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Two new MA courses for 2025
The Music Department introduces two new MA courses for 2025.
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2025
Dr Laura Watson guest contributor on Ireland AM
Dr Laura Watson makes guest contribution to IrelandAM.
Date: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
MU Chamber Choir makes history in Czechia
Maynooth University Chamber Choir was announced as the overall winner of the 52nd edition of the Svátsky Písní Olomouc (Festival of Songs Olomouc).
Date: Monday, 09 June 2025
Maynooth University celebrates Arts and Minds Festival 2025
The 2025 Arts & Minds festival takes place from May 8-10 and features a diverse programme of cultural events from Ireland and beyond.
Date: Thursday, 17 April 2025
Dr Johanna-Pauline Thöne awarded Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellowship in Music
Dr Johanna-Pauline Thöne has been awarded the Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellowship in Music, for research in the music special collections of the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.
Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Dr Estelle Murphy to present at Remembering Bunting Festival
Dr Estelle Murphy has been invited to speak on connections between Edward Bunting and earlier eighteenth-century music collectors at the Remembering Bunting Festival.
Date: Thursday, 27 February 2025
Prof. Fiona M. Palmer gives guest research seminar at School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast entitled, ‘Exploring Postwar Podium Power in 1920s Britain’
On Wednesday 26 February 2025 at 13:00, in the Old McMordie Hall, Music Building, Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. Fiona M. Palmer gives a guest seminar, ‘Exploring Postwar Podium Power in 1920s Britain’, in which she discusses her current monograph project (under contract with Boydell Press). Disrupting conventional approaches to writing about conducting and conductors, the book explores the issues that surrounded and shaped the conductor’s evolving role and status in the British marketplace during this turbulent decade of postwar recovery and reconfiguration. This talk positions the conducting profession within the wider music profession through a consideration of personal networks, institutional hierarchies, unionization, nationalism, and internationalism. https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/events/SeminarExploringPostwarPodiumPowerin1920sBritain-ProfFionaMPalmer.html
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2025
New documentary illustrating the key themes of Prof Lorraine Byrne Bodley's biography, Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer (2023), filmed at Maynooth University, Ireland (2024) and released for Schubert's birthday, 31 January 2025.
New documentary illustrating the key themes of Prof Lorraine Byrne Bodley's biography, Schubert. A Musical Wayfarer (2023), filmed at Maynooth University, Ireland (2024) and released for Schubert's birthday, 31 January 2025.
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2025
Dr Joanne Cusack awarded Harry White Doctoral Prize at SMI/ICTMD Postgraduate Conference
Dr Joanne Cusack awarded Harry White Doctoral Prize at SMI/ICTM Postgraduate Conference.
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2025
MU researchers win Research Ireland enterprise scheme funding
Three Maynooth University researchers have received awards under Research Ireland's Enterprise Partnership Scheme.
Date: Friday, 20 December 2024