of classical ballet to the outer reaches of ‘acceptable’ and Songlines. Her brand new EP 'Attic Mornings' was musical backgrounds and are influenced by their experiences public behaviour in search of the thing that makes her tick and released on October 21st, 2016. The full album will be launched as beginning music educators. In keeping with the inclusive makes art ‘art’. in February, 2017. nature of music education, audience participation is welcome. 12 TOMMY LUNDGREN & VEGA NORDKVIST BIAS KATHERINE O’MALLEY

Tuesday February 28th Katherine O’Malley is a dancer, teacher and choreographer. She is a founding member of the Liz Roche Company (1999) Tommy Lundgren & Vega Nordkvist and Associate Artist since 2008. Katherine holds an MA from This Swedish duo came together four years ago having studied UL and trained at London Contemporary Dance School and together at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In Perm State Choreographic Institute, Russia. As a dancer and this performance, you are invited to a moment of focused Swedish dance maker, Katherine has performed work by Chamber Made folk music where two fiddles become one musical unit. Opera and Maeve Stone, Mary Nunan, Irish Modern Dance Traditional tunes are mixed with our own compositions. Theatre, Sara Rudner, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Liv O’Donoghue, Whatever the tune, you will hear our personal touch in CoisCéim, Splinter Productions, Dylan Quinn, Maiden Voyage arrangements and second voices. Dance, Thomas Lehman, Catapult Dance Company, The Abbey Theatre, PanPan Theatre, Bedrock Productions and Opera MARCH Thursday March 2nd Ireland. Katherine is an Amatsu Practitioner with the ATA. Double Bill: Bias Katherine O’Malley & The Stones on the Road Diane Daly and Lisa McLoughlin Bias: Choreographer/Performer: Katherine O’Malley Film: Mark Linnane, Composer: Daragh Dukes Every day we make split second judgements. Do we suffer by taking the path of least resistance taught to us by our experiences? We are composed of our biases, for better or for worse. What patterns are we repeating? With collaborators Daragh Dukes and Mark Linnane the work has evolved in observation of some of these biases, stating, restating and reframing them in a series of new environments and from new perspectives. Each new environment is a sounding board, a testing ground where biases and inclinations will be revealed.

Julia Lacherstorfer, from Austrian band 'Alma' performing at the Irish World Academy 13 DIANE DALY & LISA MCLOUGHLIN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY PERFORMANCE AISLING KENNY YONIT KOSOVSKE SHANTALA SUBRAMANYAM

Diane Daly and Lisa McLoughlin Wednesday March 8th Tuesday March 14th Diane Daly and Lisa McLoughlin are establishing a rare partnership. International Women’s Day Performance Shantala Subramanyam Trio As two professionals with twenty years of performance exper- International Women's Day celebrates the social, economic, The Shantala Subramanyam Trio of Flute, Violin and Mridangam, ience in their respective fields, they are combining and entwining cultural and political achievements of women. To mark the will be led by Shantala Subramyanam, from Chennai, heartland their art in a creative space that is neither fully music, nor fully occasion, this annual concert brings together a host of of carnatic music, renowned for its emphasis on improvisation dance. Their largely improvised performances are developing female performers. Students, faculty and friends of the Irish on beautiful ragas within a highly evolved rhythmic vocabulary. a must-see reputation as intriguing and inspirational. World Academy will entertain you with music, dance, song and a Like many Carnatic musicians, she started playing in early This event will feature an excerpt from their respective PhD few surprises. childhood under the tutelage of her father, himself an investigations, drawing upon their shared explorations of eminent musician. Today she is recognized as an important and somatic awareness in performance through the lenses of Thursday March 9th authentic voice in this demanding tradition. The concert will com- prise of compositions, solo improvisations, melodic and rhythmic Body-Mind Centering and Dalcroze. Female Composers of 18th Century Lieder dialogues and a special vocal percussion (Kunakkol)! We promise Diane Daly is one of Ireland’s finest violinists and has toured Dr Aisling Kenny, soprano & Dr Yonit Kosovske, piano In to leave you with peaceful, sober and exciting memories! the world with a number of prestigious ensembles including celebration of International Women's Day, soprano Aisling The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The European Union Kenny will perform songs by female composers such as Wednesday March 15th Chamber Orchestra and many others. She has been a member Josephine Lang, Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann, Fanny Castletroy College Lunchtime Concert of the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 1998. Hensel and Maude Valerie White. Featuring German Lieder In other genres she has performed alongside and recorded with and English Art Song, these works will take the listener on a Castletroy College opened in 2000, and music has played a Sir Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Bono and the Corrs, Shania journey that intricately weds poetic text with music through major role in the school since the beginning. This lunchtime Twain and Katie Melua. She is also a member of jazz ensembles elegant and sophisticated writing for both voice and piano. concert will showcase the many and varied talents of students and will include the school choir, the traditional Irish and has performed at festivals across Europe. Diane has always Soprano and musicologist, Aisling Kenny, studied music at music group and the ukulele group. Highlights of the blended her performance career with community and education Maynooth University, completing a PhD on the Lieder of concert will come from the worlds of music, dance and theatre. work and is currently a PhD candidate at the Irish World Academy. Josephine Lang in 2010. An experienced soloist, recitalist Lisa McLoughlin trained at the Rambert School, London. She has and ensemble singer, she has presented concerts, lectures and performed extensively across the globe with companies such as lecture-recitals in Ireland, the UK and Austria. She is a cont- the Liz Roche Dance Company, Daghdha, Coisceim, Marguerite ributor to the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland and co-editor Donlon, Citog, IMDT and Opera Ireland. Her choreographies of Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied with Susan include Tender hooks of honesty, Fourtold and Below the Tide. Lisa Wollenberg. Aisling has lectured in the music departments of holds a first class honours MA in Dance, combining Dance and St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and Dundalk IT. Currently Psychology. She is currently a Lecturer in Dance and is undertak- based in Switzerland, she specializes in the performance of ing an Arts Practice PhD at the Irish World Academy. art song and baroque repertoire with Evelyn Tubb.

14 EVA LEGÊNE LIMERICK SCHOOL OF MUSIC EMER O’FLAHERTY SING OUT WITH STRINGS STEPHANIE DUFRESNE

Thursday March 16th performers of the highest calibre and students enjoy being Wednesday March 29th part of an exciting, vibrant and supportive community Virtuoso Baroque of musicians. Students are encouraged to take every “Music moves you”. Eva Legêne (recorder) & Dr Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord) opportunity to become involved in live performance as Irish Chamber Orchestra’s “Sing Out With Strings” Programme individuals and as members of the school’s many ensembles This program will present virtuoso music by the composers and orchestras. Further information about Limerick School The choir and orchestra of the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s “Sing à Kempis, van Eyck, Telemann, and J.S.Bach. A variety of of Music is available at: www.limerickschoolofmusic.ie, and on Out With Strings” programme come together to fill the Tower recorders will be presented, including a copy of the Rosen- Facebook or Twitter @LimerickSOM. Theatre with music and song. This year, they have been exploring borg Recorder in narwhale tusk. Eva Legêne found the the idea that “Music moves you”. Come and join us as we original instrument in the Royal Collection at Rosenborg Thursday March 23rd celebrate this youthful expression of melodies, rhythms, Castle in Copenhagen and the copy was made by the late harmonies and sounds to help move your body and soul. Nonsilence Fred Morgan in Australia. Renowned recorder virtuosa Eva The Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Sing Out With Strings programme Legêne is a frequent guest artist at early music festivals, Emer O’Flaherty, Paddy Mulcahy and Angelo Heart. is in its ninth year and is based on the immersive Venezuelan ‘El workshops and universities worldwide. She has collabo- This performance features a collection of bilingual (Irish/Eng- Sistema’ music programme, with Community Music at its heart. rated with Frans Brüggen, Hopkinson Smith, Bruce Dickey, In association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), children Sigiswald and Barthold Kuijken, Jacques Ogg, among lish) indie-jazz originals peppered with new arrangements of traditional Irish thought-provoking tunes sure to fill the soul. from Limerick city’s Le Chéile and St. Mary’s National schools many others. She taught at the Sweelinck Conservatory in engage in violin and songwriting classes three times a week. Amsterdam and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Emer O’Flaherty (piano, flute, vocals) has played Fringe Copenhagen. From 1985 to 2009, she was a Professor of Festivals across Europe, Irish night at The Playhouse and Fred- In addition, over 100 children in the combined orchestra and Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Eva ericton, Canada. She previously won Corn Cuimhneacháin choir stay behind after school on three evenings per week to has published several articles on historical performance, and Chonaill Uí Fhearraigh at Oireachtas na Gaeilge for contemporary take part in extra music sessions. This year, funding from the has recorded for radio and television for the Telefunken, Irish singing. Paddy Mulcahy (guitar, bass, vocals) was awarded Music Capital Scheme has facilitated the creation of a mini Denon, Focus, and Rondo Records labels. an MA in Ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy, Chamber Orchestra by adding double basses and violas to the UL. He subsequently released two albums, blending Irish and programme. Wednesday March 22nd Kurdish music, and toured all over Ireland and Europe with the Thursday March 30th Limerick School of Music Student Recital group "NoLand Folk". Angelo Heart (drums, percussion) stud- ied songwriting in the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, “Like A Lap Dance That No One Asked For” Limerick School of Music Student Performers Dublin. Stephanie Dufresne Students of Limerick School of Music will present a programme of music through the ages, from Baroque to modern, on a variety “Like A Lap Dance That No One Asked For” is a raucous, explosive of instruments. Limerick School of Music was founded in 1962. dance comedy that takes you on a journey of self-discovery, Located in the heart of Limerick City, it is the largest provider costumes and karaoke. “Why do we dance? How do we value of music education in the Mid-West Region. The teachers are the arts and what are they for? And most importantly, in 2016, is dance and theatre a feasible way to make rent?” Stephanie 15 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH MUSIC GENERATION CLARE CANTORAL ERNESTINE HEALY LOS PADDYS DE LAS PAMPAS

will tackle these and other questions with a unique blend of Thursday April 6th Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance where humour, sensitivity and, of course, an air hostess costume. she has led it to become one of the most significant events Contemplative Centre, University of Limerick of its kind in the world, culminating in the twentieth year Stephanie Dufresne is a dancer, maker and performer from anniversary celebrations last year. Ernestine has now moved the West of Ireland. She graduated in 2012 with a BA in Dance Navigatio: A Journey through Irish Chant on from this role and this event is a celebration of all that from the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands. Cantoral she has given to Blas and the Academy, as well her intense Since then, she has worked nationally and internationally as a musicianship and virtuosity as a concertina player. performer for companies such as Protein Dance, Dam Van Navigatio is the most recent performance project of Cantoral, Huynh, Icon Dance, Chrysalis Dance and more. Stephanie is the Irish World Academy all-female vocal ensemble. Building Thursday April 20th currently pursuing her interest in film as a student at the Bow on the work of their last project, ‘Let the Joyous Irish Sing Street Academy for Screen Acting in Dublin. A recent show Aloud!/Laetabundus Decantet Hybernicorum Cetus’, Cantoral Los Paddys “Come Home” to the Irish World Academy entitled ‘Changeling’ with director Laura Sheeran and composer continue to create original performance editions of Irish- Los Paddys de las Pampas Linda Buckley, premiered at the 2016 Clonmel Junction Festival. related Latin chants, this time focusing on the theme of the She is a recipient of Arts Council and Dance Ireland funding for journey. Los Paddys de las Pampas includes composer and group the research of this solo. Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University leader Paddy Mulcahy on guitar, Kirsten Allstaff on flute, Adam Shapiro on fiddle, Angelo Heart on percussion, James APRIL Wednesday April 5th of Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western plainchant and early polyphony and has a particular inter- Sheppard on bass, singer Clara Buteler, Irish dancer Lenka Music Generation Clare in Concert est in medieval Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish Hoffmannova, and Irish/Flamenco dancer Andrea Kafonkova. Participants in Music Generation Clare’s performance World Academy, the ensemble made its first international Los Paddys music is a fusion of Celtic roots and South music education programmes and partnerships appearance in 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. American rhythm. This unique sound becomes a template for Since then, it has been invited to perform internationally in writing original songs. The group has a rotating membership This will be a lunchtime concert of uplifting multi-genre musical Harvard, Yale and at the University of Notre Dame. Cantoral of musicians from Ireland, Argentina, France, South Africa and flavour from across County Clare. Music Generation Clare is a issued its first CD recording, ‘Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud/ elsewhere, depending on the particular concert or location. branch of Music Generation, Ireland’s National Music Education Laetabundus Decantet Hybernicorum Cetus’, in 2014. More The group is currently led by longtime Co. Clare songwriter, Programme, transforming the lives of children and young recently, Cantoral was invited to perform at France's most Paddy Mulcahy, and boasts superb traditional musicians, people through access to high quality performance music prestigious early music festival, Festival Voix & Route Romane Adam Shapiro and Kirsten Allstaff. James Sheppard and Angelo education in their locality. Vocal and instrumental tuition, in September, 2015. Heart make up the funky rhythm section. The band tours encompassing all musical genres and all types of instruments regularly in Ireland, France and the Czech Republic. In 2016, and vocal styles, is delivered by skilled professional musicians. Tuesday April 18th they played the Doolin Folk Festival, Fleadh Cheoil Main Initiated by Music Network, Music Generation is co-funded by Stage and KELTSKÁ NOC among other European festivals. U2, The Ireland Funds, the Department of Education and Skills Concertina player, Ernestine Healy, hails from County Mayo. and local Music Education Partnerships. A qualified secondary school teacher, she has also worked as a lecturer at the Irish World Academy. For the past seven years Ernestine has been the director of the Blas International

16 Fearghus O'Conchuir and audience during a Tower Seminar 17 18 TOWER SEMINAR SERIES VENUE: THE TOWER THEATRE, IRISH WORLD ACADEMY 4PM TO 5.30PM ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Rusangano Family performing at a Tower Seminar Photograph © Maurice Gunning 19 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH MELISSA HIDALGO KARAIKUDI SUBRAMANIAN HELEN PHELAN MATTU NOONE NATHANIEL GOW’S DANCE BAND DAVID ROBB JEFF TODD TITON

JANUARY Wednesday January 25th and cultures. Her book, Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Brhaddhvani, a premier research and training centre for musics Borderlands, examines transcultural Morrissey fandom in the of the world, in Chennai. Chieftains for Chicanos, Mariachis for Morrissey: US-Mexican borderlands as means for understanding broader Matthew 'Mattu' Noone, is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker Exploring Irish-Mexican and Irish-Chicano Musical histories of Chicano and Irish colonization, resistance, identity and performer of the 25 stringed lute called Sarode. He has Mash-ups formation, and cultural practices. Hidalgo also sings in Sheilas studied North Indian Classical music for over a decade with Take A Bow, an all-woman tribute to Morrissey and the Smiths. Presenter: Dr Melissa Hidalgo Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and, more recently, with UK Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy) FEBRUARY Wednesday February 1st based sarodiya, K. Sridhar. Matthew has also explored the per- formance potential of Irish traditional music on the sarode This presentation explores the musical collaborations between House of Light Seminar: The Origins of Creativity - and regularly collaborates with percussionist Tommy Hayes in The Chieftains, the venerable Irish traditional music ensemble, ritual, time, space and place. a project called AnTara. He was an Irish Research Council and acclaimed Chicano and Mexican musicians such as Los Presenters: Professor Karaikudi Subramanian, Mattu Noone scholarship recipient for his Arts Practice PhD at the Irish Lobos and Lila Downs on albums such as Santiago (1996) and and Professor Helen Phelan World Academy where he continues to lecture on perform- San Patricio (2010). I also examine musical projects such as Los ance studies and ethnomusicology. Angeles-based Mariachi Manchester and Mexico City-based Chair: Dr Niamh Nic Ghabhann (Irish World Academy) Professor Helen Phelan is the programme director of the PhD Mexrrissey, bands who reimagine and perform the music of The House of Light is a biennial event including a Tower in Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy. She also served as second-generation Irish musicians Morrissey and the Smiths seminar & ritual performance celebrating the Irish World course director of the MA Ritual Chant and Song programme for through Mexican musical stylings. What makes the music of Academy Building. Seminars over the years have included pre- nine years. Her research interests are in the areas of performance Morrissey and the Smiths musically ‘translatable’ through sentations about the Celtic / Zen garden, the Sionna mosaic, studies, migrant studies, ritual studies, ritual song, arts practice Mexican and Chicano musical forms? What makes Mexican and the ritual pit, as well as the story of the building as told by its research and music education philosophy. She is the founder- Chicano music amenable to Irish traditional music translations architect, Daniel Cordier. Rituals have ranged from ceremonial director of Sanctuary, a Higher Education Authority initiative and reimaginings? What do these musical mash-ups teach us performances by Nepalese shamans to Celtic monks. This year, supporting the cultural expression of new migrant communities about larger historical contexts and origins of intercultural and House of Light is being curated by Mattu Noone who recently in Ireland. Her Irish Research Council funded project, Singing & transnational affinities between Ireland, Mexico, and the US completed his doctoral studies at the Academy. The seminar Sustainable Social Integration is run in partnership with Doras Southwest/Mexican border region? These questions represent and ritual focuses on the Festival of Saraswati, the Hindu god- Luimní. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, a starting point for further explorations of Irish, Mexican, and dess of music and learning. Chicano convergences in music and culture. Ritual and the New Irish is due for release from Oxford University Professor Karaikudi Subramanian is a ninth generation Press in April, 2017. Dr Melissa Hidalgo is from Los Angeles, California. She is a musician from the Karaikudi Veena Tradition. He is one of the Visiting Fulbright Scholar at UL, affiliated with the Popular senior most performers and teachers on the Veena. In 1985, Music and Popular Culture research cluster (PMPC@UL) and Prof. Subramanian earned a PhD in ethnomusicology from the Department of Sociology. Hidalgo’s research explores the Wesleyan University, USA, with a dissertation on “South Indian concept of transnational “distant relations” between and Veena Tradition and Individual Style.” He retired as a Professor among Irish, Chicana/o, and Mexican peoples, borderlands, from the University of Madras in 2002. In 1989, he founded 20 NATHANIEL GOW’S DANCE BAND DAVID ROBB JEFF TODD TITON

Wednesday February 8th Wednesday February 15th Wednesday February 22nd Past Present Scottish Pulse with Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band A Common European Heritage in the mid-19th century Thoreau’s Sound Experience songs of Ireland and Germany Presenters: David McGuinness and Steven Player Presenter: Professor Jeff Todd Titon Chair: Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy) Presenter: Dr David Robb Chair: Dr Colin Quigley (Irish World Academy) Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band reimagines the Scottish dance Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy) Among 19th century American writers of the first rank, band from the 1780s, exploring 18th century sources for This paper deals with thematic similarities between German and Thoreau stands alone as the one who paid prolonged and serious music and dance, and performing on period instruments, with Irish folk songs of the nineteenth century, particularly the period attention to sound. Among other accomplishments, he was a a line-up of Scottish smallpipes, gut-strung fiddles, cello and surrounding the 1848 revolutions. While clear commonalities singer and musician (flute player). He sought and found ecstasy piano. The group brings together early music specialists Aaron can be seen to exist in songs about exploitative masters, hunger, in sound, particularly the sounds of the natural; and he noted McGregor, David McGuiness and Alison MacGillivray with some emigration and the striving for national statehood, there are, these in his daily journals. John Cage wrote that he could find his of the most experienced and creative personalities in Scottish nonetheless, differences in terms of Germany’s situation asa every idea “about music that was worth its salt” in the writings traditional music, including fiddlers Lauren MacColl and dancer, rapidly expanding industrial nation, while Ireland was rural. At of Thoreau. viola player, and singer Mairi Campbell. A short presentation the same time the plight of the displaced German craftsmen, Jeff Todd Titon taught in the departments of English and will be followed by an 18th century country dance experience due to industrialization, does have echoes in the struggles of the Music at Tufts University, 1971-86, and was head of the PhD led by dancer and guitarist Steven Player. craft trade expressed in Irish songs. While the German and Irish program in ethnomusicology at Brown University, USA, from David McGuinness is the director of the group Concerto narrative styles and approaches differ from one another – for 1986 until his retirement in 2013. He is an honorary life member Caledonia, who have made 13 albums mostly of historical example in the religious imagery which is not so prevalent in the of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and a member of the Scottish music, and he is Senior Lecturer in Music at the German songs – there is, nonetheless, evidence of a common executive board of the American Folklore Society. His most University of Glasgow. He was Principal Investigator on the folk language and musical heritage between the two countries, recent book is The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicol- AHRC-funded project ‘Bass Culture in Scottish musical traditions’ which has been affirmed by the cultural exchange between their ogy (2015). He is credited with pioneering work in experiential which led to the setting up of the web resource www.hms. respective folk movements since the 1970s. ethnography and friendship-based field research, in ecological scot, hosting printed sources of fiddle music from before 1850. Dr David Robb is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queen’s University approaches to musical and cultural sustainability, and in an He has worked as a composer for television, most notably on Belfast. He was formerly in German Studies. He has researched applied ethnomusicology involving collaborative research and Channel 4’s teen drama series Skins, and for many years was a extensively on the history of German folk and political song community action. His most recent project theorizes a sound‐ BBC radio producer, producing John Purser’s 50-part history of with particular a focus on the periods of the 1848 Revolution, centred ecology for all beings, based in a relational ontology Scottish music for BBC Radio Scotland. the Weimar Republic and the post-WWII era of East and West and epistemology, that leads to sound communities and economies, in an effort to sustain life on planet Earth. Steven Player is a dancer, musician, choreographer, actor, Germany. Since 2008 he has been involved in a collaborative teacher and lecturer, specialising in dance from the renaissance project with the German Folksong Archive in Freiburg on the and baroque periods. He has appeared worldwide with leading ‘History of Reception of Songs of the 1848 Revolution’. He is period ensembles as a soloist and in ensemble, and is renowned currently developing a research network looking at songs from for his spontaneous, humorous and highly skilled performances. this period across the whole of Europe. 21 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH MARCH Wednesday March 1st Dance (1998) has been translated into eight languages. Some of Wednesday March 15th her publication can be downloaded from https://roehampton. Music with Minimally Responsive Populations: Catholicism, Masculinity, and Femininity Through academia.edu/AndreeGrau the Lens of Tiwi Dance How and why it works Presenter: Dr Wendy Magee Presenter: Professor Andrée Grau Wednesday March 8th Chair: Dr Hilary Moss (Irish World Academy) Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) Female Composers of 18th Century Lieder Presenter: Dr Aisling Kenny Working with children and adults who are minimally responsive is The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst islands were the first challenging for health professionals. Finding ways to assess and Australians to develop sustained relationships with a variety of Chair: Dr Yonit Kosovske (Irish World Academy) work with a client’s strengths can be impeded by her or his minimal Europeans, commencing when Dutch ships landed on Melville In celebration of International Women's Day, Aisling Kenny will movements, variable arousal, no means for verbal communication, island in1636. The seminar will focus especially on the relation- discuss her role as a scholar and performer of songs by female unknown sensory impairments, and unconfirmed cognitive impairments. ship with the Catholic missionaries of the Sacred heart, examining composers. Her ongoing research focuses on lieder, pieces for how the Tiwi found ways to build bridges of understanding This presentation will discuss music as a diagnostic assessment solo voice and piano within the German 19th century tradition between very different engagements with the world and how and therapeutic treatment with children and adults who are of Western Art Music. Through lecture presentation and live this can best be explained through their dance practices where minimally responsive following acquired neurological conditions. performance, this seminar celebrates the work and lives of kinship relations are both reflected and developed in the dance. “Minimally responsive” can include conditions such as end-stage composers that include Josephine Lang, Alma Mahler, Clara Professor Grau will discuss the Tiwi traditional understanding of dementia, disorders of consciousness from acquired brain injury Schumann, and Fanny Hensel, among others. femininity and masculinity when in rituals men dance that they and end-stage terminal illness. The focus of this presentation will are pregnant and women that they find the spirits of unborn Soprano and musicologist, Aisling Kenny, studied music at be the role of music in diagnosis and intervention with people children, an activity only men can perform in everyday life, and Maynooth University, completing a PhD. on the Lieder of who are minimally responsive with complex needs, and the science how this gender “interchangeability” fits with their Catholic Josephine Lang in 2010. An experienced soloist, recitalist and underpinning why it works. faith. ensemble singer, she has presented concerts, lectures and Wendy L Magee PhD is Associate Professor at Temple University, lecture-recitals in Ireland, the UK and Austria. She is a contributor Philadelphia. She has practiced in neurological rehabilitation since Professor Andrée Grau F.I.Chor, MA, PhD is Professor of to the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland and co-editor of Women Anthropology of Dance at the University of Roehampton, 1988 as a music therapy clinician, researcher, manager and trainer and the Nineteenth-Century Lied with Susan Wollenberg, London. She leads the MA in Dance Anthropology and the (USA, UK and Australia) with adults and children. Her publications published by Ashgate in 2015. Aisling has lectured in the music Erasmus Mundus CHOREOMUNDUS: International Master in span neuroscience, medicine, rehabilitation, psychology, music departments of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and Dundalk Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage. She has trained in therapy and health sociology. The topics of her research include Institute of Technology. Currently based in Basel, Switzerland, Benesh Movement Notation, Ethnomusicology and Social evidence-based practice in neurorehabilitation including a Cochrane she is specializing in the performance of art song and baroque Anthropology. Fieldwork took her to Australia, South Africa and Review; music therapy measures for rehabilitation; music repertoire with Evelyn Tubb. India. She has published widely in French and in English on a therapy and identity; and new and emerging music technologies in variety of topics including Tiwi and South Asian dance, ice-skating, health and education with her published book Music Technology in identity, and bodily practices. Her children’s book Eyewitness Therapeutic and Health Settings. Awards include a Leverhulme Fellowship and the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award (2015). 22 ANDRÉE GRAU AISLING KENNY WENDY MAGEE KATHLEEN TURNER HELEN PHELAN AILEEN DILLANE HILARY MOSS SANDRA JOYCE

Wednesday March 22nd the forthcoming Songs of Social Protest (Rowman and Little- O’Neill. She is a musician and Music Therapist and has an MBA field, 2017) and a special edition on ‘Singers and Songs of Social in Health Service Management. Her research interests include arts therapies; singing and health; arts and health; health Singing and Social Justice Protest’ for the MUSICultures journal. humanities and inter-disciplinary research. Professor Randall Everett Allsup holds degrees in music Presenters: Professor Randall Everett Allsup, performance and music education from Northwestern For more information on her work Dr Aileen Dillane, Dr Sandra Joyce, Dr Hilary Moss, University and Teachers College Columbia University. He is see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hilary_Moss Professor Helen Phelan and Kathleen Turner currently Associate Professor of Music Education at Teachers and http://www.irishworldacademy.ie/postgraduate- Chair: Professor Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy) College. Randall has taught at the Chinese Culture University, programmes/ma-music-therapy Taipei, Taiwan; the Arts College of Xiamen University, Xiamen Prof Helen Phelan is the programme director of the PhD in Arts In 1957, Martin Luther King heard Pete Seeger sing a rendition City, China; and the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland. He is of ‘We Shall Overcome’. On his way to a speaking engagement Practice at the Irish World Academy. She also served as course the recipient of a Fulbright research and teaching award, and director of the MA Ritual Chant and Song programme for nine the following day, he was famously heard to say: ‘that song the Teachers College Outstanding Teacher award. He is the really sticks with you, doesn't it?’. It is now impossible to think years. Her research interests include performance studies, author of over 50 publications, including the book Remixing the migrant studies, ritual studies, ritual song, arts practice about the African-American Civil Rights Movement without Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education (2016) thinking of ‘that song’. research and music education philosophy. She is founder- Indiana University Press. director of Sanctuary, a Higher Education Authority initiative The relationship between singing and social justice is a rich and Dr Sandra Joyce is the Director of the Irish World Academy of supporting the cultural expression of new migrant communities complex one and a growing area of interdisciplinary research at Music and Dance. Together with Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in Ireland. Her Irish Research Council funded project, Singing & the Irish World Academy. At this seminar, Academy staff draw and Dr Niall Keegan, she founded the BA Irish Music and Dance Sustainable Social Integration is run in partnership with Doras on arts practice research community music, ethnomusicology, and MA Irish Traditional Music Performance at UL, and has been Luimní. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Irish traditional song, music therapy, and ritual studies to share Course Director of both programmes. Her research interests Music, Ritual and the New Irish is due for release from Oxford aspects of their current research in this area. The seminar will include the Irish song tradition, the Irish harp tradition and University Press in April, 2017. culminate in a presentation from invited speaker Randall Everett historical sources of Irish traditional music. Her co-edited Kathleen Turner is the Course Director of MA Community Music Allsup, one of the foremost international scholars working in volume, Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp (with Dr at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance where she also the area of music education, equity and social justice. Helen Lawlor) has recently been published by Four Courts Press, teaches Gospel and related repertoire. She is a singer, songwriter and her first solo song recording is due for release shortly. Dr Aileen Dillane is Course Director of the MA in Irish Music and community musician and holds two master’s degrees from Studies at the Irish World Academy. She has a PhD in Ethno- Dr Hilary Moss is Senior Lecturer in Music Therapy at the the University of Limerick, MA Community Music and MA Ritual musicology from the University of Chicago where she was a World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Chant and Song, as well as a BA (Hons) in English and Politics from Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellow. Her research interests Ireland and, until recently, the Director of the National Centre the University of Stirling. Kathleen is currently pursuing a PhD include ethnicity, identity and performativity in music, singers for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin. She completed in Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy, exploring the role of and songs, and social protest. Recent publications include the her PhD in 2014 on aesthetic deprivation and the role of the the community musician in the process of social regeneration. co-edited volume Public and Political Discources of Migration: arts for older people in hospital at Trinity College Dublin International Perspectives (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), School of Medicine under the supervision of Prof Desmond 23 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH EFRAIN TORO BART KIELY LIZ DUNNE WOODROW KENROHAN DAVID McLOUGHLIN RANDI ROLVSJORD TRÍONA McCAFFREY PAULA HIGGINS

Wednesday March 29th APRIL Wednesday April 5th Liz currently holds the title of Chairperson of Listowel Writers Week. Time Matters Legacy - developing and maintaining vibrant and sustainable festivals David McLoughlin is the Chief Executive of Wexford Festival Presenters: Bart Kiely and Efrain Toro Opera. He has occupied various senior positions in the Irish Chair: Dr Niall Keegan Presenters: Woodrow Kernohan, Liz Dunne, and David film and television industry including CEO of Dublin Film McLoughlin While the role of rhythm in music is never underestimated, Festival, Head of Production with Irish Screen, Director of his our understanding of it is largely assumed and rarely articu- Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann own production company: Distinguished Features Ltd, CEO of lated. In this seminar we bring two rhythm practitioners and Screen Producers Ireland and Co-Founder and Chairman of the This seminar will explore sustainability in festivals. How can thinkers together to discuss rhythm’s nature and function, with Dublin International Film Festival. a festival maintain its position in society, remaining relevant reference to recent findings from various cognate disciplines. to its audience, developing a strong financial base, and continue Participants will be invited to reexamine and reimagine Wednesday April 19th to innovate in response to the changing world? Festival directors their relationship with, and awareness of, this quintessential will speak about their insights into the challenges and Embracing stakeholder inclusion in mental health: Case phenomenon. opportunities for established arts festivals in Ireland today. studies from music therapy. Efrain Toro taught at MI’s Percussion Institute for over 16 years. Woodrow Kernohan is Director/CEO of EVA International – Presenters: Professor Randi Rolvsjord, Dr Tríona He has also taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Cape Ireland’s biennial festival of contemporary art in Limerick McCaffrey and Paula Higgins Town University, the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and City and was Curator of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale at UCLA Extension Department. Having worked for 6 years Chair: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (Irish World Academy) in 2015, presenting Sean Lynch ‘Adventure: Capital’. He is a as a clinician, product specialist and designer for the Roland member of IBA – International Biennial Association and IKT The concept of multiple stakeholder inclusion in modern Corporation, Efrain is considered an expert in MIDI technology. – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. mental health service delivery and design is increasingly He has been called to speak at the Percussive Arts The 2016 edition of EVA International ‘Still (the) Barbarians’ emphasized. As this idea gains traction, it is essential that Society International Conference on eight occasions. Efrain has featured 57 Irish and international artists and received 100,971 practitioners in this field identify ways in which stakehold- recorded and performed with artists such as Stan Getz, George visitors across multiple locations in Limerick City. The open ers’ experiential knowledge and expertise can be engendered Benson, Los Lobos, Chicago, Kiss, Placido Domingo, John Klemmer. call for the 2018 edition of EVA International, curated by Inti so as to meaningfully inform mental health provision. This Bart Kiely is a performing musician and educator specialising Guerrero, has recently launched and will close on 31 January seminar will explore how music therapists are addressing this in drum-set and percussion. He holds a BA in Jazz Performance 2017. www.eva.ie challenge in research. Through a presentation of case studies, and an MA in Ethnomusicology. He is currently a PhD Arts the presenters will highlight how service user perspectives Following a career in the education of reluctant learners, Liz Practice researcher at the Irish World Academy. His research are informing music therapy practice but also how music Dunne retired to Ireland in 2009 to relax and read. Volunteering explores the distance between explicit and implicit forms of therapists’ skills are being creatively used to accommodate to join Listowel Writers Week changed all that. Her promotion knowledge, how people learn, and how this information is interdisciplinary research in mental healthcare. of the children’s element of the festival lead it to becoming applied to consciously close the gap between the musician he The National Children’s Literary Festival. is and the musician he aspires to be.

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Randi Rolvsjord is Professor in music therapy at the Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (GAMUT), University of Bergen, Norway. Her research and publications include qualitative research, theoretical explorations and critical perspective. She holds a PhD from Aalborg University and has published exten- sively about music therapy in mental health, user-involvement and feminist perspectives. Her book entitled Resource-Oriented Music Therapy (2010) published by Barcelona is well known internationally.

Dr Tríona McCaffrey is a lecturer in music therapy at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Tríona has practiced as a music therapist in community mental health, psychiatry of old age and also mental health recovery where she developed an interest in service user involvement in healthcare. Her PhD focused on service user evaluation of music therapy in mental health. Her research interests include recovery-oriented service provision and stakeholder involvement in health service delivery.

Paula Higgins completed the MA Music Therapy from the University of Limerick in 2008. She has worked with younger people who have emotional and behavioural issues at the Blue Box Creative Learning Centre. She has also operated a private music therapy practice for children and adolescents on the autistic spectrum, refugee families, and adults experiencing mental health difficulties. She currently works at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services in Dublin where she has introduced music therapy within a recovery oriented framework. Since 2013, Paula has worked as a part-time lecturer, placement coordinator and clinical supervisor on the MA Music Therapy Programme at UL. She also holds a Diploma in Cross Professional Supervision. Image presenter: Paula Higgins.jpg; Image Caption: Paula Higgins Image presenter: Randi Rolvsjord.jpg; Image Caption: Randi Rolvsjord Students of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance 25 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH 26 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES LOGOS IS A SEMINAR SERIES COEXISTING WITH THE LONG-ESTABLISHED PUBLIC TOWER SEMINAR AND LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES.

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FRBRUARY Thursday February 2nd The rediscovery of democratic traditions of folk song in commons and community; Sound ecology; Music of climate Germany after WWII was not just thecounter-reaction of singers change; Music, sound, and environment; Music is not a cultural Continuity and Change in Music Tradition in Contemporary and academics to the misuse of German folk song by the asset; Anthropological economics, heritage, and musical sustain- South India – A Case Study of Brhaddhvani Nazis. Such a shift to a more ‘progressive’ interpretation of folk ability; and on and on. Attendees are invited to read this blog Presenter: Professor Karaikudi Subramanian tradition had already taken place in other parts of the Western from 2012 to the present (about 12-15 entries each year) for world. This paper will look at how the New Social Movements consideration and discussion at the seminar. The available musicological literature and methodologies of of West Germany and the folk scene of the GDR provided practice, based on cultural, stylistic, and linguistically bound channels of transmission for a forgotten revolutionary song Jeff Todd Titon taught in the departments of English and Music procedures, tend to be intimidating to aspiring students of tradition. In doing so, a collective cultural memory was created at Tufts University, 1971-86, and was head of the PhD program music who do not belong to musically ‘elite communities’. The whereby lost songs – such as those of the 1848 Revolution – in ethnomusicology at Brown University, USA, from 1986 until his complexity in Indian music due to gamakas, intricate and inter- could be awakened from extinction. retirement in 2013. He is an honorary life member of the Society twining cross-rhythms, eludes easy communication also due to for Ethnomusicology, and a member of the executive board of linguistic limitations. The research at Brhaddhvani is to reveal Dr David Robb is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queen’s University the American Folklore Society. His most recent book is The Oxford the process of Karnatak music-making with clarity at all levels Belfast. He was formerly in German Studies. He has researched Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (2015). He is credited with towards intimate experience, and effectivepractice and extensively on the history of German folk and political song pioneering work in experiential ethnography and friendship- appreciation, leading towards self-learning and enjoyment. with particular a focus on the periods of the 1848 Revolution, based field research, in ecological approaches to musical and the Weimar Republic and the post-WWII era of East and West cultural sustainability, and in an applied ethno-musicology involving Prof. Karaikudi Subramanian is a ninth generation musician Germany. Since 2008 he has been involved in a collaborative collaborative research and community action. His most recent from the Karaikudi Veena Tradition. He is one of the senior project with the German Folksong Archive in Freiburg on the project theorizes a sound-centred ecology for all beings, based most performers and teachers on the Veena. In 1985, Prof. ‘History of Reception of Songs of the 1848 Revolution’. He is in a relational ontology and epistemology, that leads to sound Subramanian earned a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan currently developing a research network looking at songs from communities and economies, in an effort to sustain life on planet University, USA, with a dissertation on “South Indian Veena Tradition this period across the whole of Europe. Earth." and Individual Style.” He retired as a Professor from the University of Madras in 2002. In 1989, he founded Brhaddhvani, a Thursday February 23rd MARCH Thursday March 2nd premiere research and training centre for musics of the world, in Chennai. Music and Sustainability Dance, Sociality and Evolutionary Theory Thursday February 16th Presenter: Professor Jeff Todd Titon Presenter: Professor Andrée Grau The Mobilizing of the German 1848 Protest Song Tradition Chair: Dr Colin Quigley (Irish World Academy) Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) in the Context of International Twentieth Century Folk Professor Titon has since 2008 maintained “Sustainable Music: Dance, along with song and body percussion, emanates from Revivals A research blog on the subject of sustainability and music” the body. All three therefore can be said to belong to the most Presenter: Dr David Robb (http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.ie/). It is wide ranging in elementary artistic processes. Anthropologist John Blacking its exploration of this topic and the implications of thinking believed that they were ‘a special kind of exercise of sensory, Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy) about music in this way. Its posts comprise such topics as: Sound communicative and cooperative powers that is as fundamental

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to the making and remaking of human nature as speech’. This in the vast correspondence of Augsburg kunstagent and Dr Alexander Lingas is Reader in Music at City, University of seminar engages with such an idea and examines the significance diplomat Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647). London, Fellow of the University of Oxford’s European Humanities of dance in human evolution. It proposes that the ability to Research Centre, and Artistic Director and founder of the Amercian- Renowned recorder virtuosa Eva Legêne is a frequent guest move together in time allowed for collaboration among individuals, based vocal ensemble Cappella Romana. Much of Dr Lingas’s artist at early music festivals, workshops, and universities which led to the acquisition of language, and, therefore, work as a scholar and performer revolves around Cappella worldwide. She has collaborated with Frans Brüggen, Hop- culture. Grau examines dance as a multi-sensory pursuit that Romana, whose projects include early music (especially medieval kinson Smith, Bruce Dickey, Sigiswald and Barthold Kuijken, connects human beings in a particular kind of relationship, Byzantine chant), contemporary art music, and the transmission Jacques Ogg, among many others. She taught at the Sweelinck which gives dance its power. of Byzantium’s musical heritage to the modern West. Conservatory in Amsterdam and at the Royal Danish Academy Andrée Grau is Professor of the Anthropology of Dance at the of Music in Copenhagen. From 1985 to 2009 she was a Professor Thursday March 30th University of Roehampton, London. She leads the MA in Dance of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Eva Anthropology and the Erasmus Mundus CHOREOMUNDUS: has published several articles on historical performance, and A New Means of Comprehending Musical Rhythm International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage. has recorded for radio and television for the labels Telefunken, Presenter: Efrain Toro She has trained in Benesh Movement Notation, Ethnomusicology Denon, Focus, and Rondo Records. Chair: Dr Niall Keegan (Irish World Academy) and Social Anthropology. Fieldwork took her to Australia, Everything in the known universe vibrates at particular frequencies. South Africa and India. She has published widely in French and Thursday March 23rd Is there a relationship between rhythm in music and the dance in English on a variety of topics including Tiwi and South Asian Observing the Passion, Burial and Resurrection of Christ in of molecules or the rotation of galaxies? Efrain applies the dance, iceskating, identity, and bodily practices. Her children’s the Byzantine Rite under Venetian Rule teachings of physics in order to arrive at a deeper understanding book Eyewitness Dance (1998) has been translated into eight of the rhythms of life, for which rhythm in music serves as a useful languages. Some of her publication can be downloaded from Presenter: Dr Alexander Lingas analogy. His understanding of rhythm in music is an application https://roehampton.academia.edu/AndreeGrau Chair: Dr Eleanor Giraud (Irish World Academy) of the harmonic overtone series to pulse which provides a new means of comprehending musical rhythm and opens up many Thursday March 16th Robert Taft and other modern scholars have noted that many possibilities with which to play with it. of the most popular elements of services for the Paschal Music and the Historical Development of the Museum Triduum in the received traditions of the Byzantine rite – notably Efrain Toro taught at MI’s Percussion Institute for over 16 years. He Presenter: Eva Legêne among which are the deposition and burial rites for Christ – has also taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Cape Town Chair: Dr Yonit Kosovske (Irish World Academy) appeared only at the end of the Middle Ages or even later. This University, the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and at UCLA This presentation examines how music – historically a part of paper offers a preliminary look at how late Byzantine tendencies Extension Department. Having worked for 6 years as a clinician, the quadrivium and the seven liberal arts – held a prominent towards greater emphasis on mimetic rituals in observing the product specialist and designer for the Roland Corporation, Efrain place in science. As such it played a natural role in the develop- Passion, Burial and Resurrection of Christ developed during is considered an expert in MIDI technology. He has been called ment of the Italian Studiolo and the encyclopaedic Kunstkammer, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Venetian-ruled Crete to speak at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference north of The Alps. A special insight in the origins of the museum and Cyprus. In particular, it will note some parallels with Latin on eight occasions. Efrain has recorded and performed with art- and the importance of music are found in the cultural surround- commemorations of these events as recorded in Italian sources ists such as Stan Getz, George Benson, Los Lobos, Chicago, Kiss, ings of Isabella d’Este (1474–1539), her Studiolo in Mantua, and of the same period. Placido Domingo,John Klemmer.

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Professor Mel Mercier, Academy students and staff, and colleagues from UCC relax after unpacking and assembling the Academy’s new Javanese gamelan Photograph © Maurice Gunning 31 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH INBHEAR RESEARCH EVENT ACADEMY STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK HOUSE OF LIGHT NATHANIEL GOW’S DANCE BAND JANUARY Thursday January 19th FEBRUARY Wednesday February 1st recently completed his doctoral studies at the Academy. The seminar and ritual focuses on the Festival of Saraswati, the Hindu Inbhear Research Event ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ goddess of music and learning. The ritual includes an all night 10.30am - 4pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy 1.15pm, University Hospital Limerick concert in the Irish World Academy building on February 3rd, 2017 from 9pm-9am. It is a curated sharing of music from Irish Inbhear is a research development initiative based at the Irish Students and staff of the Irish World Academy traditional and Indian classical culture as well as other cultural World Academy of Music and Dance dedicated to supporting The Irish World Academy and University Hospital Limerick have offerings. It coincides with the festival of Bríd/Imbolc in Ireland the publication and dissemination of postgraduate and early been exploring ways in which to improve people’s experiences and Saraswati festival from India. It is traditional to have an all career research. This initiative is being launched with a day-long and change their impressions of a hospital environment. In night concert of music to celebrate Sarawasti as she is the God- seminar on January 19th, 2017, and is free and open to all. Autumn 2015, a pilot project invited students of the dess of creativity. Invited guests include the internationally The research event will include a keynote address, and a series Academy’s MA Music Therapy, BA Voice and Dance and BA renowned veena player from Chennai, Karaikudi Subramanian, as of workshops designed to support the development of research Irish Music and Dance programmes to perform in a shared café well as a host of local Indian musicians. outputs. Events, where possible, will be podcast, and workshop space within the hospital. Following an extremely positive materials will be made available online, creating a multi-media response, this new programme of concerts brings music to a Tuesday & Wednesday repository on the Irish World Academy website dedicated to healthcare setting with the aim of providing calm and February 7th & 8th supporting research dissemination. The materials collected will restoration to patients, staff and visitors. Past Present Scottish Pulse with Mairi Campbell form part of an online resource hub, titled Inbhear, hosted on ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ is a joint initiative of the Irish World Academy and Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band the Academy website. of Music and Dance (Dr Hilary Moss and Kathleen Turner) and This two day celebration of the past and present in Scottish The aim of Inbhear is to provide targeted supports around University Hospital Limerick (Dr Paul Finucane). music, song and dance which will include BA and MA workshops research and dissemination for students working in the fields and masterclasses, a Tower Seminar with a difference (bring your represented at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Friday February 3rd dancing shoes) a lunchtime concert with Nathaniel Gow’s Dance There will be an emphasis on exploring the publication and Band and Mairi Campbell’s celebrated solo show “ Mairi Campbell dissemination opportunities for students and researchers, The House of Light Ritual – Pulse” which will take place at 8pm in Theatre 1 on Tuesday the as well as methods of representing performance, practice as 9pm - 9am, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy 7th of February. research, and fieldwork within existing and emerging scholarly journals, books and related resources. The House of Light is a biennial event including a Tower Seminar Mairi Campbell’s Pulse is a homecoming in viola, voice, movement, & ritual performance celebrating the Irish World Academy Building. animation and storytelling. Pulse is the story of award-winning Seminars over the years have included presentations about the musician Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds, from Celtic/Zen garden, the Sionna mosaic, the ritual pit, as well as classical training at London’s Guildhall, to love and danger in the story of the building as told by its architect, Daniel Cordier. Mexico and discovering step-dancing in Cape Breton. Rituals have ranged from ceremonial performs by Nepalese shamans to Celtic monks. This year, House of Light is being See Lunchtime Concert ‘Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band’, page 11. curated by Mattu Noone, an Irish Research Council scholar who See Tower Seminar ‘Past Present Scottish Pulse with Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band’, page 21. 32 INBHEAR RESEARCH EVENT ACADEMY STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK HOUSE OF LIGHT NATHANIEL GOW’S DANCE BAND FORGING OF THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY GAMELAN WENDY McGEE SONAS NA SLAINTE THE LIMERICK FLING

Wednesday February 15th Tuesday March 14th therapy and identity; and new and emerging music technologies in health and education with her published book World Music at the Academy Celebrating Irish Music Therapy (Symposium) Music Technology in Therapeutic and Health Settings. Awards include a Leverhulme Fellowship and the Arthur Flagler Fultz 5.30pm, Foyer, Irish World Academy 9.30am – 5.30pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy Research Award (2015). The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance hosts a celebration Keynote speaker: Dr Wendy Magee to mark the launch of the BA Performing Arts (World Music) and Thursday 23rd March Special guest: Dr Julie Sutton the arrival of its new Javanese gamelan. The Academy gamelan The Limerick Fling is an orchestra of tuned percussion instruments - bronze gongs The symposium will primarily feature graduates of the Irish and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two-stringed World Academy’s MA Music Therapy working in Ireland. This 8pm, University Concert Hall fiddle. The instruments were made in the Summer of 2016 by event will celebrate the MA Music Therapy at the University Over 100 performers from five continents will come together in the master gong-smith Pak Saroyo at his forge in Central Java. of Limerick, the professional practice of music therapy and a dynamic concert held in the University Concert Hall on Thursday, The gamelan will be at the heart of the Academy’s innovative BA research excellence in Ireland in the field. UL is the only place March 23rd to celebrate all the creativity, talent and passion Performing Arts (World Music), which, from September 2017, in Ireland that offers a professional qualification in music that the Irish World Academy has to offer. Honouring the past will be open to eligible students from all musical backgrounds therapy. This event will present the diversity of music therapy and creating the future, the Limerick Fling is a spectacular flash who wish to take a global view of music. The celebration will practice being delivered by graduates of the UL course across of music and dance at the cutting edge of the Irish tradition. feature performances by the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, guest Ireland and abroad, featuring well-established and high soloists Kate Ellis (cello), Nick Roth (saxophone), Colin Dunne quality evidence based work. Celebrating the sounds and gestures of our times, the concert (dance) and Mattu Noone (sarod), the Irish World Academy features noted musicians, singers and dancers from across the This symposium will appeal to anyone interested in the Gospel Choir and Mexican Vocal Trio. student body, teaching staff and some renowned visitors to the profession of music therapy. It will serve as continuing Irish World Academy. professional development for music therapists, health and Wednesday 22rd February social care professionals and community musicians, and will also be of interest to researchers and academics interested in ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ the role of arts in health and well-being.

As for Wednesday February 1st, page 32. Wendy L Magee PhD, is Associate Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia. She has practiced in neurological

MARCH rehabilitation since 1988 as a music therapy clinician, Wednesday 1st March researcher, manager and trainer (USA, UK and Australia) with ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ adults and children. Her publications span neuroscience, medicine, rehabilitation, psychology, music therapy and As for Wednesday February 1st, page 32. health sociology. The topics of her research include evidence- based practice in neurorehabilitation including a Cochrane Review; music therapy measures for rehabilitation; music Wednesday 5th April 33 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH WILLIAM AND JOAN M. ROTH PAUL BRADY AND MAIRÉAD NÍ MHAONAIGH LAUNCH OF BLAS AND SCOIL SAMRAIDH WILLIE CLANCY INITIATIVE APRIL Wednesday April 5th walking by chance into Marsh's Library, or the satisfaction of JUNE June 19th to 30th 2017 watching the completion of the Swiss Cottage after the years ‘Sonas is Sláinte’ of neglect, or celebrating the opening of the Boat House and Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance 2017 As for Wednesday February 1st, page 32. Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. How privileged and lucky we have felt all these years to be part of the culture of this wonderful land.” The 21st Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Wednesday April 5th Joan M. Roth Music and Dance will take place at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick from June 19th to 30th, 2017.. The William and Joan M. Roth Memorial Lecture in the Arts Dr. McParland has researched and published extensively on Irish architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries. He is Blas is now firmly established as one of Ireland’s most 7pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy the author of key texts in the field, such as Public Architec- prestigious summer schools and has developed a reputation Presenter: Dr. Edward McParland ture In Ireland, 1680-1760 (New Haven: Yale University Press, for its quality and innovation. The school provides students 2001). He joined Trinity College in 1973 as a Lecturer in the (aged 16 and over) from around the world with access to This lecture has been organized in order to mark the Department of the History of Art and was elected as a Fellow the expertise of some of Ireland’s finest musicians, singers, contribution made by William and Joan M. Roth to the arts of Trinity College in 1984. dancers and academics who, in previous schools, have in Ireland. In particular, the Roths have supported several included Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, key festivals that now form an essential part of our cultural With Nicholas K. Robinson, he founded the Irish Architectural Paul Brady, John Carty, Steve Cooney, Colin Dunne, Catherine landscape, including the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Archive in 1976. His work in architectural conservation has led Foley, Martin Hayes, Jim Higgins, Sandra Joyce, Niall Keegan, as well as many key cultural venues such as the Wexford him, over the years, to co-found the Irish Landmark Trust and Kevin Crawford, Matt Molloy, Ryan Molloy, Michelle Mulcahy, Opera House, the Douglas Hyde Gallery and the Craw- to become a member of the management committees of the Nóirín Ní Riain, Michael Ryan, Karan Casey, Zoe Conway, ford Gallery of Art. The preservation of architectural Alfred Beit Foundation and the Irish Georgian Foundation. Siobhan Peoples, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and Mícheál Ó heritage was key to the Roths’ mission, and, therefore, it is He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of the Súilleabháin. The two-week programme entails the best fitting that the keynote speaker for this inaugural lecture is Architects of Ireland and an honorary member of the Royal of tuition, ranging from formal lectures, public seminars, Dr. Edward McParland, Pro-Chancellor of the University Society of Ulster Architects. Dr McParland is also a vice- interactive master classes, daily Irish classes, an excursion of Dublin, Trinity College, and a leading authority on president of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society and a to a number of Ireland’s greatest tourist attractions in Irish architectural heritage. member of the Royal Irish Academy. He retired as a Fellow of Co. Clare, daily lunchtime concerts featuring tutors and the Society of Antiquaries (London) in 2010. local musicians, an Irish traditional table quiz, evening "After all the meaningful experiences and associations that concerts, céilí and, above all, the opportunity to share Ireland has given us over these years, to have this lecture named tunes with some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians. after us would have pleased Bill deeply as it has me. Our days in Ireland always fell into the same structure: Arrival a week The programme is worth three academic credits, or six ECTS or so before the West Cork Music Festival and departure a few credits towards an undergraduate degree, which makes days after the Wexford Opera. In between was one memorable Blas unique within the world of traditional music summer schools experience after another. Imagine a passionate book collector in that the study of Irish traditional music, song and dance can count as a modular component of a university degree. 34 WILLIAM AND JOAN M. ROTH PAUL BRADY AND MAIRÉAD NÍ MHAONAIGH LAUNCH OF BLAS AND SCOIL SAMRAIDH WILLIE CLANCY INITIATIVE

For information on the summer school in general, scholarships on the listening experience and on creating an awareness that are available and the early bird tuition fee offer, please of the social and historical context in which the largest part visit www.blas.ie. Alternatively, contact Pamela Cotter, of this musical tradition was created. Emphasis is placed on Director, Blas Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and relaxed interaction between students, tutors and players Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland. and singers. Some of Ireland’s leading musicians and singers Email Pamela at [email protected] or call her on +353 61 have contributed to the course over the years. 202653/202030. This new initiative between Blas and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy will enable students to earn university Blas International Summer School accreditation worth 3 undergraduate credits (6 ECTS and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy credits). Students wishing to pursue accreditation will be required to complete both the second week of Blas and The Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional The Scope of Irish Traditional Music. More details on Music and Dance joins forces with Scoil Samhraidh Willie The Scope of Irish Traditional Music are available at: Clancy to promote deeper understanding and appreciation www.scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com of Irish Traditional music. For information on Blas and how to apply for this The 21st Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional new initiative, please visit www.blas.ie. Alternatively, Music and Dance will take place at the Irish World Academy contact Pamela Cotter, Director, Blas Summer School at the University of Limerick from June 19th to 30th, 2017. of Irish Traditional Music and Dance, Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland. Email Pamela at June 2017 marks the beginning of a new initiative between [email protected] or call her on +353 61 202653/202030. Blas and the Willie Clancy Summer School. Blas is now Image: Maurice Caption: extending its offering to students by recognising and recommending a further week of insight into all aspects of Irish Tradtional Music through participation in The Scope of Irish Traditional Music (Dúchas an Cheoil) class at the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare in early July. The Willie Clancy week in Miltown Malbay has been a Mecca for many thousands of students and lovers of Irish music for well over forty years, and The Scope of Irish Traditional Music class has been offered as part of the School for just over thirty years. It is a six-day course to introduce students to the essential elements of Irish Traditional music, dance and song. The primary focus is Charlotte Morrissey, BA Voice and Dance student 35 36 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR RECENT EVENTS

Elver Gleams Concert at the University Concert Hall Photograph © Maurice Gunning 37 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH SEPTEMBER Festivals and the university: perspectives on research, education Culture Night 2016 95 Stop Tour by Limerick’s Live 95fm and future developments The Irish World Academy presented a diverse The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance was Held in the Millstream Common Room on September programme of music, song and dance from delighted to take part in Limerick’s Live 95FM's 6th, this seminar reflected on the development Ireland and around the world for Culture Night annual charity fundraiser, the ‘95 Stop Tour’, to of the MA Festive Arts programme over its first 2016. Students from the MA Irish Traditional raise money for the Children’s Ark Unit at the three years at the Irish World Academy of Music Music Performance and MA Irish Traditional Dance University Hospital, the neonatal unit at Univer- and Dance. Dr. Niamh NicGhabhann presented a Performance staged a lunchtime performance in sity Maternity Hospital and CARI Limerick. The report on the first three years of the programme, FIELD TRIP TO SIAMSA TÍRE the University Concert Hall. In the evening, the Live 95FM team embarked on a ‘95 Stop Tour’ of outlining the achievements of past and present Irish World Academy, in association with the Irish Limerick city and county this September, visiting students. Professor Helen Phelan and Professor Irish World Academy Field Trip to Chamber Orchestra, presented a programme of local communities and organisations to help raise Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin reflected on the work of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk music featuring students of the MA Classical String money for these charities. On the 28th of September, the original programme design team, and the vision Theatre of Ireland Performance in the marquee at the Hunt Museum. 2016 the Irish World Academy put on a series of This was followed by vocal performances by faculty performances of Irish Traditional Music, Irish for the MA Festive Arts programme within the For the third successive year, postgraduate and students of the Academy. Traditional Dance, World Music and Community broader context of the Irish World Academy and students from five MA programmes in music, song the University of Limerick. Experienced arts and Music, between 9am and 12noon, and a number and dance at the Irish World Academy participated of faculty members were interviewed about the festival management practitioners explored the in a field trip to Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre SOUND HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM challenges and opportunities for festival practitioners Academy’s continued commitment to outreach. of Ireland with Dr Catherine Foley on the September The 95 Stop Tour raised over €110,000. today, with an emphasis on the skills required 23rd 2016. Dr Foley has been involved in field by practitioners in the field. The event was well research in County Kerry since 1980, initially as attended by students, faculty and local and national a collector of Irish traditional music, song and festival practitioners. dance for Muckross House, Killarney, and later for her own personal research into traditional step dancing in the area. The trip, organised as part of FESTIVALS AND THE UNIVERSITY the module on Fieldwork Techniques, provided students with the opportunity to engage and Sound Heritage Symposium participate in traditional Irish music, song and The Department of History and Irish World Academy of Music and Dance hosted a one-day dance workshops with professional members of symposium on the 'sounding' of Irish heritage at the Academy on Friday, October 7th, 2016. Siamsa Tíre (Jonathan Kelliher, Nicky McAuliffe, Convened by Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, Department of History, the event focused on issues Tom Hanafin, Geraldine Heaslip, Anne O' Don- surrounding the research and interpretation of music in historic houses. It included two nell and Catherine O'Connor). They also attended morning lectures and an afternoon discussion forum led by international participants from a public interview between Dr. Catherine Foley the University of Southampton, the International Sound Heritage Network and the University and Nicky McAuliffe. Students also participated in of York. The event also featured a performance of ‘Kathleen Mavourneen’, a signature song an informal community session with members of of world-renowned soprano and Limerick native Catherine Hayes, sung by Hannah Fahey with Siamsa Tire, and others, where they had the accompaniment from Aiden Boland. opportunity to share in music, song and dance making in an informal setting.This was followed by This was an inter-sectoral networking and knowledge exchange event hosted by the Department vocal performances by faculty and students of the of History and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick,and generously supported by the Irish Research Council (New Foundations Award). 38 Academy. Community Music Therapy as Pragmatic Practice and ‘Disruptive Theory’ Taking place in the Irish World Academy on October 18th, 2016, this event outlined how OCTOBER community music therapy has developed internationally as both pragmatic practice – matching current needs and resources – and a ‘disruptive theory’ – challenging previous models and suggesting fresh ways of exploring the relationships between music, illness, disability and well- being. In his presentation, Gary Ansdell, a renowned international expert on community music therapy, drew on two of his recent publications: How Music Helps: In Music Therapy and Every- day Life (Ansdell, 2014) and Musical Pathways in Recovery: Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing (Ansdell & DeNora, 2016). Students from MA Music Therapy and MA Community Music participated in this event.

DR. FINOLA CRONIN, GARY ANSDELL DR. CATHERINE FOLEY, MARGUERITE DONLON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL

Connections in Motion: Dance in Irish and German Literature, Film and Culture

The 16th International Conference in Irish-German Studies, Connections in Motion: Dance in Irish and German Literature, Film and Culture was held at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance from October 31st to November 1st, 2016. The conference consisted of presentations on dance in literature, theatre, film, architecture, archives and education, which explored Irish-German connec- tions through dance from the 1920s to the present. Scholars addressed choreographies of space in locations such as Ardnacrusha, dance in early German film, and dance and the transgression of boundaries. The conference opened with a film exhibition by the National Dance Archive of Ireland International Day of the Girl (NDAI) at the University of Limerick on the celebrated Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon and her personal collection in the NDAI archive. Donlon made her name in Saarbrücken and is currently International Day of the Girl was founded by the United Nations in 2011 to recognise girls’ working with the Bolshoi Ballet in Russia. Films screened during the conference included Deirdre rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. Mulrooney’s Dance Emergency (2014), based on the Irish-German modern dancer and teacher, In response to this theme, the Irish World Academy hosted a two-day mentoring programme, Erina Brady, and Wim Wenders’ film Pina (2011), based on the work of the German pioneer of on the 10th and 11th of October, that involved working with over 25 transition year students Tanztheater, Pina Bausch. The conference closed with a live performance of a new choreography by from Laurel Hill Colaiste FCJ, with their teacher Orla Ahern. Incorporating composition, Donlon, performed by Masters students on the MA Dance Performance programme at the Irish improvisation, movement and music, students and Academy mentors Kathleen Turner, Niamh World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. NicGhabhann, Jennifer De Brún and Rachel Sheil used visual imagery to explore emergent issues around the theme of Day of the Girl. This process culminated in a performance of the The conference was organised by the Irish Centre of Transnational Studies (Mary Immaculate students’ work in Theatre 1 at the Irish World Academy. College) and the Centre of Irish-German Studies (University of Limerick) in collaboration with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the School of Culture and Communication, the School The programme involved collaboration with the Department of Fine Art, Printmaking and of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics and the School of Design. It was supported by the Contemporary Practicee at the Limerick School of Art and Design. Second, third and fourth- Goethe Institute Ireland; DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); German Embassy, Dublin; year students responded to the theme through their selected media, and the work was the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (UL); School of Culture and exhibited in the foyer of the Irish World Academy. The students also presented a live print-making Communication, UL; Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UL; School of Design, UL; event with two mobile presses to engage the public on the subject matter of gender equality Institute of Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (MIC); and the Department of German and the attainment of this, globally, under the United Nations mandate for 2030. Members of Studies, MIC. the LSAD printmaking faculty, Des MacMahon and Fiona Quill, facilitated the project. 39 NOVEMBER

LISA McLOUGHLIN AT THE BA CONTEMPORARY DANCE LAUNCH Society for Music Education BA Performing Arts Elver Gleams Ireland Conference (Contemporary Dance) Launch A celebration of the music of The 6th annual Society for Music Education The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Ireland Conference was hosted here at the Irish MICHEAL TUBRIDY AND DR. CATHERINE FOLEY launched a new BA Performing Arts (Contemporary RTE Concert Orchestra (Conductor David Brophy) World Academy on the 5-6th of November 2016. Dance) at Dance Ireland, Dublin, on Saturday, Mícheál Ó Súílleabháin (piano) The conference brought together presenters November 12th, 2016. It is the first degree Tráth na gCos & Launch of Stór On the occasion of his retirement from the from around Ireland and as far as the USA and programme in contemporary dance in the Republic Damhsa by Dr. Catherine Foley University of Limerick, Professor Mícheál Ó Australia. The two main events of the confer- of Ireland. ence was the national launch of Music Generation's On Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, Tráth na gCos Súilleabháin was celebrated at a gala concert National report by SMEI Chair Dr. Gwen Moore celebrated achievements of renowned musician The BA Performing Arts (Contemporary Dance) is at the University Concert Hall Limerick on and keynote address given by Dr. Martin Fautley and dancer Michael Tubridy by inviting him to a four-year, full-time undergraduate programme Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016. The concert on assessment in music education. In addition share his music and dancing with Irish World designed to develop dance students’ technical included some of his best-known works, per- to presentations and workshops conference Academy students and the public. skills and artistic expression. Students will spend formed by the RTE Concert Orchestra conducted extensive studio time developing technique and attendees were entertained by performances Michael was a founder member of The Chieftains, by David Brophy, with soloists Mel Mercier creating work in the world-class dance facilities by the Irish World Academy Gospel Choir and with whom he played the flute, tin whistle and (Bodhrán), Kenneth Edge (Soprano Sax), Niall at the Irish World Academy. Students will learn traditional musicians, Sing out with Strings, concertina between, 1962 and 1979, before Keegan (Flute), Pádraig Keane (Pipes) and Ras a range of contemporary dance techniques, Limerick Jazz Workshop and the Redemptorist leaving the band to pursue a significant career Mickey Courtney (Dance). He was joined by choreography, ballet and movement awareness Centre of Music. in structural engineering. In the Irish traditional students from University College Cork and the techniques such as yoga, Pilates and Feldenkrais. music and dance world, Michael is known as a University of Limerick, and his sons Eoin and They will also study experiential anatomy and promoter of traditional-style flute-playing and Moley Ó Súílleabháin with Kathleen Turner and movement analysis, dance studies and dance SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION for keeping alive and passing on the solo step- the Irish World Academy Gospel Choir. pedagogy. The programme will also give IRELAND CONFERENCE dance tradition of Dan Furey. students the opportunity to engage with other During this event Michael also launched the DVD practices including aerial dance, hip hop and Irish ELVER GLEAMS CONCERT Stór Damhsa by Dr Catherine Foley. Stór Damhsa traditional dance. Students will engage with a consists of performances and tutorials of Irish number of vocationally focused modules aimed traditional solo set dances and step dances from at allowing them to translate their artistic and Cork, North Kerry and West Limerick / Clare. Since scholarly creativity into a fulfilling career. the 1980s, Catherine Foley learned and collected Tuition will be provided by a faculty of excellent traditional step dances directly from elderly performers and academics, as well as industry dancers in these regions and, in the DVD, she professionals and international guest artists and shares them for dissemination purposes. Historical researchers. The launch included workshops with contextualisation of the dances is also included. Patricia Crosbie and Philip Connaughton. 40 Darkest Midnight BLAS International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Now in its third year, The Darkest Midnight: Dance and Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy Initiative An evening of song, poetry and carols from BLAS International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance has joined forces the Irish World Academy, in support of Rape with Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy to promote deeper understanding and appreciation of Irish Crisis Midwest, was held on November the 24th, Traditional music. This initiative was launched on the 30th of November at the Irish World 2016, in Theatre 1 of the Irish World Academy. Academy of Music and Dance by Nicholas Carolan, Director Emeritus of the Irish Traditional The Irish World Academy was once again trans- Music Archive. formed into a winter wonderland and this fantastic Blas International Summer School is extending its offering to students by recognising and musical experience was full of festive spirit with recommending a further week of insight into all aspects of Irish Tradtional Music through a series of incredible performances and a mulled participation in The Scope of Irish Traditional Music (Dúchas an Cheoil) class at the Willie wine reception. Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare in early July. The Willie Clancy week in Miltown A number of exceptional artists and ensembles Malbay has been a Mecca for many thousands of students and lovers of Irish music for well over forty were featured including the Cantoral Chant years and The Scope of Irish Music class has been offered as part the School for just over thirty years. Ensemble, the BAVAD Gospel Choir directed by It is a six-day course to introduce students to the essential elements of Irish Traditional music, Kathleen Turner, the Irish World Academy Choir dance and song. The primary focus is on the listening experience and on creating an awareness and many others. Sean Nós dancer Siobhan of the social and historical context in which the largest part of this musical tradition was Butler and students from MA Irish Traditional created. Emphasis is placed on relaxed interaction between student, tutors and players and Dance Performance, Emily Flack (Canada), Kara singers. Some of Ireland’s leading musicians and singers have contributed to it over the years. Tutors O’Brien (USA) and Eibhlín Broderick (Ireland) also include Paddy Glackin and Cathal Goan. performed. Students from the MA Festive Arts programme were on hand to help produce the event as part of their module in festival develop- ment and production.

Launch of Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp ELVER GLEAMS CONCERT Harp Studies: Perspectives on the Irish Harp edited by Dr Sandra Joyce and Dr Helen Lawlor was launched on November 30th, 2016, at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance by Nicholas Carolan, Director Emeritus of the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Harp Studies is a valuable new collection presenting new research on the Irish harp. It explores topics as diverse as iconography, history, diaspora, performance, identity, politics and spirituality. Taking an expansive view of the harp through history and music, the essays individually engage with the variety of ways in which the harp has been interpreted and implicated in Irish culture, politics and music from the ninth century to the present day. This book presents an in-depth and fascinating look at one of the quintessential embodiments of Irish culture, the Irish harp. Ciarán O'Cuinigeann, MA Community Music student 41 DECEMBER

Irish World Music Café The Irish World Music Café Global December Celebration took place on December 8th, 2016, to mark the many global festivities and celebrations which occur around this time. Bodhi day, the Winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Mawlid and International Human Rights Day among others were marked with songs, poems, food and drink. The event also marked the launch of a new directory of interdisciplinary research on immigration & integration by researchers at MIC and UL. The music café is part of an Irish Research Council funded research project on ‘Singing and Sustainable Social Integration’ led by Professor Helen Phelan of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance with partners Doras Luimní, Music Generation, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Presentation Primary School and Central Buildings Community Gallery and Cafe.

Arrival of the Irish World Academy Gamelan On the 6th of December, 2016, the Irish World Academy welcomed the arrival of a set of musical instruments known as a gamelan. A gamelan is an Indonesian ‘orchestra’ composed of approximately 60 tuned percussion instruments - bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two- stringed fiddle. A great variety of regional styles of gamelan can be found in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia, with the dynamic Balinese style and the refined Javanese style being the best known in the West. The Academy gamelan is Central Javanese in origin and was commissioned on behalf of the University of Limerick by the Chair of Performing Arts, Professor Mel Mercier. The instruments were hand-forged by Pak Saroyo, a master gong-smith, at his forge in the Sukoharjo Regency, near the court city of Surakarta (Solo), in the Summer of 2016. Pak Saroyo named the gamelan Sekar Arum - Fragrant Flower. Sekar Arum has now taken up permanent residence in the Irish World Academy building. In the months ahead passers-by can expect to hear its distinctive sounds wafting through the open windows of the Seomra Gamelan and out into the soundscape of the University. Within the Academy, the gamelan IRISH WORLD MUSIC CAFÉ will provide undergraduate and postgraduate students with opportunities to broaden their musical horizons, deepen their cross-cultural understanding and enhance their artistic creativity through the study of traditional Javanese music and dance, and the performance and composition of new, contem- porary music for gamelan. The Academy gamelan will be introduced to the wider UL, Limerick and regional communities at the launch and first pubic performance of Sekar Arum on the 15th of February, 2017.

42 Christine Mulcahy and Cian O'Mahony, BA Irish Music and Dance students Photograph © Maurice Gunning 43 44 BEALACH COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS

Elikya Open Rehearsal Photograph © Maurice Gunning 45 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH CRUINNIÚ IONAD NA CRUITE THE NATIONAL DANCE ARCHIVE OF IRELAND MAOIN CHEOIL AN CHLÁIR

Cruinniú National Dance Archive of Ireland Maoin Cheoil an Chláir Cruinniú, the Irish World Academy’s outreach initiative, sees The National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI) at the In partnership with the Vocational Education Committee of staff from all walks of life at UL engaging in free weekly classes/ Glucksman Library, University of Limerick was founded in 2009 County Clare and with the assistance of Clare County Council sessions of Irish traditional music. The sessions have been with a seed funding award from the Arts Council of Ireland. and Ennis Urban District Council, Maoin Cheoil an Chláir (MCC) facilitated by a number of players within the group and by The NDAI works in partnership with the Irish World Academy of is a local cooperative model serving the needs of County Clare students of the Irish World Academy. All members of UL staff Music and Dance and Dance Research Forum Ireland. from its Ennis headquarters in the 18th-century Erasmus Smith are welcome to participate, so come along if you fancy a tune! School building owned by the Sisters of Mercy. MCC celebrated its The NDAI is devoted to the collection, preservation and Sessions take place at the Irish World Academy from 1pm to twentieth anniversary in 2014. With members of faculty from promotion of dance in Ireland and is accessible to all. It chronicles 2pm every Wednesday in Room IW2.51. the Irish World Academy included on its board (Professor Mícheál dance in Ireland in all its manifestations (contemporary dance, Ó Súilleabháin and Jean Downey along with former board traditional step dancing, set dancing, ballet, social dance, For more information, contact Noel McCarthy at member Professor Helen Phelan), MCC enjoys a special relation- urban dance and world dance) and conveys an understanding of [email protected], telephone 061 213326. ship with the Academy. MCC Director Hans Boller is a graduate the different processes and practices of creating, performing of the Academy’s MA Ritual Chant and Song programme. MCC is and writing about dance in Ireland. Ionad na Cruite a member of the Clare Music Education Partnership, which was (Irish Harp Research Centre) For further information, please contact the NDAI founding awarded €450,000 from Music Generation (funded by U2 and The director, Dr Catherine Foley, at [email protected], Ireland Funds) in 2014. Ionad na Cruite was established at the Irish World Academy telephone +353 61 202922 or Special Collections Librarian For more information on Maoin Cheoil an Chláir, of Music and Dance in 2013 and was formally launched with a Ken Bergin at [email protected], telephone +353 61 213158. email [email protected] or call +353 65 6841774. special performance by The Chieftains. Ionad na Cruite aims Alternatively, email [email protected] or telephone +353 61 202690. to stimulate scholarship, performance and advanced research Visit the NDAI at www.nationaldancearchiveireland.ie. on the Irish harp. It also aspires to being a national and Access to the National Dance Archive of Ireland is by international centre of excellence for the Irish harp at appointment only. 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.

46 DANCE LIMERICK IONAD NA NAMHRÁIN ACADEMOS

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. ACADEMOS ACADEMOS is a string ensemble comprising students of the MA Classical String Performance led by members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO). During their two-year programme, students in ACADEMOS attend classes from ICO leaders and engage in ensemble work with orchestral members. Please refer to the ACADEMOS entry on page 62 for more details on the ensemble.

Kelsey Schuhle, Brendan McCarthy and Conor Broderick performing at the Irish World Academy 47 48 CÓNAÍ ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, performing at the Songs of Rebellion concert in St. Mary’s Cathedral Photograph © Maurice Gunning 49 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA THE CHIEFTAINS FIDGET FEET AERIAL DANCE COMPANY

Irish World Academy Residency Outside the concert hall, the Irish Chamber Orchestra inspires Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company and supports communities with a vitality unmatched by other The Irish World Academy is often used as a venue for ensembles. Its Sing Out with Strings initiative provides free Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company is Irish World Academy Dance performance rehearsal, as well as performance project singing, song writing, violin, viola and cello tuition to 300 Company in Residence. Originating in Donegal, Fidget Feet is development. Beyond commercial use, the Academy would like children throughout Limerick city – developing not only Ireland’s leading aerial dance theatre company and is inter- to support such artistic work by providing facilities at a reduced musical - but key life skills by using music as a tool for tangible nationally renowned for creating spectacular indoor and outdoor price, or free, and to present this as an Academy residency. If social change. productions for both theatres and festivals. The company’s you would like to propose the development of a performance dynamic work draws on dance, aerial circus, theatre, music and project for an Academy residency, please contact: The ICO is central to the delivery of the MA Classical Strings video art. Founded in 2004 by choreographer Chantal McCormick Performance at the University of Limerick. Katherine Hunka is (Donegal) and musician Jym Daly (Cork), Fidget Feet work with Academy Administrator Paula Dundon at Artistic Director of this programme and leads the ACADEMOS an outstanding production team to create productions that are [email protected]. project where students perform and tour with members of both original and fresh. Irish World Academy Artists in Residence the ICO and musicians from other third level institutions in Ireland. This semester the project takes place from January Elements of aerial dance have already begun to permeate 31s - Febuary 4th, culminating with three performances in aspects of the curricular offerings of the Irish World Academy’s Irish Chamber Orchestra Limerick, Cork and Dublin and a recording session RTE Lyric programmes. The Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) is Ireland’s finest chamber fm. The Irish Chamber Orchestra is resident at the Irish World Irish World Academy Artist, orchestra, combining high quality performances with an Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick and expansive artistic vision. Virtuosic, innovative and creative, the is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. University of Limerick ICO’s unique collaborative approach and its rich relationship The Chieftains On January 26th,2016, the University of Limerick announced a with an array of creative partners continues to blaze a trail. new three-year arts patronage award through the Irish World The ICO continues to work with Gábor Takács-Nagy (Principal Interacting with up to 80 student musicians and dancers Academy of Music and Dance. The award, entitled Irish World Artistic Partner) and Jörg Widmann (Principal Guest Conductor/ from Irish World Academy programmes, The Chieftains Academy Artist, University of Limerick and worth €60,000, will Artistic Partner), seeking to expand audiences with their continue their iconic association with the Academy through facilitate the creative process of selected artists across a combined vision. Under the leadership of Katherine Hunka, their occasional concerts at UL. In memory of their late harper three-year period. The Irish World Academy is grateful to the the orchestra is one of Ireland’s busiest touring ensembles, Derek Bell, The Chieftains Fund has been in operation at the University of Limerick Foundation (ULF) for its generous financial both nationally and internationally. Academy for a number of years. It is through this fund that support of this initiative. the Academy launched Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research In the 2016/17 season, Gábor concentrates on core works The first artist to receive the award is County Clare fiddler, Martin Centre, in 2013. from the string orchestra repertoire; whilst Jörg continues to Hayes, who commenced his three-year association with the Irish champion the many facets of Mendelssohn, alongside his World Academy in January, 2016. own innovative works.

50 THE MARTIN HAYES QUARTET (MARTIN HAYES, LIZ KNOWLES, DOUG WIESELMAN AND DENNIS CAHILL)

Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most extraordinary talents to emerge in the world of Irish traditional music. His unique sound, his mastery of the fiddle, his acknowledgement of the past and his shaping of the future of the music combine to create an astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. He has drawn musical inspiration from sources as diverse as the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, the Spanish viola da gamba master Jordi Savall and the jazz genius John Coltrane, but remains grounded in the music he grew up with in his own locality in Feakle, Co. Clare. The music Hayes learned at home from his late father, P. Joe Hayes, the renowned founder/leader of the long-lived Tulla Céilí Band, profoundly influenced his musical accent and ideas. His latest performing project is with The Gloaming, a band that has burst on the music scene with a rare combination of Irish tunes, ancient sean-nós song, brave explorations and exhilarating and explosive medleys with a distinctive new sound. The virtuosic fiddles of Hayes and Ó Raghallaigh, the soaring voice ofÓ Lionáird, Cahill's minimalist guitar work and Bartlett's sparse, yet insistent, piano deliver an astonishing, combustible and unforget- table listening experience, deeply rooted in the tradition but moving into an entirely new musical dimension of rhythm, melody and texture. The first part of Hayes’s residency began in 2016 and included work with the Martin Hayes Quartet and with members Liz Knowles (fiddle), Doug Wieselman (bass clarinet), Dennis Cahill (guitar).

51 Martin Hayes and Colin Dunne, performing at the Blas 20th Anniversary Concert in the University Concert Hall 52 Photograph © Maurice Gunning TAIGHDE RESEARCH

53 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH Founded as a research centre in 1994, the Irish World Academy has grown to include a vibrant and practice-based. These fora include meetings, undergraduate and taught postgraduate suite of programmes but has remained commit- seminars, symposia, conferences, workshops, concerts, ted to its initial vision of being a home for researchers in music, dance and other performing exhibitions, and festivals. arts disciplines. Research at the Academy is conducted by faculty, doctoral and postdoctoral Performing Arts Practice Research Cluster: candidates and artists-in-residence. Faculty at the Academy lead and contribute to a number The Performing Arts Practice Research Cluster of interdisciplinary research clusters including: brings together artist-scholars from all universi- ties in Ireland who are interested in advocating for Arts and Health Research Cluster: emy to host a number of significant international arts practice research in the performing arts. The The Arts and Health research cluster was formed conferences: The International Council for Traditional group is primarily engaged in research towards the by researchers interested in the relationship and Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology; a development of national policy around arts practice interaction arts and health. The cluster aims to Joint Forum of the Society for Ethnomusicology research for performers, as well as holding shared create a hub for networking and collaboration and the ICTM; and, largest of these, the upcoming events to profile member research. The current between academics and practitioners in this field, biennial World Conference of the ICTM. steering group includes faculty from the Irish World facilitate collaborative research between arts and Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick; Immigration & Integration Research Cluster: This health disciplines and to promoted and develop the School of Music and Theatre, University College research cluster is an interdisciplinary space for interdisciplinary research between humanities Cork; Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway; the research around issues concerning immigration and STEM experts. The cluster welcomes a diverse Department of Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary and integration. There is research being carried out array of theoretical perspectives and research Immaculate College and the Department of Drama, by researchers in this area in every faculty in the methodologies. To date there are 30 members, Trinity College, Dublin. from a diverse range of academic disciplines includ- University of Limerick. The cluster is currently ing music, dance, medicine, nursing and midwifery, developing a directory of such projects for use by Singing and Social Inclusion Research Cluster: physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, visual NGOs and other research bodies. Arising from the Irish Research Council funded ‘Sing- art, law, sociology and history as well as service user ing and Sustainable Social Inclusion’ project, the Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster: representatives. Singing & Social Inclusion cluster brings together The Irish Traditional Dance Research Cluster researchers in community music ethnomusicol- ETHNOS Research Cluster: consists of scholars and performers of Irish ogy, Irish traditional song, music education music The Academy is home to a wealth of expertise traditional dance who are committed to engage- therapy, ritual studies and arts practice research to in ethnographic theory and method as applied ment with living traditions, archival and scholarly support interdisciplinary research around issues of to dance and music practice. It is central to the documentation, and reflexive inquiry into contemporary singing & inclusivity. research of faculty and postgraduate research choreographic exploration and performance. students in ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology The research cluster aims to provide a diverse TradSong Research Cluster: as well as key in arts practice research, ritual range of fora for the support, development The mission of the TradSong research cluster is to studies, and Irish music and dance. The collec- and dissemination of Irish traditional dance provide an academic forum for sharing expertise tive energy of this cluster has enabled the Acad- expertise and research - both academic-based on Irish traditional song and related performance

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(2014) ‘Reconstructing the medieval Irish harp’, Report2012.pdf [accessed10November 2015]. http://www.galpinsociety.org/galpinextras/GS_Dooley_ College Trinity the of available:Harp 2012',www.galpinsociety.org, Measurements the on 'Report (2014) eds., lor,H., Law- and S. Joyce, in Giraldus' of time the in harp 'The (2016) Dooley, Paul Review, 20:1,121-137. Hibernia New Orientalism’, Music ‘Irish M., Noone, with (2016) Cambridge ScholarsPublishing,65-88. TransatlanticPerspectives, and European S., Rosso, and Ireland eds., M. Dossena, of in Chicago' of Music City the O'Neill's and (1903) Francis century: nineteenth long the of end the at dissemination music traditional 'Irish (2016) Perspectives, London: Rowman andLittlefield. 67,107–42. ety Journal, 21) ih ae, . Pwr M, eeex E ad ar J., Carr, and E. Devereux, eds., M., Power, A., Hayes, with (2016) Cemeteries”, Aileen Dillane, European Genoa, Ducale, Palazzo Italy. Dancer andperformer. around Supported by Creative Europe. March, New 4th opening, Life: Creations tour Exhibition Cultural & and Death Audiences of “Culture SYMBOLS: (2016) de Brún,Jennifer Limerick MilkMarket. December, 27 Idioh, David musician Nigerian with performer (2014) 11 April,LimerickCity,BedfordRow. (2015) OurCity, OurCulture, choreography andperformer, Africa Day. Dance, and Music of Academy World Irish May, 26 performer, (2015) Courtney, Mikey RAS 198-215. Ethnomusicology, in Seminar European the with association in Press, University Aberdeen Aberdeen: Ingram. Catherine and of Examination Elphinstone Institute Occasional Publications 9, eds. Ian Russell Music An Irish Costello’s Session: Session’ in the at the Authenticity and in Participation ‘Foreigners (2013) Cotter, Pamela Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nineteenth Long the in Dissemination Knowledge Public and Political Discourses of Migration: International International Migration: of Discourses Political and Public choreography and and choreography Cabaret, Carnival Winter Limerick (A Coffee World), choreography and choreography World), Coffee (A Alem YeBuna Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology, Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 32–56. pp. Press, Courts Four Dublin: Studies, Harp Newcastle-upon-Tyne: The Galpin Soci-

Irish Harp,Dublin:Four Courts Press. O’Sullivan’s Donal (2016) ‘TheRealisationofaLong-Cherished Project’: the IrishHarp,Dublin:Four Courts Press. (Ed.s) Helen Lawlor, with (2016) Joyce, Sandra Munich: BayerischeAkademie derWissenschaften. (eds). Tremp Ernst Nievergelt, Ebersperger, Birgit Reusser, Andreas Bernasconi Marina Gamper, Rudolf in: Exemplars' Liturgical its of and Saint-Jacques, Production at Scriptorium Dominican 'The (2015) Giraud, Eleanor Theatre 1,IrishWorld Academy ofMusicandDance. 2016, Lady’s April 18 Our Tipperary, Co. Templemore, from School, Secondary students with collaboration in performed (2016) Garry, Fran famine', Traditiones, 44/2,135-148. efrac: n xmnto of examination and an representation performance: dancing, step memory, 'Cultural (2015) 141-160. Ireland', of Theatre Folk National the Tíre, Siamsa and of dance step traditional re-presentation heritage: and negotiation tourism, 'Cultural (2015) Dances. SoloDVD. Performances andTutorials. Step and Dances Set Solo Traditional Irish Damhsa: Stór (2016) Foley, E. Catherine decantet hybernicorum cetus[CD], ensembleperformer. IWA001. Cantoral. (2014) Ensemble Performer. etvl f oa Msc rm h Mdl Ages, Middle Irish, Wandering the the of Songs from Music Premier Vocal Romane/France’s of Route Festival et Voix Festival Le (2015) Genoa, Cemeteries”, Ducale, Italy. Composer andperformer. Supported by Palazzo Creative Europe. European March, 4th opening, around New tour Exhibition Life: Creations Cultural and & Death Audiences of “Culture SYMBOLS: (2016) Fahey, Hannah Dance, University ofLimerick,12thOctober. and Music of Academy World Irish Performance, Practice in Arts PhD performer, and composer Wheel: Spinning The (2016) Cliodhna Donnellan, a uia ehorm witn and written ethnodrama musical a Connected, /Laetabundus Aloud!/Laetabundus Sing Irish Joyous the Let Carolan’, in Harp Studies: Perspectives on the the on Perspectives Studies: Harp Carolan’,in Scriptorium: Wesen, Funktion, Eigenheiten. Eigenheiten. Funktion, Wesen, Scriptorium: vol. 47, 47, vol. Traditional YearbookMusic, for September 13, Surburg, Alsace. Alsace. Surburg, 13, September Harp Studies: Perspectives on on Perspectives Studies: Harp and the great great the and Tearmann Chant and and Chant 55

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(2016) 'The Fianna to Liam Mellowes', setting of a text by Count- Company. Showcased at the Irish Arts Centre, New York City, while dancing and how they view themselves as dancers’, MA in ess Markievicz: the 1916 Song Project; National Library, Dublin 16-29 May 2016. Dance from the University of Limerick. (April 15); the Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire (April 22); (2016) Intimate Infinity (for piano). Opening theme of the film Melin, Mats Séamus Ennis Centre, Fingal (April 23); Church of Ireland, ‘The Cheese Box’. Commissioned by IsleBoro Productions, (2015) One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dancing Tradition Athboy (April 30); Nun's Island Theatre, Galway (May 7); the Limerick. Screened at Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May and Transmission, Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Athenaeum, Enniscorthy (May 14). Supported by the Arts 2016. Press. Council, the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the National Mateos Morante, Rebeca (2014) The Piper’s Schottische, choreography of a new social cou- Library of Ireland. (2016) Inbeatween. Ensemble choreography, MA Irish ple dance [online], available: http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4362 Keegan, Niall Traditional Dance Performance Final Presentation, Irish World [accessed 23 May 2016]. First performed in South Uist, Scotland (2016) Children of the Revolution, solo and ensemble Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, 5 May at the Ceolas Summer School. performances, Limerick City Gallery of Art, December 2nd. Sup- 2016. (2013) ‘Step dancing in Cape Breton and Scotland: contrasting ported by Limerick City and County Council. (2015) ‘La diosa que habito en el espejo: formación de un contexts and creative processes’, MUSICultures. Special Issue: (2016) Oileán/Island (composed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin), cuerpo que baila’ in Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Atlantic Roots and Routes, Sparling, H., Szego, K. and Wilkinson, soloist with National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, performance Análisis Textual, Segovia, Spain: Trama & Fondo [online], F., eds., 40(1), 35-56. in University Concert Hall, Limerick, July 22nd; National available: ww.tramayfondo.com/actividades/vii-congreso/las_ Mercier, Mel Opera House, Wexford, July 23rd; National Concert Hall, diosas/downloads/mateos-moranterebeca. (2016) The Tempest (Shakespeare) Produced by the Salzburg Dublin, July 24th. pdf [accessed 23 May 2016]. Festival in July/August 2016. Original Music and Sound Design (2015) Traditional Music and Irish Society: (2015) Shadow. Duet choreography, MA Irish Traditional Dance by Mel Mercier. Directed by Deborah Warner, The Tempest (Der Historical Perspectives by Dowling, M., reviewed in The Journal Performance Final Presentation, Irish World Academy of Music Sturm) was played in a German translation. of Music [online], available: http://journalofmusic.com/. and Dance, University of Limerick, 11 May 2016. (2016) RTÉ Documentary on One: Peadar Mercier Radio Kjeldsen, Svend McCaffrey, Tríona documentary written and narrated by Mel Mercier. Produced by (2016) ‘Mancunian Irish: identity, cultural intimacy and (2016) with Edwards, J. ‘Music therapy helped me get back Mel Mercier and Liam O’Brien. First broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 musical hybridization: urban ethnomusicology and cultural map- doing”: using interpretative phenomenological analysis to on 10 September 2016. ping’ in Ross, S. and Sweers, B., eds., Urban Ethnomusicology and illuminate the perspectives of music therapy participants in (2016) King Lear (Shakespeare) Produced by the Old Vic, Cultural Mapping, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. mental health services’, Journal of Music Therapy,53(2), 121-48. London, in November 2016. Original Music and Sound Design (2016) ’En transkulturel rejse. Fra Hindustani musik til irsk (2015) with Edwards, J. ‘Meeting art with art: arts-based by Mel Mercier. Directed by Deborah Warner, with Glenda Jack- traditionel musik. Fra tabla til bodhrán. Introduktion til dadra methods enhance researcher reflexivity in research with son in the role of King Lear. taal, ektaal, keherwa taal og teentaal’, Roskilde: Lirum Larum mental health service users’, Journal of Music Therapy, 52(4), Moss, Hilary Forlag. 515-32. (2016) Moss, Hilary. Arts and Health: A New Paradigm. Voices: (2016) ’Sticking i dobbelt-tempo for sammensat tid: 9/8’, (2015) with Ledger, A. ‘Questions for developing arts-based A World Forum for Music Therapy, [S.l.], v. 16, n. 3, sep. 2016. Roskilde: Lirum Larum Forlag. research in music therapy’, Journal of Music Therapy, 52(4), 441- ISSN 1504-1611. Available at:

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Eric Kings, musical director of the Elikya Choir, performing at the Irish World Academy 57 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH MA Contemporary Dance students Photograph © Maurice Gunning 58 decantet hybernicorum cetus [CD], managing director and and director managing ensemble performer. IWA001. [CD], cetus hybernicorum decantet Cantoral. (2014) Director andensembleperformer. Irish, Wandering the Ages, Middle the from Music Vocal of tival (2015) Le Festival Voix et Route Romane / France’s Premier Fes- Lawlor, Heleneds.HarpStudies,Four Courts Press,Dublin. and Sandra Joyce, Niamh in Súilleabháin Ó Lawless, Mícheál and NicGhabhann Aaron with Movements’ Four in Polyptych a Trolley: Shopping as Harp Irish the Aaron: of Harp ‘The (2016) Helen Phelan, (2015) ‘Bornto dance’, Centrepiece, Spring2015,18-20. Painter, Eli Lionáird (NationalConcert Hall,Dublin). BroadcastRTElyricfm. Ó Iarla Soloist Orchestra. Concert RTE Orches- Performance Symphony First tra. and Singer for Songs Sean-Nós Three (2013) Orchestra. Concert RTE the with composer the by performed by Alan Gilsenan with orchestral score by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, [Book/DVD/CD]publication edition documentary film the from (2014) Repeat broadcastMarch2015. Súilleabháin Ó Televisedpiano. concert 2015. TG4 on broadcast January 16 on Mícheál conductor, Brophy David Orchestra, Concert RTE Limerick, Cathedral Mary’s St. Culture, of City al (2015) Ó Súílleabháin,Mícheál Education,of Musical Arts 1(1),74-86. the University of Limerick', in Mangeni, P., ed., Pan African Journal of higher learning: a case study of the BA Irish Music and Dance at institution an in studies music 'Contextualizingtraditional (2014) of AcademyMusic andDance. World Irish the at 2014 May 8th tor/performer), (direc performance music Academic Ensemble African 'Libation' (2014) LAMBERT LAP Publishing. Saarbrücken: Education', Classroom Effective Music For Composition: 'Performance (2014) O'dyke, Nzewi Pioneers and Aviators:and Pioneers Aviation.CenturyIrish A of Limited Closing concert of Limerick Nation- Limerick of concert Closing Luimneach. i Lumen e te oos rs Sn Aloud! /Laetabundus Sing Irish Joyous the Let September 13, Surburg, Alsace. Managing Managing Alsace. Surburg, 13, September Chant and Songs of of Songs and Chant -

ca tngahc Hungarica, Ethnographica ethnochoreology’, applied Acta in place Martin’s ‘György (2015) 137-165. in Central Transylvania’, JournalofFolklore Dance Research, 53(1), and Music Traditional Practice: Discourse and Ethnic-National Scholarship in of Legacies ‘Confronting (2016) Quigley, Colin h [xod Hnbo o Msc Revivals, Music of Handbook [Oxford] The eds., J., Hill, and C. Bithell, in music’ Transylvanianband string of revival and movement house dance Hungarian ‘The (2014) AkademiaKiado. 2015, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music and and (2016) Music of Academy World Dance. Irish Theatre, Tower June 2015, 10 Orchestra. Chamber Irish the and Dance of and Music Academy World Irish the by Galvone Supported and School. School National National Mary’s St of pupils featuring (2015) Turner, Kathleen live onTG4 2015. on22February Gradam ensemble’s the Comharcheoil (MusicalCollaboration Award) 2015.Broadcast celebrate to House Opera Cork at (2015) of the field’,SEMStudentNews:4,TheSocietyforEthnomusicology. state the ethnomusicology, and education ‘Music (2015) tribute Tradition, the Radio 1. at concert RTÉ on the live a Broadcast 2016. April of 3 on Hall Concert part National of as Riada Ó Out Seán to performance Home: Imagining (2016) Talty, Jack Oxford University Press. einl utrl ete s at f h Ergl rs Festival and Ceol Arts naCoille SummerSchool,15July2015. Errigal the of part as Centre Culturalthe Regional in (fiddle) Harper Bríd with (piano) recital Music (2015) (PhD), thesis unpublished Orality, University ofLimerick. Virtual a Approaching (2016) Ward, Francis November Dance. and 8 Music of AcademyWorld Irish One, Theatre 2016, image. and song, story, incorporating inquiry, narrative through journey research a demonstrating mance, The Lines Between Us; an Arts Practice Research perfor rdm ei TG4, Ceoil Gradam Processes of Transmission in Irish Traditional Music: Music: Traditional Irish in Transmission of Processes interactive community music performance performance music community interactive Ubuntu, performance with Ensemble Ériu Ériu Ensemble with performance 01, 1-2. Budapest: 111-120. 60(1), 180-200. Oxford: Oxford: 180-200. -

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Donal Lunny, Zoe Conway and Mairtin O’Connor, performing with BA Irish Music and Dance students at the Irish World Academy Photograph © Maurice Gunning 61 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH CANTORAL VOICE ENSEMBLE ACADEMOS

Cantoral Voice Ensemble ACADEMOS Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University of Led by members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western plainchant ACADEMOS is a string ensemble comprising the postgraduate and early polyphony and has a particular interest in medieval students of the MA Classical String Performance. The full-time, Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish World Academy, the two-year programme is offered jointly by the ICO and the ensemble had its first international appearance in 2009 at the Irish World Academy. Students in ACADEMOS interact with Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Other highlight performances the ICO throughout the programme – they attend individual include Imbolc, a programme of chant and Irish language song classes taught by ICO leaders, and engage in ensemble work for St. Bridget, which premiered in New York in 2010, and a with orchestral members. Classes, workshops, seminars and programme for the Galway Early Music Festival entitled … sed performances with a host of international performers, cond- diabolus irrisit (‘… but the devil laughed’) in the same year. In uctors and directors, with whom the ICO works on a regular April 2011, Cantoral sang for the Dalai Lama during his visit to basis, are a feature of the programme. Members of ACADEMOS Ireland, and in April 2012, the ensemble conducted a public semi- have regular opportunities to engage with acclaimed ICO nar and a concert of Irish medieval music for Holy Week at the community music public outreach programmes. Graduates Yale Institute of Sacred Music. In 2013, Cantoral performed again of the programme are invited to apply for a place on the Irish at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and at Harvard University World Academy’s innovative PhD Arts Practice (a four-year and the University of Notre Dame in the USA. In 2015, Cantoral structured doctoral programme) while maintaining ongoing performed at France's most prestigious early music festival, contact with the ICO. Festival Voix & Route Romane. The ICO resides in its own specially designed expansive building Cantoral Artistic Director Catherine Sergent is an acclaimed beside the Irish World Academy in a wooded area on the banks Paris-based singer who has performed and recorded extensively of the River Shannon on UL’s north campus. The location includes with several early-music ensembles, including Discantus and the university’s Graduate Entry Medical School, Health Sciences Obsidian. Catherine is a chant tutor for the MA Ritual Chant and building, superb sports facilities and three modern student Song programme at the Academy. The singers in Cantoral are villages. graduates, doctoral students and members of faculty at the Irish World Academy and are from Ireland, France, the United States and Mexico. 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 Paul Brady, performing at the Blas 20th Anniversary Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Concert in the University Concert Hall 62 Photograph © Maurice Gunning SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS

63 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH Scholarships at the Irish World Academy

The Pádraig Mac Aodha Memorial Scholarships RTÉ Lyric FM Scholarships Stepping Stones Scholarships Ken Barrett Leisurewear – Postgraduate The RTE Lyric FM Scholarships were established in 1999 in The Stepping Stones Scholarship fund is available for study on Scholarships support of the MA Classical String Performance at the Irish taught MA programmes at the Irish World Academy. Among World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. other criteria, priority is given to applicants whose projects The Pádraig Mac Aodha Memorial Scholarships, to the value The aim of the Scholarship is to support young talented string resonate with the spirit of the Stepping Stones initiative: equality of €5000 per recipient, are awarded annually to students of players who wish to study at UL. Since the Scholarship was of arts practices, interdisciplinary vision and the desire to build the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance. Selection criteria established in 1999, it has been awarded to students from bridges between arts practices. The two types of scholarships focuses on academic merit, evidence of dance excellence and Ireland, Australia, Malaysia, China, Hungary, Romania, Spain, are: suitability for this performance programme. The Irish World Italy and the US. Recipients may be required to engage in work Academy is extremely grateful to Ken Barrett Leisurewear for The Stepping Stones Scholarships for Non-EU Students are at the Academy, aimed towards professional development providing these scholarships. available to internationa students on taught MA programmes while making a valuable contribution to Academy life. at the Academy. Students must have a demonstrable record Plassey Campus Centre Scholarship EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in a performance and/or academic specialisation relevant to a As part of its commitment and support of the cultural programme of study at the Academy. EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997 experience at University of Limerick, particularly in the to commemorate the centenary of EMI records. It is an inde- General Stepping Stones Scholarships These scholarships are performing arts, Campus Life Services is offering a pendent charity supported by the Universal Music Group. It is open to all applicants to taught MA programmes at the scholarship to the value of €5000 towards accommodation now the single largest sponsor of specialist performing arts Academy. There are three €1,000 general scholarships available. to an undergraduate student of the Irish World Academy of colleges in England and has created vital bursaries to assist Music and Dance, University of Limerick. This scholarship is Further information on criteria and application procedures for music students at music colleges. In 2005, an annual bursary only available for applicants of the BA Performing Arts due to all scholarships is available at: www.IrishWorldAcademy.ie became available to students of Community Music, under 25 commence in September 2017. and born in the UK or Ireland, at the Irish World Academy. Campus Life Services aims to support students in residence to In certain instances, Academy programmes other than Commu- enjoy the best student living experience and get the best out nity Music may be considered. of campus life.

64 AILEEN DILLANE MARY WYCHERLEY HELEN PHELAN IAN BASCOMBE SHANNON BURNS

Arts Council of Ireland Awards: Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Scholarship and Mary Wycherley Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Ian Bascombe Award Recipients Mary Wycherley is Limerick dancer-in-residence 2015-2017, PhD candidate (ethnomusicology) Ian Bascombe is the recipient in association with Dance Limerick and Limerick City & County of an IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship 2016 O’Donnell Research Fellowship in Irish Council. Awarded by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon, its Award. Ian is a tin whistle practitioner and teacher. His project Studies: Aileen Dillane purpose is to engage in a programme of work relevant to the aims to tell the ‘untold story’ of the tin whistle. He is investi- artist’s practice, and to develop sustainability in independent gating the instrument’s early mass-production in England, its Dr Aileen Dillane of the Irish World Academy was awarded dance activities in the region. In 2017, Mary will create a new journey to Ireland, and its dissemination, usage and ubiquity the 2016 O’Donnell Research Fellowship in Irish Studies by dance solo and engage in studio-based research pertaining to within this country. Ian’s interest in the tin whistle, within Irish Newman College, University of Melbourne, Australia. In early her interdisciplinary practice. The curation of the Light Moves traditional music, began in England in the 1990s. His studies at January 2016, Aileen undertook a five-week research project Festival of Screendance is a core aspect of the residency. The the Irish World Academy began in 2010 where he subsequently based on Miss Cecilia Curtin, a local chorister, soprano and festival was awarded Arts Council Festival and Events fund- graduated with a BA (1st Hons) in Irish Music and an MA (1st ethnic entrepreneur, who was active in Melbourne in the first ing in 2015 and 2016. Her residency initiated a programme of Hons) in Ethnomusicology. decades of the 20th century and whose performance life professional development entitled Open Futures, aimed at intersected with Irish-born Archbishop Mannix’s lengthy supporting local independent dance artists. Irish Research Council Government of Ireland episcopacy in Melbourne. Aileen presented her preliminary Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Shannon Burns findings at the Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar (MISS) series Irish Research Council New Foundations Originally from New York, trained as a hosted at Newman College by the Irish Studies Association of Award: Helen Phelan Shannon Burns Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ), and her research will be music teacher and studied the saxophone at Ithaca College. After published in the Australasian Journal of Irish Studies. Professor Helen Phelan was awarded the Irish Research Ithaca, she moved to Ireland to pursue a master’s degree in Council (IRC) New Foundations award for her research Ethnomusicology at the University of Limerick. Shannon has Since returning from Australia, Aileen has delivered confer- project Singing and Sustainable Social Integration: Towards an performed with the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, University ence papers on this topic at ICTM-Ireland at DCU (February) International Model of Best Practice. Bestowed by the IRC of Limerick Orchestra and Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra. and at ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) at the Uni- in association with Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non- She is a founding co-director of the Redemptorist Centre of versity of Notre Dame (March). Aileen was a consultant for the Governmental Development Organisations, the award offers Music, Limerick City, which provides access to music tuition Univeristy of Melbourne-produced documentary ‘Michael, scholars the opportunity to work with Irish-based NGOs for both adults and children. they’ve shot them’, which explores how Ireland’s 1916 Easter involved in international development. Singing and Sustainable Through her research, entitled Transmitting Music Theory: A Rising helped to shape political forces in Australia at a crucial Social Integration is a research project co-ordinated in Performative and Pedagogical Exploration of Teaching and time in its national history. partnership between the Irish World Academy and Doras Learning in a Higher Education Institution, Shannon aims to Luimní, the support group for refugees, asylum seekers O'dyke, Also in January of this year, Aileen was appointed an develop and test a performance-based curriculum for teaching Nzewi and new migrants in Limerick. The project builds on Honorary Fellow at the Conservatorium of Music, University of music theory to non-classical musicians and dancers at a the work of the HEA-supported multi-annual project Melbourne for the next three years and will continue to build higher education level. connections between the Academy and University of Melbourne. 'Sanctuary', which seeks to build bridges between higher education and new migrant communities in Ireland. 65 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE MUSIC AND DANCE OF ACADEMY WORLD IRISH RAS MIKEY COURTNEY CARRIE DIKE SHANE HOLOHAN MARY MC LAUGHLIN ANDREW O'GRADY AND SIOBHÁN NELLIGAN

Irish Research Council Government of Ireland and the Inishowen Folksong and Ballad Seminar. Through her MA in Ritual Chant and Song from the University of Limerick in Postgraduate Scholarship Award: RAS Mikey field research, Carrie hopes to demonstrate how the Irish addition to a BA in English and a PGCE from London Univer- Courtney model for sustaining the social life of Irish traditional singing sity. Her research, entitled Singing Between Worlds: Songs of can apply to the broader world of sustaining intangible cultural Otherworld Enchantment and Entrapment in the Irish Tradition, PhD Arts Practice candidate RAS Mikey (Michael) Courtney heritage. explores the interplay of Irish fairy-loreand Irish traditional holds an MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of sonfrom an ethnographic perspective. Limerick and a BFA in Modern Dance Performance from the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught, presented Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Shane Holohan and produced dance as well as other performing arts world- Music 2016/17 wide with his company, Fore I’m a Versatile Entertainer (F.I.V.E.) PhD Arts Practice candidate Shane Holohan’s research incorp- The 2016/17 EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Productions (www.fivedance.com). orates his background in three areas: as an experienced teacher Music was awarded to MA Community Music students Siobhán of English and art, as an integrative psychotherapist and as RAS’s current research, entitled Bridging Horizons: Embodied Nelligan, Andrew O’Grady and Kate Scales. a coach and choreographer of floor and aerial acrobatics and Cultural Understanding Through Dance: An Investigation into dance. the Development and Presentation of Ethio-Modern Dance, is Go Overseas 2016 Ireland Scholarship: grounded in ethnochoreology; His interdisciplinary study inves- Shane’s research considers the facilitation and documentation Celina Jaffe tigates the use of dance composition/ performance as a cultural of embodied creativity in high-level students of circus arts. In 2016, Celina Jaffe won a scholarship to do a master’s conduit. With an emphasis on Ethiopia, Ethio-modern dance is a Through ethnographic case study data gathered from degree at UL through the Go Overseas campaign, supported by movement study based on RAS’s amalgamated embodiment of international circus schools in Montreal, Stockholm and Education in Ireland. Hailing from Indiana, Celina was accepted global cultures, which he uses as a tool in his creative work as a Melbourne, Shane will develop a model of practice that he onto the MA Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish western urban-contemporary performing artist. will apply through two creativity residencies: (i) a two-week World Academy and then applied to Go Overseas Inc. to support residency using improvisational strategies to develop creativity her studies in Ireland. In her award-winning application, Celina and explore documentation practices for creative process and Irish Research Council Government of Ireland wrote that the Irish World Academy had an individualist (ii) a six week project with a group of students from the above Postgraduate Scholarship Award: Carrie Dike approach to learning and was recommended to her by international schools and with Irish circus practitioners and professors of dance and anthropology in her home state of Carrie Dike, PhD student in Ethnomusicology, received vocal artists, culminating in a public showing at the National Indiana. In her efforts, back home, to advance her goal of this award for her investigation into the social life of Irish Gallery of Ireland in August 2017. becoming a professional dancer and teacher, she has already traditional singing. Social singing and traditional song have founded a modern dance company, directed a youth long been a vital aspect of Irish musical life. Carrie’s thesis sets Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Post- company, performed with local professionals and taught dance out to investigate how traditional singing is being brought into graduate Scholarship Award: Mary Mc Laughlin to the community by establishing various outreach programmes. the 21st century, particularly within the context of the Irish Celina believes Ireland is the ideal country in which to further singing session. Her case studies on singing events in Ireland in- PhD Research candidate Mary Mc Laughlin is originally from her education because “its world-renowned musical culture clude two monthly singing sessions, the Ennis Singers Club and Co. Tyrone. She has lived, studied and worked as a singer holds the key to my research in dance as a catalyst for social The Night Before Larry Got Stretched, and two annual weekend and teacher in both London and California. In addition to a change”. festivals, The Clare Festival of Traditional Singing prestigious recording and performing career, she holds an 66 CELINA JAFFE MARIELA ARGÜELLO RETANA SALMA ATAYA HALA JABER JUSTIN OSIH MINTESINOT GETACHEW WOLDE

Stepping Stones Scholarship: Stepping Stones Scholarship: Justin Osih Mariela Argüello Retana Justin Osih received a Stepping Stones scholarship to study Mariela Argüello Retana is a contemporary dancer from Costa on the MA Ritual Chant and Song. Justin is a Benedictine monk Rica. Mariela received a Stepping Stones Scholarship (2016- from St. Benedict Priory, Ewu-Esan, Nigeria, a foundation of 2017), which supports her to attend the MA Contemporary Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland. In 2008-2009, at Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy. Coming to Keur Moussa Abbey, he learned to play the Kora, a 21-stringed Ireland for this programme is a significant step in her dance instrument from the harp family. It is used to accompany career, and during her studies she aims to deepen her psalms chanted in Ewu Monastery. Chant plays a vital role in the professional growth and expand her approach to her dance liturgical life of a monastery. Justin has come to study on the practice. MA Ritual Chant and Song in order to develop his proficiency in chant and promote the liturgical life of Ewu monastery. Stepping Stones Scholarship: Salma Ataya Stepping Stones Scholarship: Mintesinot received a Stepping Stones Scholarship (2016- Salma Ataya Getachew Wolde 2017) to attend the MA Contemporary Dance Performance. Salma is from Palestine and this scholarship supported her Mintesinot Getachew Wolde, a student on the MA to study abroad and engage in a master’s programme that Contemporary Dance programme, is the recipient of Stepping best supported her ambition. Having toured internationally Stones Scholarship (2016/2017). Mintesinot is a traditional for many years, she is now working on developing her own and contemporary trained dancer, from Ethiopia. During practice as a dance artist through solo and ensemble work. his time at the Irish World Academy, he aims to expand his technical and artistic skills to support him to develop his Stepping Stones Scholarship: Hala Jaber practice towards making new work. He is also interested in sharing and investigating his culture within a new context, PhD Arts Practice candidate Hala Jaber is a recipient of the engaging with other local and international students at the Stepping Stones scholarship. Originally from Bethlehem University. in Palestine, Hala trained as a classical flautist as well as a music teacher. She was introduced to and worked in the field of Community Music in Palestine. She came to Ireland to pursue a master’s degree in Community Music. Through her research, entitled 'An Arts Practice Investigation of Community Music In- terventions with Reference to Post-Conflict Forced Migration' Hala aims to explore ways in which community music may be beneficial for people in post-conflict situations.

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Stepping Stones Scholarship: Jacqui Dreessens Stepping Stones Scholarship: Felix Morgenstern Jacqui Dreessens is a community arts practitioner in chore- Felix Morgenstern is a percussionist and uilleann piper from ography and percussion, and a recipient of a Stepping Stones Berlin, Germany. Having immersed himself in the Berlin Irish Scholarship for the academic year 2016/17 in MA Ethno- music scene and Irish music festivals in Ireland from an early choreology. For the past 26 years, she has been lecturing in age, he moved to Limerick in 2012 to pursue a BA in Irish Music and developing Dance Education courses in early childhood, and Dance at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. primary and secondary Dance and Arts Education at Deakin While completing his undergraduate degree, Felix worked University, Australia. Jacqui co-founded Wild Moves Inter- with percussionist Jim Higgins and uilleann piper Blackie national in 1991 and has extensively studied dance styles O’Connell, furthering his career as a performer, and touring and drumming techniques of the African diaspora. This has with Irish dance productions in Europe, Russia and China. led to many exciting artist-in-residency programs in schools As a scholar, Felix gained an interest in Irish Music Studies, and communities in Australia, Africa and the Netherlands. focusing particularly on discourses surrounding music and ethnicity, identity and nationalism. As a student on the MA Stepping Stones Scholarship: Ethnomusicology programme at the Irish World Academy, Michelle L. O’Connor Felix is currently expanding his research on Irish Traditional Music in Germany and folk music in the German Democratic Michelle L. O’Connor from Oakland, California (USA), received Republic. a Stepping Stones scholarship to study on the MA Ritual Chant Stepping Stones Scholarship: Emma Langford and Song at the Irish World Academy. A medieval vielle player Stepping Stones Scholarship: Meaghan Haughian Emma Langford is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter from and fiddler, she has performed with The Boston Camerata, Limerick City. Her BA Voice and Dance studies at the Irish Algerian singer Moh Alileche, and at various Early Music Meaghan was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, World Academy, University of Limerick, led her to embark Festivals internationally. Her new Contra-dance band, TriTonic, Canada. She completed her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor on a solo musical career. Her vocal repertoire spans multiple featured at the New England Folk Festival, 2013 (NEFFA). of Education degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, genres including gregorian chant, Latin-American popular She enjoys playing fiddle for contra and English country followed by five years of music teaching in the Saskatchewan music and gospel music. Since entering her local music scene dance camps in the woods, as well as performing with Shira school system. In that time she has also been involved in in 2013, Emma has crowd-funded and recorded a six track Kammen’s Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to creating Saskatoon’s local Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann branch as EP, and toured Ireland extensively. In recent years, she has music on whitewater rafting trips. executive member, Irish language teacher, céilí dance caller, worked on community outreach projects and spearheaded a and musician. She has also been a member of Saskatoon- cultural programme with voluntary organisation 'Serve the Web: www.MichelleVielle.com based Irish band: The Residuals. She is interested in a City', which aims to bring live music to marginalised deeper exploration of music in different traditions around members of the local community. As a student on the MA the world, particularly in terms of performance practice, Community Music programme, Emma is developing her skills creative potential, and community education. in facilitation and group music-making, with a view to working in the community as a freelance Community Music practitioner. 68

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BA Irish Music and Dance MA Ethnomusicology MEd (Music) BA Voice and Dance Course Director: Dr Colin Quigley Course Director: Jean Downey BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Music) [email protected] [email protected] BA Performing Arts (Irish Traditional Dance) +353 61 202966 +353 61 213160 BA Performing Arts (Contemporary Dance) MA Festive Arts Professional MEd (Music) BA Performing Arts (Voice) Course Director: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Course Director: Jean Downey BA Performing Arts (World Music) [email protected] [email protected] Certificate in Music and Dance +353 61 202798 +353 61 213160 Director, Undergraduate Studies: Dr Niall Keegan Contact [email protected] MA Irish Dance Studies MA (Research) + 353 61 202465 Course Director: Dr Mats Melin Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/Faculty Member [email protected] or [email protected] MA Classical String Performance +353 61 202542 +353 61 202149 (in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra) Artistic Director: Katherine Hunka MA Irish Music Studies PhD Arts Practice Academic Leader: Niall Keegan Course Director: Dr Aileen Dillane (Structured Programme) Contact [email protected] [email protected] Programme Director: Professor Helen Phelan + 353 61 202465 + 353 61 202159 [email protected] +353 61 202575 MA Community Music MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance Course Director: Kathleen Turner Course Director: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain PhD (by dissertation) [email protected] [email protected] Enquiries: Relevant Supervisor/Faculty Member + 353 61 213762 +353 61 202470 or [email protected] +353 61 202149 MA Songwriting MA Irish Traditional Music Performance Course Director: Kathleen Turner Course Director: Dr Sandra Joyce Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional [email protected] [email protected] Music and Dance + 353 61 213762 +353 61 202065 Director: Pamela Cotter [email protected] MA Contemporary Dance Performance MA Music Therapy +353 61 202653 Course Director: Mary Wycherley Course Director: Dr Hilary Moss Contact [email protected] [email protected] +353 61 213464 +353 61 213122 MA Ethnochoreology MA Ritual Chant and Song Course Director: Dr Catherine Foley Course Director: Dr Eleanor Giraud [email protected]; +353 61 202922 Contact [email protected] + 353 61 234743 Matteo Haitzmann, from Austrian band 'Alma' performing at the Irish World Academy 70 Photograph © Maurice Gunning The Irish World Academy EU: INTERNATIONAL: Austria Australia continues to have a very Belgium Belarus strong international student Croatia Brazil profile. Since its inception in Czech Republic Canada Denmark Chile 1994, students from the Estonia China following countries have Finland Colombia France Costa Rica graduated from the Academy: Germany Ecuador Greece Ethiopia Hungary Georgia Ireland Ghana Italy India Netherlands Indonesia Poland Israel Romania Japan Slovakia Malaysia Slovenia Mexico Spain Nepal Sweden New Zealand UK Nigeria Norway Palestine Russia Singapore South Africa Taiwan Thailand Turkey USA Vietnam

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OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES University of Limerick Faculty of Science and Engineering, Interaction Design University of Limerick Visual Arts LM002 - Bachelor of Arts (In conjunction with Mary Centre (IDC): MA Interactive Multimedia Administrator: Yvonne Davis Immaculate College) The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a one-year, intensive Email: [email protected] Course Leader: Dr Michael Griffin course designed specifically for art and design graduates Phone: +353 61 213052 who are interested in pursuing studies that combine Phone: 00 353 61 213578 Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC) Email: [email protected] technological competence with design/artistic endeavour. Director: Jürgen Simpson Admissions Course Director: Mikael Fernstrom Email: [email protected] Tel: 00 353 61 202015 Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 202759 Email: www.ul.ie/admissions Phone: +353 61 202606 Website: www.dmarc.ie Website: www.idc.ul.ie Aonad na Gaeilge/UL Irish Language Centre Department of Music, Mary Immaculate College, UL Association of Irish Choirs Dr Deirdre Ní Loingsigh, Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge The Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) The Association of Irish Choirs supports and promotes Email: [email protected] offers music for the BEd and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes excellence in choral music in Ireland. It does this by Phone: +353 61 213463 as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other post- providing information and advice and presenting a range Ciara Considine, graduate degrees to doctoral level by research. Regular of programmes and activities designed to respond to the Oifigeach Margaíochta/Riarthóir Feidhmiúcháin choral and chamber concerts are a vital part of the life of needs of members, the wider choral community and the Email: [email protected] the department and there are close ties with the Irish World public. Phone +353 61 234754 Academy. MIC has a 500-seater performing arts venue, the Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre.ie). CEO: Dermot O’Callaghan Email: [email protected] Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Department); Phone: +353 61 202715 Dr Paul Collins; Dr Michael Murphy; Dr Gwen Moore; Administrator: Michelle Hynes Dr Ailbhe Kenny Phone: +353 61 234823 Departmental enquiries: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone +353 61 204540 Website: www.aoic.ie Website: www.mic.ul.ie

University of Limerick University Concert Hall LM122 - Bachelor of Science in Creative Media and University of Limerick, Ireland Interaction Design Common Entry Phone: +353 61 331549 Course Leader: Giuseppe Torre Website: www.uch.ie Phone: +353 (0) 61 23 4611 University of Limerick Arts Office Email: [email protected] Arts Officer: Patricia Moriarty Admissions Email: [email protected] Tel: 00 353 61 202015 Phone: +353 61 202130 Salma Ataya, MA Contemporary Dance student Email: www.ul.ie/admissions Back cover photo: Conal O’Kane, performing at the Irish World Academy 72 Photograph © Maurice Gunning Maurice Gunning MFA is an Irish photographer and documentary filmmaker. Appointed to the position of artist in residence at many cultural institutions, Gunning continues to exhibit internationally with support from the Irish Arts Council and Culture Ireland. He is currently a member of the advisory board of PhotoIreland. Since 2006, Gunning 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 resi- dency. His work was celebrated in 2010 in the form of an extensive permanent exhibition and catalogue at the Irish World Academy. Dance Ireland invited Gunning to be their artist in residence at Dance House, Dublin, where he created a new body of photographic work. This work was premiered in May 2013 with a large permanent solo show at Dance House. “We are delighted to commission such unique images from Maurice, a photographic artist of the highest quality whose work will add to our understanding of the beauty of movement.” (Paul Johnson, Dance Ireland Chief Executive). Gunning has worked extensively in Buenos Aires with the Argentine Irish Diaspora over a number of years. With support from Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy, he exhibited his solo show, Encuentro, at the Centro Cultural de Recoleta in Buenos Aires, in several UK galleries and at the Irish National Photographic Archive at the invitation of PhotoIreland Festival 2012. According to Sean O’ Hagan of The Guardian, the show “focuses on the Argentine-Irish community in Buenos Aires, descendants of the original immigrants that arrived there in the 1800s. Gunning’s poetic, fragmentary style is perfectly suited to the kind of visual storytelling that draws on memory, text and longing to at once evoke the past and the present”. In 2013, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest invited Gunning to be their first artist in residence. The work produced during this residency was premiered in Budapest at the Liszt Academy in 2015 with support from Culture Ireland, the Arts Council and the Irish Embassy. In 2014, Hope & Homes for Children (Romania) commissioned Gunning to create a book and exhibition, Family:Familie – Stories of Five Romanian Families, which were premiered in May of that year at the National Parliament and National Library, Bucharest. In 2015, Irish Aid and the Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade awarded Gunning the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, which enabled him to work in The Gambia on themes relating to the UNHCR Millennium Development Goals. Gunning’s first documentary, The Chile 33, filmed during 2010, was broadcast in over 50 countries to commemorate the first anniversary of the mining incident. Gunning continues to work internationally as a cinematographer with Swedish intergovernmental organisation The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). www.irishworldacademy.ie