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Previous events held in and by the Department of Music
| Time | Date | Title | Description | Topic | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 23 Jan 2026 | The Vanbrugh & Friends | Mozart String Quintet in E flat Major K.614, and featuring a special guest performance by The Meliora Quartet | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/230126---vanbrugh.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 30 Jan 2026 | The Oars | Following an incredible 2025, The OARS begin their 2026 adventures with a special performance in the iconic Ó Riada Hall at the Department of Music. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/300126---the-oars.html |
| 11am - 12pm | 5 Feb 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: Dr Stephen Millar. Music, Conflict, and Culture War in Northern Ireland | For thirty years, Irish republicans, Ulster loyalists, and British state forces fought for control over the six counties of Northern Ireland during a period euphemistically referred to as the Troubles. Today, in the absence of physical conflict, loyalists and republicans are engaged in a culture war wherein language, music, murals, parades, and sports are used to mark territory and claim symbolic space. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/050226---dr-stephen-millar.html |
| 5.15pm - 6.15pm | 5 Feb 2026 | Seán Ó Riada Memorial Lecture: Dr Helen Gubbins | The Long Note: The Mediation and Mediatisation of Irish Traditional Music on Irish Public Radio, 1970-1994 | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/050226---fuaim---o-riada-lecture.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 6 Feb 2026 | Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle) with Cormac McCarthy (piano) | Blending deep roots in Irish traditional music with classical, jazz, and contemporary influences, Ní Bhriain and McCarthy chart a compelling sonic path through a shared musical heritage, transformed through their own creative lens. | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/060226---aoife-ni-bhriain-with-cormac-mccarthy.html |
| 5.30pm - 6.30pm | 10 Feb 2026 | The Life and Music of Selena O'Neill of Chicago: A Lecture Recital by Richie Piggott and Aoife Ní Bhriain | This lecture-recital celebrates the music and life of Chicago musician Selena O'Neill. It explores her early life and family background in Chicago, her participation in local feiseanna, her studies at the Chicago Musical College, and her collaborations with Francis O'Neill on the publication of his final four books of Irish traditional music. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/100226---richie-piggott--aoife-ni-bhriain.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 13 Feb 2026 | FUAIM Concert: Los Hostes | Folk fusion trio: Claudia Schwab, Matija Solce & Aleš Zorec | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/130226---los-hostes.html |
| 11am - 12pm | 19 Feb 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: Dr Luca Gambirasio - Sound-Mediated Environmentalisms: Music and Ethnomusicology in a Time of Environmental Crisis | What is the role of music and sound in addressing the environmental crisis? | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/190226---fuaim-lecture---dr-luca-gambirasio.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 20 Feb 2026 | FUAIM Concert: David Syme | Pianist David Syme, former UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, will offer a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/200226---david-syme.html |
| 5pm - 7pm | 26 Feb 2026 | A Hesitant Concert by The Delicate Ensemble | Students from the MA Experimental Sound Practice programme will be collectively improvising on unique expanded instrument systems of their own making. | Music | Granary Theatre | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/260226---ma-hesitant-concert.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 27 Feb 2026 | FUAIM Concert: Fiona Kennedy Trio | Singer-songwriter and IRMA Award nominee Fiona Kennedy is a truly versatile artist. Fiona’s latest single, That’s Not Love, received extensive airplay all over Ireland after its release and the success of her last album Find Me along with a sell-out nationwide album tour places her firmly in the top drawer of Irish female artists. | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/270226---fiona-kennedy-trio.html |
| 11am - 12pm | 5 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis - New Voices in Jurassic Park: Making Contemporary Popular Music in Belfast | Belfast is bursting with sound. Independent, original popular music creativity is audible everywhere: in its pubs and arts venues, open-air stages and repurposed buildings, bookshops and cafés. From new-folk to queer punk, and from afrobeat to experimental electronica, emerging musicians tell stories about Northern Ireland, their place in it, and the myriad routes that brought them here. And yet, this burgeoning creativity is doubly ignored. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/050326---fuaim-lecture-dr-ioannis-tsioulakis.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 6 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Concert: The Dónal ‘Doc’ Gleeson Awards | FUAIM is very proud to present the winners of the 2020 Dónal 'Doc' Gleeson Awards for outstanding undergraduate performance. They are Ríona Hely (concertina), Maeve O’Driscoll (voice, guitar), Cian O’Leary (voice, guitar) and Ben Hurley Wilkinson (voice, guitar, piano). | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/060326---doc-gleeson-awards.html |
| 1.10pm - 1.50pm | 13 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Concert: Irish Guitar Quartet | The Irish Guitar Quartet is comprised of Ireland’s most talented and versatile classical guitarists and is one of Ireland’s premier instrumental ensembles. | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/130326---irish-guitar-quartet.html |
| 6.15pm - 8.15pm | 13 Mar 2026 | A Jazz Age Evening | UCC’s Aula Maxima will be transformed into a magical “kingdom of shadows” with glorious silent films and thrilling live music. ‘A Jazz Age Evening’ invites you to step back one hundred years, to enjoy a programme of films made in 1926, including a raucous slapstick comedy written by Stan Laurel (before he joined Hardy!), and a gripping drama of love, betrayal and double standards starring the “Madonna of the Screen”, Alice Joyce and the “IT Girl of the 1920s”, Clara Bow. | Arts and Humanities | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/130326---a-jazz-age-evening.html |
| 11am - 1pm | 19 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: MA Slams | The Department of Music at University College Cork is delighted to present MA Slams 2026, a lively forum for postgraduate students to share their current research, creative practice, and emerging ideas in an open and supportive environment. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/190326---fuaim-lecture---ma-slams.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 20 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Concert: duo b!z’art | Piano duets – Across the stars | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/200326---duo-bzart.html |
| 2pm - 4pm | 20 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Screening - Playing the Flute in Shanghai: The Musical Life of Dai Shuhong | This biographical documentary film is the result of collaboration among its 80-year-old subject, Dai Shuhong, an eminent Shanghai-based performer of Chinese bamboo flutes and qin zither; his students, friends, and family; and two UCLA-based filmmakers, one his longtime student. | Arts and Humanities | Kane Building | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/200326---fuaim-screening---playing-the-flute-in-shanghai.html |
