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COP26: The Opening Days
Here is the first in a series of bulletins from Emeritus Professor John Sweeney (Geography/ICARUS), who is present at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow (31 October – 12 November 2021).
Date: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
Mezzo-Soprano Sharon Carty appointed Maynooth Campus Associate Artist
Maynooth College and Maynooth University’s Music Department and Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy, in partnership with Music Generation Kildare and Kildare County Council, are delighted to announce the appointment of Sharon Carty (mezzo soprano) as Maynooth Campus Associate Artist for the coming academic year, 2020–2021.
Date: Monday, 05 October 2020
Dr Francesca Placanica presents on Cathy Berberian and the Stripsody Project at Instituto Italiano di Cultura
Francesca Placanica and Eleonora Lima (TCD) will discuss how comics, music, and visual arts came together in Stripsody, an extraordinary collaboration centering the larger-than-life talent of composer and performer Cathy Berberian.
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Dr Estelle Murphy awarded Charlemont Grant
Dr Estelle Murphy awarded a Charlemont grant from the Royal Irish Academy.
Date: Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Dr Antonio Cascelli Publishes Article on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
Dr Antoni Cascelli's article, 'L'Orfeo: Memory, Recollection, and the Tragedy of Choosing Between Seeing and Hearing' is no published and fully available online.
Date: Thursday, 04 April 2019
Dr Antonio Cascelli's article for RTÉ Brainstorm
'What Opera tells us about the Issues of the Day': Dr Antonio Cascelli discusses the relevance of opera for today's audiences.
Date: Friday, 22 February 2019
Irish Baroque Orchestra to Perform Ode Discovered by Dr Estelle Murphy
Irish Baroque Orchestra will perform works from late-seventeenth-century DUblin and London, including an ode fro Dublin by Richard Leveridge, discovered and reconstructed by MU Music's Dr Estelle Murphy.
Date: Friday, 18 January 2019
Dr Laura Watson publishes article on Paul Dukas's opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue in the October 2018 issue of Twentieth-Century Music
With the appearance of opera videos in 2013 (DVD) and 2015 (YouTube), Paul Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (1907) has been revived for twenty-first-century audiences.
Date: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Sounding the Feminists Symposium on Friday 23 November
Dr Laura Watson is one of the representatives of feminist initiatives who will participate in a symposium in Dundalk this Friday.
Date: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
€12,000 awarded to Maynooth University composers to celebrate 20th birthday of RTÉ lyric fm
€12,000 awarded to Maynooth University composer Dr Ryan Molloy and BMus graduate Katie Neville to celebrate 20th birthday of RTÉ lyric fm.
Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2018