Spring 2015 / Earrach 2015

Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick Dámh Chruinne Éireann Rince agus Ceol OF OUR TIMES Ollscoil Luimnigh COMHAIMSEARTHA Front cover photo: Marketa Formanova (Czech Republic) and Vivian Brodie Hayes (Ireland), MA Contemporary Dance Performance Photograph © Maurice Gunning

Niamh Ní Bhriain performing at the Waking St Munchin event at Dance Limerick Photograph © Maurice Gunning Contents

2 INTRODUCTION 4 FACULTY & STAFF AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY 6 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES 12 THE TOWER SEMINAR SERIES 20 LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES 24 SPECIAL EVENTS 28 AG FÉACHAINT SIAR / RECENT EVENTS AT THE ACADEMY 34 BEALACH / COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY 38 CÓNAÍ / ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 42 TAIGHDE / RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY 48 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES 52 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS Credits 56 CLÁR / IRISH WORLD ACADEMY PROGRAMMES 60 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES General Editor: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Text Editors: Gráinne O'Donovan and Eilín Mulcahy Photography: Maurice Gunning Design: Joe Gervin Space Booking Coordination: Melissa Carty Ag Féachaint Siar/Recent Events: Jennifer de Brún (Media Office) Tower/Logos Module Coordinator (Colloquium): Aileen Dillane Thursday Lunchtime Performance Coordinator: Ferenc Süzcs Tuesday Lunchtime Performance Coordinators: Sandra Joyce/Niall Keegan

Taighde/Research Editor: Helen Phelan CONTENTS

1 Introduction

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

In its earliest manifestations, the Academy was not a physical entity but an imagined to relocate the orchestra to the University of Limerick campus in accordance with space, often referred to playfully as a ‘bosca’, or ‘box’, by its founder-director, a recommendation from the Arts Council. This decision birthed a relationship Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. This bosca was no ordinary cube with six faces but a between the orchestra and the Academy, which has spanned two decades. magician’s box with false walls and escape hatches; a Pandora’s Box of curiosity, If the chamber orchestra was the first artistic-ensemble to establish itself at the creative subversion and mischief; a box of tricks where anything could happen. Academy, it was preceded by an earlier artistic residency at Thomond College of It was also imagined as a reliquary: a sacred box housing precious and valuable Education, which was dissolved and integrated into the University of Limerick impulses; and a sanctuary and safe haven: a place where scholarly and artistic in 1991. In 1986, Mary Nunan was appointed Dancer-in-Residence at Thomond searchers could explore, experiment and be nourished by the sharing of the College, and in 1988, with support from the Arts Council, Thomond College and journey. Most tellingly, the Academy was imagined as a junction box: a bordered Mary Immaculate College of Education, she founded Daghdha Dance Company space where energies and currents could meet and electrify each other. at Thomond College. Mary was Daghdha’s artistic director until 1999, when she The junction box of the Academy allows for the flow of energy through the curricula became a full-time member of faculty at the Academy. – or circuits – of its educational programmes. Scholarship and performance grow out In 1995, Toyota Ireland gifted IR£500,000 to the Academy. The donation resulted of this box as branches from the trunk of a tree. The Greek (puxos) and Latin (buxis) in the creation of the Toyota Performing Arts Initiative, a five-year programme of for ‘box’ derive from the boxwood tree. Indeed, writing and scholarship literally artistic residencies, commissions and festivals managed by Margaret O’Sullivan. grew out of the boxwood tree, whose wood was favoured for early wood-block In 2000, a publication entitled Bosca commemorated the initiative, and in its printing. With its finely grained, high-density texture and resistance to chipping, introduction, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin likened the bosca that had emerged during the music also grew out of the boxwood tree in the form of tail pieces, chin-rests and five-year period to things as diverse as the alchemist’s vas hermeticum – the sealed tuning pegs for stringed instruments, Baroque recorders, uilleann pipes and Great container of wisdom; the hazelnut of Irish mythology, cracked open to reveal the Highland bagpipes. purple bubbles of imbas, or inspiration; and the egg-shaped beehive huts of Flowing around the circuitry of the Academy is the wider world of musicians, dancers, medieval, monastic Ireland, dotting the banks of the River Shannon (Sionna) and singers, story-tellers, clowns, acrobats and global performers. The Academy connects creating beads of education and artistry, threaded together by the river. Bosca, in outwards to these energies through access programmes such as NOMAD, which this sense, is Sionna’s box; a gift waiting to be opened by those who would spend celebrates Irish Traveller culture; SANCTUARY, which celebrates new migrant cultural time on her banks. communities; and numerous community-based, educational and therapeutic projects. The Toyota Performing Arts initiative resulted in commissions and publications from Just as the Academy reaches out into local and global creative communities, artists such as Raymond Deane, Gerald Barry, Kenneth Edge, Tommy Hayes, Michael it also welcomes these worlds of performance into its bosca in the form of artists- Alcorn, John Buckley, Elaine Agnew, Mary Nunan, Terry Moylan, Niall Keegan and in-residence. Over the last two decades, the Academy has facilitated more than Desi Wilkinson. James Keane from Labasheeda, Co Clare became the first Irish 40 artistic residencies. The establishment of a Chair of Music at the University of traditional dancer in residence at any university in the world. Other artists-in- Limerick in 1994 coincided with an impulse to professionalise and decentralise the residence included Peggy McTeggart, Dara Bán MacDonnacha, Cindy Cummings, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ireland’s premier chamber string orchestra. A dialogue Stephen Scott, James Scanlon, Subroyo Roy Chowdhury and Saibal Chatterjee. between the orchestra’s chief executive, John Kelly, and the Academy’s newly The Irish World Academy building has emerged as a physical manifestation appointed Chair, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, resulted in a decision by the then Minister of the imagined spaces of Sionna’s bosca. In the middle of the foyer there is a pit, for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Michael D. Higgins (now President of Ireland), INTRODUCTION

2 sunk into the foundations at the time of construction in the tradition of ritual pits and dance in the world. Irish language song has been supported by the efforts of built to consecrate newly constructed buildings. The 11th-century Kasyapasilpa, a Foras na Gaeilge with the appointment of Iarla Ó Lionáird and Áine Uí Cheallaigh as Sanskrit treatise on art, architecture and literature, describes the ritual for placing Foras na Gaeilge artists-in-residence. Pecker Dunne became the first ever Traveller a deposit box in the pit. Known as garbhanyasa – ‘the placing of the embryo’ – musician-in-residence in an Irish university through the NOMAD initiative, while the the ritual describes the constructed deposit box as ‘the womb house’, the place of contemporary Nigerian dancer Peter Badejo was appointed SANCTUARY’s artist-in- gestation, fertility and birth. The ritual pit in the Academy has a bag of hazelnuts, residence to work with new migrant communities in Limerick. Fidget Feet, Ireland’s a pair of bones, a bodhrán and a replica bronze-age horn, all symbols of the foremost Aerial Dance Theatre Company, became artists-in-residence in 2013 to Academy’s own quest for creativity and wisdom. mark the launch of a new postgraduate programme in festive arts. The Academy building is a space of hospitality for artists who continue to interact Artistic energy fuels the creative and scholarly endeavours of the Academy but it with the bosca in a variety of ways. Musicians-in-residence, including Lajos Szücs, also responds to, subverts, represents and questions the Academy’s identity and the Bellatrix Piano Trio, Donal Lunny, the Chieftains, Martin Hayes, Tommy Peoples, ethos. If the bosca that is the Irish World Academy is a junction box of connectivity, Mickey Dunne, Paul Brady and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, have all made rich artists who reside and spend time here provide an essential aspect of its weave and contributions during their residencies as teachers and musicians and have provided wattle. Sionna’s box is an invitation. It is waiting to be cracked open. Come to her students with the invaluable opportunity of performing with their heroes and riverbanks and join the celebration. mentors. Dancers-in-residence Colin Dunne, Jean Butler, Breandán de Gallaí, Dr Helen Phelan Liz Roche and the Liz Roche Dance Company (formerly Rex Levitates) have led the Programme Director, PhD Arts Practice artistic and intellectual dialogue on future directions in Irish dance, dance in Ireland Irish World Academy

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

3 Faculty & Staff

IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

Dr Sandra Joyce Dr Niall Keegan Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Paula Dundon Barbara Christie Melissa Carty Jennifer de Brún Director Associate Director Founding Director Academy Administrator Senior Administrator Assistant Administrator Performing Arts Coordinator Course Director, MA Irish Traditional Director, Undergraduate Studies Chair of Music, Phone: +353 61 202149 Phone: +353 61 202030 Phone: +353 61 202590 Phone: +353 61 202917 Music Performance Phone: +353 61 202465 University of Limerick Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 202065 Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 202030 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Dr Ferenc Szucs Dr Yonit Kosovske Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain Jean Downey Dr Helen Phelan Dr Mary Nunan Dr Tríona McCaffrey Course Director, Lecturer in Classical Course Director, Course Director, Programme Director, Course Director, Lecturer, MA Music Therapy MA Classical String Performance Piano Chamber Music Performance MA Irish Traditional Professional Diploma in Education PhD Arts Practice MA Contemporary Phone: +353 61 234358 Phone: +353 61 202918 MA Classical String Performance Dance Performance (Music), MEd (Music), Phone: +353 61 202575 Dance Performance Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 234922 Phone: +353 61 202470 MA Community Music Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 213160 (Currently on sabbatical) Email: [email protected] FACULTY & STAFF FACULTY

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Alpha Woodward Dr Aileen Dillane Dr Mats Melin Dr Colin Quigley Hannah Fahey Dr Niamh NicGhabhann Course Director, Acting Course Director, Lecturer in Dance, Director, Course Coordinator, MA Ritual Course Director, MA Music Therapy MA Ethnomusicology BA Irish Music and Dance MA Ethnomusicology Chant and Song MA Festive Arts Phone: +353 61 213122 Phone: +353 61 202159 Phone: +353 61 202542 Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 213762 Phone: +353 61 202798 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] (Currently on sabbatical) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Dr Óscar Mascareñas Dr Catherine Foley Pamela Cotter Nora Rodriguez Lecturer, Course Director, Lecturer, BA Irish Music and Dance Lecturer, BA Voice and Dance BA Voice and Dance MA Ethnochoreology Phone: +353 61 202966 Phone: +353 61 234967 Phone: +353 61 202990 Phone: +353 61 202922 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Thalita Reis (Brazil), MA Contemporary Dance Performance Photograph © Maurice Gunning 5 LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES PERFORMANCE LUNCHTIME

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

ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

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

7 County Cork School of Music Ensemble Xenia Anita Vedres Malachy Robinson Yonit Kosovske

extended to incorporate voice and other instruments, including JANUARY FEBRUARY ethnic instruments. Among the artists who have played with the ensemble are violinist Alexander Balanescu, tabla player Federico Sanesi, cellist Rohan de Saram, pianist Peyman Wednesday January 28th Wednesday February 4th Yazdanian and singers Cristina Zavalloni, Sarah Leonard and Elena Vassilieva. The many ethnic instrumentalists who have Hear Our Song 2015! A Taste of Italy, Past and Present played with the group include Liu Fang (pì’pa) and Dai Ya (dizi) County Cork School of Music Ensemble Xenia from China, Khaled Jubran (Oud) from Palestine, Gevorg Dabagyan (duduk) from Armenia, Tamami Tonu (sho) from County Cork School of Music (CCSM) presents a showcase Adrian Pinzaru (violin), Eilís Cranitch (violin), Japan and Sliabh Notes (traditional musicians) from Ireland. of young musicians performing in the classical, popular and Daniel Palmizio (viola) and Claudio Pasceri (cello) traditional genres. This concert showcases the school’s extensive For more information, visit www.xeniaensemble.it This performance covers a timespan of approximately 90 years ‘Let’s Play Together’ programme of performance-based activities. Thursday February 12th ‘Hear Our Song 2015!’ embodies the CCSM’s core philosophy… and presents four very distinct compositions. Two of the works were written by young composers who represent contemporary young people and teachers who are passionate about sharing Stylus Fantasticus their music with the community at large. trends and the other two were written, one in 1920 and the other in 1990, by important and innovative composers who Anita Vedres (violin), Malachy Robinson (viola da gamba) County Cork School of Music is one of Ireland's most dynamic greatly influenced the course of contemporary music in Italy. and Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord) multi-campus music schools. CCSM offers high-quality social, The pieces are: cultural and educational experiences and provides instrumental Stylus fantasticus (‘fantastic style’) was a seventeenth-century tuition programmes in classical and traditional Irish music styles. Albero Colla: Quartetto N.2 “Diario di giorni ordinari/Diary of virtuosic instrumental style where freely ornamented lines were The school also incorporates a range of ensembles, bands, ordinary days” (2013) supported by an accompanying bass line. Seventeenth-century musicianship classes and other music-making activities. As part Stefano Pierini: Kairos ( 2 0 1 2 ) musicologist Athanasius Kircher wrote that the stylus fantasticus of its ‘Let’s Play Together’ programme, the school gives regular Niccolò Castiglioni: Romanze – Adagio/Andatino/Adagietto/ ‘is the most free and unrestrained method of composing; it is public performances and works with partner schools on Junior Larghetto (1990) bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic Certificate, Transition Year and Leaving Certificate music Alfredo Casella: Valse Ridicule and Foxtrot from subject…’ Girolamo Frescobaldi wrote in the preface to his programmes. CCSM is committed to forging links with “Cinque Pezzi per quartetto”(1920) second book of keyboard toccatas (1637) that ‘This manner of playing should not be fixed to the beat … making it now slow, communities and has reached over 3,100 students through its Ensemble Xenia was founded in Turin in 1995 by four now fast or, even, held suspended according to the emotion or partners, which include schools, organisations and centres. musicians with a shared interest in contemporary music. sentiment of the words...’ This concert in the stylus fantasticus Ensemble Xenia regularly participates in international festivals For more details, visit www.ccsm.ie. features works by Biber, Bertali, Marini, Castello, Schmelzer and and concert seasons, including the Ravenna Festival, MiTo Frescobaldi. Settembre Musica Festival, the Piccolo Regio Laboratory series (Turin), Holland Festival, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Ilkom Anita Vedres (violin) studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Festival (Tashkent), Arts Square Festival (Saint Petersburg), London and in Utrecht’s Musik Conservatorium. Under the Morgenland Festival (Germany), Lieu Unique (Nantes), tutelage of the renowned Swiss baroque violinist Maya Meridian Festival (Bucharest) and the Icebreaker Festival Homburger, she obtained a first class honours master’s degree (Seattle). Xenia´s basic formation, the string quartet, can be in professional studies at the Cork School of Music. She is a LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES PERFORMANCE LUNCHTIME

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

founding member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and a former Thursday February 19th Wednesday February 25th member of both the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber music activity includes Edith Piaf: Story and Song The Inishowen Song Project Live: Singers and Songs of the Peninsula playing with groups such as Camerata Kilkenny, Armoniosa, Patsy McCoy and Mairtín Ó Briain Trio Quattro, the Eidola Trio and the Robinson Panoramic Quartet. Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and Jim MacFarland She plays on a Viennese violin by Johann Joseph Stadlmann. Edith Piaf was a street singer who became France’s national diva and one of its greatest international stars. Her music was The Inishowen Peninsula in Co Donegal is home to a rich Malachy Robinson (violin) is a prize-winning graduate of often autobiographical with her songs reflecting her life story. contemporary and historical tradition of unaccompanied ballad London’s Guildhall School of Music and holds a master’s In this tribute, Patsy McCoy and Mairtín Ó Briain bring Piaf’s singing in the English language. The Inishowen Song Project degree in historical musicology from the University of London. story to life through a repertoire rich in the passion of love and (ISP) Tour is an introduction to the singers and songs from He has appeared with period-performance bands, the Irish the pain of loss and sorrow. As Piaf tries to find herself anew, this tradition in live performance and online. This lunchtime Baroque Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the OAE, the narrative sometimes reflects a postmodern Ireland. In this concert features singers Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and the Sixteen and the English Concert and has founded some concert the performers breathe new life into such classics as Jim MacFarland of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. groups of his own: Trio Quattro, Armoniosa, the Eidola Trio La Vie en Rose and Non, Je ne Regrette Rien. The concert will focus on songs collected and learned from and the Gregory Walkers, in which he plays violin. Malachy is family and friends in the Peninsula. also principal double-bassist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Patsy McCoy, a native of Limerick city who comes from a a founder member of the Crash Ensemble and director of the well-known musical family, has worked as a pianist, singer and Grace Toland, Kevin McGonigle and Jim MacFarland are Robinson Panoramic Quartet. entertainer throughout Ireland for many years. She has performed active members of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. The at many festivals and venues, including the Galway Races, group organises monthly singing sessions and workshops, hosts Yonit Kosovske performs on both modern and historical Listowel Races and in the Butler Arms Hotel in Waterville, the annual Inishowen International Folk Song & Ballad Seminar keyboard instruments, including harpsichord, fortepiano, Co Kerry. Patsy has covered the work of several artists and has and is the publisher of the online Inishowen Song Project. Brian modern piano and chamber organ. With a playing repertoire a particular affection for the life and songs of Edith Piaf. She Doyle is providing technical support on this occasion. that includes compositions from the sixteenth century to has performed these songs in many intimate settings, including contemporary music, Yonit performs as a soloist, chamber Rouen in France and the Lime Tree Theatre in her native Limerick Thursday February 26th artist and orchestral player. She holds a Doctor of Music degree during the City of Culture 2014. from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her book Man, Woman + Child Historical Harpsichord Technique: Developing La douceur du Mairtín Ó Briain, a Limerick native, has been involved with Len Graham, Róisín de Faoite, Fergus Russell, Róisín Gaffney, Jim toucher was published by Indiana University Press in 2011. music and drama for many years. He has worked extensively MacFarland, Grace Toland, Hammy Hamilton and Sandra Joyce Dr Kosovske lectures in music at the Irish World Academy, with choirs, which regularly perform in Italy and Germany. where she is active as both a teacher and accompanist in piano, Mairtín taught French and Irish for many years in Laurel Hill Man, Woman + Child is a research and performance project harpsichord, chamber music, historical performance practice, Secondary School, Limerick. He speaks several languages and based on The Child Ballad Collection, a collection of traditional music history and literature. has a particular affection for French culture. In 2014, Mairtín’s songs collected by the American collector Francis J. Child in choir performed some of the acclaimed works of Duke Ellington England and Scotland (1882–1898).The project pairs a male at the Limerick Jazz Festival and he narrated the story of Edith singer with a female singer in performance with the aim of Piaf in the Lime Tree Theatre as part of the City of Culture breathing new life into songs from the Child Ballad Collection. celebrations. The Man, Woman + Child project is devised and coordinated by Michael Fortune and is supported by the National Library of Ireland and the Arts Council.

9 Deirdre Moynihan Fionnuala Moynihan Katherine Hunka Collailm Duo

Thursday March 12th Thursday March 19th MARCH Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings (Theatre 1) Collailm Duo Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy (Director Karina Gallagher and Aiveen Gallagher Thursday March 5th Katherine Hunka) with CIT Cork School of Music, the Royal Cork sisters Karina and Aiveen Gallagher combine their skills Irish Academy of Music and the Irish World Academy of Hidden Treasures from Russia and Ireland: Tchaikovsky and expertise to form the violin and viola ensemble Collailm Music and Dance and John Field Duo. Drawing inspiration from the many countries in which This spring, an exciting collaborative project led by members of they have lived and studied, they perform an eclectic mix of Deirdre Moynihan (voice) and Fionnuala Moynihan (piano) the dynamic Irish Chamber Orchestra and directed by Katherine compositions. Since the Duo’s debut in July 2014, they have The songs of Tchaikovsky, one of Russia’s most popular Hunka sees string students from three of the country’s foremost performed in Lithuania, Italy, Poland and Belgium and have composers, are full of beauty, intrigue and dramatic intensity. academies come together as part of the newly established been invited to undertake a winter residency at the world- Rarely heard in concert, Tchaikovsky’s art songs have the ability Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy initiative. This renowned Banff Centre, Canada in early 2015. Lauded for their to enchant the listener and create a magical atmosphere. This lunchtime performance of Richard Strauss’s seldom-heard expressiveness and wonderful flair on stage, they will perform concert is a unique opportunity to hear the hidden treasures of masterpiece Metamorphosen at the Irish World Academy is one music from Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and the USA. the Russian master. John Field spent a great deal of his active of a series of three performances by this group of rising young Violinist Karina Gallagher graduated with a first class honours musical life in St Petersburg, where he became the city’s most stars. For details on the performances in Cork and Dublin, see B. Mus. from the Royal College of Music, London and a first class celebrated composer and performer. Creator of the Nocturne, page 26. honours MA from the University of Limerick. Karina finessed her Field’s far-reaching legacy influenced generations of Russian Katherine Hunka, Leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), skills with Massimo Quarta in Lugano, Salvatore Accardo in pianists and composers such as Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and appears as both a soloist and chamber artist across a wide Cremona and Daniel Rubenstein in Brussels. Upon completion Rachmaninoff. range of repertoires. She directs and performs as a soloist with of her European studies, she served as teaching assistant to Deirdre and Fionnuala Moynihan have performed extensively the ICO both in Ireland and beyond. She frequently performs at international virtuoso Stefan Milenkovich at the University of together. In February 2013, they opened the Russian Festival of chamber music festivals throughout Ireland and plays in a trio Illinois and held the position of String Department Teaching Culture with a recital in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. with accordionist Dermot Dunne and bassist Malachy Robinson. Assistant at the University of Miami and Junior Department They have been invited to perform there again this year. Also in A guest leader of various ensembles, Hunka has been a guest Professor at the Frost School of Music, Florida. 2013, they gave concerts to celebrate the inauguration of the soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and RTÉ Violinist Aiveen Gallagher graduated with first class honours in Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Benczur Concert Orchestra. She teaches at both the CIT Cork School of performance from the Cork School of Music. Having accepted Palace, Budapest and Chopin University of Warsaw. In July 2014, Music and at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. a prestigious international scholarship to Western Illinois they gave a concert tour in Japan. University, she graduated with a first class honours Master of For further details, please view: Music degree. In recognition of her outstanding musicianship, www.deirdremoynihan.com Aiveen was appointed ‘Master of Chamber Music Co-ordinator’ www.fionnualamoynihan.com for the Bureau of Cultural Affairs by the Dean of Western Illinois University, where she ran her own concert series. By personal request of leading US ensemble the Amernet String Quartet, Aiveen served as String Department Teaching Assistant at Florida

LUNCHTIME PERFORMANCE SERIES PERFORMANCE LUNCHTIME International University until 2013. 10 Deirdre Moynihan Fionnuala Moynihan Katherine Hunka Collailm Duo MA Classical String Performance students Sean’s Walk Festive Arts Sonas

Thursday March 26th Thursday April 16th MA Classical String Performance MA Festive Arts MA Classical String Performance students MA Festive Arts Class 2014/15 and faculty members The MA Festive Arts programme combines creative performance, This lunchtime concert offers a selection of current performance arts management and production along with research into projects by MA Classical String Performance students and festivity and its role in society. This lunchtime concert is curated features collaborative work with members of the Irish Chamber and presented by the MA Festive Arts class 2014/15. Orchestra and with Irish World Academy faculty. Thursday April 23rd

APRIL Nexus: In the Deep Heart’s Core Sonas, the UL Global Choir and students of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song Thursday April 9th Featuring students of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song (MARCS) Take You There programme and Sonas, the UL Global Choir, Nexus (Latin for “Link”) is the spring manifestation of the MARCS Locus+Nexus Sean’s Walk: Sean Ó Dalaigh (guitar and vocals), Alec Brown series. Nexus explores connections between people, places and (cello and backing vocals) and Ciarán McLoughlin (piano & experience. The concert will feature ensemble and solo songs of backing vocals) love, family, joy, hope and adoration. Drawing from varied influences including traditional Irish music, Sonas is a collective of students from Irish World Academy jazz, blues, folk and funk, this performance will incorporate both programmes combined with members of the broader UL upbeat and aggressive songs suitable for energising a festival community. The group explores vocal ensemble music of many audience as well as more lyrical and atmospheric works. Since times and places, from Irish traditional, Latin American, the band’s conception by Sean Ó Dalaigh, Alec Brown and Ars Nova and Qawwali to Gospel, Georgian, Medieval and Ciarán McLoughlin in the summer of 2012, Sean’s Walk has Monteverdi. performed all over Ireland. Formed by two graduates of the Irish World Academy and a current PhD student, the band has a unique sound. They have supported artists such as Kila, Paddy Casey, Hermitage Green, The Outside Track and The Original Rudeboys as well as performing their own shows at Electric Picnic 2014 and the Helium Festival 2013. The interplay between the musical instruments of guitar, cello and piano, which is underscored by powerful vocals with meaningful lyrics, creates a futuristic musical sound. Renee Neeson (Ireland) and Kayvon Sesar (USA), MA Classical String Performance students Photograph © Maurice Gunning 11 THE TOWER SEMINAR SERIES THE TOWER

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Venue: The Tower, Irish World Academy 4pm to 5.30pm (unless otherwise stated)

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MA Traditional Music Performance student Yoann an Nedeleg (Brittany) playing bombard with his uncle, Youen Peron, on binioù-kozh (breton bagpipe) Photograph © Maurice Gunning 13 Niall Keegan Anna Ryan Niamh NicGhabhann Eilís Cranitch and Claudio Pasceri with other members of Ensemble Xenia Ferenc Szücs

structures used by traditional musicians to account for and modern and contemporary music from many different cultures JANUARY shape their performance practices. His research also engages and countries for the past 20 years. Performances cover a wide the diasporic experience of traditional music, particularly in the range, including “Ghost Opera” by the Chinese composer Tan UK. He has performed extensively throughout the world with Dun, the works of Avro Part from Estonia, Franghis Ali Sade Wednesday January 28th musicians such as Sandra Joyce, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and from Azerbaijan, Dimitri Yanov Yanovsky from Uzbekistan and Clive Carroll. the Irish composer Gerald Barry. LANDscape research cluster meeting – Moving through Landscapes Dr Anna Ryan is an architect and cultural geographer. Violinist Eilís Cranitch was born in Cork. After obtaining a She graduated with a B.Arch from the School of Architecture, B. Mus. and an MA degree in musicology from University College Presenters: Billy Mills and Niall Keegan University College Dublin in 2000 and attained her PhD from Cork, she completed her violin studies in Italy at the Santa Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Irish World Academy) the Department of Geography, University College Cork in 2008. Cecilia Music Conservatoire in Rome. During her career, she and Dr Anna Ryan Since 2007 she has been a full-time lecturer in architecture at has played with the Hilliard Ensemble in their programmes This Tower seminar is part of the interdisciplinary LANDscape the University of Limerick. A monograph arising from her PhD dedicated to the composer Arvo Part and with I Solisti Aquilani, research cluster. Featuring presentations by poet Billy Mills research, Where Land Meets Sea: Coastal Explorations of with whom she frequently performed as soloist at the most and musician and lecturer Dr Niall Keegan, the seminar Landscape, Representation and Spatial Experience, was important festivals and concert seasons in Europe and the US. explores ideas of moving through landscape in different published by Ashgate in 2012. Her research interests include Since 1990, she has been living in Turin, where she teaches contexts. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the cluster, landscape, the coast, modes of writing, drawing and quartet. She is one of the founder members and violinist of the seminar will explore Mills’s explorations of movement, photography. Ensemble Xenia. landscape, song and language in his poetry. Following this, Cellist Claudio Pasceri was born in Turin and obtained his Niall Keegan will discuss the intersections of music, performance, diploma with Renzo Brancaleon at the Turin conservatoire. FEBRUARY language and landscape. The LANDscape research cluster is He continued his studies with Rocco Filippini at the W. Stauffer open to all and is convened by Dr Anna Ryan and Dr Niamh in Cremona, at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg and at NicGhabhann. Wednesday February 4th (3pm to 4.30pm) Mozarteum in Salisburgh with Julius Berger. He has performed Further information on the LANDscape cluster can be found as a chamber musician at prestigious festivals and concert series at http://landscapeul.tumblr.com. Is “Belcanto” alive and well in Italy today? with well-known musicians such as Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Dora Schwarzberg, Rocco Filippini, Rohan De Saram Presenters: Eilís Cranitch and Claudio Pasceri Dublin-born Billy Mills is a poet, editor and literary journalist and Gilles Apap. Festivals where he has performed include (Ensemble Xenia) at guardian.co.uk. After some years spent in Spain and the UK, Lingotto Musica in Turin, Associazione Dino Ciani in Stresa, Chair: Dr Ferenc Szücs (Irish World Academy) he currently lives in Limerick. He is co-editor (with Catherine Eckelhausen Festival at the Lincoln Center, New York, Mak e Walsh) of hardPressed poetry. His Lares/Manes: Collected Italy has always been considered the home of opera, and the Lockenhaus Musikfest in Vienna and Unione Musicale in Turin. Poems was published by Shearsman in 2009, and his Imaginary lyricism of “belcanto” is to be found in the genes of every He has played cello with Ensemble Xenia since 2012. Gardens and Loop Walks were published by hardPressed poetry Italian. How does this manifest itself in diverse artistic in 2012 and 2013 respectively. expressions such as the art music of today and in the popular Dr Niall Keegan is a traditional Irish flute player and an music of Italy, from Berio to Mina, from Sciarrino to Modugno? ethnomusicologist. His PhD, The Art of Juncture – Transformations Discover the answer through the eyes of Ensemble Xenia, a Turin-based string quartet that has performed programmes of

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

Wednesday February 11th youth and social circus internationally. He is a founding member Musicians Anita Vedres, Malachy Robinson and Yonit Kosovske of both the Global Institute for Circus Studies and the UK & perform as soloists, chamber artists and orchestral players playing Developing Community Circus in Europe Ireland Circus Research Network. He is also a filmmaker. both period instruments and later Romantic or modern instruments on a repertoire which spans the early Renaissance Presenters: Ulla Hokkanen, Stephen Cadwell and Will Will Chamberlain has worked in the field of circus since graduating through Contemporary, newly-composed music. The musicians Chamberlain from Manchester University with a degree in Economics and bring decades of professional experience and insight to their Chair: Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (Irish World Academy) Social Administration in 1984. He founded 2 social circus discussion of the role that “Historical Performance Practice” organisations in England and enjoyed 12 years as a professional This seminar marks the collaboration between the MA Festive plays in their music-making here in Ireland and on the clown and comedy juggler in England and Switzerland before Arts and the ERASMUS+ project on youth and social circus international stage. development in Europe. Working with a range of research moving to Belfast in 1996 to run the Belfast Community Circus partners across Europe, the CIRCUS+ project aims to explore School. Will guided the organisation through taking possession of Wednesday February 18th pedagogical and development needs for youth and social Ireland’s only purpose built Circus building and he now presides circus. The seminar features Ulla Hokkanen of Galway Community over the delivery of an extensive participatory programme which Dancing Identities works with more than 400 children and young people each Circus, Dr Stephen Cadwell, a postdoctoral researcher on the Presenters: Jennifer de Brún and Ras Mikey Courtney week. Since he first began juggling in inner city Manchester CIRCUS+ project, and Will Chamberlain from Belfast Community Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) Circus. The seminar will officially launch the partnership in the 1980’s, Will has been a passionate advocate of the between the MA Festive Arts programme and ISACS – the Irish transformative power of circus participation. This seminar examines the process of dance training in a variety Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network, which aims to build of cultural contexts and explores the experience of the teacher, industry links between the MA Festive Arts and the wider Thursday February 12th student and choreographer in a higher educational setting. In particular, it explores the influence of training in codified festival industry, producers and artists. H.I.P. (Historically Informed Performance) dance techniques, not only on a dancer’s movement vocabulary Ulla Hokkanen is the circus director at Galway Community Presenters: Anita Vedres, Malachy Robinson and Yonit but also on the perception and performance of the multiplicity Circus. She is a board member of the European Youth and Kosovske of identities embodied therein. Jennifer de Brún and Ras Mikey Social Circus Network Caravan and currently chairs ISACS. Chair: Dr Yonit Kosovske (Irish World Academy) Courtney, two ethnochoreologists and dance artists who have She is originally from Finland, where her love of youth circus collaborated on several projects, examine the agency “Early Music,” “Period Performance” and “Historically Informed started over 20 years ago. She has a BA (Hons) in Social Science of the dancer and choreographer within the choreographic Performance” are terms that are used to describe certain from University of Tampere, Finland and is a graduate of the process and discuss how these concepts relate to their own scholarly and performative trends in classical music, usually of University of Limerick, where she studied Politics and professional practice as well as their current doctoral research. International Relations in 2003/04. repertoire before 1800. Often considered to be outside of mainstream classical music, such titles have been associated Jennifer de Brún is a Limerick-based professional dance artist Dr Stephen Cadwell is a postdoctoral researcher with CIRCUS+ with the “Early Music Movement.” This seminar features and ethnochoreologist. She is a qualified teacher of Cecchetti (Research Project on Youth and Social Circus Pedagogy). This musicians who are immersed in diverse styles of performance classical ballet with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance two-year research project will map the current educational practice and strives to bridge communities that are oftentimes and has completed the BA Voice and Dance and MA Ethno- opportunities available to students and professionals interested viewed as separate from one another with their contrasted value choreology at the University of Limerick, achieving first class in youth and social circus. Stephen has followed up his PhD systems and approaches to music-making. What does it mean honours in both. Jennifer is a board member of Dance Research thesis, What Is the Matter with Modern Art: A Critical Analysis to present an “historically informed performance”? How is this Forum Ireland and is currently undertaking doctoral research at of Arthur Danto's Theories of Art, with a continuing interest in manifest in Period instruments compared to their later, Romantic the Irish World Academy. art, aesthetics and emotion and with research on the impacts of counterparts? 15 Ras Mikey Courtney Grace Toland Sandra Joyce Kristin McGee Aileen Dillane Martin Clayton

Ras Mikey Courtney completed his MA in Ethnochoreology Grace Toland is a member of staff at the Irish Traditional Music Dr Kristin McGee is Associate Professor of Popular Music in at the University of Limerick, where he currently acts as a guest Archive and an active member of the Inishowen Traditional the Arts, Culture and Media Department at the University of lecturer while undertaking his PhD in Arts Practice Research. Singers’ Circle. The ITSC organises monthly singing sessions and Groningen in the Netherlands. She has written on the subject of He also holds a BFA in Modern Dance Performance from the workshops, hosts the annual Inishowen International Folk Song jazz, gender, popular music and audiovisual media for a variety University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught, performed & Ballad Seminar and is the publisher of the online Inishowen of articles and books, including her manuscript Some Liked It and choreographed dance and other performing arts worldwide Song Project. Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 (Wesleyan with his company Fore I’m a Versatile Entertainer (F.I.V.E.) University Press, 2009). She is currently completing a Productions (www.fivedance.com). Ras Mikey’s works are a This seminar will be followed by a reception to mark the manuscript on the crossover jazz scenes of the Netherlands. reflection of his spirit and passion for the performing arts as launch of the new traditional song research group at the She is a saxophonist and sometime theatre music composer. both a cultural and social movement. He is currently a member Irish World Academy. of the board of directors of Dance Research Forum Ireland. Wednesday March 11th In Time with the Music: Music, Interaction and Entrainment Wednesday February 25th MARCH Presenter: Professor Martin Clayton The Inishowen Song Project Online: Field Recordings Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy) of the Singers and Songs of the Peninsula Wednesday March 4th Human beings have a remarkable and almost unique capacity Presenter: Grace Toland Popular Jazz, Digital Aesthetics and Transnational to coordinate their actions: to be ‘in time’ with one another. Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy) Networks in the New Europe Where does this ability come from and what are its implications Grace Toland will present a guided audiovisual tour of the for the understanding of musical performance? Entrainment is a Inishowen Song Project (ISP). Launched in 2012, ISP gives free Presenter: Dr Kristin McGee process whereby different rhythms interact with each other, online access to sound and video field recordings made by Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy) leading in some circumstances to synchronisation. By examining Jimmy McBride of over 600 songs from more than 200 The rejuvenation of popular, mixed-genre vocal jazz in Northern the coordination of musical ensembles in the context of entrainment, singers from the Peninsula. Hosted by the Irish Traditional Music Europe arises from a nostalgic fascination with the symphonic, we can develop new and productive perspectives as well as raise Archive, ISP provides a rich resource of song material as well as dance-oriented styles of Hollywood’s ‘golden decades.’ This some challenging questions for ethnomusicology. This presentation a unique insight into the place of song in this local community. presentation highlights the intermediated nature of European outlines the fundamentals of this approach, presents some case Grace will introduce the singers, highlight the local singing style popular jazz by investigating the complex engagements of a studies and briefly discusses some of the issues raised. and discuss the place of the Inishowen tradition within a wider variety of European musical participants as they promote Martin Clayton is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Durham English language song context. flexible, cosmopolitan and neo-jazz identifications, which in University. He studied at the School of Oriental and African turn invites a critique of gentrification and multiculturalism in studies in London and has previously worked at the Open the New Europe. The mimetic configurations guiding Caro University and the University of Chicago. His publications Emerald’s musical recordings and live performances are include the books Time in Indian Music (2000); Music and examined to illuminate the intersections between dance music, Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s: Portrayal digital media and transnational jazz collaborations as producers of the East; (2007) The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical accommodate eclectic musical fascinations within late-capitalist Introduction (2nd ed. 2012) and Experience and Meaning in systems of articulation in European jazz aesthetics. Music Performance (2013). THE TOWER SEMINAR SERIES THE TOWER

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

Wednesday March 18th Wednesday March 25th Òrain Caimbeulaich a’ Ghnìoba: Music and a Sense of Dance, Colonialism, Postcolonialism Place in a Gaelic Family Song Tradition Dr Catherine Foley and Dr Avanthi Meduri Presenter: Mary Ann Kennedy Chair: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain (Irish World Academy) Chair: Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy) Dance plays a significant role in the socialisation process but The Campbells of Greepe (a tiny crofting township on the Isle of can also be an expression and embodiment of cultural politics, Skye) have been dubbed the ‘first family’ of Gaelic song. Pipers protest and resistance, and power relations. This seminar Dr Catherine Foley is a dancer and musician and founding and singers who also love to dance, they are considered the focuses on dance within two different cultures: step dancing in course director of both the MA Ethnochoreology and the MA masters of puirt-à-beul and their songs bring to life an old Gaelic Ireland and Bharatanatyam in India. It explores issues relating Irish Traditional Dance Performance programmes at the Irish world and community where music and song accompanied to colonialism, subalterity, postcolonialism and cultural identity World Academy. She is founding chair emerita of Dance every aspect of daily life. With third-generation performer formations through the lens and practice of dancing. Research Forum Ireland and is founding director of the National Mary Ann Kennedy, this session will address the challenges of Emerging Webs of Formation: Dance Archive of Ireland. She chairs the International Council for presenting Gaelic song to non-Gaelic speaking audiences in Step Dancing Then and Now Traditional Music’s Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Catherine the context of family, history, contemporary performance and Presenter: Dr Catherine Foley has published and performed widely; her monographs include archive, landscape, community and story. Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry (North Kerry This presentation examines step dancing in Ireland as it was Mary Ann Kennedy is a Glasgow Gael who is part of a dynasty Literary Trust 2012) and Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and reconfigured and shaped within colonial and political discourses of traditional singers and pipers from the tiny township of History (Ashgate 2013), which was shortlisted for the Katharine during the early decades of the twentieth century. The seminar Greepe on the Isle of Skye. Classical training and a traditional Briggs Folklore Award 2014. also explores the postcolonial representations of step dancing music upbringing along with 20 years’ broadcasting experience from the 1980s and 1990s, when the dance form was globalised Dr Avanthi Meduri is a scholar, dancer, actress, playwright, on the BBC have earned her a place as one of the most through spectacular stage shows. Different embodiments of curator and arts administrator. Born in India, she received her authoritative performers and commentators in Scottish music step dancing in theatre and in third-level education worldwide PhD in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of Arts, today. She is a singer and instrumentalist as well as a writer, are considered. New York University, in 1996. Currently a reader in dance and composer, producer, choral director and broadcaster and is performance studies, Meduri is convener of the first postgraduate never happier than when singing with others. She is co-author Bharatanatyam: Local/Global Perspectives South Asian dance studies programme at Roehampton University, of Fonn: The Campbells of Greepe, Gaelic Book of the Year 2013 Presenter: Dr Avanthi Meduri London. A fellow at the International Research Centre, Freie and winner of the 2013 National Gaelic Arts and Culture Award. In this seminar, Bharatanatyam is discussed as a dance example University, Berlin, Meduri is co-founder of the Asian Performing to consider postcolonial identity formation within a national Arts Forum, London, a consortia of three London universities and transnational framework. Focusing on the neo-liberal period engaged with Asian dance, theatre and performance. of the 1980s and 1990s, the presentation will show how She is the recipient of several national and international Indian nationalist discourse on Indian performing arts was awards and fellowships and has over 50 publications internationalised. This resulted in the complex globalisation of to her name. Indian performing arts in the US and UK in the 1990s, continuing into the present. BA Voice and Dance student Kathy Young Photograph © Maurice Gunning 17 José-Miguel Marinas Rebeca Mateos Morante Lisa McLoughlin Neil Kenny

dancing body; this results in the dancing body increasingly Rebeca Mateos Morante is a professional Danza Española and APRIL becoming more mirror than flesh. Flamenco dancer who is currently studying for her PhD at the Irish World Academy. A philosophy graduate with a first class Moved to Dance: an exploration of dancers’ honours master’s in Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies, she phenomenological perceptions of what influences trained at the renowned conservatory Centro Coreográfico their movement while dancing and how they view Wednesday April 8th Mariemma in Madrid. She subsequently toured extensively as themselves as dancers Dance, Embodiment, Psychological Analysis a Flamenco soloist both with Riverdance and the critically Presenters: Lisa McLoughlin and Dr Neil Kenny acclaimed Compañía Elvira Andrés led by the ex-director of the Presenters: Professor José-Miguel Marinas, Research by Van Staden, Myburgh and Poggenpoel in 2004 National Ballet of Spain. She has also performed in many other Rebeca Mateos Morante, Lisa McLoughlin and showed that professional dancers’ self-concept is strongly prestigious choreographies, including the last production of the Dr Neil Kenny influenced by their profession. This study explored six dancers’ famous Bodas de Sangre, which was overseen by its celebrated Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) phenomenological perceptions of what influences their movement choreographer, the late Antonio Gades. This seminar offers scholars from the disciplinary frameworks and their personal identity as dancers. An interpretive of psychoanalysis and psychology the opportunity to investigate phenomenological analysis framework was used to interpret the Lisa McLoughlin trained at the Rambert School, London. As the relationships between the body, dance and embodiment. qualitative data, and the results suggest that dance played a dancer, she has performed extensively across the globe with a central role in participants’ identity. companies such as the Liz Roche Dance Company, Daghdha, The Subject is the Body Coisceim, Marguerite Donlon, Citog, IMDT and Opera Ireland. Presenter: Professor José-Miguel Marinas José-Miguel Marinas is Professor of Ethics and Political As a choreographer, she was awarded the Jane Snow Award Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where for her choreography Tender hooks of honesty. She also co- Philosophical reflection coupled with psychoanalysis presents he coordinates the master’s in Psychoanalysis and Cultural produced and choreographed the critically acclaimed Fourtold an interesting meeting-point when considering a theory of the Theory. He also collaborates with the official Spanish state (2011) and Below the Tide (2012), both of which were funded body and the image of the dancer. Commencing with the agency for scientific investigation and lectures as part of the by the Arts Council of Ireland. She currently lectures in dance construction of the image of the subject from the dialectic of Ortega y Gasset Foundation. He has published extensively on at the Irish World Academy and is completing her MA thesis on desire, that desire, defined as desire de l’autre, demonstrates many themes, including analysis of the culture of consumption dance and psychology. the constitution of the body as a subject of alterity. ‘The Mirror (codes, conflicts and values), ethical psychoanalysis and the Stage’ and ‘Discourse of the Other’ are two Lacanian relationships between narrative constructions of identity and Dr Neil Kenny has an honours BA in Psychology from UCD as expressions that carry the discussion from the theory to praxis. new forms of political linkages. He currently directs the well as a PhD from NUI Maynooth. In addition, he is a Embodying the Mirror: The Construction of the Dancing ‘Community and Violence: The Political Culture of the Society of psychologist with 10 years’ experience of working directly Body through Its Specular Image Consumption’ project. with children, young people and families affected by autism Presenter: Rebeca Mateos Morante spectrum disorder. He currently lectures in psychology in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at the Corporal events are not only embodied in the immediacy of University of Limerick. their execution but also in the anticipation of their completion – a corporal schema that pre-empts corporal events. Likewise, the dancer in front of the mirror produces an associated ideal ‘as-if’ structure that is held by the specular image itself. The specular Femke Van Der Kooij performing at the Waking

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Wednesday April 15th Wednesday April 29th worked for the past 10 year at UL as a lecturer on the BSc in Physiotherapy and Grad Dip/MSc in Clinical Therapies Potential and Possibilities for Arts in Health in Ireland: The Music in Music Therapy programmes. Her current research interests include the use of A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective Presenter: Dr Julie Sutton movement analysis in the assessment of movement and fall risk Chair: Alpha Woodward (Irish World Academy) Presenters: Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Dr Amanda Clifford, and exercise programmes (including dance) for optimising Dr Tríona McCaffrey, Dr Olive Beecher and Dr Hilary Moss function and preventing falls. The powerful, therapeutic effect of music is widely appreciated. Chair: Dr Mats Melin (Irish World Academy) This seminar explores how we can experience and come to Dr Tríona McCaffrey is a qualified music therapist and lecturer understand the therapeutic aspects of music in different ways. The role of the arts in healthcare is increasingly being recognised on the MA Music Therapy programme at the Irish World Drawing together clinical and research findings from recent and developed in Ireland. It is a broad field of practice that Academy. Having studied music and Irish at Trinity College work with audio examples, some theoretical thinking that links encompasses a diverse range of disciplines and approaches, all Dublin, she completed her music therapy training at the with our unique, individual experience of music is proffered. of which are committed to promoting health and wellbeing Academy before taking up a full-time music therapy post at The underlying focus is a recognition of the subtle, complex through creativity. This seminar celebrates such diversity by Mayo Mental Health Services. Having practised in the areas of ways everyone can perceive music; how musical training and reflecting upon the role of the arts in health from the perspectives recovery, community mental health and psychiatry of old age, experience amplify this capacity; and the fundamental humanity of ethnochoreology, arts practice and creative arts therapy. The she has a broad experience of mental health services. In 2012, we find and connect with in music. seminar considers the possibilities and potentials for this multi- she was awarded a Conversion Diploma in Psychology from the disciplinary field while recognising the rich pathway that this offers Open University. Tríona’s recently completed doctoral studies Dr Julie Sutton works in a regional adult psychiatry NHS service for building a sense of connection, collaboration and community. focused on the service-user evaluation of music therapy in treating mental health issues. in Northern Ireland. She has a clinical and research supervision Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain lectures at the Irish World Academy practice across Europe and is an international presenter, lecturer and is course director of the MA in Irish Traditional Dance Dr Hilary Moss is Director of Arts and Health at the Adelaide and and examiner. She was former head of training for Nordoff- Performance. Her research interests include Irish dance among Meath Hospital Dublin, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital. Robbins London, consulted for the Pavarotti Music Centre in the diaspora, creative processes in competitive Irish solo step In addition to her MBA in Health Services Management, she is a Mostar, is a trustee of the British Association for Music Therapy, dance and arts in health as well as collaborative research on music therapist with particular experience of working with older past editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Music Therapy and set dancing and Parkinson’s with Dr Amanda Clifford and people and in mental health services. Her research interest lies in vice president of the European Music Therapy Association. Joanne Shanahan at the University of Limerick. She is a aesthetic deprivation. In 2014, she was awarded her PhD from the With many chapters and articles, she has written two books: registered Irish dance teacher and adjudicator with An Coimisiún School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Music, Music Therapy & Trauma (2002) and The Music in Music le Rincí Gaelacha and is an accomplished musician, singer and Dr Olive Beecher (BA, MA, PhD) is a professional dancer and Therapy (2014). dancer. Orfhlaith has travelled throughout the world as a tutor dance academic. She trained at Nikolais/Louis Dance School in and dance accompanist and has authored a book entitled The New York and was a founder member of Daghdha Dance Terminology of Irish Dance. Company under the artistic direction of Mary Nunan. Olive has Dr Amanda Clifford graduated with a BSc in Physiotherapy performed in New York, the UK and in theatres throughout from King’s College London and worked clinically in both the Ireland. In 2005, she completed her PhD, entitled Dance Experience NHS and private sectors in the UK as a senior orthopaedic, out- and Sense of Being – Therapeutic Applications of Contemporary patient and sports physiotherapist. She has worked with elderly, Dance. She has presented papers at seminars and conferences neurological, rheumatologic, acute and chronic patient groups. internationally and was selected to present at the CORD/SDHS Amanda’s PhD, from King's College London, is on postural Conference in Paris in 2007. She continues to choreograph and control following anterior cruciate ligament injury. She has has taught dance at the Irish World Academy since 2005. 19 ICO cellist Aoife Nic Athlaoich

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21 Alexander Khalil Helen Phelan Jerry O’Reilly Kristin McGee Martin Clayton

Thursday February 26th technologies to perpetuate late-nineteenth-century constructions FEBRUARY of the Orient. The research highlights the configuration of a “There Was a Lord Who Lived in This Town” – musical, kinetic and visual aesthetic and aims to ameliorate the Early Classic Ballads in the Irish Song Tradition imbalance of Orientalist studies (which prioritise male creativity) Thursday February 12th Presenter: Jerry O’Reilly to highlight female Orientalist performers. Chair: Dr Sandra Joyce (Irish World Academy) Finding the Beat: Music, Perception and the Mind See page 16 for a biographical note on Dr Kristin McGee. Presenter: Dr Alexander Khalil Jerry O’Reilly will present his research on the early classic Chair: Dr Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy) ballads in the Irish song tradition, featuring archival Thursday March 12th presentations as well as songs from the singers featured in This seminar explores the interdisciplinary space between the Man, Woman + Child project (see page 9). Studying Musical Entrainment: Methods and Challenges ethnomusicology, music performance and cognitive science in Presenter: Professor Martin Clayton its discussion of music, perception and the mind. Khalil’s Jerry O’Reilly is a noted singer who has given many talks on Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy) research on music, culture and cognitive development will the Child ballads and traditional song in general. He is one of provide a starting point for dialogue around these issues. the organisers of the Góilín Traditional Singers Club in Dublin. This seminar discusses the study of musical entrainment in depth. What methods have been used to analyse interpersonal Alexander Khalil is an ethnomusicologist, performer and The Góilín is regarded by many as the foremost singing club in coordination, and which of these might be applied in the composer. He holds a doctoral degree in music from the Ireland and has been running for 35 years. context of ethnographic music research? Quantitative analyses University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His doctoral can complement ethnographic research in various ways, but dissertation, “Echoes of Constantinople: Oral and Written does this approach serve to strengthen or to undermine an Tradition of the psaltes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”, explores MARCH ethnomusicological approach? Does ethnomusicology have as the complex process of interpreting written music. Khalil has much to teach cognitive science as vice versa, and, if so, what spent the past five years conducting research in cognitive is it? science. He was a postdoctoral scholar and trainee at the Thursday March 5th Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at UCSD, where he Exploring Orientalism and Erotic Multiculturalism in See page 16 for a biographical note on Professor Martin Clayton. conducted research on music, culture and cognitive development. Popular Culture Media He currently continues this work as a project scientist at the Institute for Neural Computation, La Jolla, California. Presenter: Dr Kristin McGee Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy) Said’s groundbreaking monograph Orientalism (1978) incited a critical examination of Western ‘Orientalist’ discourse. This seminar examines the continued relevance of this work by illustrating connections between early twentieth-century erotic representations of a ‘feminised Orient’ and contemporary negotiations of sex and gender in audiovisual contexts. Using Murni Omar and Faillul Adam (Malaysia), two case studies, Dr Kristin McGee will explore how Orientalist- MA Contemporary Dance Performance LOGOS SEMINAR SERIES LOGOS inspired female performers consistently incorporate new Photograph © Maurice Gunning

22 Alexander Khalil Helen Phelan Jerry O’Reilly Kristin McGee Martin Clayton Avanthi Meduri José-Miguel Marinas

Thursday March 26th Postcolonial Dance Negotiations Presenter: Dr Avanthi Meduri Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) Taking Bharatanatyam as a case study, this seminar explores issues relating to postcolonial identity formations. Utilising a historical perspective, Dr Avanthi Meduri examines the power politics of colonialism, Orientalism and Indian nationalism and traces its impact on Indian performing arts. The seminar engages with postcolonial themes of double consciousness, hybridity and subalterity and discusses these through the lens and practice of dance production and transmission. See page 17 for a biographical note on Dr Avanthi Meduri.

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Thursday April 9th Social Construction of the (Dancing) Body Presenter: Professor José-Miguel Marinas Chair: Dr Catherine Foley (Irish World Academy) This seminar considers the social construction of body representation: principally, the body as a subject-object in dance. The body might not be regarded as a social problem until a culture of consumption is established. Body as lineage, body as labour and body as consumption form a sequence of three repertoires in which our culture has been growing through patterns of defining identity between the intimate and the public; at the same time, they form three simultaneous records of the complex way in which we name ourselves. Correspondingly, Murni Omar and Faillul Adam (Malaysia), dance allows us to see the body as a scenario and as a show. MA Contemporary Dance Performance See page 18 for a biographical note on Professor José-Miguel Marinas. Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Catherine Sergent (France) sings with Cantoral Photograph © Maurice Gunning

25 Inishowen Song Project Irish World Academy Traditional Music and Dance Concert 2014 Katherine Hunka Alec Brown Ras Mikey Courtney

Thursday March 12th traditional music by exploring this repertoire as well as American FEBRUARY and Scottish traditional musics. Alec will be accompanied by Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings several Irish World Academy graduates who are accomplished in 1.15pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy the Irish music tradition as well as other genres. Wednesday February 25th Academos, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy (Director Alec Brown is an American cellist from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Katherine Hunka) with CIT Cork School of Music, the Royal Irish Inishowen Song Project singing session After finding a deep love of Irish traditional music following Academy of Music and the Irish World Academy of Music and 9pm, Scholar’s Bar, UL an injury to his hand, he completed the MA in Irish traditional Dance present Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen – see page music in the Irish World Academy on both traditional flute and Featuring singers from the Inishowen Song Project (see page 9), 10 for details. In addition to the performance at the Irish World the cello. His doctoral research focuses on how to expand the this special singing session in UL’s Scholar’s Bar will give people Academy on March 12th, the students will perform the piece in role of the cello within Irish traditional music by expanding the an opportunity to experience the fun and companionship of Cork and Dublin as follows: technical arsenal of cello players within the tradition. traditional singing. All are welcome. CIT Cork School of Music Curtis Auditorium Friday, March 13th at 1.10pm MAY MARCH Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin Venue TBC Tuesday May 26th Thursday March 5th Saturday, March 14th at 2.00 pm (YeBunna Alem/A Coffee World) Irish World Academy Traditional Music See page 10 for a biographical note on Katherine Hunka. 7pm, Tower Theatre 2, Irish World Academy and Dance Concert 8pm, University Concert Hall Ras Mikey Courtney APRIL This presentation is the first of Ras Mikey Courtney’s two Students, tutors, faculty and alumni of the Irish World Academy Ethio-Modern Dance PhD in Arts Practice performance works. Following on from the success of last year's concert featuring Ethio-modern dance is Ras Mikey’s embodied understanding traditional music and dance from the Irish World Academy, this Tuesday April 7th of Ethiopian traditions as seen through the lens of Western concert showcases a variety of interpretations and performance contemporary performing arts. This performance work centres practices. The concert will feature Irish World Academy Transcending Liminality: (Re)Locating Thebrowncello on the concept of coffee as a global culture. Known as bunna students, tutors, faculty, alumni and special guests. 7pm, Tower Theatre 2, Irish World Academy in Amharic, Ethiopia’s national language, coffee originates from Kaffa, a small region in Ethiopia. This dance performance Alec Brown examines the ways in which coffee/bunna has spread from This is the first of two performances by Alec Brown to comply Kaffa to the world. Ras Mikey will use the performing arts as a with the doctoral requirements of the PhD Arts Practice platform to illustrate how cultures from around the globe are programme at the Irish World Academy. ‘Thebrowncello’ connected through coffee, hence the title ‘A Coffee World’. represents the symbiotic relationship between the performer and SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL his instrument. Combining a range of techniques and influences See page 16 for a biographical note on Ras Mikey Courtney. gathered through Alec’s lived experience, Transcending Liminality shows how the role of the cello can be expanded in Irish 26 Inishowen Song Project Irish World Academy Traditional Music and Dance Concert 2014 Katherine Hunka Alec Brown Ras Mikey Courtney Colin Dunne Martin Hayes Jim Higgins Steve Cooney

JUNE /JULY

June 22nd to July 3rd 2015 Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance Irish World Academy The 19th Blas International Summer School of Irish Traditional Music and Dance takes place from June 22nd to July 3rd 2015. Attracting students (aged sixteen and over) from around the world to spend two weeks gaining access to the expertise of some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists, Blas is now firmly established as one of Ireland’s most prestigious summer schools. Previous artists who have participated in Blas include Colin Dunne, Martin Hayes, Jim Higgins and Steve Cooney. In 2010, musician, singer and composer Paul Brady made available bursaries that continued for three years. A new stream of Paul Brady Bursaries was made available in late spring 2013 and will continue for 2015. The recipients of the scholarships benefit from master classes from Ireland’s most distinguished traditional musicians, singers and dancers. Applications for the Blas Brady Bursary 2015 have been available since October 2014. For further information on the Blas Summer School, see www.blas.ie or contact Ernestine Healy, Director, at [email protected] or by phone at 061-202653.

David Bennis Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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AG FÉACHAINT SIAR A BACKWARD LOOK

Aisling Ní Cheallaigh, Fidget Feet Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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JULY Michael Flatley, Sir Cliff Richard and David Cronin of UL Foundation sitting at Flatley’s Steinway Concert Grand Piano Step-Up: Dance Project 2014 2014

Michael Flatley gifts Steinway Grand Piano to the Irish World Academy Step-Up: Dance Project 2014 The Lord of the Dance, Michael Flatley, welcomed Sir Cliff Richard to his home at Castle Hyde with a special event to celebrate the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance played host star's unique contribution to the music industry. During the event, Michael Flatley announced that he would be gifting a Steinway in July 2014 to some of Ireland’s most promising contemporary Concert Grand Piano to the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at UL. dance graduates as part of the Step-Up: Dance Project 2014. The overall aim of the project is to create a bridge between JUNE contemporary dance education and professional contemporary 2014 dance practice in Ireland. The 2014 project provided seven of Blas International Summer School of Traditional Irish Music and Dance Ireland’s most talented young contemporary dancers with the Celebrating its 18th year, the Blas International Summer School of Traditional Irish Music and Dance has developed a opportunity to create and perform a new contemporary dance reputation for quality and innovation. Blas 2014’s two-week programme featured some of Ireland’s finest traditional artists under the direction of guest choreographer Michael Keegan- working alongside local musicians, singers, dancers and academics to deliver first-rate tuition through interactive master classes, Dolan. The selected dancers were Ailish Maher, Aifric Ní daily lunchtime concerts and evening performances. In addition to formal lectures and a public seminar, innovative events on the Chaoimh, Marion Cronin, Magda Herzak, Juan Urbina, Adam programme included daily Irish classes, an excursion to a number of Ireland’s greatest tourist attractions in Co Clare and an Irish Faillul and Murni Omar. Also working on the piece were six traditional table quiz. Artists who attended Blas 2014 included Matt Molloy, Martin Hayes, Steve Cooney, John Carty, dancers from Fabulous Beast Dance Company, who mentored Donal Lunny, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Michelle Mulcahy, Louise Mulcahy and many more. the seven young dancers throughout the project. The work was shown in Limerick, Dublin and Cork. Enjoying themselves at the Blas ‘Ladies Concert’ were, from left to right, Katie Boyle, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Ernestine Healy Developed as a shared initiative between the Irish World (Blas Director), Michelle Mulcahy and Louise Mulcahy. Academy of Music and Dance, Dance Ireland and the Arts Council, the 2014 project included Dance Limerick and Fabulous Beast Dance Company as partners. The project’s general manager was Lisa Hallinan, and members of the steering committee included Dr Mary Nunan (Irish World Academy), Paul Johnson (Chief Executive, Dance Ireland), Dr Victoria O’Brien (Dance Advisor to the Arts Council) and Jenny Traynor (Dance Limerick). RECENT EVENTS AT THE ACADEMY AT EVENTS RECENT

30 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2014 2014

Step-Up: Dance Project 2014 Michael Flatley and cast member rehearse at the Irish World Academy (Photo © Brian Doherty)

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

JULY 2014 Professor Sir Christopher Frayling launches the WATERMARK exhibition.

Dr Catherine Foley elected chair of the International Launch of WATERMARK exhibition by Council for Traditional Music’s (ICTM) Study Group on Professor Sir Christopher Frayling Ethnochoreology Drawing its title from Dan Beachy-Quick’s poem Exegesis of the First Word Spoken (Ishmael), this exhibition began by bringing Dr Catherine Foley of the Irish World Academy was elected chair of the together the work of three visual artists – Fiona Hallinan, Aaron International Council for Traditional Music’s (ICTM) Study Group on Lawless and David Lilburn – and that of the playwright, actor Ethnochoreology in July, 2014. The ICTM is a non-governmental organisation in and documentary theatre maker Helena Enright. Commissioned formal consultative relations with UNESCO. Its aims are to further the study, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Irish World Academy of practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, WATERMARK “(sing and dance, including folk, popular, classical and urban music and dance of all above or sing below the wave’s back)” draws on the rich archive countries. Ethnochoreology is the academic study of dance and human movement of sounds, images and memories within the Academy itself as well of all cultures, and the Study Group on Ethnochoreology is the largest group as on the daily flow of music, voices and activity throughout the within the ICTM and the oldest scholarly community of dance in the world. building and, of course, the parallel flow of the river Shannon at its Currently, the group has a membership from over 45 nations worldwide. banks. The exhibition was launched by historian, writer and award- The increased presence since the 1990s of ethnochoreology and dance winning broadcaster Professor Sir Christopher Frayling. anthropology programmes at universities in Europe is evidence of the growing interest in the field of dance, human movement practices and culture. The Study Group on Ethnochoreolgy provides an important forum and network for all scholars working and researching in this multidisciplinary field.

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

Launch of Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the SEPTEMBER International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study 2014 Group on Ethnochoreology 2012 Field Trip to North Kerry Co-edited by Elsie Ivancich Dunin and Dr Catherine E. Foley, Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the International Postgraduate students from six MA programmes in music, song and dance – academic based and practice based – at the Irish Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on World Academy recently participated in a field trip to North Kerry with Dr Catherine Foley. Dr Foley has been involved in field Ethnochoreology 2012 was launched by Irish World Academy research in the area since 1980, initially as a collector of Irish traditional music, song and dance for Muckross House, Killarney Director Dr Sandra Joyce on Wednesday September 24th at and later for her own personal research into traditional dancing in the area. Organised as part of the module on fieldwork the Academy. The ICTM symposium was held at the Irish World methods, the trip focused on Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, and afforded students the opportunity to Academy in July 2012. As a non-governmental organisation in participate in traditional Irish music, song and dance workshops with professional members of Siamsa Tíre (Jonathan Kelliher, formal consultative relations with UNESCO, the aims of the Nicky McAuliffe, Tom Hanafin, Joanne Barry and Anne O' Donnell). Participants also attended the Siamsa Tíre production ICTM are to further the study, practice, documentation, Clann Lir, performed with members of the theatre at Culture Night and visited the Kerry Museum and Teach Siamsa, Finuge. preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance, The postgraduate students attended a public interview between Dr Catherine Foley and Fr Pat Ahern (founding artistic including folk, popular, classical and urban music and dance of director of Siamsa Tíre) and a public lecture by Dr Muiris Ó Laoire (Institute of Technology Tralee). The students also found all countries. The Study Group in Ethnochoreology is the oldest time to participate in local music and dance sessions. scholarly dance community in the world, and the 27th symposium at the University of Limerick welcomed contributions Postgraduate students from the Irish World Academy enjoy music and dancing on a recent field trip to Kerry. from participants from Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and the USA. RECENT EVENTS AT THE ACADEMY AT EVENTS RECENT

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

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins with Professor Mícheál O Súilleabháin of the Irish World Academy SEPTEMBER Fidget Feet 2014

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

SEPTEMBER 2014

33 The Darkest Midnight Concert BEALACH Photograph © Maurice Gunning

34 IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DANCE BEALACH

COMMUNITY CULTURAL PATHWAYS AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

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

36 Cruinniú Ionad na Cruite National Dance Archive of Ireland Maoin Cheoil an Chláir ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy

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

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

Cairenn Keegan and Sandra Joyce Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AT THE IRISH WORLD ACADEMY

Yoann an Nedeleg (Brittany), MA Traditional Music Performance Photograph © Maurice Gunning

39 Irish Chamber Orchestra The Chieftains Dance Limerick Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company

Irish Chamber Orchestra Dance Limerick

The Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) has gained a remarkable Since its inception, the contemporary dance programme at the reputation as a fresh and vibrant force on the Irish and Irish World Academy has sought to twin-track its activities with international music scene and is recognised as one of Ireland’s the professional contemporary dance energy in Limerick city. world-class cultural assets. The ICO excels in a diverse repertoire The emergence of Dance Limerick at the former Daghdha that ranges from classical to modern-day masterpieces and new Space in St. John’s Square sets the scene for a new level of commissions. Outside the concert hall, the ICO stimulates minds cooperative dance activity. The Irish World Academy is proud to and hearts with vitality unmatched by other ensembles. It offers be associated with Dance Limerick and looks forward to music as an instrument of social change; by introducing children reclaiming the original spirit of contemporary dance cooperation to music, creativity, innovation, understanding and openness, in Limerick. it helps them to reach their full potential as individuals. The ICO resides on UL’s north campus adjacent to the Irish Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company World Academy and is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company has been appointed Irish World Academy Dance Company in Residence for an additional The Chieftains three years following a year of creative interaction with the Academy’s newest programme – the MA Festive Arts. Interacting with up to 80 student musicians and dancers from Originating in Donegal, Fidget Feet is Ireland’s leading aerial Irish World Academy programmes, The Chieftains continue dance theatre company and is internationally renowned for their iconic association with the Academy through their occa- creating spectacular indoor and outdoor productions for both sional concerts at UL. In memory of their late harper Derek Bell, theatres and festivals. The company’s dynamic work draws The Chieftains Fund has been in operation at the Academy for on dance, aerial circus, theatre, music and video art. Founded a number of years, and it is through this fund that the Academy in 2004 by choreographer Chantal McCormick (Donegal) and launched Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research Centre, in musician Jym Daly (Cork), Fidget Feet work with an outstanding 2013. production team to create productions that are both original and fresh.

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

40 Irish Chamber Orchestra The Chieftains Dance Limerick Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company

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

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RESEARCH AT THE ACADEMY

Dr Cyprian Love OSB accompanying a silent movie from the O'Kalem Collection Photograph © Maurice Gunning

43 As the Academy celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it continues to Since the formation of its structured PhD in Arts Practice (the first Burns, Shannon pioneer new research specialisations and to attract one of the highest of its kind in Ireland), the Academy has become a national leader (2014) Performing Knowledge: Assessing Learning through proportions of international research students in the university. With in advocating for the recognition of arts practice research. Student Performance, Performing Identity: Embodying Knowledge six new candidates accepted for the PhD Arts Practice across a variety Recently, one of the Academy’s doctoral students was one of the Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 19 June of research areas, from choral conducting to aerial dance, and with first scholars to be awarded funding by the Irish Research Council 2014. a number of new research PhDs in community festivity, traditional for an arts practice doctorate in performance. As well as (2014) Musicianship for Dancers: Perspectives from a Dancer and a dance and a range of other subject specialisations, PhD numbers at coordinating a faculty panel on arts practice research at the Society Music Teacher, Dance Research Forum Ireland 5th International the Academy continue to rise. for Musicology conference and the Society for Music Education Conference: Dance Legacies, DanceHouse, Dublin, Ireland, 3 July 2014. conference, the Academy hosted a national symposium on arts As well as being recognised as a global leader in Irish traditional (2013) Transmitting Music Theory: A Performative and music and dance studies, the Academy has developed research practice research at NUI Galway in November 2014 in cooperation with the Burren School of Art and the Huston School of Film & Pedagological Exploration, Society for Music Education Ireland initiatives in music and dance ethnography, arts practice research, 3rd Annual Conference: The Music Education Gathering: Legacies, music and health and, most recently, festive and community arts. New Media. Among the invited guests was the Director of the Irish Research Council, Dr Eucharia Meehan. Conversations, Aspirations, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland, 1 In the area of Irish music and dance studies, the Academy has November 2013. The Music & Health Research Group continues to publish a range recently established Ionad na Cruite, the Irish Harp Research Cotter, Pamela Centre, to promote scholarship around the Irish harp. Step Dancing of research actions and interests in three thematic areas: music and everyday life; music, health, and society; and the applications of music (2013) ‘Foreigners in the Session: An Examination of Participation in Ireland: Culture and History (Ashgate) by Catherine Foley has been and Authenticity at the Costello’s Irish Music Session’ in Taking Part shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2014. for health and in healthcare. A current area of interest of this group relates to the inclusion of service user perspectives in health research. in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology, Elphinstone Institute Ethnographic inquiry in music and dance continues to inform our Occasional Publications 9, eds. Ian Russell and Catherine Ingram. faculty’s collective expertise in ethnochoreology, ethnomusicology Since the foundation of the MA Festive Arts programme in Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, in association with the and related areas. The Proceedings of the 27th Symposium of the September 2013, strong links have been established across the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, pp. 198-215. ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology was launched on 24 festival community and industry in Ireland. Recent research-related initiatives include a partnership with ISACS (the Irish Street Arts, de Gallaí, Breandán September, 2014. From 13 to 15 September, 2015, the Academy (2013) Neither Here nor There: Exploring the Tranformative through will host the first ever collaboration of the International Council Circus and Spectacle Network), an extension of the residency arrangement with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Company, and becoming Choreography, TEDx Talk, Dublin City University, accessible at http:// for Traditional Music and the Society for Ethnomusicology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxOVws8O_o. Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis through Activism and a partner with Galway Community Circus on an ERASMUS+ funding Community Engagement. In addition, the European Seminar in proposal around the development of community circus pedagogy (2013) The Rising, Choreography for a play be Joe O’Byrne, Ethnomusicology (ESEM) will hold its annual conference at the in Europe. This two-year project involves research partners across The Rising, Powerscourt Theatre, Dublin. six European countries working together to identify youth and Academy from 16 to 20 September. (2013) Imeall-Siúl: A Choreographic Exploration of the Expressive social circus professional profiles and training and professional Possibilities in Irish Dance, unpublished thesis (PhD), University of The LimerickSoundscapes interdisciplinary research cluster held an development needs. The MA Festive Arts programme is also part Limerick. international conference entitled ‘Urban Soundscapes and Critical of the UL-based LANDscape research cluster, which focuses on Citizenship’ in the Academy in March 2014. The cluster is currently ideas of place-making and the experience of the festive space. (2013) 'Re-Visioning the Rite: An Exploration of the Expressive editing a special edition for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies on Possibilities of Irish Dance' in Sacre Celebrations: Revisiting, Artists-in-residence enhance the rich, creative environment within this theme. The Discourse, Power, and Society research cluster held Reflecting, Revisioning, York University Toronto: Society of which both traditional and practice-based research occurs. The a conference entitled ‘In the Frame: Public and Political Discourses of Dance History Scholars, accessible at http://sacre.info.yorku.ca/ Academy hosts numerous performance events as well as a weekly, Migration’ at UL in April 2014. Rowman and Littlefield commissioned files/2013/10/de-Gallai.pdf. a book series from the cluster, and the first book will include interdisciplinary public seminar (the Tower seminar series) and a (2013) 'Noctú – New Dances New Community', in Melin, M., expanded papers from the conference. Members of the more specialist postgraduate seminar based around invitations to and Ní Bhriain, O., eds., Connecting Communities Through Dance, Performance, Text, Context Cluster @ UL collaborated with the visiting scholars (the LOGOS seminar series). Proceedings of Dance Research Forum, Ireland’s 4th International Department of French (Mary Immaculate College) to host an Recent publications (2013/14) at the Academy include Conference, University of Limerick: Limerick. interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Performing Identities, Baines, Susan Embodying Knowledge’ at MIC in June 2014. Expanded papers Dillane, Aileen (2013) Music Therapy as an Anti-Oppressive Practice. Arts in will feature in a special journal edition in 2015. The Popular Music (2014) Sound and Envisions: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ and the case for Psychotherapy, 40, 1-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.003. Popular Culture cluster will hold a conference in spring 2015 on Pierrot’ in David Bowie: Critical Perspectives, ed. Devereux, Power, ‘Songs of Social Protest’. The publication David Bowie: Critical (2013) 'A Brief Anti-Oppressive Analysis of Music Pedagogy, the Dillane. New York: Routledge. Perspectives, which is based on the 2012 David Bowie Symposium Professional Musician, and the Music Business: A Case for Music

TAIGHDE (2014) ‘Sonar-Cities: Learning Culture Through City Soundscapes’. held in UL, will be published by Routledge in 2015. Therapy'. Music: Social Impacts, Health Benefits and Perspectives, World Of Music, 3(1). Nova Sciences Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY. 44 (2014) ‘I Can Have Both: A Queer Reading of Morrissey’, with (2014) 'Proactive Archiving, Partnerships, and Applied The XXIX Seminar in Ethnomusicology, 4 - 8 September 2013, Devereux, E. and Power, M., Journal of European Popular Culture, Ethnochoreology: The National Dance Archive of Ireland. Institute of Musicology & Centre for Cultural Studies, University of 5(2). MUSICultures: Journal of The Canadian Society for Traditional Music Bern, Switzerland. (2014) ‘Aislings and Avatars: Irish (Traditional Music), Performativity, / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales. (2013) ‘Bodhrán’ in White, H. and Boydell, B. (General Eds.) The and Cultural Intimacy’, 25th Annual Sean Ó Riada Memorial Lecture, Ronald Labelle and Heather Sparling (Eds). Special Issue 40(2). Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press. ed. Mary Mitchell-Ingolsby and Mel Mercier. Cork: University College (2014) With Elsie Ivancich Dunin (Eds.) Dance, Place, Festival: 27th (2013) ‘Bones’ in White, H. and Boydell, B. (General Eds.) Cork Traditional Music Society. Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music’s The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, Dublin, UCD Press. Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Limerick: Irish World Academy (2013) 'Composing Identity, Fiddling with (Post) Ethnicity: (2013) Bodhrán: Lytning og kontekst. Roskilde. Lirum Larum Forlag. Liz Carroll's 'Lake Effect''. MUSICultures Special Edition: Atlantic of Music and Dance, University of Limerick (333 pages, including Roots and Routes. Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Labanoted samples and coloured photographs). (2013) Groove Toget: Ostinater, Grooves og Riffs i Bodhrán-spil. Music, 40(1). (2014) ‘Negotiating the ‘Native Self’ and the ‘Professional Self’: Roskilde. Lirum Larum Forlag. (2013) ‘Ethnomusicological Theory and Practice: Towards an Irish Ethnochoreological and Ethnomusicological Challenges in the Field’. (2013) ‘Peter Horan and Batty Sherlock: Basket of Turf/Geese in the Ethnomusicology.’ Crossroads Conference: Education and Traditional In Anne Margrete Fiskvik and Marit Stranden (Eds.) (Re)Searching Bog’ in ICTM Ireland Fieldwork. An annotated CD publication of Music, ed. Fintan Vallely et al. Dublin: Whinstone. the Field. Festschrift in honor of Egil Bakka. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. fieldwork recordings from Ireland by the International Council For Pp. 227-242. Traditional Music, Ireland. (2013) 'Nostalgic Songlines and the Performance of Irish Identity'. Bealoideas Special Edition, Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, (2013) Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History (print and Kosovske, Yonit Vol. 81. electronic). Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series (General Editor, (2014) ‘A Night in Bethlehem.’ Irish Chamber Orchestra. Bregenz, Derek Scott). Farmham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Austria / Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany. (2013) ‘Jim Donoghue’ in ICTM Ireland Fieldwork. An annotated CD publication of fieldwork recordings from Ireland by the International (2013) ‘Irish Traditional Dance Within Third Level Education’. In (2014) ‘Magic of Marwood.’ Irish Chamber Orchestra. RDS Concert Council for Traditional Music, Ireland. Fleadh Cheoil na Mumhan Programme. University of Limerick: Hall, Dublin / University Concert Hall, University of Limerick. Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann. Pp. 147-155. Downey, Jean (2014) ‘Two Harpsichord Recital.’ Yonit Kosovske & Colin Booth. (2013) ‘Performing Skills at Second Level’: A Hands on Musical Joyce, Sandra Sligo Festival of Baroque Music. Sligo. (2014) Klangfestival Naturstimmen Festival. Song Performance. 8 Approach. 12 October. PPMTA Conference, Athlone (2014) ‘Polish Keyboard Music 1500–1700.’ Solo Harpsichord Re- June. Toggenburg, Switzerland. Katholischen Kirche, Alt St. Johann. cital. Culture Night. Polish Arts Festival. Millennium Theatre, Limerick Edwards, Jane KlangWelt Toggenburg. Invited event. (2013) Examining the role and functions of self-development in Institute of Technology. Limerick. (2014) Naturstimmen Klangfestival im Toggenburg. CD recording. healthcare therapy trainings: a review of the literature with a (2014) ‘Keyboard Chromaticism: Vocal Models, Instrumental Track 4, 'The Haymaking Song' and Track 17 'Gemeinsamer modest proposal for the use of learning agreements. European Contexts.’ Solo Harpsichord–Faculty Lecture Faculty Recital. San Ausklang' (CD2). Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 15(3), 214-232. Francisco Early Music Society–Baroque Workshop. Sonoma State (2013) (With Simon Gilbertson and Alison Ledger) Exploring (2014) Splanc Concert. Performance of new material by Hazelwell. University. Rohnert Park, California, USA. 24 April. University Concert Hall, Limerick. Irish World Academy potentials for the use of music and music therapy in antenatal care: (2014) ‘Venetian Glory.’ Faculty Chamber Concert. San Francisco event. Material arranged by Hazelwell. A review and discussion. Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Early Music Society–Baroque Workshop. San Francisco Early Music Arts Therapies, 7(1), 36-41. Kjeldsen, Svend Society–Baroque Workshop. Sonoma State University. Rohnert Park, (2013) (With Alison Ledger and Michael Morley) A change (2014) Mancunian Irish: Identity, Cultural Intimacy and Musical California, USA. Hybridization. Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge, management perspective on the introduction of music therapy to (2014) ‘Musical Offering, J.S. Bach.’ Killaloe Chamber Music Festival, Interdisciplinary Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, interprofessional teams. Journal of Health Organization and Joachim Roewer, artistic director. Killaloe, Co Clare. Management, 27(6), 714-732. Ireland, 19-20 June 2014. (2014) ‘Ireland's Golden Age.’ USA Concert Tour. Irish Baroque (2014) Urban Ethnomusicology and Irish Music in the British/Irish (2013) (With Annemieke van den Tol) Exploring a rationale for Orchestra, Monica Huggett, director. Shalin Liu Performance Center. Diaspora. The Tower Seminar Series, March 26th, 2014, choosing to listen to sad music when feeling sad. Psychology of Rockport, Massachusetts. / Jorgensen Center for the Performing Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Music, 41, 440-465. Arts. UConn, Storrs, Connecticut. / Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Foley, Catherine (2013) Mancunian Irish: Identity, Ownership and Musical Center. Manhattan, New York. Hybridization. ICTM Postgraduate Conference, November 9th, 2013, (2014) Performance of Molyneaux Traditional Dance Material at (2013) "Continuum." Contemporary Solo Harpsichord Recital, Works Humanities Institute, University College Dublin. Culture Night, 26 September, Siamsa Tíre, National Folk Theatre of from 1970–2013. Hilltown New Music Festival. Westmeath. Radio Ireland, Tralee. (2013) Mancunian Irish: Musical Hybridization and Cultural Broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s NOVA of Ailís Ní Ríain’s ‘2 Steep 4 Sheep Intimacy. Urban Ethnomusicology and Cultural Mapping. (some hills are).’ 45 (2013) ‘Omaggio a Corelli.’ Festival Orchestra Concert. Hiro Kurosaki (2013) Imágenes | Voces | CuerposTextosEXPUESTOS: Sobre el Contexts and Creative Processes', MUSICultures. Special Issue: and Veronika Skuplik, directors. Barockstage Festival at Melk Proceso Creativo la Obra y el Proyecto El Cuerpo Exhausto. Essay- Atlantic Roots and Routes, Journal of the Canadian Society for Monastery. Vienna, Austria. Performance for Six Bodies. 20 November. Escuela Superior de Músi- Traditional Music, eds. Heather Sparling, Kati Szego, and Frances (2013) ‘Ireland's Golden Age.’ Concert Tour. Irish Baroque ca y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM Wilkinson, 40(1). Orchestra, Monica Huggett, director. Grand Masonic Lodge, Dublin / with support from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico. (2013) 'Visual Learning in the 21st Century: Cape Breton Step Dance Cork School of Music. Cork / Barockstage Festival at Melk Monastery. (2013). Sonography for 100 Voices. TEDxYouth@GarzaGarcía. 16 on the Small Screen and as a Learning Tool in the Dance Class', Vienna, Austria. November. San Pedro Garza García, N.L., Mexico. Canadian Folk Music, 46(4), 1-6. (2013) ‘Vivaldi's Gloria.’ Maynooth Chamber Choir, Michael Dawson, (2013) TRANSLATIONS. For orchestra. 23 October. Teatro del Ní Bhriain, Orfhlaith director. National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Centro de las Artes. Commissioned by the Faculty of Music of the (2014) Shanahan J, Clifford A, Bhriain Ni O, Volpe D. and Morris ME. (2013) ‘A Concert of Choral Music.’ DkIT Choir. Cathedral of Saint Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico. Dance for people with Parkinson’s disease: what is the evidence Patrick and Saint Colman, Newry, Ireland. (2013) String Quartet. Performed by ensemble NURE. 12 June. telling us? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Available online September 2014. Mascareñas, Óscar Teatro del Centro de las Artes. Commisioned by the Consejo para la (2014) BA Voice and Dance Women’s Chorale. Artistic Director. 1000 Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Mexico. (2013) Contemporary Irish Dance Choreography: T is for Tradition, Voices for Peace International Choir Festival. 3 to 9 November. Gent (2013) No Nos-Otros (Not Us-Others). Multidisciplinary work. Trophy, Theatre and Time to Dance. An essay on contemporary Irish and Brussels, Belgium. Artistic Director. 11 January. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de step dance commissioned by Dance Ireland. (2014) E.D.G.E. For voice - Choreosonography for Peyee Chen. 18 Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support (2013) Shanahan J, Clifford A, Bhriain Ni O, Volpe D. and Morris October. INTIME2014 Symposium of Experimental Music. Coventry, from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico. ME. (2013) “A randomized controlled feasibility trial to determine England. McCaffrey, Tríona the effectiveness of set dancing for people with Parkinson’s disease: (2014) (With Sue Baines, Jane Edwards and Jason Noone) Including Protocol” available: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0175 (2014) From With-In Not With-Out. Work for mixed instrumental 7509?term=set+dancing&rank=1. and vocal ensemble. 18 June. Teatro del Centro de las Artes. service user perspectives in research: Reflections of the Music & Commisioned by the Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo Health Research Group at the University of Limerick. Irish (2013) Introduction in Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Melin, Mats eds. Dance León. Monterrey, Mexico. Association of Creative Arts Therapists Journal, 2(1), 1-39. Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, (2014) String Quartet. Performed by ensemble NURE. 18 June. Teatro (2014). Evaluating music therapy through art, song and words: A service user perspective. Conference presentation at Refocus on University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June to 1 July, 2012. del Centro de las Artes. Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland. León. Monterrey, Mexico. Recovery 2014, London, UK: The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. NicGhabhann, Niamh (2014) Choreosonography for 24 bodies. May 15. Theatre 1. Irish (2014) ‘That Kind of Beauty’, Dublin Review of Books accessible at World Academy of Music and Dance. Limerick, Ireland. (2013) Music therapists’ experience of self in clinical improvisation in music therapy: a phenomenological investigation. The Arts in http://www.drb.ie/essays/that-kind-of-beauty. (2013) A Bedtime Story for Molly Bloom. For guitar, vibraphone and Psychotherapy, 40(3), 306-11. (2014) Editor, WATERMARK, curated exhibition and accompanying timpani. 18 December. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de catalogue, published by the University of Limerick. Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support (2013). Embracing recovery in music therapy in mental health: from the National Council for the Culture and the Arts What is your experience of music therapy? Music therapy and (2013) Edited section on the historiography of Irish art, Journal (CONACULTA) and the National Institute for the Fine Arts (INBA). mental health recovery symposium. Conference presentation at 9th of Art Historiography, ed. Richard Woodfield, Vol. 9, accessible at Monterrey, Mexico. European Music Therapy Congress, Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Music http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/. Therapy Association. (2013) 21 SOLOS PARA CUERPO. Choreosonography for 21 bodies (2013) Curated exhibition, Shaping Identities Together: Ag Cruthú le and instrumental ensemble. 18 December. Escuela Superior de Melin, Mats Chéile, with Colin Martin, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Hughie O’Donoghue, Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM (2014) The Piper’s Schottische. Choreography, couple dance. Geraldine O’Reilly and Robert Russell, at the Institute for Ireland in with support from CONACULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico. Ceolas Summer School, 7-11 July, South Uist, Scotland. Europe, Leuven, Belgium. (2013) IN-SIMUL. Choreosonography for 100+ performers. (2013) Introduction in Ni Bhriain, Orfhlaith; Melin, Mats eds. Dance (2013) Editor, ‘Founts of meaning: five contemporary artists and the 4 December. Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting books of the Irish Franciscans in Europe’, in the exhibition catalogue (ESMDM). Commissioned by the ESMDM with support from CONAC- Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, Shaping Identities Together: Ag Cruthú le Chéile, Dublin: Graphic ULTA and INBA. Monterrey, Mexico. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June -1 July, 2012. Studio Dublin. Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland. Noone, Matthew (Mattu) (2013) 'Step Dancing in Cape Breton and Scotland: Contrasting (2014) Moonlight on Galway Bay: The Songs Our Fathers Used TAIGHDE

46 to Sing. Audio recording with Sean Tyrell. Claddagh Records. (2014) Country Cycle, a limited edition CD of County Cycle for Piano First Performance: RTÉ Concert Orchestra, soloist Iarla Ó Lionaird LMCD009. and String Orchestra by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, performed and (NCH Dublin; broadcast RTÉ lyric fm). (2013) The Bahh Band. Indian Tour. Pondicherry, Indian Surf Festival directed by the composer with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. (2013) Madison’s Descent: A Masque in Ten Movements for sopra- (26 January); Bangalore, B flat Club Festival (30 January); Chennai, Produced for the Ernie O’Malley Symposium on Modern Ireland and no, piano, chamber orchestra. European Premiere, Junction Festival Global Music festival (2 February); Pondicherry, Auroville (2 February); Revolution at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University (April Chamber Orchestra and Choir (broadcast RTÉ lyric fm). 2014). Bangalore, Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music (9 February). Supported (2013) Phoenix Rising: for symphony orchestra and piano – music by Culture Ireland. (2014) Pioneers and Aviators: A Century of Irish Aviation, a limited for the film documentary by Alan Gilsenan on Irish aviation. First (2013) The Bahh Band. Live Performance. 21 June. Body N Soul edition publication (Book/DVD/CD) by AVOLON to mark the film Performance: RTÉ Concert Orchestra, soloist Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin festival, main stage, Ballinalough, Westmeath. documentary by Alan Gilsenan with orchestral score by Micheál (broadcast by RTÉ 1). Ó Súilleabháin, performed by the composer with the RTÉ Concert (2013) Between the Reels and the Ragas. Live Performance with Orchestra. (2013) Between Worlds: for Piano and String Quartet. Performance: Tommy Hayes. Galway Fringe Festival, Arus na Gael, Galway (12 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin with Notre Dame String Quartet (DeBartolo July); Spirit of Folk Festival, Westmeath; Pearse Museum & City Hall, (2014) A Celebration of Seamus Heaney, 23rd April, National Center for Performing Arts, University of Notre Dame) Concert Hall Dublin, Poetry Ireland, Performance. Dublin (20 September-25 October); Cork Folk Festival, City Hall, Cork Phelan, Helen (10-13 October); Diwali celebrations, Mansion House, Dublin (2014) The Arts in Higher Education, A Symposium, Friday 9th May, (2014) ‘Sionna’s Box’ essay for Watermark, Academy 20 exhibition (1 November). Higher Education Authority, Croke Park Conference Centre Dublin, publication, 32-36. Invited Address on Irish World Academy and Artists in Residence Nunan, Mary (2014) Cantoral. Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud! / Laetabundus (2014) In the Bell’s Shadow. Dance Film. Premier December 2104. (2014) The Plains of Boyle, Opening Concert Boyle Arts Festival, 1 decantet hybernicorum cetus. CD. IWA001. Collaborative artist and performer. Funded by the Arts Council/An August. Chomhairle Ealaíon. (2014) Cantoral CD Launch performance. 29 October. Limerick City (2014) A Celebration of Seamus Heaney, Opening Concert Lorient of Culture, Dance Limerick. (2014) ‘Starting with T’. Dance Film. Installation/Premier October Interceltic Festival, 2 August, Municiple Theatre Lorient, 2014. Director/choreographer. Funded by Limerick City of Culture, Performance. (2013) Cantoral ensemble performance. 17 July. The Irish Seminar, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France. Limerick City Gallery and Create. (2014) Phoenix Rising: The Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, 4th (2013) ‘Dancers’. Ensemble choreography. Premier October 2013. September, RTE Concert Orchestra, National Concert Hall Dublin, (2013) Cantoral international tour. 15–17 October. Class of 1959 Choreographer. Daghdha Space, Dance Limerick, funded by the Arts Termon, Port na bPúcaí, An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Francesco Walks, Chapel, Harvard, and Debartolo Performing Arts Center, University Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Madison’s Descent. Rcorded by broadcast by RTE lyric fm. of Notre Dame, USA. Nzewi O’dyke (2014) Vertical Man: Remembering Seán O Riada, Clifden Arts Quigley, Colin (2014) Performance Composition: For Effective Classroom Music Festival, 19th September, Performance. (2014) Dance Revival Activism and Ethnochoreological Research: Education. Saarbrucken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. The Hungarian Dance House Example. Festschrift for Egil Bakka. Ed. (2014) Bright Vision: Music from a Hidden Ireland, Pavilion Arts Anne Fiskvik and Marit Stranden. Trondheim: Akademia Academic (2014) (With Meki Nzewi and Rose Omolo-Ongati) Integration of the Centre Dublin, 21 September. Press. Arts in the Classroom: A Practical Sharing Experience. International (2014) ‘In the Quiet Places of the Heart’: A Meditation for Michael Society for Music Education (ISME), 31st International conference. (2014) György Martin’s Place in Applied Ethnochoreology. Acta at Michelmas, Freedom of the City award to President Michael D Ethnographica Hungarica, pp. 279-289. Budapest: Akademia Kiado. Porte Alegre, Brazil 20-25th July 2014. Higgins, 29th September, Milk Market Limerick, Performance. (2014) Libation: An intercultural ensemble music performance. (2014) The Hungarian Dance House Movement and Revival of (2014) ‘O’Neill’s Music of Ireland’, a Lecture Recital, The Hibernian Transylvanian String Band Music. The [Oxford] Handbook of Music 8th May. 1st PhD performance. Irish world academy for music and Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 3 October dance, Limerick, Ireland. Revivals. Ed. Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill, pp. 180-200. Oxford: (2013) Bóthar na Sop, a composition for violin and guitar issued on Oxford University Press. (2013) ‘Embedding the traditional concept of community within CD Go Mairir i Bhfad/Long Life to You by Zoe Conway (violin) and contemporary, indigenous musical arts training in Africa’, in Gaunt, John McIntyre (guitar). (2013) Tradition as Generative Process: An Example from European/ Euro-American Fiddling. Musical Traditions: Discovery, Inquiry, H and Westerlund, H (eds). Collaborative Learning in Higher Music (2013) So Merrily Dance, new version for symphony orchestra. First Education, Ashgate Publishers, pp. 199-204. Interpretation, and Application. Ed. Pál Richter. Budapest: HAS, Performance: BBC Ulster Orchestra, Belfast. Research Centre for the Humanities, pp. 45-55. Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál (2013) Film music for Let’s Talk Film Series: six short films on death, (2014) IMBOLC, a composition for soprano and female chant (2013) Editor, Ethnomusicology Ireland: The Journal of the ICTM dying, loss and care. Compassionate Communities Project, Milford Irish National Committee. Volume 2/3: 111 pp. ensemble. First performance by Sharon Lyons (solo) and Cantoral at Care Centre, Limerick. Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, April 2014. (2013) Three Sean-Nós Songs for Singer and Symphony Orchestra.

47 Smishkewych, Wolodymyr (2014) (With Rodenkirchen, Norbert) ‘Deciphering an Ancient Code: Reconstructing Medieval Music Improvisation and Collaboration’, Colloquium on Archaeomusicological Research, 2014 Galway Early Music Festival, in collaboration with NUI Galway Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval, Pre-modern and Renaissance Studies (CAMPS) and Classics Dept. and the European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP). (2013) ‘An Online Digital Facsimile of the Lugo Codex,’ DM Thesis, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Accessible at www.lugocodex.org, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/ dspace/handle/2022/17230 and http://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/3781. (2013)’A 'Fach' System for Singing Chant and Medieval Song? Range, Tessitura, Voice Type and Other Practical Considerations for Singers and Ensemble Directors’, Opening paper at the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (2013) “I cried out to the Lord”: Hymns and Choral Concertos with Ensemble Cherubim, Marika Kuzma, director. Naxos Records (CD). Szücs, Ferenc (2014) ‘Creative processes in Western arts music performance practice with reference to the journey of a professional cellist’, Middlesex University, London, UK. Available: http://eprints.mdx. ac.uk/13340/ Vaughan, Mairéad (2014) ‘TerrainSkin’, a three-screen dance installation in collaboration with Dara O’Brien, supported by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. (2013) ‘Emanating awareness: tracing the impact of Bharatanatyam and Iyengar yoga on my contemporary dance and choreographic practice’. Issue 1.1, The Journal of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities, Intellect Publishers. (2013) ‘A corporeal dialogue: the influence of Bharatanatyam and yoga in choeographic practice’. Dance Research Forum Ireland's 4th International Conference: Connecting Communities through Dance. Foyle Arts Building, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 27 June – 1 July, 2012. Limerick: Dance Research Forum Ireland. TAIGHDE

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Sean O'Meara, BA Irish Music and Dance Photograph © Maurice Gunning

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Cantoral Voice Ensemble Sonas UL Global Choir ACADEMOS Irish Chamber Orchestra Cantoral is an all-female vocal ensemble from the University Started in 1992 by Clem Garvey as the UL Choir and in recent Academy of Limerick, Ireland. The ensemble specialises in Western years embodied as the UL Gospel Choir under the direction ACADEMOS is the graduate string orchestra of the MA plainchant and early polyphony and has a particular interest of MARCS alumnae Kathleen Turner (to 2010), Jaimee Jensen Classical String Performance programme at the Irish World in medieval Irish repertoire. Formed in 2008 at the Irish World (2011-2012) and Dr Robin Garner (current director), Sonas is Academy. Established in 2008, ACADEMOS performs as a larger Academy, the ensemble had its first international appearance a UL global choir in the truest sense. Sonas is the new banner chamber orchestra, as a collegium and in smaller chamber in 2009 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Other highlight flying above the twenty-year history of the UL Choir: faithful to groups and has toured internationally. In 2014, with the performances include Imbolc, a programme of chant and Irish the University’s and the Irish World Academy’s ethos of diversity establishment of the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy, language song for St. Bridget, which premiered in New York and global music and cultural exchange, Sonas explores vocal ACADEMOS now represents a living bridge between the Irish in 2010, and a programme for the Galway Early Music Festival ensemble music of all times and places, with a special focus on World Academy and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO). Leaders entitled … sed diabolus irrisit (‘… but the devil laughed’) in repertoires, timbres and styles outside the remit of the Western of the ICO teach weekly master classes, and many opportunities the same year. In April 2011 Cantoral sang for the Dalai Lama classical vocal tradition. All of the music is learned aurally, and have arisen for interaction between ACADEMOS members and the during his visit to Ireland, and in April 2012 the ensemble the ability to read music is not a prerequisite. A compulsory ICO programme itself. conducted a public seminar and a concert of Irish medieval ensemble for students in the MA Ritual Chant and Song music for Holy Week at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. (MARCS) programme, Sonas is also open by audition to other Hazelwell Cantoral Artistic Director Catherine Sergent is an acclaimed students and staff at the Irish World Academy and the University Paris-based singer who has performed and recorded extensively of Limerick and to interested members of the community. Hazelwell is a female vocal ensemble that focuses on Irish with several early-music ensembles, including Discantus and traditional repertoire and repertoires from related traditions For more information about Sonas, please contact Obsidian. Catherine is a chant tutor for the MA Ritual Chant and such as Scottish and American (particularly Appalachian and [email protected]. Song programme at the Academy. The singers in Cantoral are Americana). Its repertoire and focus is influenced by the diverse graduates, doctoral students and members of faculty at the Irish musical backgrounds of its members: Sandra Joyce, Róisín Ní World Academy and are from Ireland, France, the United States Lucernarium Gallóglaigh and Joanna Hyde. At its heart, Hazelwell is an a capella group, although it is open to experimenting with and Mexico. International performances in 2013 took place at Lucernarium is the chant schola and chamber music ensemble instruments played by its members and with guest musicians. the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and at Harvard University of the MA Ritual Chant and Song (MARCS) programme. Its arrangements are influenced by many musical genres, and the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Cantoral issued its Lucernarium is dedicated to the vocal music repertoires of including Scandinavian traditional song and classical music. first CD recording, Let the Joyous Irish Sing Aloud/Laetabundus Western chant, medieval monophonic and polyphonic song. Its roots and repertoire are strongly in traditional song, Decantet Hybernicorum Cetus, in 2014. The CD was recorded The ensemble also performs vocal chamber music of the but it is open to exploring diverse sounds, influences and ideas. on location at Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo with the assistance Renaissance and Baroque as well as contemporary choral music of the Keough Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the whose aesthetic is oriented towards the early- and world-song University of Notre Dame, Indiana. sound worlds. As part of the MARCS programme’s Locus+Nexus concert series, Lucernarium performs on and off campus several times a year during the regular term. Please contact [email protected] for further information. IRISH WORLD ACADEMY ENSEMBLES ACADEMY IRISH WORLD

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Dr Catherine Foley at the launch of Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2012 at the Academy Photograph © Maurice Gunning 51 SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD RECIPIENTS SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARD

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MA Classical String Performance students in rehearsal with ICO cellist Aoife Nic Athlaoich Photograph © Maurice Gunning

53 Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Mairéad Vaughan (photo: Dara O’Brien) Award: Jack Talty Arts Council Research Bursaries: Mairéad Doctoral student Jack Talty is the recipient of an Irish Research Vaughan Mattu Noone Council Postgraduate Scholarship Award for his study entitled Exploring Fifty Years of Institutionalisation in the Transmis- Mairéad Vaughan received Arts Council research bursaries in the Irish Research Council Government of sion, Pedagogy and Performance of Irish Traditional Music in academic years 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 in support of her Irish Higher Education from 1963 to 2013. This study looks at Arts Practice PhD, which she is undertaking at the Irish World Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Award: the relationship between the ‘Ivory Tower’ – a metaphor for Mattu Noone Academy under the supervision of Dr Mary Nunan. Mairéad’s PhD the university, commonly misconceived as being removed from researches the deep symbiotic relationship between body(mind) reality and social contact with others (Phillips and Pugh 2000) and environment through the creation of a choreography for An Irish Research Council Doctoral Award has been made and the ‘Commons’ – the perceived ‘community-owned’ prac- camera and a site-specific installation performance. To see to Mattu Noone, a candidate on the PhD Arts Practice tices of Irish traditional music (McCann 2001; Smith 2006). New Mairéad’s work, visit www.shakramdance.com. programme at the Irish World Academy. discourse is offered to the ethnomusicological record to present Originally involved in the post-rock scene in urban Australia, a critique of prevailing perceptions on the intra-communal rela- Mattu has travelled an eclectic musical route via North India to tionship between academic and extra-academic representations Marc Fitch Foundation Grant: of Irish traditional music discourse, pedagogy, transmission and Ireland. A student of the sarode (25-stringed India lute) since Niamh NicGhabhann 2004, he has spent many years studying Indian classical music performance. with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and more recently with Dr Niamh NicGhabhann of the Irish World Academy has been Jack Talty K Sridhar in the UK. He completed his MA (1st Honours) in awarded a publication grant of St£2,000 from the Marc Fitch Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy and has been Fund to put towards the publication of her forthcoming book supported by both Culture Ireland and the Music Network to Building on the Past: Medieval Buildings in Ireland, 1789-1915 tour India and develop a new sarode, particularly for playing (forthcoming with Four Courts Press). Irish music.

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

54 EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music 2014/15: Kate Corkery, Sharon Howley, Siobhán Nelligan, Andrew O’Grady, Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Kate Scales The 2014/15 EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in Community Music was awarded to MA in Community Music students Kate Sinéad Ryan Corkery, Sharon Howley, Siobhán Nelligan, Andrew O’Grady, Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Kate Scales. EMI Music Sound Foundation was established by EMI in 1997 to commemorate the centenary of EMI records. EMI Music Sound Foundation is an independent charity supported by Universal Music Group. EMI Music Sound Foundation is now the single largest sponsor of Specialist Jakari Sherman Performing Arts Colleges in England and has created vital bursaries at music colleges to assist music students. In 2005, EMI Music Sound Foundation extended its remit to cover the Irish World Slingshot: Jakari Sherman Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Irish World Academy MA Ethnochoreology student Jakari A bursary was made available on an annual basis for the Sherman was selected as one of 150 Irish students to establishment of the EMI Music Sound Foundation Bursary in participate in Slingshot, an entrepreneurial event that brings the Community Music at the Irish World Academy. Applicants should best and brightest Irish student thinkers and doers together with normally be under 25 years of age, have been born in either the inspirational business leaders and academics committed to UK or Ireland and have applied for admission to the MA in innovation and entrepreneurship. Slingshot comprises Ireland’s Community Music at the Irish World Academy. In certain instances, leading student innovators who have excelled in fields from the bursary applications may be considered with applications for areas of science, business, sport and the arts. Jakari joined the admission to Irish World Academy programmes other than other selected students at Dublin Castle on November 18th to Community Music. The criteria for selection of a bursary winner share ideas, experiences and knowledge and to create future include the excellence of the CV submitted and evidence of Roche Continents: Sinéad Ryan opportunities and partnerships. The event included a range financial need. There is no separate application form. A relevant of panel and round-table discussions and presentations led by Roche Continents – Youth! Arts! Science! is a project grown CV should be included with the application form for admission CEOs, prominent academics and student leaders. from a partnership between Roche and the Salzburg Festival. to the relevant degree programme along with a covering letter One hundred students from across Europe are selected to applying for the bursary and sent to Jean Downey, Irish World participate in this exceptional challenge; participants are students of Academy, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Telephone: life sciences, chemistry, the fine arts or music and are between +353 61 202030; Email: [email protected]. 20 and 29 years of age. Roche is well known for promoting The Trustees of Muckross House EMI Music Sound Foundation Patrons: Sir George Martin, Sir Paul culture in novel settings, and Roche Continents is an example Scholarship for MA Irish Traditional McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard, Diana of this commitment. Participants attend concerts and talks by Dance Performance Ross and Tina Turner. guest speakers and are given the opportunity to join discussions with artists and take part in group workshops. Through Dr Catherine Foley’s connection since 1979 with For more information, visit Muckross House as a collector of Irish traditional music, song http://musicsoundfoundation.com/index.php/site/archives/303 Irish World Academy graduate Sinéad Ryan has been awarded and dance, the Trustees of Muckross House have awarded a a place at this year’s Roche Continents challenge in Salzburg. scholarship to the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance since Sinéad is from Croom, Co. Limerick and is a harpist and pianist. the programme’s inception in 1999. The Trustees of Muckross Kate Corkery, Siobhán Nelligan, Kate Scales and Sadhbh O’Sullivan She recently graduated from the Irish World Academy with a House Scholarship 2013/14 was awarded to Luis Sanchez from first class honours in the Professional Diploma in Education Mexico. (Music). In 2013, Sinéad was awarded a first class honours BA in English and Music from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Further information and application queries should be directed and won the First Place Medal for Music. She is currently to Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain, Director, MA Irish Traditional Dance undertaking a master’s degree in modern English literature at Performance, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Mary Immaculate College. Phone: +353 61 202922; email: [email protected].

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RTÉ ConTempo String Quartet performing a lunchtime concert at the Academy Photograph © Maurice Gunning 59 OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES at the University of Limerick

Faculty of Education and Health Sciences: Association of Irish Choirs Department of Music, Graduate Diploma/MA in Dance (part-time) The Association of Irish Choirs supports and promotes Mary Immaculate College, UL excellence in choral music in Ireland. It does this by The Graduate Diploma in Dance is a one-year, part-time The Department of Music at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) providing information and advice and presenting a range of programme of study that enables participants to acquire offers music for the BEd and BA (Liberal Arts) programmes programmes and activities designed to respond to the needs the necessary skills to teach Leaving Certificate Physical as well as a taught MA in Music Education and other of members, the wider choral community and the public. Education. Students who satisfy the necessary require- postgraduate degrees to doctoral level by research. ments may be considered for admission to the master’s CEO: Dermot O’Callaghan Regular choral and chamber concerts are a vital part of programme. Email: [email protected] the life of the department and there are close ties with the Course Director: Brigitte Moody Phone: +353 61 202715 Irish World Academy. MIC has a 500-seater performing arts Email: [email protected] Administrator: Michelle Hynes venue, the Lime Tree Theatre (www.limetreetheatre.ie). Phone: +353 61 202807 Phone: +353 61 234823 Website: www.ul.ie/ehs Email: [email protected] Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Department); Dr Paul Collins; Website: www.aoic.ie Dr Michael Murphy; Dr Gwen Moore; Dr Ailbhe Kenny Faculty of Science and Engineering, Centre Departmental enquiries: [email protected] University of Limerick Arts Office Phone +353 61 204540 for Computational Musicology & Computer Arts Officer: Patricia Moriarty Website: www.mic.ul.ie Music: MA/MSc in Music Technology Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 202130 The MA/MSc in Music Technology is a one-year, intensive course designed for graduate musicians from all disciplines who are interested in combining technological competence University of Limerick Visual Arts with artistic endeavour. Administrator: Yvonne Davis Email: [email protected] Course Director: Nicholas Ward Phone: +353 61 213052 Email: [email protected] Phone: +353 61 234246 Digital Media and Arts Research Centre Website: www.csis.ul.ie (DMARC) Director: Jürgen Simpson Faculty of Science and Engineering, Email: [email protected] Interaction Design Centre (IDC): MA in Phone: +353 61 202759 Interactive Multimedia Website: www.dmarc.ie

The MA in Interactive Multimedia is a one-year, intensive Irish Language Office/Aonad na Gaeilge course designed specifically for art and design graduates Deirdre Ní Loingsigh, Stiúrthóir na Gaeilge who are interested in pursuing studies that combine Email: [email protected] technological competence with design/artistic endeavour. Phone: +353 61 213463 Course Director: Mikael Fernstrom Ciara Considine, Email: [email protected] Oifigeach Margaíochta/Riarthóir Feidhmiúcháin Back cover photo: Detail of Esteban La Rotta Phone: +353 61 202606 Email: [email protected] (Colombia) playing theorbo at the Academy Photograph © Maurice Gunning OTHER PROGRAMMES AND ARTS OFFICES AND ARTS PROGRAMMES OTHER Website: www.idc.ul.ie Phone +353 61 234754

60 Maurice Gunning

Maurice Gunning is an Irish photographer and documentary filmmaker. He studied at the University of Wales, Newport for his MFA in Documentary Photography. In 2012, Maurice was invited by Dance Ireland to become artist in residence at Dance House, Dublin. Over the course of the year, he created a new body of photographic work and dance films. This work was premiered in May 2013 with a large permanent solo show throughout the Dance House building. Maurice has worked extensively in Buenos Aires with the Argentine Irish Diaspora over a number of years. In 2010, he brought his solo show, Encuentro, back to Buenos Aires, exhibiting at the Centro Cultural de Recoleta with support from Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy. This work has also been shown in several UK galleries and at the Irish National Photographic Archive as one of the main invitational exhibits of the 2012 PhotoIreland Festival. The Irish Heritage Council funded a three-year project from 2006 to 2009 to enable Maurice to document Ireland’s traditional maritime heritage. This work has had large solo shows at the Cultural Centre, Athens and the Hunt Museum, Ireland. Since 2006, Maurice has been the resident photographer at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. He continues to collaborate with many national and international artists through this residency. His work was celebrated in 2010 in the form of a permanent exhibition at the Irish World Academy. Maurice was the cinematographer on The Chile 33, a documentary filmed during the mining incident of 2011. Produced by Huw Roberts, the film was aired internationally with the History Channel and distributed by Off the Fence Productions. In 2013, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest invited Maurice to be their first artist in residence. The work Maurice produced during this residency will be premiered in Budapest at the Liszt Academy in 2015 with support from Culture Ireland, the Arts Council and the Irish Embassy. In May 2014, Maurice launched a photo book and exhibition with Hope & Homes for Children (Romania) with support from the Irish Embassy in Bucharest. The photographs were exhibited in the National Parliament and in the National Library, Bucharest. This project is an extension of Maurice’s exploration of humanitarian work, which began Jamie Smith performing a lunchtime concert when he was appointed artist in residence with the Burren Chernobyl Project in Belarus. with Barrule, the Manx Celtic Power Trio Photograph © Maurice Gunning www.mauricegunning.com www.irishworldacademy.ie