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NEWS REPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 2011
News
As a new academic year begins, the UCD School of Music greets our returning students and warmly welcomes our incoming first year class of BA and BMUS students. We also welcome the new MMUS class and newly registered and continuing doctoral students in musicology and ethnomusicology.
As part of the School's newly designed website, this News page will feature information on the performance and research activities of members of the School and will be periodically updated.
Appointments
Professor Julian Horton has recently been appointed as Head of School for a period of three years in succession to Professor Thérèse Smith, who held this post from September 2008 until August 2011. Other recent appointments include Ms Eve O'Kelly, who was nominated as adjunct associate professor in June. She joins Dr Una Hunt, nominated as adjunct professor in 2010. Dr Nicole Grimes has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to be held jointly in UCD and the University of California, Irvine. Dr Grimes will work with Professor Horton as principal investigator on a project entitled 'Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture'. Dr Maria McHale, formerly a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCD, returns to the School this year to take up a part-time lectureship. Finally, we are also pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Orla Flanagan as director of the UCD Philharmonic Choir.
Research
The seventh volume of School's peer-reviewed journal, The Musicology Review, edited by Shane McMahon and Liam Cagney, will be launched in Newman House, St Stephen's Green, on Friday 11 November 2011. Further details are available from the journal's website, www.themusicologyreview.com.
A conference on 'Schubert and Concepts of Late Style', to be held at NUI Maynooth between 21 and 23 October, 2011, will take place in association with the UCD School of Music. Further details are available at www.music.nuim.ie/events
Details of the School's forthcoming Seminars in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music in Ireland and Music Analysis will be posted on the Seminars link in these pages.
This year's Seminar in Musicology includes papers by Dr Jeremy Llewellyn (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) on 11 October, Prof. Julian Horton (UCD) and Mr Tim Horton (Sheffield) on 19 October, Prof. Lori Kruckenberg (Oregon) on 27 October and Dr Noel O'Regan (Edinburgh) on 29 November. For further details see please click here.
The Seminar in Ethnomusicology will include papers by Prof. Thérèse Smith (UCD) on 26 September, Dr Ioannis Tsioukalis (Queen's University of Belfast) on 10 October, Edel McDonnell (Cork School of Music) on 24 October and Dr Susan Motherway (Tralee Institute of Technology) on 14 November. For further details see please click here.
News of Staff
Dr Frank Lawrence was elected to the Advisory Board of Cantus Planus, a study group of the International Musicological Society in July (http://www.cantusplanus.org/). He was also elected to the council of the Henry Bradshaw Society at its AGM in London in May (http://www.henrybradshawsociety.org/welcome.html)
Dr Jaime Jones was elected to the council of ICTM, Ireland to serve as Membership Officer and is currently organising the 2012 conference of ICTM, Ireland which will be held in Dublin.(http://www.ictm.ie/)
Professor Julian Horton will give a guest lecture at the University of Liverpool on 11 October and will also deliver a paper at the conference of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis in late October. He is also co-organiser of Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, to be held at NUI Maynooth between 20–22 October, at which he will also deliver a paper.
Professor Harry White was recently appointed to the international advisory boards of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. He will deliver a plenary address at a symposium on European musical historiography at the University of Zagreb in October and will deliver a keynote lecture at the Irish Arts Festival at the University of Leeds in November. In December, Professor White will travel to Montreal for the final meeting of the Ireland-Quebec research project hosted in Ireland by An Foras Feasa.
News of Former Students
Congratulations to Dr John Cunningham, recently appointed to a lectureship in Music at the University of Bangor, to Dr Anne Hyland, appointed to a lectureship in Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology and to Dr Úna-Frances Clarke, appointed to an editorial post at the BBC London Promenade Concerts.
Items of news for this webpage should be emailed to Professor Harry White (harry.white@ucd.ie). Future editions of this page will include news of publications by staff and students of the School.