Lunchtime Concerts & Seminars Listings
Semester I Lunchtime Concerts
Semester I - 2018-19
All concerts in Riverstown Hall at 1:10 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Admission free. Seating is limited and early arrival is advised.
Click HERE to see the Semester I Lunchtime Concerts poster.
| Thurs 4 October | Aisling Kenny (soprano) and Oscar Montague (guitar) A diverse programme of works by Benjamin Britten |
| Mon 8 October | Damselfly Trio (soprano, flute, and harp)* Performing a new work by Ryan Molloy as well as some rarely heard pieces by Crumb, Mamlok and Zohn-Muldoon. |
| Thurs 18 October | Ian Dakin (French horn) and Aileen Cahill (piano) Performing a programme of works for horn and piano by Beethoven, Kirchner, and Dukas. |
| Thurs 25 October | Simon Mawhinney (piano) Performing his composition 'Solo Fingers' |
| Thurs 8 November | David Grealy (organ) ** Performing a programme featuring Alain, Reger, and Ravel. |
| Thurs 15 November | Spectroimmersion I Featuring works by M.U.S.I.C. (Maynooth University Sound Innovation Collective) |
| Thurs 22 November | Nathan Sherman (viola) and Alexander Petcu (percussion) Music by Tigran Mansurian, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Luciano Berio |
| Thurs 29 November | Spectroimmersion II Featuring works by M.U.S.I.C. (Maynooth University Sound Innovation Collective) |
| Thurs 6 December | Maynooth University Traditional Group Directed by Aisling Ní Choisdealbha |
| Thurs 13 December | Plainchant Performance** Course director Dr John O'Keeffe |
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
** College Chapel
Semester I Research Seminars
Semester I - 2018-19
All seminars in the Bewerunge Room, Logic House at 12 noon.
Click HERE to see the Semester I Research Seminar poster.
| Fri 5 October | Denis Condon (Maynooth University) 'Silent Opera? Irish Cinema Music in the 1910s' |
| Fri 12 October | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 19 October | Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (NUI Galway) 'The Musical Priest on Screen: Essentialising Irish America in Song' |
| Fri 26 October | Ann-Marie Hanlon (Dundalk IT) 'Object as Subject: The Abortion Debate and Popular Music in the Irish Context' |
| Fri 9 November | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 16 November | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 23 November | Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork) 'Hip Hop Interpolation: Rethinking Autochthony and Appropriation in Irish Rap' |
| Fri 30 November | Emanuele Senici (Sapienza Università di Roma) '“A sturdy, tenacious memory": The Italian Discourse of Rossini’s Self-borrowing' |
| Fri 7 December | Seán Doherty (Dublin City University) 'Daft Punk, Charles Ives, and Cumulative Form' |
| Fri 14 December | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
Semester II Lunchtime Concerts
Semester II - 2018-19
SEMESTER II CONCERT SERIES
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 7 February | Frank Schaefer ('cello) & Ethna Tinney (piano) Featuring works by Kodály, Saint-Saëns, and Beethoven. |
| Thurs 14 February | Victoria Massey (mezzo-soprano) & Niall Kinsella (piano) A programme of songs by Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, in a concert marking the 200th year since the birth of composer and virtuoso pianist Clara Schumann. |
| Thurs 21 Februay | Schola Gregoriana* Directed by Dr Darina McCarthy. A mixture of chant, polyphony and organ, with special guests Raymond O'Donnell and the College Chapel Choir. |
| Thurs 28 February | Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Sean-nós singing and traditional Irish music on fiddle, viola, and piano. |
| Thurs 7 March | Katie Neville (guitar) A programme of works for solo guitar. |
| Thurs 14 March | MA Students Recital A variety of works from MA in Performance Students. |
| Thurs 28 March | Traditional Music Group Directed by Aisling Ní Choisdealbha |
| Thurs 4 April | Altus** High-Voice Choir |
| Tues 9 April** | Maynooth University Guitar Ensemble Directed by Eoin Flood |
| Thurs 11 April | Mattu Noone (sarode) New compositions for sarode and electronics, with special guest, Ryan Molloy. |
| Thurs 25 April | Con Tempo Quartet & Aileen Cahill (piano) Performing works for string quartet and piano. |
| Thurs 2 May | Early Music Vocal Ensemble** Directed by Cathal Twomey. |
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.
*College Chapel
**St. Mary's Church
Other Departmental Concerts:
TBC
Semester II Research Seminars
Semester II - 2018-19
All seminars in the Bewerunge Room, Logic House at 12 noon.
Click HERE to see the seminar poster.
| Fri 8 February | Michael Lee (Trinity College Dublin) 'Adapting Lully for the London Stage: A Chaconne of 1698' |
| Fri 15 February | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 22 February | Armand d'Angour (University of Oxford)* 'The Rediscovery of Ancient Greek Music' |
| Fri 1 March | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 8 March | Steve Coleman (Maynooth University) 'Traditional Irish Performance as Media Theory' |
| Fri 15 March | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 29 March | Michael Murphy (University of Limerick) 'The Hudson brothers and Music in Mid-nineteenth-century Ireland' |
| Fri 5 April | Shane McMahon (Visiting Fellow MUAHI) 'The Axial Age and Theoretical Thought in Music' |
| Fri 12 April | Anja Bunzel (Maynooth University/Czech Academy of Sciences) ‘Musical Crossroads: Bonn, London, Dublin’ |
| Fri 26 April | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
| Fri 3 May | Harald Krebs (University of Victoria) 'Working with Words: Revisions of Declamation in Fanny Hensel’s Lied Autographs' |
| Fri 10 May | Postgraduate Research Seminar |
*John Hume Lecture Theatre 7, 3pm - 5pm