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The Year's Work 2011

The UCD School of Music has begun an annual archive dedicated to the work of individual members of the School in order to give users of the School's website some material notion of the kind of work which we undertake beyond our undergraduate and graduate teaching, doctoral, masters and undergraduate supervision, and administrative duties. We have listed some of these activities below, but it should be noted from the outset that material included in these lists does not include ongoing research projects which are as yet incomplete or publications which are in press.

Nevertheless, we hope that the archive will increase awareness of the activities of the School as these develop from year to year. In particular, the archive should help to identify the School's participation in research and performance within and beyond the confines of UCD and to indicate the range of publications, conference presentations and related assignments, as well as public concerts, arrangements, recordings and recitals in which individual members are involved in any given year.

Professor Julian Horton (Head of School 2011-; Analysis, Historical Musicology)

Conference Presentations and Papers

  • 'Thematic Syntax and First-movement Form in the Post-classical Piano Concerto', Society for Music Theory International Conference, Minneapolis, October 2011
  • Opening and closing addresses, Chair and Introduction to Professor Robert Hatten, Keynote Address, Thanatos as Muse: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, International Conference, NUI Maynooth, October 2011
  • 'The First Movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata, D. 959 and the Performance of Analysis', guest seminar, UCD, October 2011
  • 'Two-dimensional Sonata Form in the Post-classical Piano Concerto', guest seminar, University of Liverpool, October 2011
  • 'Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello in the Post-classical Piano Concerto', Society for Music Analysis International Conference, University of Lancaster, July 2011
  • 'Beethoven's Error? The Modulating Ritornello in the Post-classical Piano Concerto', SMI Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, June 2011
  • 'Counterpoint and Form in the Finale of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony', Bruckner Journal Conference, Hertford College, Oxford, April 2011

    • Other Academic Assignments

  • Co-organiser, Thanatos as Muse: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, International Conference, NUI Maynooth, October 2011
  • Principle Investigator for EU Framework-programme 7 Marie Curie Fellowship, held jointly with University of California at Irvine ('Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture')

    • Publications

  • 'John Field and the Alternative History of Concerto First-movement Form', Music and Letters 92/1 (2011), pp. 43-83
  • 'Form and Counterpoint in the Finale of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony', The Bruckner Journal 15/2 (2011), pp. 19-28
     

    Professor Therese Smith (Head of School September 2008 - August 2011; Ethnomusicology)

    Conference Presentations and Papers

  • Delegate, Annual Conference for the Society of Ethnomusicology, held jointly with the Congress on Dance, Philadelphia, PA, November 2011

    Other Academic Assignments

  • International Research Consultant to an AHRC-ESRC (UK) Religion and Society Research Project: "The Experience of Worship" (2009-2012)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the International Council for Traditional Music, Ireland, 2010-
  • Mentor supervisor for PhD supervision for Dr. Helen Lyons (HETAC requirement), Dundalk Institute of Technology
  • External Examiner, PhD, University of Limerick
  • External Assessor, 3-year position, Mater Dei Institute/DCU

    • Publications

  • Various contributions to The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd edition, ed. Fintan Vallely (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011)
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    Professor Wolfgang Marx (Deputy Head of School, September 2011-; Historical Musicology)

    Conference Presentations and Papers

  • 'Death and the Musical Requiem in the Twentieth Century', The Carnival of Death, Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, 22-24 February 2011
  • '"What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" The Musical Requiem in the Twentieth Century', Keynote Address, Research Colloquium, Department of Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 18 May 2011
  • Organisation of the group session 'Histories of Music in Irish Higher Education' (five papers), Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 24-26 June 2011
  • 'Music in UCD. Continuous Expansion after a Shaky Start', Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 24-26 June 2011

    • Other Academic Assignments

  • Appointed as External Examiner, MMus, University of Liverpool (November 2011)
  • Chair, Research Strand Death, Burial and the Afterlife, organised the Strand's Research Colloquium in April 2011
  • Chair, UCD Academic Forum (since May 2011)
  • External Panel Member for two PhD Transfer Assessments in DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama
  • Executive Editor, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
  • Editor, Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft
  • Member of the Advisory Board, Europäische Totentanzvereinigung (European Danse Macabre Association)

    • Publications

  • GYÖRGY LIGETI: OF FOREIGN LANDS AND STRANGE SOUNDS. Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx (eds.), (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011)
  • '"MAKE ROOM FOR THE GRAND MACABRE!" THE CONCEPT OF DEATH IN GYÖRGY LIGETI'S ŒUVRE', in György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx (eds.), (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011), pp. 71-84
  • 'FREUND HEINS NACHFOLGER! VIKTOR ULLMANNS OPER DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS', in L'Art Macabre 12 (2011), pp. 71-85
  • REVIEW of Hartmut Hein, Fabian Kolb (eds.), Musik und Humor, in Die Tonkunst 5/4 (October 2011), pp. 559-60

     

    • Dr Frank Lawrence (Historical Musicology)

    Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 'Litanacht Herenn - chanting the liturgy: Holy Week at Lismore', Re-envisioning Raith Bressail: Episcopal culture in twelfth-century Ireland, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, 18 February 2011

    Other Academic Assignments

  • Co-organiser of symposium 'Re-envisioning Raith Bressail: Episcopal culture in twelfth-century Ireland' hosted by UCD School of Music and the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute at the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, 18 February 2011
  • Establishment and direction of student medieval ensemble in conjunction with the module 'Burgundy to Rome: Polyphony in the 15th century', January - April 2011
  • External examiner in Plainchant performance, NUI Maynooth, January 2011
  • Appointed to the council of the Henry Bradshaw Society, London, May 2011
  • Appointed to the advisory board of Cantus Planus, a study group of the International Musicological Society, August 2011

     

    • Dr. Jaime Jones (Ethnomusicology)

    Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 'Realising Audience: The Listener, Performers and Overhearers of Bhajan', Annual Conference for the International Council of Traditional Music Ireland, Derry, February 2011
  • 'The Sacred Everyday: Music and Religion in South Asia', Ethnomusicology seminar, University College Dublin, May 2011
  • 'Clifford Geertz and the Legacy of Thick Description', Humanities Institute of Ireland and GradCam Summer School, September 2011
  • 'Singing through Time and Space: Music and Pilgrimage in Maharashtra', Anthropology Seminar, Queen's Univerisity, Belfast October 2011
  • 'Between Timelessness and History: Music and Devotion in India', Research Seminar, University College Cork, November 2011

    Other Academic Assignments

  • Elected to the council of the International Council of Traditional Music, Ireland, February 2011
  • Appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of the Society of Musicology in Ireland, September 2011

     

    • Dr. Nicole Grimes (Marie Curie Research Fellow, September 2011-; Historical Musicology and Aesthetics)

    Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 'Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture', Society for Musicology in Ireland, 9th Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 25 June 2011

    Other Academic Assignments

  • Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of California, Irvine (October 2011)

    Publications

  • 'Brahms's Poetic Allusions through Hanslick's Critical Lens', American Brahms Society Newsletter 29 (Fall 2011): 5-9
  • 'The Schoenberg/Brahms Critical Tradition Reconsidered', Music Analysis 30/i-ii (Autumn 2011)
  • 'Hoplit, Hanslick, and Liszt's Dante Symphony', Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 7, (2011-12): 3-22
  • Review of Brahms and His World, eds. Walter Frisch and Kevin C. Karnes for Music Analysis 30/1 (Spring 2011)

     

    • Professor Harry White (Chair of Music; Historical Musicology and Cultural History)

    Conference Presentations and Papers

  • 'The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, an Introduction', Christ Church University, Canterbury, 10 February 2011
  • 'Johann Joseph Fux and the Concept of an Austro-Italian Baroque', Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 14 February 2011
  • Presentation and Citation for Peter Maxwell Davies, Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, 4 May 2011
  • 'Reclaiming Stanford', Society for Musicology in Ireland, Ninth Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 25 June 2011
  • 'The Musical Afterlives of Thomas Moore', Eighth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Music (Plenary Session), Queen's University Belfast 23 July 2011
  • 'The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR), an Introduction', International Association of Music Libraries International Congress (Plenary Session), Trinity College Dublin, 26 July 2011
  • 'Death and the Maiden: Woody Allen and the Late Schubert', Thanatos as Muse: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, International Conference (Plenary Session), NUI Maynooth, 21 October 2011
  • Chair and Introduction to Professor Susan Youens, Keynote Address, Thanatos as Muse: Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, International Conference, NUI Maynooth, 22 October 2011
  • 'The Invention of Irish Music: Remembering Gratton Flood', Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (1834-1911): Music Historiography and Identity, International Musicological Conference (Plenary Session), Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, 28 October 2011
  • 'The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR), an Introduction', Irish Arts Festival, School of Music, University of Leeds, 17 November 2011
  • 'The Imagined Unities of Thomas Moore', Amistade Festival of the Arts, Museo Archeologico Olbia, 19 November 2011

    Other Academic Assignments

  • Participant, Quebec-Ireland research strand, NUI Maynooth, April 2011
  • External examiner, PhD dissertation, NUI Galway, May 2011
  • External examiner, graduate degrees in musicology, ethnomusicology, composition and performance, Durham University, June and November 2011
  • External assessor, appointments board, UCC, September 2011
  • Appointed to editorial advisory board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, September 2011

    Publications

  • Musical Theatre as High Culture? (Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society, 2011) (edited with Vjera Katalinic and Stanislav Tuksar), 166pp
  • 'Operas of the Irish Mind: Cultural Theory, Literary Reception and the Question of 'Irishness' in Nineteenth-Century Opera;, in V. Katalinic, S. Tuksar and H. White (eds,), Musical Theatre as High Culture? (Zagreb: Croatian Musicological Society, 2011) pp. 9-24
  • 'Musicology' in Nicholas Canney (ed) The Appropriateness of Key Performance Indicators to Research in Arts and Humanities Disciplines. Ireland's Contribution to the European Debate. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2011), pp. 48-51
  • 'KIRCHENMUSIK AM KAISERLICHEN HOF IM 17. UND 18. JAHRHUNDERT' in Matthias Schneider and Beate Bugenhagen (eds.), Zentren der Kirchenmusik [Enzyklopaedie der Kirchenmusik, Vol 2] (Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2011), pp. 287-315
  • 'Foreword'', The Musicology Review, vol. 7 (2011), eds. Shane McMahon and Liam Cagney
  • 'Public Diversions', Messiah programme note (UCD Choral Scholars and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, April 2011)
  • 'Synge, Music and Edwardian Dublin' in Brian Cliff and Nicholas Grene (editors), Synge and Edwardian Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 84-101

     

    • Mr. Desmond Earley (Artistic Director, UCD Choral Scholars; Performance, Performance Practice)

    UCD Choral Scholars' Concerts

  • BT Young Scientist Exhibition - performance at the exhibition dinner to close the 2011 exhibition, 15 January 2011
  • UCD Bórd na Gaeilge - performance on Belfield campus, 2 February 2011
  • UCD President's Award - performance in O' Reilly Hall, 4 March 2011
  • Gaelic Athletic Association Sigerson Cup - performance with Mikie Smyth (pipes), Tristan Rosenstock (percussion) and Tony Byrne (guitar) in O' Reilly Hall at the UCD dinner to mark the Sigerson Cup competition, 5 March 2011
  • Recording and video-production of Sfogava con le stelle (Claudio Monteverdi) by UCD Choral Scholars at UCD Memorial Hall, Richview for release on UCD's You-Tube channel, 5 & 6 March 2011
  • RTÉ TV choral competition broadcast An Cór - first round half-hour show on RTÉ 1, 14 March 2011
  • ESB Feis Ceoil competition - UCD Choral Scholars awarded first prize in the Florence Culwick Memorial Cup and the Irish Language Cup competitions, 4 April 2011
  • Messiah by G.F. Handel with European Union Chamber Orchestra as conductor and continuo player, St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin 2 and UCD O'Reilly Hall, 20 & 21 April 2011
  • Performance at UCD Golden Jubilee alumni cultivation event for UCD Foundation at O'Reilly Hall, 23 September 2011
  • Performance at UCD Choral Scholars' Alumni Encore Ball at Fallon & Byrne, October 2011
  • UCD Foundation Day celebration - a tribute to Bill Whelan, 4 November 2011
  • A Choral Celebration of Christmas - UCD Choral Scholars' annual Christmas concert at University Church, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, 20 & 21 December 2011

    Other Concerts, Recitals and Arrangements

  • Musique pour Clavecin - solo harpsichord recital of works by Louis Couperin, Pancrace Royer and Jacques Duphly at Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 on a Bruce Kennedy copy of a single manual German harpsichord by MichaelMietke. Temperament Kirnberger III, 21 January 2011
  • Froberger to Bach - solo harpsichord recital of works by J.J. Froberger, G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare on a Bruce Kennedy copy of a single manual German harpsichord by Michael Mietke. Temperament Werkmeister. 12 September 2011
  • Dublin Culture Night 2011 solo harpsichord performance at the Casino in Marino for the Office of Public Works. Repertoire ranging from Byrd to J.S. Bach. 23 September 2011
  • Arranger for RTÉ Concert Orchestra on RTÉ 'Big Music Week' - full arrangement of Nothing Rhymed by Gilbert O'Sullivan, and additional orchestration of Our Mutual Friend by Neil Hannon
  • Irish Baroque Orchestra tour Concerto Grosso at Ardee Baroque Festival with Monica Huggett. Works by Telemann, Stradella, Corelli and Handel. 16-18 November 2011
  • Irish Baroque Orchestra tour Messiah with Resurgam and Jeffrey Skidmore, 7-10 December 2011
  • Arranger for RTÉ Concert Orchestra on Mooney Tunes RTÉ TV recording - Fields of Athenry and O Holy Night (full orchestral arrangements)

     

    • Dr. Ciaran Crilly (Conductor, UCD Symphony Orchestra; Performance, Historical Musicology

    UCD Symphony Orchestra Concerts

  • A Night at the Movies, Astra Hall, UCD, with solo violin David O' Doherty, November 2010
  • Oiseaux Fantastiques, National Concert Hall with solo piano Sophie Cashell, April 2011
  • Foundation Day Performance: UCD Orchestral Scholars, UCD Choral Scholars, UCD Ad Astra Scholars, O' Reilly Hall, UCD, with Bill Whelan and guest artists, November 2011

    Other Concerts and Recordings as Conductor

  • Dublin Orchestral Players, King's Inns, Dublin, with solo bassoon Liz O' Brien, November 2011
  • An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch: RTE Concert Orchestra, National Concert Hall, September 2011
  • Hill town New Music Festival: Hill town Ensemble, Castlepollard, Co. Meath, July 2011
  • Dublin Orchestral Players, Law Society, Dublin, with solo cello Gerald Peregrine, June 2011
  • Dublin Orchestral Players, Christchurch Cathedral, Wateford, with solo cello Gerald Peregrine, May 2011
  • Dublin Orchestral Players, St. Mary's, Howth, with solo guitar Pavlos Kanellakis, March 2011
  • Dublin Orchestral Players, St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, with solo guitar Pavlos Kanellakis, March 2011

    Recordings

  • Billy & Chuck (film score): RTE Concert Orchestra, January 2011
  • Shine On (song): RTE Concert Orchestra, January 2011
  • O Emperor, "Sedalia" (song and video): RTE Concert Orchestra, February 2011

    Other Performance Work as Instrumentalist or Conductor

  • Dublin String Quartet (Violin/viola)
  • Alpha Quartet (Violin/viola)
  • Orlando Chamber Orchestra (Viola)
  • Hibernian Orchestra (Rehearsal conductor)
  • Dublin Youth Symphony Orchestra (Rehearsal conductor)
  • RIAM Symphony Orchestra (Rehearsal conductor)
  • RIAM BMus(Ed) Conducting Class (External examiner)

    Other Academic/Performance Assignments

  • 'Conducting as Collaboration', UCD Smurfit MBA Summer School guest lecture, June 2011
  • Opening Address, Via Firenze Gallery, Bray, Co. Wicklow, March 2011

    Publications

  • 'THE BIGGER PICTURE: LIGETI'S MUSIC AND THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK', in Louise Duchesneau & Wolfgang Marx (eds.), György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011), 245–256

     

    • Ms. Orla Flanagan (Conductor, UCD Philharmonic Choir; Performance)

    UCD Philharmonic Choir Concert

  • Requiem, St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin, 29 November

    Other Concerts and Performances

  • Songs for Spring, National Chamber Choir, Conductor, February 2011
  • Sacred & Profane, Mornington Singers, Conductor, March 2011
  • White House, USA, National Chamber Choir, Conductor, March 2011
  • Honorary Doctorate Award to Seamus Heaney, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, National Chamber Choir, Conductor, May 2011
  • College Green, Dublin, on the occasion of President Obama's visit to Ireland, National Chamber Choir, Conductor, May 2011
  • Portaferry Proms, Mornington Singers, Conductor, September 2011
  • Illuminaire, Mornington Singers, Conductor, December 2011

    Other Performance Assignments

  • Arklow Music Festival, adjudicator, March 2011
  • Cork International Choral Festival, schools adjudicator, April 2011
  • AIMS New Ross Choral Festival, adjudicator, May 2011
  • Sligo International Choral Festival, adjudicator, November 2011
  • Moon over Ireland - Daniel O' Donnell, choral conductor for studio recordings, January 2011
  • Irish Youth Choir residential summer course, vocal tutor, June 2011
  • Active Music Making: the Kodaly Approach, Kodaly Society of Ireland Summer Course, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, co-organiser and conducting lecturer, July 2011
  • The Ultimate Collection - Daniel O' Donnell, choral conductor for studio recordings, August 2011
  • Arts Council Anthology of Contemporary Irish Choral Music, selection panel representative for the Association of Irish Choirs, December 2011

     

    • Dr. Una Hunt (Adjunct Professor of Music; Performance, Historical Musicology)

    Concerts and Recitals

  • Classical Covies, Westport, Co. Mayo: James Joyce and Music, introduced by David Norris: Virginia Kerr, soprano; Gavan Ring, baritone; Una Hunt, piano; 18 March 2011
  • RTE Lyric FM lunchtime concert broadcast live from Tallaght Library: music by Irish composers on the Lyric FM label; Una Hunt, piano, 12 May 2011
  • Limerick International Music Festival, 26 May 2011
  • Thomas Moore Festival tour of Russia including recital at the Russian Artists Academy, St. Petersburg to mark the unveiling of a sculpture dedicated to Thomas Moore at the University of St. Petersburg: Anna Louise Costello, soprano; Rachel Kelly, mezzo soprano; Una Hunt, piano, 14-17 June 2011
  • IAML 60th Anniversary Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Musical Connections - from Bartok to Moeran, and Osborne to Chopin: Ferenc Szucs, cello; Una Hunt, piano, 26 July 2011
  • Boyle Arts Festival, Chopin in Paris, Theatrical Concert written by Mirium Gallagher to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Frederick Chopin: Sean McDonnagh as Chopin; Una Hunt, pianist and narrator, 22 July 2011

    Conference Papers and Presentations

  • 'Moore, Stevenson, Bishop and the Powers: a series of complex relationships', Ninth Annual Conference, Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) 9th Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 25 June 2011
  • 'Sources of Moore's Irish Melodies: a re-evaluation', closing plenary session: Eighth Biennial Conference for Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Queen's University Belfast, 23 July 2011
  • 'The National Archive of Irish Composers: Creating a Digital Collection of Music from the National Library of Ireland': International Association of Music Libraries (IAML), 60th Anniversary Conference; Trinity College Dublin, 25 July 2011

    Publications

  • 'George Alexander Osborne and Wieniawski's Irish Connections': Henryk Wieniawski and the Bravura Tradition, (Poznań, Poland: The Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society, Sept. 2011); 266-273
  • 'The National Archive of Irish Composers: Creating a Digital Collection of Music from the National Library of Ireland', Fontes Artis Musicae Journal, 58/3 (Middleton, USA: IAML, July-Sept. 2011); 266-273
  • 'The Harpers' Legacy: National Airs and Pianoforte Music'; Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, vol. 6, 2010 – 2011: http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/article/view/75; 3-53

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