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Chamber Choir World Tour kicks off with Dublin Performance
The Maynooth University Chamber Choir, which made history last July when it became the first Irish choir to lift the coveted Pavarotti Trophy as “Choir of the World” at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales, will perform in St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York as part of a scheduled World Tour.
Date: Friday, 19 February 2016
New publication by Dr Estelle Murphy on musical reuse and revision in the Baroque Period
Dr Estelle Murphy’s article, ‘"Inspire Us Genius of the Day": Rewriting the Regent in the Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, 1703’ has been published in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press).
Date: Monday, 15 February 2016
'En-Gendering Monodrama' presented at Harvard University
Dr Placanica's IRC-funded project 'En-Gendering Monodrama' presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Harvard University in March 2016.
Date: Thursday, 14 January 2016
The Mute Stones Sing
New journal article by Maynooth Head of Music Professor Christopher Morris
Date: Monday, 07 December 2015
Female Epiphanies in 20th- and 21st-Century Monodrama
New journal article on musical monodrama by Dr Francesca Placanica, IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Music.
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Maynooth University awards 115 Entrance Scholarships
Maynooth University recognised the achievements of some of Ireland’s brightest and most promising first-year students at a celebration on-campus Tuesday, 3 November, awarding 115 Entrance Scholarships to students who achieved 525 points or more in the Leaving Certificate examination.
Date: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
Maynooth University Chamber Choir – ‘Choir of the World 2015’ - release inaugural CD
Fresh from their victory as 'Choir of the World 2015', the Maynooth University Chamber Choir today launched Lorica, their inaugural CD featuring a wide variety of both well- and lesser-known choral works
Date: Monday, 19 October 2015
New publications by Prof. Fiona M. Palmer on Choral Power in Nineteenth-Century England and on Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century
Book chapters by Prof. Fiona M. Palmer on the power of large-scale choral singing in 19th-century England and on orchestral conducting in the 19th century have recently been published.
Date: Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Two new publications by Professor Christopher Morris
New journal article and book chapter by Maynooth Head of Music, Prof Christopher Morris
Date: Thursday, 01 October 2015
Dr Francesca Placanica joins the Department of Music as Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Two-year pratice-based postdoctoral project will challenge entrenched notions of authority and gender in twentieth-century monodrama.
Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2015