Lunchtime Concerts & Seminars Listings
Semester II Lunchtime Concerts
Semester II - 2020-21
All concerts will be broadcast via the Department of Music YouTube channel at 1:15 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
| Thurs 4 March | Nomadic Piano Project featuring Antoni O'Breskey (piano) & Ultan O'Brien (fiddle) |
| Thurs 25 March | Emmanuel Rivera Angel (harp) & Soledad Sánchez Palomo (piano) a recital from two of our recent MA performance graduates, featuring works by Dussek, Mendelssohn, Satie and MA Composer Samar Abou Jaoude |
| Thurs 1 April | Yonit Kosovske (piano) - POSTPONED until 2021-22 a recital of vocal works, featuring Barber's 'Hermit Songs' |
| Thurs 22 April | Schola Gregoriana - POSTPONED until 2021-22 Maynooth's resident plainchant ensemble |
| Thurs 6 May | Mary Louise & Teresa O'Donnell (harps & voice) A concert of contemporary music for the Irish harp |
| Thurs 27 May | Cassiopeia Winds Ireland's foremost wind quintet |
Semester II Research Seminars
Semester II - 2020-21
All Research Seminars will be delivered online via Zoom on Wednesdays at 16:00 (Irish time). Please contact the seminars coordinator Dr Laura Watson for the Zoom access links.
| Wed 3 February | Dr Samantha Ege (University of Oxford) Composing a Symphonist: Florence Price and the Hand of Black Women’s Fellowship |
| Wed 10 February | Professor George E. Lewis (Columbia University) Spooky Interaction at a Distance: Telematic Afrofuturism |
| Wed 24 February | Dr Aileen Dillane (University of Limerick) Reimagined Communities and Material Resonances: Recalibrating Temple Bar Tradfest in the Time of Covid |
| Wed 3 March | Dr Alexander Khalil (University College Cork) From Symbols to Letters: The Work Concept Comes to Byzantine Chant |
| Wed 10 March | Professor Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth University) Spectral Design in Music |
| Wed 24 March | Professor Christopher Morris (Maynooth University) Opera's Screenscapes |
| Wed 14 April | PGT Seminars Rebecca McCabe, Hannah Collins & Hannah Flowers |
| Wed 21 April | PGR Seminars Eilis O'Sullivan, Conor Power & Pàdruig Morrison |
| Wed 28 April | PGR Seminars Hui Han, Darragh Gilleece & Peter Shannon |
Semester I Lunchtime Concerts
Semester I - 2020-21
All concerts will be broadcast via the Department of Music YouTube channel at 1:15 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
| Thurs 8 October | Peter Browne (box) and Tony Byrne (guitar) Traditional Irish Music |
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| Thurs 22 October | Cormuin Ó Raghallaigh (piano) |
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| Thurs 5 November | Andrew Gavin (voice) and Aileen Cahill (piano) EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL SEMESTER 2 |
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| Thurs 19 November | Padraig O'Rourke (voice) and Michael Grant (piano) Beethoven Song Cycle and more. |
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| Thurs 3 December | Spectroimmersion Featuring works by M.U.S.I.C. (Maynooth University Sound Innovation Collective) |
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| Thurs 17 December | Nomadic Piano Duo EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL SEMESTER 2 |
Semester I Research Seminars
Semester I - 2020-21
All Research Seminars will be delivered online via MS Teams, at 16:00 on Wednesdays.
All MU 318, MU 368, and postgraduate students should attend all Research Seminars.
| Wed 14 October | Dr Laura Hamer (Open University) Mrs Wilf Hamer and Her Boys: The Performance of Gender on the Interwar British Dance Bandstand |
| Wed 21 October | Dr Fred Freeman (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) A Fiddler and A Poet: Songs of Robert Burns |
| Wed 4 November | Prof. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (University of Salzburg) Schubert the Successful |
| Wed 11 November | Dr Adrian Scahill (Maynooth University) Resistance and Resiliance in Contemporary Irish Folk Music |
| Wed 18 November | Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (University of Oxford) Orchestrating Historical ‘Togetherness’? Experimental Research into C19 ‘Expressive Asynchrony’ in Orchestral Performance |
| Wed 25 November | Prof. Adrian Moore (University of Sheffield) If I Could Tell You: Recent Dilemmas in My Acousmatic Composition |
Maynooth Annual Carol Service
Information about our annual carol services in conjunction with St Patrick's College will be published in the autumn.