Symposium Programme
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10:00 to 12:00
Student Workshop with Quartet Draig
Performers: John Delhomme, Thomas Yonan, Laura Martino Romero, Victoria Piekarska-Daly, Emma Picovici
Boydell Recital Room, Department of Music
15:15 to 15:30
Symposium Registration
Boydell Recital Room, Department of Music
15:30 to 17:45
Session 1: From the Baroque to the Present: Performance Practices and Continuities
Chair: Nicole Grimes (Trinity College Dublin)
Between the Gigues and the Reels: Performing Baroque Music on the Uilleann Pipes
Éamonn Galldubh (University College Dublin)
Mining national resources in Wales through national partnerships – a performer's perspective
Zoë Smith (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
Boydell Recital Room, Department of Music
17:00 to 18:45
Dinner
Nut Butter, Grand Canal Dock
19:00 to 21:00
Symposium Concert
Quartet Draig
Caroline Heard, First Violin
Jenny Clare, Second Violin
Tom Congdon, Viola
Tabitha Selley, Cello
Ani Glass, Welsh Pop Artist
Full concert programme available here.
Arts & Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL) Theatre
This recital has been generously supported by Arts Council Wales & Wales Arts International.
09:00 to 11:00
Symposium Registration
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
09:20 to 09:30
Welcome Address
Cheryl Tan, Chair
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
09:30 to 11:00
Session 2: Celticism, Irishness, and Cultural Politics
Chair: Orla Shannon (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
Celticism and Irishness in Bax
Aidan Thomson (University of Galway)
Music from the Celtic Fringe: Celtic Identity and Internal Colonialism in Early Twentieth Century English, Welsh and Irish Music
Matthew Madeley (University of Birmingham)
Publishing Scottish music across the Irish sea at the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries
Almut Boehme (National Library of Scotland)
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
11:30 to 12:30
Session 3: Institutions, Education, and Repertoire Recovery
Chair: James Lea (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
"Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers": Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Convent School
Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)
In conversation with the Performers
Caroline Heard, Violin
Tabitha Selley, Cello
Ani Glass, Welsh Pop Artist
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
12:30 to 14:00
Lunch
Nut Butter, Grand Canal Dock
14:00 to 15:00
Session 4: Transnational Exchange and Networks
Chair: Emma Arthur (University of Oxford)
Irish-Russian Musical Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century: John Field as Cultural Mediator
Stacy Jarvis (University of Birmingham)
From Coign to Castletownsend: The Transnational Friendship of Ethel Smyth and Edith Sommerville
Hannah Millington (TU Dublin Conservatoire & Chamber Choir Ireland)
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
15:30 to 16:30
Session 5: Beyond Celticism, Pan-Celticism
Chair: Adam Behan (Maynooth University)
Forging Celtic Metal: The Use of Irish Music and Celticity in European Folk Metal Music
Leandro Pessina and Daithí Kearney (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
A "Kiaulliaght Gailckagh", Or Manx Concert: Sophia Morrison (1859-1917), Manx Folk Song, and the Manx Language Revival
Stephen Miller (Independent)
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
16:45 to 17:30
Panel Discussion: Critical Reflections & Closing
Harry White (Emeritus Full Professor, University College Dublin)
Orla Shannon (Lecturer, Royal Irish Academy of Music)
Maria McHale (Lecturer, TU Dublin Conservatoire)
Zoë Smith (Head of Postgraduate Programmes, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
Moderator: Cheryl Tan (Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin)
Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
19:00
Student Recital
Boydell Recital Room, Department of Music