Fuaim Festival Is a City-Wide Event Celebrating University College Cork's
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FUAIM Festival is a city-wide event celebrating University College Cork’s contribution to the musical life and cultural vibrancy of the city, county and region. The festival marks the fifth year of the hugely successful FUAIM performance programme at UCC and brings together artists, scholars and audiences to enjoy the 2014 diversity and uniqueness of Music at UCC. Celebrating Established in 1845, UCC is a beautiful, intimate and vibrant 5 Years of campus with first class learning and teaching facilities, world- renowned research units and a long tradition of independent FUAIM Music thinking. Situated at the heart of Cork, the university benefits at UCC from a 1,500-year-old cultural heritage with a 21st-century cutting edge lifestyle and an environment that nurtures and celebrates success and excellence in all disciplines. 21– 23 MARCH Hup! 3 / Friday 21 March 1.10 pm FUAIM GALA WITH Scullion, Julie Feeney, Loudest Whisper, Yurodny / Friday 21 March 8 pm FUAIM Futures: Electronic Music Club / Friday 21 March 11 pm Vanbrugh String Quartet WITH Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin AND Niall Vallely / Saturday 22 March 1.10 pm The Quiet Club / Saturday 22 March 3 pm TELEPHONES & GONGS Cork Gamelan Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert WITH Duke Special, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Colin Dunne, West Cork Ukulele Orchestra, Kate Ellis & Nick Roth / Saturday 22 March 8 pm FUAIM Futures: Pop World / Saturday 22 March 11 pm UCC Choir WITH John Spillane / Sunday 23 March 1.10 pm FUAIM Futures: Electronic Music Club / Hup! 3 / Friday 21 March Friday 21 March Hup! 3 celebrates the vitality of Irish traditional music at The FUAIM Futures Festival Club presents a late night session UCC and UL. Following the success of Hup! and Hup! 2, of new and original electronic music, composed and performed we are delighted to present some of the best current UL and by graduates and current students of Music at UCC, including UCC student traditional musicians and dancers in a joint the first performance by CAVE (Cork Audio Visual Ensemble), concert of new compositions and arrangements of old tunes. the School of Music and Theatre’s new multimedia music Music featured includes arrangements by Seán Ó Riada, tunes Ensemble. retrieved from UCC’s collection of Henebry and O’Neill wax cylinders, and rarely performed pieces from Fleischmann’s 11 pm Half Moon Theatre Sources of Irish Traditional Music. ADmissiON €10 TicKets FROM CORK OPERA HOuse, Emmet PLace WWW.CORKOPERAHOuse.IE 1.10 pm Aula Maxima, Main Campus, UCC BOX Office: 021 4270022 FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT FUAIM Gala Scullion, Julie Feeney, Loudest Whisper, Yurodny / Friday 21 March We welcome several of Ireland’s best-loved performers back to Cork for the FUAIM Gala concert. Scullion features the iconic voices of Sonny Condell and Philip King, and the bravura guitar playing of Robbie Overson. Loudest Whisper brings its unique blend of folk, rock and blues to the evening, and Yurodny performs its high energy, contemporary interpretations of traditional music from Eastern Europe. The profile of the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed composer and performer (and UCC Music graduate) Julie Feeney continues to grow on the international stage and we are delighted to welcome her back to Cork for this very special event. The evening will be introduced by RTÉ’s John Creedon and boradcast live on his Radio One show. 8 pm Cork Opera House ADMISSION €25/€20 CONC. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM CORK OPERA HOUSE, EMMET PLACE WWW.CORKOPERAHOUSE.IE BOX OFFICE: 021 4270022 New Music from UCC Vanbrugh String Quartet with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and Niall Vallely / The Quiet Club/ Saturday 22 March Saturday 22 March In this concert the Vanbrugh String Quartet presents a The Quiet Club is Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy. programme of music composed by UCC composers, past and Formed in 2006, the ensemble has met with considerable present. The quartet is joined by pianist, Mícheál Ó Súilleabhan success and has become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading to perform Must be More Crispy and Ave Maris Stella, and sound art improvisation groups. The Quiet Club continues by concertina player Niall Vallely to perform Ó Riada Room. to push the boundaries of sound making and listening by Other works include a movement from Aloys Fleischmann’s employing a wide range of sound-making devices, ranging String Quartet, David Cox’s String Quartet, and the premiere from stones, homemade instruments, electronics, amplified performance of the winning composition in the UCC String textures, theremins and field recordings. Quartet Competition 2013–14. 3 pm Sculpture Gallery, 1.10 pm Triskel Christchurch Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT – BOOKING ESSENTIAL FREE AFTERNOON CONCERT TICKETS FROM TRISKEL ARTS CENTRE WWW.TRISKELARTSCENTRE.IE / BOX OFFICE: 021 4272022 Telephones and Gongs Cork Gamelan Ensemble with Duke Special, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Colin Dunne, West Cork Ukulele Orchestra, Kate Ellis and Nick Roth 20th Anniversary Concert/ Saturday 22 March The Cork Gamelan Ensemble has collaborated with leading actors, poets, musicians and dancers to present some of the most memorable events in the FUAIM Music at UCC series. Under the direction of Mel Mercier, the Cork Gamelan Ensemble returns to the Cork Opera House stage to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Cork Gamelan. The instruments of the UCC Gamelan – a set of 66 bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, flute, spiked fiddle and zither - were made by Java’s greatest living gong-smith, Pak Tentrem Sarwanto, in the summer of 1994, and given the name Nyai Sekar Madu Sari (Venerable Flower of Honey Essence). For this special anniversary concert the ensemble is joined by a host of exciting guest perfomers to present a programme of new music and dance. 8 pm Cork Opera House ADMISSION €25/€20 CONC. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM CORK OPERA HOUSE, EMMET PLACE WWW.CORKOPERAHOUSE.IE BOX OFFICE: 021 4270022 FUAIM Futures: Pop World/ UCC Choir with John Spillane / Saturday 22 March Sunday 23 March The FUAIM Futures Festival Club presents a late night session In Spring 2013, John Spillane joined UCC Choir to present of world music, and original and classic pop, including one of the most memorable concerts to date in the FUAIM inventive world music fusion from the Claudia Schwab series. FUAIM Festival 2014 is delighted to welcome back John Ensemble, and tightly knit vocal harmonies, sophisticated and the choir to sing the festival to a close with a programme rhythms and harmonic textures from the ever-popular Collage, that features new choral arrangements of some of John’s most under its director Paul O Donnell. popular songs, including The Ballad of Patrick Murphy, All the Ways you Wander and The Mad Woman of Cork. Directed 11 pm Half Moon Theatre by Dr Eva McMullan and accompanied by Dr Rhoda Dullea, ADmissiON €10 TicKets FROM CORK OPERA HOuse, Emmet PLace the UCC choir is comprised of staff members from across the WWW.CORKOPERAHOuse.IE BOX Office: 021 4270022 university campus and students from the UCC School of Music and Theatre. 1 pm Foyer, Cork Opera House FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT fuaim n sound, noise.