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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 |
| 11am - 12pm | 26 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: Gary Carner - Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer | This talk, the author’s first in Ireland, will touch upon Adams’s Irish roots, his work in the UK from 1969 to 1986, aspects of his personality that shaped his career, his dazzling instrumental virtuosity, and how his life intersected with some of the greatest writers and musicians of his time | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/260326---fuaim---gary-carner.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 27 Mar 2026 | FUAIM Concert: The Vanbrugh & Friends | Mendelssohn String Quintet in B flat Major Op.87 | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/270326---vanbrugh.html |
| 1.10pm - 2pm | 2 Apr 2026 | FUAIM Concert: UCC Choir, Crosshaven Community Choir & Majella Cullagh (soprano) | Directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop (Please note Thursday date for this concert due to Good Friday falling on 3 April) | Music | Honan Chapel | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/020426---ucc-choir.html |
| 10.40am - 12.40pm | 20 Apr 2026 | School of Film, Music, and Theatre Doctoral Research Week - Day 1 | University College Cork’s School of Film, Music and Theatre is delighted to present its Annual Doctoral Research Week, taking place from 20–23 April. Join us for four engaging days celebrating the innovative work of our doctoral researchers, as they share fresh perspectives on film, music, and theatre. | Arts and Humanities | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/200426---doctoral-research-week.html |
| 4pm - 5pm | 21 Apr 2026 | FUAIM Lecture: Professor Sean Williams - Sacred, Alluring, and Dangerous: Music and the In-Between | In this talk, ethnomusicologist Sean Williams draws from her long-term interest in the in-between to offer a talk on the application of a single theoretical issue—liminality—to musical research, listening, performing, and writing. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/210426---prof-sean-williams.html |
| 10am - 2pm | 21 Apr 2026 | School of Film, Music, and Theatre Doctoral Research Week - Day 2 | University College Cork’s School of Film, Music and Theatre is delighted to present its Annual Doctoral Research Week, taking place from 20–23 April. Join us for four engaging days celebrating the innovative work of our doctoral researchers, as they share fresh perspectives on film, music, and theatre. | Arts and Humanities | Granary Theatre | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/210426---doctoral-research-week.html |
| 10am - 2.30pm | 22 Apr 2026 | School of Film, Music, and Theatre Doctoral Research Week - Day 3 | University College Cork’s School of Film, Music and Theatre is delighted to present its Annual Doctoral Research Week, taking place from 20–23 April. Join us for four engaging days celebrating the innovative work of our doctoral researchers, as they share fresh perspectives on film, music, and theatre. | Arts and Humanities | UCC Main Campus | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/220426---doctoral-research-week.html |
| 10am - 2.30pm | 23 Apr 2026 | School of Film, Music, and Theatre Doctoral Research Week - Day 4 | University College Cork’s School of Film, Music and Theatre is delighted to present its Annual Doctoral Research Week, taking place from 20–23 April. Join us for four engaging days celebrating the innovative work of our doctoral researchers, as they share fresh perspectives on film, music, and theatre. | Arts and Humanities | Online | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/230426---doctoral-research-week.html |
| 11am - 11am | 4 May 2026 | Department of Music Recitals | You are cordially invited to the UCC Department of Music FINAL YEAR RECITALS. Free Admission, All Welcome Pop, jazz, classical, trad, & more! 4th-7th May 2026 Cyprus Avenue, Cork City, Oliver Plunkett St. Ó Riada Hall, Annie Patterson Seminar Room, Aloys Fleischmann Room, UCC Music Building, Sunday's Well UCC Community Garden | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/recitals-2026.html |
| 7pm - 9pm | 18 Sep 2026 | Culture Night 2026 | Celebrate Culture Night with the Department of Music with pop music, gamelan, and a sonic art installation. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/18-sep---culture-night.html |
| 1.10pm - 1.50pm | 25 Sep 2026 | FUAIM Concert - Jason Turk & Davie Ryan | Cork musician Jason Turk and percussionist Davie Ryan present new music for Seaboard, percussion and electronics inspired by the Sliabh Luachra tradition. Building on work that has featured in the Junior Cycle Music Maker syllabus, the programme explores new possibilities for Irish traditional music through live electronics and emerging technology. | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/25-sep--jason-turk--davie-ryan.html |
| 1.10pm - 1.50pm | 2 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Concert - The Vanbrugh & Friends | Brahms Quintet in B minor Op.115 [1891] | Music | Aula Maxima | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/2-oct---the-vanbrugh--friends-.html |
| 5.30pm - 7.30pm | 8 Oct 2026 | Cork Folk Festival - Tuning the Radio - Lecture by Peter Browne | In partnership with Cork Folk Fest, the Department of Music is delighted to welcome musician and broadcaster Peter Browne to the Ó Riada Hall next Thursday, 8 October at 5:30pm, where he will deliver a lecture entitled Tuning the Radio - 100 Years of Irish Traditional Music Broadcasting. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/8-oct---peter-browne.html |
| 11am - 1pm | 8 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Lecture - Prof. Lucy Durán | Lucy Durán, Professor Emerita at SOAS University of London, presents her ideas about methodologies, research potential and impact of working in the studio as “producer” of music of oral tradition (in her case, primarily from Mali). She suggests that production in the studio can be an intense fieldwork experience that flips around the “practice-based research” trope of fieldwork, to “research based- practice”. | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/8-oct---prof-lucy-duran.html | |
| 1.10pm - 1.50pm | 9 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Concert - Oli Garde | Oli Garde, harpsichord French Masters of the Harpsichord: Couperin & Rameau The programme will feature music by François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau, with explanations on the style : its richness, elegance and imagination of the French Baroque harpsichord tradition. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/9-oct---oli-garde.html |
| 3pm - 5pm | 9 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Screening - Ballaké Sissoko, Une Histoire de kora | World-renowned, award-winning Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko takes us on an unprecedented journey on the trail of his instrument, the kora, a uniquely West African 21-string harp, whose origins are surrounded by legend. Shot on location, the journey begins at Ballaké’s home in Bamako, capital of Mali where he was born and raised. | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/9-oct---prof-lucy-duran-screening.html |
| 11.30am - 3.30pm | 10 Oct 2026 | UCC Open Day - Department of Music | Visit the Department of Music at UCC's Open Day for a taste of our vibrant musical community! | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/10-oct---open-day.html |
| 9.45am - 5pm | 16 Oct 2026 | Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Memorial Symposium | Dr. Danijela Kulezic-Wilson was a member of staff at the University College Cork 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. | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/16-oct---dkw-symposium.html | ||
| 1.10pm - 1.50pm | 16 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Concert - Ian Wilson | Music by Morton Feldman | Music | Boole Library | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/16-oct---ian-wilson.html |
| 11am - 1pm | 15 Oct 2026 | FUAIM Lecture-Recital - Rubén Darío López | Compositions, Arrangements and Adaptations for Seven-String Solo Guitar | Music | Department of Music | /en/fmt/music/events/previous-events/15-oct---ruben-dario-lopez.html |
