FUAIM Music at UCC returns this week with our Spring 2021 season of Friday lunchtime concerts live-streamed from the Glucksman Gallery. And what better way to start than with a performance by The Vanbrugh? For this concert, the trio will be joined by Siun Milne, David Kenny and Yseult Cooper-Stockdale for a performance of Antonín Dvořák's String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48. 

Live online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

Thursday 11th February, 11am. Live on Microsoft Teams.

Email music@ucc.ie for link.

Voice of the Cape: Reclaiming Landscape Through the Sound of Cape Town-Based Hiphop.

Thursday 4th March - 11am. Email music@ucc.ie for the Teams Link.

FUAIM's Friday lunchtime concert this week features award-winning Scottish piper Brighde Chaimbeul, who will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Jamie Murchadh.

Watch Live online at: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

Live Online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

Live Online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

Thursday 18 March 2pm. Email music@ucc.ie for MS Teams Link. 

Thursday 25th March, 11am. Email music@ucc.ie for MS Teams Link

Live Online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

FUAIM is delighted to present a concert by Nollaig Casey, our Traditional Artist in Residence for 2021. Nollaig is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiddle players, with an international reputation for excellence in the field of Irish traditional music.

FUAIM is delighted to welcome back Mary O'Donnell and Hannah Collins who are recent graduates from our B. Mus programme. Mary and Hannah will be presenting a concert of traditional music for fiddle and piano.

Join the livestream from the Glucksman Gallery here: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

FUAIM is delighted to welcome Kenneth Rice, Cian Boyland & friends for our final concert of the season.

Join the livestream from the Glucksman Gallery here: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

‘Eastwards Heterotopias of the Piano’

Join us live online by emailing music@ucc.ie for an MS Teams link.

The National String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music Partner to UCC, presents The Vanbrugh & Friends 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-1791] 

String Quintet in C major K.515 [1787]

Join us live at the Aula Maxima and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

In association with the East Cork Early Music Festival 

HANDEL IN IRELAND 

Harpsichord recital 

Join us live at the Glucksman Gallery and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

Pianist David Syme, UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, will offer a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. 

The concert also inaugurates the in-kind donation of a Ritmuller RS280 from Pearl River Piano Group; the world’s largest Piano manufacturer.

Join us live at the Aula Maxima and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

FUAIM is very proud to present the winners of the 2020 Dónal 'Doc' Gleeson Awards for outstanding undergraduate performance. 

UCC Performer, Composer and Lecturer, Paul O Donnell presents, ‘POD 2021’ 

The Department of Music is pleased to welcome UCC PhD candidate Clare Geraghty as the first speaker of our 2021-2022 FUAIM Lecture Series.

Due to illness, Cormac Begley’s FUAIM lunchtime concert is canceled for this Friday, Oct 29th.

FUAIM is delighted to welcome back concertina virtuoso, Cormac Begley, performing in the beautiful surrounds of St. Fin Barre's Cathedral.

FUAIM is delighted to welcome back singer-songwriter Jack O'Rourke for what promises to be a special performance.

The Department of Music is pleased to welcome composer Dr. Dorone Paris as the next speaker of our 2021-2022 FUAIM Lecture Series.

The National String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music Partner to UCC, presents 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Francesco Turrisi's FUAIM lunchtime concert is cancelled for this Friday, November 26th.

FUAIM is delighted to present another concert in the FUAIM/Ritmuller series.

Onde features new original solo piano compositions and improvisations by eclectic Italian Francesco Turrisi and his journey during lockdown. 

Music for flute and piano

Two virtuosic exponents of two different musical styles explore the edges and affinities of baroque, traditional Irish and flamenco, in a high-octane programme of new arrangements and improvisations. 

Rachmaninoff: melancholy, hypnosis and triumph. Piano Concerto No. 2 (David Syme and Keith Pascoe, pianos)

Jean Françaix [1912-1997] String Trio [1933]

Johannes Brahms [1833-1897] String Quintet No.1 in F major Op.88 [1882]

The second concert of the Spring season sees the welcome return of ‘angel voice’ Sue Rynhart, who will be joined this time by acclaimed double bassist Dan Bodwell.

UCC Music graduate, Claudia Schwab, presents a concert of genre-hopping, funk-beat yodeling, contemplative and life-affirming musical adventures rooted in Irish, Austrian and Indian music traditions.

Chinese-born American composer Lei Liang is the winner of the Rome Prize, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Creative Capital Award, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His concerto Xiaoxiang for saxophone and orchestra was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2015. His orchestral work, A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams, won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2021.

Classical guitarist Jerry Creedon will be joined by flautist Eilís O’Sullivan and cellist Hugh McCarthy in a fascinating mix of the classical and the modern, all involving the guitar, in a programme ranging from the cool jazz of Thelonius Monk to the Tango sensations of Astor Piazzolla.

The Department of Music is pleased to welcome Zeynep Bulut as the next speaker of our 2021-2022 FUAIM Lecture Series.

The lecture "Sustainable Speech" takes place at 11am Thursday, 3 March in the Aloys Fleischmann  Room, Music Department and also online via MS Teams. Please email music@ucc.ie to RSVP for in-person attendance or for a link to attend online.

Caitlín Nic Gabhann is a concertina player, performer, teacher, composer and percussive dancer. Having toured for years as a dancer with Riverdance, the 3-time All-Ireland concertina champion has been a regular performer at festivals and concert halls from North America to Asia over the last 15 years. Caitlín’s life’s work to date is recognised with her appointment as UCC Traditional Artist in Residence for 2022.

The Department of Music is pleased to announce this year’s Ó Riada Memorial Lecture:

“Celebrating the Centenary; One hundred years of Irish Traditional Music Pedagogy at University College Cork”

“Effect of Music Intervention on Infants’ Neural Processing of Speech”

Andrew Zolinsky’s unique style of programming and his individual interpretations have secured worldwide performances at many prestigious venues and festivals. His work with living composers brings a vivid freshness, energy and passion to his interpretations of music from previous eras.

THE DÓNAL ‘DÓC’ GLEESON INSTRUMENTAL TUITION AWARDS. FUAIM is very proud to present the winners of this year's Dónal ‘Doc’ Gleeson Awards for outstanding undergraduate performance. They are 2nd-year students Gobnait Kiely and Pádraig Enright and 3rd-year students Luke Maziarek and Rachel Browne.

The Vanbrugh and their guests present Dvořák’s incomparable viola quintet, composed in Iowa shortly after the equally celebrated ‘American’ string quartet. A review of the work’s premiere in 1894 noted that the quintet was "of the kind about which a commentator may write a small volume without exhausting his admiration or fully describing their beauties". We agree!

Pianist David Syme, UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, will offer a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. 

Join us live at the Aula Maxima and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC

FUAIM Music at UCC is delighted to bring you the first concert in the Autumn 2022 season this coming Friday 30^th September at the usual time of 1:10pm, The Vanbrugh & Friends, performing Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary String Sextet in D minor. The venue for our concert is the beautiful Glucksman Gallery, UCC, recently awarded the Art Museum Award for 2022 by the European Museum Academy, and for those who can’t attend in person, the performance will be livestreamed on youtube.com/musicatUCC.

It is a great pleasure to welcome Professor Karaikudi S. Subramanian to the FUAIM Friday lunchtime concert series for this week’s performance.

FUAIM Music at UCC is very excited to partner with the wonderful East Cork Early Music Festival to bring you this week’s Friday lunchtime concert, a performance celebrating the chamber music of French Baroque composer Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre. We look forward to welcoming you to the Glucksman Gallery for what promises to be a very special event.

Eclectic mix of original and cover songs

Jazz/world music with invited guests

FUAIM Music at UCC is back in the Aula Maxima this week for a particularly special event ...

UCC/Ritmuller Classical Artist in Residence

BRAHMS – String Sextet No.1 in B flat major (1860)

 "Gendered Experiences of the Irish Music Industry"

FUAIM in association with Quiet Lights & Raelach Records present Aoife Ní Bhríain, Diarmuid Ó Meachair & Niamh O'Brien

‘A Journey Through Melodic Masterpieces’

All prospective Music students, their parents and Music teachers are warmly invited to our annual Open Day.

We have another wonderful concert lined up for you this Friday in the Glucksman Gallery where we welcome back the extraordinary pianist, composer, singer and musical explorer, Antoni O'Breskey, in duet with Ultan O'Brien, fiddle player, violist and composer.

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. Please join us in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral as we bring the season to close with what promises to be a real highlight.

Singer-songwriters from West Cork 

Victoria and Áine are each talented artists in their own right, but together, they create magic. Their voices are spellbinding. They write and sing from the heart, making every live performance a wonderful experience. 

Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op.29 
 The Vanbrugh and their guests present Beethoven's Op.29 string quintet, 'The Storm'. Written in 1801, shortly after his Op.18 string quartets this great and seldom heard work combines his mastery of quartet writing with the expansive richness of texture offered by the addition of a second viola.

Traditional Artist in Residence 2023 

AROUND THE WORLD: 

A dazzlingly diverse recital of flute and guitar music travels across four continents. 

"Shades and Half Lights" (PRS Beyond Borders Tour) 

UCC Department of Music Student Performers

BRAHMS - String Quintet Op.111  

Join us live at the Aula Maxima and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC 

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 ensemble is dedicated to an aesthetic in which sound is less seen as something to organise and more as something to explore. Power’s works are created from field recordings made all over the world; QME engages with these recordings to produce a soundscape in which natural and performed sounds blend to create a living, constantly changing sonic kaleidoscope. The talk will include the world’s first chance to hear QME’s recent studio recordings of these pieces, due to be released on Other Minds later this year.

Pianist David Syme, UCC/Ritmüller Classical Artist in Residence, will offer a program of short pieces drawn from his vast repertoire. 

11am-1pm, Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sunday’s Well, or via MS Teams (link available on request from Melanie Marshall, ml.marshall@ucc.ie

Gayle is Associate Professor of Music at the College of William and Mary.

The UCC Choir, directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, perform with soprano Róisín O'Grady.

Join us live at the Aula Maxima and online: https://www.youtube.com/user/musicatUCC