Lunchtime Concerts & Seminars Listings
Semester I Lunchtime Concerts
Semester I - 2019-20
All concerts in Riverstown Hall at 1:10 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Admission free. Seating is limited and early arrival is advised.
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| Thurs 3 October | Ensemble Tempro (vocal ensemble)* A performance of 'The Early Songbook' |
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| Thurs 10 October | Mick O'Brien (uileann pipes/whistles) & Martin O'Leary (piano/guitar) A premiere of O'Leary's latest work and a selection of works from O'Brien's recent releases |
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| Thurs 17 October | Fionnuala Moynihan (piano) Performing three compositions by Clara Schumann, marking the composer's 200th anniversary |
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| Thurs 24 October | PANIC Music Ensemble Experimental contemporary music from Belfast |
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| Date TBC | INO Music Generation . |
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| Thurs 7 November | Andreea Banciu (violin) & Aileen Cahill (piano) |
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| Thurs 14 November | Brendan Kennedy (piano) Works by Beethoven, Bach/Rachmaninov, and Rosenblatt |
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| Thurs 21 November | Spectroimmersion III Featuring works by M.U.S.I.C. (Maynooth University Sound Innovation Collective) |
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| Thurs 28 November | Laoise Kelly (harp) A concert of traditional Irish harp music |
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| Thurs 5 December | Maynooth University Traditional Music Group** Directed by Aisling Ní Choisdealbha |
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| Thurs 13 December | Plainchant Performance*** Course director Dr John O'Keeffe |
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Please note: latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the concert.
Seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served-basis.
* St Mary's Church
** Aula Maxima
*** College Chapel
| Thurs 13 December | Plainchant Performance*** Course director Dr John O'Keeffe |
Semester I Research Seminars
Semester I - 2019-20
All seminars in the Bewerunge Room, Logic House at 16:00.
Click HERE to see the Semester I Research Seminar poster.
| Wed 2 October | Dr Sandra Joyce ‘All Along the Road to Roam’: Nostalgia and Hierarchy in Traveller Song Traditions |
| Wed 9 October | Postgraduate Research Colloquium |
| Wed 16 October | Dr Edmund Hunt Composer Edmund Hunt |
| Wed 23 October | Dr Estelle Murphy Autographs and the Extramusical: The Manuscripts of William Boyce |
| Wed 6 November | Postgraduate Research Colloquium |
| Wed 13 November | Dr Tríona Ní Shíocháin The Singer of Ideas: Prophecy, Parrhesia, and Politics in the Works of Máire Bhuí Ní Laoire and Máire Ní Dhroma |
| Wed 20 November | Dr Alistair Fraser On the Geography and Cultural Economy of British Drum & Bass Music |
| Wed 27 November | Dr Maria McHale Opera in Dublin, 1880-1922: Revivalism and Reception |
| Wed 4 December | Postgraduate Research Colloquium |
| Wed 11 December | Postgraduate Research Colloquium MA in Musicology, MA in Performance and Musicology |
| Wed 18 December | Postgraduate Research Colloquium MA in Creative Music Technologies |
Semester II Lunchtime Concerts
Semester II Lunchtime Concert Series 2019-20
All concerts in Riverstown Hall at 1:10 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Admission free. Seating is limited and early arrival is advised.
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Thurs 6 February |
Jack Talty (concertina) Traditional Irish Music |
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Thurs 13 February |
Emma Coulthard (flutes) & David Appleton (piano) RE:Voicing the Flute. An Irish Perspective |
| Thurs 20 February | Éilís O'Sullivan (flute) & Michael McHale (piano) Music by Prokofiev, Liszt, and Borne |
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Thurs 27 February |
Megan O'Neill (soprano) Music by Bach, Gounod, Strauss, and others |
| Thurs 5 March | Ethna Tinney (piano) A programme featuring Beethoven and Debussy |
| Thurs 12 March | Loadbang* Contemporary music ensemble |
| Thurs 26 March | Maynooth University Traditional Group* Directed by Aisling Ní Choisdealbha |
| Thurs 2 April |
MA Recitals |
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Thurs 9 April |
MA Recitals |
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Tues 21 April |
Guitar Ensemble |
| Thurs 23 April |
Liz Hilliard |
| Thurs 30 April |
Early Music Vocal Ensemble** |
| Thurs 7 May |
Altus** |
Please note: latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the concert.
Seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served-basis.
*Renehan Hall
**St. Mary's Church
Other Departmental Concerts:
TBC
Semester II Research Seminars
Semester II Seminar Series 2019-20
All seminars will take place in the Bewerunge Room, Logic House at 16:00.
Click HERE to view our seminar series poster.
| Weds 5 February | Dr Brian Connolly 'Playing the Ear: Non-Linearities of the Inner Ear and their Creative Potential' |
| Weds 12 February | Postgraduate Research Colloquium Dr Majella Boland will discuss career options |
| Weds 19 February | Dr Leslie Korrick (York University, Canada) 'Dangerous Music, Powerful Painting: The "Sister" Arts at the Roman Art Academy in 1594’ |
| Weds 26 February | Prof. Xavier Hascher (University of Strasbourg, France) 'A Critique of Romanticism from within Romanticism: Schubert and Müller's “Die schöne Müllerin” as Rewriting’ |
| Weds 4 March | Dr Clive McLelland (University of Leeds, UK) ‘Fear and Terror in 18th-Century Music’ |
| Weds 11 March | Dr Úna Monaghan (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘Traditional Music and Electronics: Composition, Design, and Performance’ |
| Weds 25 March | Prof. Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton, UK) ‘The Noise Big History Makes: A Global History of Sound for the Anthropocene’. Seminar Location TBC |
| Weds 1 April | Postgraduate Research Colloquium Conor Power and Éilís O'Sullivan present their research |
| Weds 8 April | Postgraduate Research Colloquium Joanne Cusack and Pàdruig Morrison present their research |
| Weds 22 April | Prof. Glenn Stanley (Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin) ‘Religion and Spirituality in the Life, Thought, and Music of Beethoven’ |
| Weds 29 April | Postgraduate Research Colloquium |
| Weds 6 May | Postgraduate Research Colloquium |