Irish World Academy of Music and Dance

THE BIG TRAD TRAIN!

Ruadh.Duggan — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:48:27 +0000

Come along to The Big Trad Train, where 26 top traditional musicians will be playing Soul, R&B, Blues, Motown and Funk.

Tuesday 1st May. Doors at 7.30pm, music at 8pm. Theatre 1.

Followed by a Trad Disco at the Pavilion Sports bar from 10.30pm (next to the academy). Free Entry.

For more details, go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/155091764612709/

Tickets are 10 euro, in aid of Ahotokurom (http://www.ahoto.talktalk.net/)

Thursday 10th May. MA Irish Traditional Dance Final Performances

Ruadh.Duggan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:37:14 +0000

Teresa Donohoe and Tereza Bernadova of the MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance programme will present their final performances at a lunchtime concert of dance, which represents some of their work throughout the year. This work they have either choreographed themselves, produced in collaboration with guest choreographers, or learned from invited tutors on the programme. These guests and tutors include, Dr. Olive Beecher, Dr. Catherine Foley, Breandán de Gallaí, Katarina Mojzisova, Mairéad O’Connor, and Micheal Ryan. Solo and ensemble dance pieces will feature in the concert and will represent traditional and also contemporary Irish dance repertoire; challenging the boundaries of Irish traditional dance.

1pm, Theatre 1, Irish World Academy, UL.

Yonit Kosovske’s interview on Culture File

Ruadh.Duggan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:07:44 +0000

Listen again to RTÉ lyric fm’s ’Culture File’ from Thursday 19th April, to hear Yonit Kosovske (lecturer in Classical Piano Chamber Music Performance) speak about Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_culturefile.xml

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Friday 11th May 1pm. MA Contemporary Dance Final Performances

Ruadh.Duggan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:36:42 +0000

Students of the MA Contemporary Dance Programme will present their final performances at a lunchtime concert of dance. This concert will represent some of their work throughout the year.

1pm Theatre 1, Irish World Academy

33’04″ for John Cage. Solos from Song Books – Winter Music

Ruadh.Duggan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:00:48 +0000

33’04″ for John Cage
Solos from Song Books – Winter Music

Fourth Year Students of the BA Voice and Dance

Wednesday 23rd May – (around) 18:02 hrs, in the foyer of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, UL. Admission FREE.

Oscar Mascarenas – Artistic Director
Jenny Roche – Dance Curator

Voices

Sinead Boomsma

Hannah Fahey

Niamh Farrelly

Elenor Fields

Louise Kelly

Sinead McGuire

Cara Morrissey-Gleeson

Eva Ryan

Aoife Sheehy

Cliodhna Tuite

Dancers

Jennifer Brown

Rita McDonnell

Rachel Sheil

Piano – Paul McKeever and Oscar Mascarenas

Yonit Kosovske’s interview on Culture File 6.40pm Thursday 19th April

Ruadh.Duggan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:15:26 +0000

Tune in to ‘Culture File’ on lyric fm at 6.40pm tonight, to hear Yonit Kosovske (lecturer in Classical Piano Chamber Music Performance) speak about Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, and this week’s performances.…

MEMBRA JESU NOSTRI (“The Limbs of Our Jesus”) – a masterpiece Baroque Oratorio by Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)

Ruadh.Duggan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:20:48 +0000

Performed by:

ACADEMOS, the Classical chamber ensemble of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,

directed by Dr. Yonit Kosovske and Ferenc Szűcs

Guest vocal soloists:

Alison Rose (soprano), Pauline Graham (soprano), Duncan Brickenden (countertenor), Wolodymyr Smishkewych (tenor) and Antonio Santos (baritone)

Performances:

Thursday, April 19, 8pm, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick

Friday, April 20, 8pm, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

Tickets:

€15/€10

Online @ www.uch.ie

University of Limerick Concert Hall Box Office

By phone 061-331549

Or at the door

Join our concert facebook pages at:

Thursday 19th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/408098235872143/

Friday 20th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/377265838959707/

Conferring of honorary Doctorate for the late Muiris Ó Rócháin

Ruadh.Duggan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:07:30 +0000

An honorary Doctorate conferring for the late Muiris Ó Rócháin took place at the University of Limerick on the 14th March 2012. Click on the link below to watch this ceremony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy3yyXsRvg

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Thursday 12th April. Nexus: Between Heaven and Earth, directed by Wolodymyr Smishkewych

Ruadh.Duggan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:10:08 +0000

Presented by LUCERNARIUM and featuring current students of the MA Ritual Chant and Song, this first Nexus concert of the Locus+Nexus series will incorporate medieval monody, polyphony, and chant from the Western European tradition as well as global song traditions. The underlying theme of Nexus concerts is the musical exploration of intersections, crossings-over, cross-pollinations, connections and bridges. The premier Nexus concert will present music bound together by the theme of the intersection between Heaven and Earth, including the lives of saints, the concept of mystical union with the Divine, and the intercession of divine beings.

1.15-2pm, Theatre 2 (Tower Theatre). Free concert, all welcome.

Thursday 19th April. Original ensemble works performed by students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance

Ruadh.Duggan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:05:20 +0000

This programme features a number of original ensemble works selected from those created specifically for the students throughout the year by choreographers Charles Linehan, Liz Roche, Mairead Vaughan and a short voice/dance work, choreographed by Mary Nunan and Oscar Mascarenas. In addition the programme also features extracts of solo choreographies created by the students.

Free lunchtime performance – 1.15-2pm.