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2025-2026
| Event Name | Start Date | End Date | Event Type | Location | Performers/presenters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bark Tin Band | 25/09/25 | 25/09/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Lu Liu, Alex Chilvers, Anthony Abouhamad | New music for plucked strings. The Bark Tin Band is a Sydney-based intercultural ensemble that was born out of our shared experiences as educators at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. |
| The Vanbrugh and Friends | 03/10/25 | 03/10/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Vanbrugh Ensemble: Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Maria O’Connor, cello | Boccherini - String Quintet in E major G.402 [1802] Stanford - String Quintet in F major Op.85 [1903] |
| Ensconced | 10/10/25 | 10/10/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Ant Law, Brigitte Beraha | An exciting duo collaboration between leading UK guitarist/composer Ant Law and celebrated Milan-born British/Turkish vocalist, composer and lyricist Brigitte Beraha. |
| Butcher / Dafeldecker / Carroll | 17/10/25 | 17/10/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker, Roy Carroll | The new trio of John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker, and Roy Carroll unites three singular voices. |
| Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Memorial Postgraduate Symposium | 17/10/25 | 17/10/25 | Conference | Ó Riada Hall / Kane Building | Barry Monahan, Doug Murray, Rishin Singh, Maxine Acton, Nada Ní Chuirrín, James McGlynn, Brian Sheehan, Deirdre Molloy, Fiona Kelly, Conor Bourgal, Jelena Perišić | Dr. Danijela Kulezic-Wilson was a member of staff at UCC's Music Department until her passing in 2021. Her innovative research on film music and sound is respected worldwide and is an outstanding exemplar of interdisciplinary thought.This conference highlighted new research and creative practice inspired by her legacy. |
| POD | 24/10/25 | 24/10/25 | FUAIM Concert | Ó Riada Hall | Paul O'Donnell | Intersections between jazz and pop music |
| Music, Ceremony and Display in 15th-century St Albans, England | 30/10/25 | 30/10/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall / Online | Dr. Lisa Colton, University of Liverpool | This presentation will examine a selection of musical and documentary records relevant to the abbey of St Albans, a Benedictine foundation twenty miles from London. The abbey’s intellectual climate was ambitious and outward facing, with very frequent visits from elite patrons and high-ranking officials from England and abroad. |
| Zoopraxographers | 31/10/25 | 31/10/25 | FUAIM Concert | Ó Riada Hall | Michael Pisaro-Liu, Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu | Film performance and experimental guitar. Michael Pisaro-Liu is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work is grounded in experimental literature, the conceptual avant-garde, and philosophy. |
| Lalgudi Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi with Somasundar | 7/11/25 | 7/11/25 | FUAIM Concert | Ó Riada Hall | Lalgudi Krishnan, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (violins), Somasundar | A concert of South Indian Karnatak music. |
| The Vanbrugh and Friends | 14/11/25 | 14/11/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Maria O’Connor, cello, Special gutsts: Olympia Quartet | Dvořák - String Sextet in A major Op.48 [1878] |
| Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Understanding Cultural Ecosystems | 20/11/25 | 20/11/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Professor Huib Schippers, Zhaoqing University | Professor Huib Schippers is Distinguished Changjiang Professor and Director of the new International Centre for Cultural Sustainability at Zhaoqing University in Guangdong Province, China. |
| Nomadic Piano Project | 21/11/25 | 21/11/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Antoni O'Breskey, Paahto Cummins, Consuelo Nerea, Ross Chaney | Antoni O’Breskey, an Italian-born composer and pianist of Argentine heritage who has made Ireland his home, has spent five decades pushing the boundaries of music. |
| Dancing in the Dark: Cognitive Choreographies and the Musicking Mind | 27/11/25 | 27/11/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Professor Michael Bakan, Florida State University | Michael Bakan is Professor of Ethnomusicology, Head of the World Music Ensembles Program, and Affiliated Faculty in Asian Studies in the College of Music at Florida State University, where he also directs the Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung Balinese Gamelan and Advanced Intercultural Ensemble. |
| Duo Lyrica: music for flute and piano | 28/11/25 | 28/11/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Dr. Fionnuala Moynihan (piano), Kieran Moynihan (flute) | Arrangements of Schubert's Lieder by Theobald Bohm, alongside works by John Gibson, Debussy, Chopin and arrangements by Duo Lyrica of Irish melodies. |
| UCC Choir with Lisa Lambe | 5/12/25 | 5/12/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, Lisa Lambe | Renowned performer Lisa Lambe joins the choir for a celebration of Irish music and culture. |
| The Vanbrugh and Friends | 23/1/26 | 23/1/26 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | VANBRUGH & FRIENDS Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello THE MELIORA QUARTET Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, violin, Seán Hurley, violin, Kseniia Yershova, viola, Alina Obreja, cello | Ravel - String Quartet, movements 1&4, Mozart - String Quintet in E flat major K.614 |
| The Oars | 30/1/26 | 30/1/26 | FUAIM Concert | Ó Riada Hall | Eoin Coughlan, Brian Morrissey | Contemporary Irish folk music |
| Music, Conflict, and Culture War in Northern Ireland | 5/2/25 | 5/2/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Stephen Millar, Queen's University Belfast | Drawing on ethnographic work in loyalist pubs and social clubs across Northern Ireland, this paper focuses on the explicitly sectarian nature of the loyalist song scene. |
| Seán Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 2026 | 5/2/25 | 5/2/25 | Ó Riada Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Helen Gubbins, CITCR Éireann | The Long Note: The Mediation and Mediatisation of Irish Traditional Music on Irish Public Radio, 1970-1994 |
| Aoife Ní Bhriain and Cormac McCarthy | 6/2/26 | 6/2/26 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle), Cormac McCarthy (piano) | Performance of songs from their album 'Cosán Casta' |
| The Life and Music of Selena O'Neill of Chicago | 10/2/25 | 10/2/25 | Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | A Lecture Recital by Richie Piggott and Aoife Ní Bhriain | This lecture-recital celebrates the music and life of Chicago musician Selena O'Neill. |
| Los Hostes | 13/2/25 | 13/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Claudia Schwab, Matija Solce, Aleš Zorec | Jodlfunk, Irish jigs, Balkan ornaments, ragas turned reels and alpine harmonies: in intimate comradery with a taste for theatrics and improvisation. |
| Sound-Mediated Environmentalisms: Music and Ethnomusicology in a Time of Environmental Crisis | 19/2/25 | 19/2/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Luca Gambirasio (independent) | What is the role of music and sound in addressing the environmental crisis? |
| David Syme | 20/2/25 | 20/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | David Syme (piano) | Pianist David Syme, former UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, offers a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. |
| A Hesitant Concert by The Delicate Ensemble | 26/2/25 | 26/2/25 | Concert | The Granary Theatre | MA Experimental Sound Practice students | Students from the MA Experimental Sound Practice programme improvising on unique expanded instrument systems of their own making. |
2024-2025
| Event Name | Start Date | End Date | Event Type | Location | Performers/presenters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becoming Deviant and Defiant Women with Bhawaiya folk songs in Bengal | 26/9/24 | 26/9/24 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Nasrin Khandoker, University College Cork | The new gender norms for Bengali women were created by political, religious, and cultural encounters between British colonial mechanisms and the nationalist collective struggle to reconstruct the traditions of the Indian subcontinent. In between those colonial and nationalist binary narratives, one of the most popular folk song genres of Bengalis, Bhawaiya, has existed with sexually subversive emotional elements. |
| Rasa Nua | 27/9/24 | 27/9/24 | FUAIM Concert | Glucksman Gallery | Jorge Kachmari (clarinet, saxophone), Dara O'Brien (sitar, guitar), Pat Allot (percussion) and Tim O’Leary (double bass) | Rasa Nua are a Cork-based ‘world music’ ensemble. Their sound is rich and varied, drawing from their collective backgrounds in Indian classical music, jazz, blues, Klezmer and contemporary music. |
| From Lisheen to The Bronx: The Fiddle Music of Denis Murphy (1910-74) | 3/10/24 | 3/10/24 | Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Matt Cranitch | In association with Cork Folk Festival: It is fifty years since the untimely death in April 1974 of Denis Murphy, the iconic Sliabh Luachra fiddle-player, who left an indelible mark on the course of Irish traditional music. In this illustrated presentation, the various facets and eras of his life and music will be explored. |
| Black Atlantic Space-Time | 3/10/24 | 3/10/24 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Deirdre Molloy, University College Cork/University of Toulouse | Black Atlantic Space-Time is an art series that presents Afrodiasporic embodied knowledge as ‘rhythm codes' that synchronise image, sound, dance and spoken language into expressions of identity and belonging. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 4/10/24 | 4/10/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Simon Aspell, viola Christopher Marwood, cello Maria O’Connor, cello | Schubert - String Quintet in C major D.956 [1828] |
| Ostravská Banda | 11/10/24 | 11/10/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Ostravská banda International chamber orchestra: Petr Kotik, conductor, With special guests Irena Troupová, soprano (Prague), Susan Stenger, flute (London), Alex Petcu, percussion (Cork), Yseult Cooper, violoncello (Cork) | Martin Smolka - Oh, My Admired C-Minor, Donnchadh MacAodha - Music for Flute and a Two Handed Pianist, Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus I, Phill Niblock - Petr’s Charm, |
| Body & Soul | 18/10/24 | 18/10/24 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Yonit Kosovske, harpsichord, Sarah Groser, viol, Caitríona O'Mahony, baroque violin | In association with East Cork Early Music Festival: Body & Soul invites listeners into the unique sound-world of New Music performed on historical instruments that are usually associated with Early Music from the Baroque period. |
| From Branchu to Baker: Tracing Innovative Diasporic Performance Practices Through Time and Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris | 24/10/24 | 24/10/24 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Emmanuela Wroth, University of Cambridge | Historically, the emergence of Black women performers in European circles tends to be located in the twentieth century, with the arrival in Paris of Joséphine Baker (1906–1975). This paper seeks to recover the established Parisian racialized and sexualized diasporic performance practices into which Baker inserted herself. |
| De Ziah & Date | 25/10/24 | 25/10/24 | FUAIM Concert | Glucksman Gallery | Ian Date (guitar), Ilse De Zian (cello) | Their fusion of Celtic, Jazz, and World music, infused with a Classical sensibility gives a fresh perspective on global musical styles. |
| Claudia Schwab | 1/11/24 | 1/11/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Claudia Schwab (violin, voice, yodelling) | Went to Walk' album launch tour |
| Acts of sonic fracture: working with Sonic Ghosting as an experimental music practice | 7/11/24 | 7/11/24 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Danny Bright, University of Sussex | Sonic Ghosting is a critically informed experimental practice that spans composition, performance and installation. As a mode of creative endeavour, it offers a way to interrogate the relationship between space/place/memory and sound/music/noise by fracturing the soundscape of the present with the echoes, phantoms and potentialities of the soundscapes of the past/future. |
| Clíodhna Octigan & Paul O'Donnell | 8/11/24 | 8/11/24 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Clíodhna Octigan - voice, Paul O'Donnell - piano | Rearranged: pop and soul music for voice and piano |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 15/11/24 | 15/11/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | VANBRUGH & FRIENDS: Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Maria O’Connor, cello THE GEALACH QUARTET: Kseniia Yershova, violin, Ellen O’Connell, violin, Ilona Adams, viola, Alina Obreja, cello | Shostakovich – String Quartet No.1 [1938], Rimsky-Korsakov - String Sextet in A major [1876] |
| Karan Casey | 21/11/24 | 21/11/24 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Karan Casey | What would possess a singer to write a play? 'The Women, We Will Rise' is a theatrical song cycle that highlights the role of defiant Irish women during the revolutionary period and beyond. |
| Aoife Ní Bhríain & Catrin Finch | 22/11/24 | 22/11/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Aoife Ní Bhriain (fiddle), Catrin Finch (harp) | Double You' – their debut album as a duo, features an exquisite collection of new compositions that draw inspiration from across genres, taking listeners on a captivating journey on the wings of the bees across the Irish Sea and inspired by the cultures of their home countries of Éire and Cymru. |
| Ás Veces | 29/11/24 | 29/11/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Lady Fi (voice), Cayetana Arenas (cello), Alessandro Amato (12-string guitar), Jorge Kachmari (percussion) | Ás Veces are an eclectic group of multicultural musicians based in Cork, Ireland. |
| UCC Choir & Karen Underwood | 6/12/24 | 6/12/24 | FUAIM Concert | Devere Hall | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, Karen Underwood | Directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, the University College Cork Choir comprises students from the UCC School of Music and Theatre as well as staff members from across the University. |
| entr'acte | 31/1/25 | 31/1/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | John Godfrey, Irene Murphy, Karen Power, Mick O'Shea | "an unnecessary stain on silence". Using unique self-built instruments and with decades of experience behind them, the performers of entr’acte together produce music of surpassing beauty and finesse. |
| Seán Ó Riada Memorial Lecture 2025 | 6/2/25 | 6/2/25 | Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Síle Denvir, Dublin City University | A lecturer in Irish at Dublin City University, Síle’s work bridges the worlds of traditional music, language, and culture. A native of Conamara and founding member of the acclaimed group Líadan, she is celebrated for her contributions to Irish traditional music and her insightful scholarship. |
| Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) | 7/2/25 | 7/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K), Traditional Artist in Residence 2025 | Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K)’s music draws on her extensive background in sean-nós and traditional music, even as she ventures into new musical territories. |
| John Godfrey and Maximilin Le Cain | 13/2/25 | 13/2/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | John Godfrey, University College Cork, Maximilian Le Cain, Film Artist in Residence 2023 | “Dordán”: In 2012, Quiet Music Ensemble commissioned a work from one of Ireland’s most radical contemporary composers, Jennifer Walshe. The resulting piece, Dordán, was premiered at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2013. In 2022, QME recorded the piece and commissioned renowned Irish experimental film maker Maximilian Le Cain to create a film version. |
| Next Experiment | 14/2/25 | 14/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Leopoldo Osio (piano), Peter Erdei (bass), Gianni Gagliardi (saxophone), Gonzalo del Val (percussion), Paul Dunlea (trombone) | After their successful album launch at the Bray Jazz Festival in 2024 and another tour in Ireland in February 2025, this presents a unique opportunity to see them perform live. |
| Unheard by Most: Soundscapes of Incarceration in Irish Prisons | 20/2/25 | 20/2/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Áine Mangaoang , University College Cork | This FUAIM lecture provides an overview of PRISONS OF NOTE, a four-year research project that employs mixed-methods to investigate the multifaceted role of music within the penal systems of Norway, Iceland, and Ireland. |
| The Dónal ‘Doc’ Gleeson Awards | 21/2/25 | 21/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Emmeline Turley, Zoe Callanan, Siún Ní Eartáin | In memory of their colleague, Donal Gleeson, the Dublin Postal Clerks Branch of the Communication Workers' Union has established a fund to enable the University to provide a number of Instrumental Tuition Awards. Up to four awards are made each year to deserving undergraduate music students. |
| Ger Wolfe | 28/2/25 | 28/2/25 | FUAIM Concert | Glucksman Gallery | Ger Wolfe (voice, multi-instrumentalist) | FUAIM returns to the beautiful Glucksman Gallery for none other than the gifted and much-loved Cork singer-songwriter, Ger Wolfe. |
| Fandango Duo | 7/3/25 | 7/3/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | David Keating, Colin McLean, guitar | Influenced by the works of Astor Piazzolla, De Falla, York and Luiz, Fandango Duo’s repertoire showcases a vibrant blend of genres, inviting listeners on a musical journey filled with rhythm and emotion. |
| Dancing across the pages': Women and jazz in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland in the 1920s-30s | 13/3/25 | 13/3/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Eileen Hogan, University College Cork, and Dr. Ruth Stanley, Independent | This presentation explores women’s participation – in various forms – in jazz music and culture in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland during this interesting historical period through a (re)examination of relevant archival sources. |
| ghOstMiSt | 14/3/25 | 14/3/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Dewa Ayu Eka Putri (dance) and Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena (music) | Reflexive improvisation of Balinese arts. Using Balinese gamelan, effects pedals, and experimental traditions of dance, this piece interrogates the repercussions of growing neo-colonial settlements and digital nomad culture in Bali, Indonesia. |
| Gao Yanming | 21/3/25 | 21/3/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Gao Yanming (pipa), Rhoda Dullea (piano) | Traditional Chinese music on pipa and piano. |
| Surviving the Silence: The Resilience of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic | 27/3/25 | 27/3/25 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Matthew A. Haywood, Macau University of Science & Technology | Whilst Cantonese opera faced significant challenges, the genre successfully survived the COVID-19 pandemic and quickly regained momentum once restrictions were lifted. Such a strong and quick recovery contrasts sharply with the usual claims found in popular discourse that Cantonese opera is in a state of constant decline. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 28/3/25 | 28/3/25 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Vanbrugh & Friends: Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Meliora Quartet: Cillian O Cathasaigh, violin, Kate Ní Shé, violin, Kseniia Yershova, viola, Oscar Casey, cello | Beethoven - Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 Razumovsky (1st Movement). Mozart - String Quintet in C major K.515 [1787] |
2023-2024
| Event Name | Start Date | End Date | Event Type | Location | Performers/presenters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 29/09/23 | 29/09/23 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Stéphane Petiet, double bass | Dvořák - String Quintet Op.77 [1875] |
| Guiding Bells | 6/10/23 | 6/10/23 | FUAIM Concert | The Everyman Theatre | Mel Mercier, Irish Gamelan Orchestra, and guests | In GUIDING BELLS the ensemble will perform its unique repertoire of new music and dance as well as new arrangements of songs by Schubert and Purcell on the bronze gongs and metallophones of Nyai Sekar Madu Sari (Venerable Flower of Honey Essence), the first Irish gamelan |
| Tucker Mulcahy & Tommy Halferty | 6/10/23 | 6/10/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Tom ‘Tucker’ Mulcahy & Tommy Halferty, Jazz guitar duo | |
| language land sea | 13/10/23 | 13/10/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Loré Lixenberg, Karen Power | Karen Power’s 'language land sea' (2023) is a multi-disicplinary paen to the natural world. Conceived for experimental vocalist Loré Lixenberg, the piece creates a sonic, visual and theatrical space. |
| The Irish Klezmer Suite | 20/10/23 | 20/10/23 | FUAIM Concert | The Glucksman Gallery | The Irish Klezmer Suite Ensemble Ruti Lachs – composer, piano accordion, piano, trombone, voice Edel Sullivan - violin, vocals Fabienne St Pierre - flutes, vocals Patrick Barrett - double bass | The Irish Klezmer Suite is a new composition by Ruti Lachs. It comprises seven short pieces of klezmer (traditional Jewish wedding) music infused and mashed-up with Irish trad, jazz, dub reggae and classical music flavours, Yiddish lyrics and ai-ai-ai in the mix. |
| Rhoda Dullea & Keith Pascoe | 3/11/23 | 3/11/23 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Rhoda Dullea & Keith Pascoe | The accompanied piano sonata was a fashionable duo format in late eighteenth-century French salons. In today’s Friday Lunchtime Concert, Rhoda Dullea and Keith Pascoe present a programme comprised entirely of piano sonatas with an obbligato violin accompaniment, by Cherubini, Mozart, Schubert and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. |
| Matthew Berrill & Jack Talty | 10/11/23 | 10/11/23 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Jack Talty (concertina), Matthew Berrill (bass clarinet) | For this special FUAIM concert, Berrill and Talty build on previous collaborations as members of Ensemble Ériu and the Irish Memory Orchestra to explore original and traditional duet music for concertinas and clarinets. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 17/11/23 | 17/11/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello | Beethoven - String Quintet Op.104 [1819] |
| Evlana Ensemble | 24/11/23 | 24/11/23 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Evlana Ensemble | Ngarra Burria: a programme of indigenous Australian works. |
| David Syme | 1/12/23 | 1/12/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | David Syme (piano) | Pianist David Syme, UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, will offer a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. |
| UCC Choir | 8/12/23 | 8/12/23 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop | The University College Cork Choir comprises students from the UCC School of Music and Theatre as well as staff members from across the University. The Choir performs regularly both on and off campus and is known for its innovative collaborations with prominent solo artists. |
| NoNameTrio | 2/02/24 | 2/02/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Jason Turk, Conor O'Sullivan, Karl Nesbitt | NoNameTrio are a brand new progressive Irish Folk band featuring three esteemed solo musicians, composers and recording artists. |
| Vanbrugh Quartet with Ed Marja | 9/02/24 | 9/02/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | THE GEALACH QUARTET: Kseniia Yershova, violin, Ellen O’Connell, violin, Ilona Adams, viola, Alina Obreja, cello, THE VANBRUGH & FRIENDS: Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello | Joseph Haydn [1732-1809] String Quartet in D major Op.76 No.5 [1796], Ludwig van Beethoven [1770-1827] String Quintet in E flat major Op.4 [1795] |
| Áine O Gorman & Victoria Keating | 16/02/24 | 16/02/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Áine O Gorman & Victoria Keating | As artists in their own right, Áine O Gorman and Victoria Keating have an impressive archive of solo singles, but together they create magic. |
| Rasa Nua | 23/02/24 | 23/02/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Jorge Kachmari (clarinet, saxophone), Dara O'Brien (sitar, guitar), Pat Allot (percussion), Tim O’Leary (double bass) and Lady Fi (voice) | Rasa Nua are a Cork-based ensemble presenting original compositions and improvisational gymnastics steeped in various world music traditions, notably Baltic and Indian. |
| Jerry Creedon | 1/03/24 | 1/03/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Jerry Creedon (guitar) | Jerry Creedon presents popular guitar classics, featuring music for guitar by Isaac Albeniz, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Michael Praetorius, Stanley Myers and Andrew York. |
| The Dónal ‘Doc’ Gleeson Awards | 8/03/24 | 8/03/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Iona Ritchie, Ruby Falvey, Rachel Casey, Gráinne Ahern | In memory of their colleague, Donal Gleeson, the Dublin Postal Clerks Branch of the Communication Workers' Union has established a fund to enable the University to provide a number of Instrumental Tuition Awards. Up to four awards are made each year to deserving undergraduate music students. |
| Niamh Dunne | 15/03/24 | 15/03/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Niamh Dunne (fiddle, voice) | Niamh is an accomplished fiddle-player and singer, known for her unique traditional fiddle playing, her folk-infused fiddle compositions and smoky, warm vocal style. Niamh is the UCC & Arts Council Traditional Artist in Residence 2023-24. |
| Vanbrugh Quartet & Friends | 22/03/24 | 22/03/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Maria O’Connor, cello | Johannes Brahms [1833-1897], String Sextet in G major [1864] |
| Paul O'Donnell & Clíodhna Octigan | 5/04/24 | 5/04/24 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Paul O'Donnell (piano), Clíodhna Octigan (voice) | A concert of pop, soul and more for voices, piano and percussion. |
| UCC Choir with Paddy Casey | 12/04/24 | 12/04/24 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, Paddy Casey | FUAIM is delighted to return to the beautiful St. Fin Barre's Cathedral for the finale of the Spring 2024 series, a concert by the UCC Choir and Paddy Casey under the direction of Eva McMullan-Glossop. |
2022-2023
| Event Name | Start Date | End Date | Event Type | Location | Performers/presenters | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 30/09/22 | 30/09/22 | FUAIM Concert | Glucksman Gallery | Keith Pascoe, violin, Brigid Leman , violin, Simon Aspell, viola, David Kenny, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Yseult Cooper Stockdale, cello | TCHAIKOVSKY – String Sextet in D minor ‘Souvenir de Florence’ (1890) |
| Correlated Objective Music Education and Training – Time-Tone-Text-Tune | 6/10/22 | 6/10/22 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Prof. Karaikudi S. Subramanian | Professor Karaikudi S. Subramanian is a senior South Indian classical musician and an ethnomusicologist. |
| Prof. Karaikudi S. Subramanian (veena) | 7/10.22 | 7/10.22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Prof. Karaikudi S. Subramanian | Professor Karaikudi S. Subramanian is a senior South Indian classical musician and an ethnomusicologist. He is one among the most renowned masters in the field of South Indian classical music known as ‘Karnatak’ music. |
| Hip Hop in China and Its Multi-Dimensional Narratives | 13/10/22 | 13/10/22 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Lijuan Qian, University College Cork | What is the landscape of hip hop in a large contemporary state where a centralized, state-controlled media industry has increasingly evolved into a highly commercialized system with an international reach? |
| La Femme Forte | 14/10/22 | 14/10/22 | FUAIM Concert | Glucksman Gallery | Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord), Pauline Graham (soprano), Debbie Diamond (violin), Sarah Groser (viola da gamba) | La Femme Forte celebrates the chamber music of French Baroque composer Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729). This lunchtime performance features her Sonata no. 1 in D minor for violin & continuo (1707) and two of her vocal works depicting the Biblical heroines Esther and Judith from Cantates françoises sur des sujets tirez de l’Ecriture (1708). |
| Dave Murphy | 21/10/22 | 21/10/22 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | Dave Murphy | Dave Murphy is a well known and respected piano/keyboard player, vocalist, educator, sound engineer, songwriter and arranger/producer, with over twenty five years experience in the music industry. |
| PopGirlz Scotland: "Nurturing Networks: Social and Local." | 27/10/22 | 27/10/22 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Rachel Johnson and Josephine Sillars | Popgirlz Scotland is a support group for female/female-identifying/trans artists in the Scottish music scene, which now has over 160 members. Rachel created the group in late 2019 with the idea of making a safe, motivating space for womxn artists. |
| POD | 28/10/22 | 28/10/22 | FUAIM Concert | Granary Theatre | Paul O'Donnell (piano) | Jazz/world music with invited guests |
| "As English As Cornflakes": Singers, Gender, and National Belonging in 20th-century Britian | 3/11/22 | 3/11/22 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Melanie Marshall, University College Cork | Melanie is a musicologist with research and teaching interests in gender, sexuality and eroticism in music, and music of early modern Italy. |
| 100 years of Irish Traditional Music at UCC | 4/11/22 | 4/11/22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Caitlín Nic Gabhann, UCC Music staff and students | The Department of Music at UCC is delighted to present a concert celebrating 100 years of Irish Traditional Music at University College Cork. One of a series of events honouring the centenary. |
| David Syme | 11/11/22 | 11/11/22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | David Syme (piano) | UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 18/11/22 | 18/11/22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello, Maria O’Connor, cello | BRAHMS – String Sextet No.1 in B flat major (1860) |
| Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry | 24/11/22 | 24/11/22 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Dr. Ann-Marie Hanlon, University of Galway | Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry' is the first national study to investigate the potential impact of gender on artists experiences within the Irish music industry. |
| Aoife Ní Bhríain, Diarmuid Ó Meachair & Niamh O'Brien | 25/11/22 | 25/11/22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Aoife Ní Bhríain (fiddle), Diarmuid Ó Meachair (button accordian) & Niamh O'Brien (harp) | Iin association with Quiet Lights & Raelach Records. |
| Fionnuala Moynihan & Kieran Moynihan | 2/12/22 | 2/12/22 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Fionnuala Moynihan (piano) , Kieran Moynihan (flute) | A Journey Through Melodic Masterpieces |
| UCC Choir & Brian Kennedy | 16/12/22 | 16/12/22 | FUAIM Concert | St. Fin Barre's Cathedral | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, Brian Kennedy | For the final concert of the Autumn 2022 series, FUAIM proudly presents the UCC Choir, directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, in collaboration with none other than singer and songwriter, Brian Kennedy. |
| Áine O’Gorman & Victoria Keating | 3/02/23 | 3/02/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Áine O’Gorman & Victoria Keating | Victoria and Áine are each talented artists in their own right, but together, they create magic. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 10/02/23 | 10/02/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello | Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op.29 |
| Barry Kerr | 17/02/23 | 17/02/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Barry Kerr (pipes, flutes, vocals) | UCC/Arts Council Traditional Artist in Residence 2023 |
| Eilis O’Sullivan & Jerry Creedon | 24/02/23 | 24/02/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Eilis O'Sullivan (flute), Jerry Creedon (guitar) | AROUND THE WORLD: A dazzlingly diverse recital of flute and guitar music travels across four continents. |
| Nathan Sherman & Alex Petcu | 3/03/23 | 3/03/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Nathan Sherman (viola) & Alex Petcu (percussion) | Premieres of works by Nick Roth, Áine Mallon, Ed Bennett, and Kevin O'Connell, as well as works by Kate Moore. "Shades and Half Lights" (PRS Beyond Borders Tour) |
| Dónal 'Doc' Gleeson Awards | 10/03/23 | 10/03/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Donnchadh Hughes, Iona Ritchie, Eve Whelan, Jamie Benson | In memory of their colleague, Donal Gleeson, the Dublin Postal Clerks Branch of the Communication Workers' Union has established a fund to enable the University to provide a number of Instrumental Tuition Awards. Up to four awards are made each year to deserving undergraduate music students. |
| we return to ground | 23/03/23 | 23/03/23 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | John Godfrey, University College Cork | John Godfrey discusses Karen Power’s works ‘we return to ground’, 'Sonic Pollinators' and 'Instruments of Ice', composed for Quiet Music Ensemble, of which John is the director. |
| The Vanbrugh & Friends | 24/03/23 | 24/03/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | Keith Pascoe, violin, Marja Gaynor, violin, Simon Aspell, viola, Ed Creedon, viola, Christopher Marwood, cello | BRAHMS - String Quintet Op.111 |
| David Syme | 31/03/23 | 31/03/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | David Syme (piano) | UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence. |
| More Than a Labor of Love: Mary Lou Williams as Jazz Entrepreneur | 6/04/23 | 6/04/23 | FUAIM Lecture | Ó Riada Hall | Prof. Gayle Murchison, College of William and Mary | Gayle is Associate Professor of Music at the College of William and Mary. |
| UCC Choir & Róisín O'Grady | 14/04/23 | 14/04/23 | FUAIM Concert | Aula Maxima | UCC Choir directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, Róisín O'Grady | The UCC Choir, directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, perform with soprano Róisín O'Grady. |