FUAIM Music at UCC is thrilled to announce the Spring 2025 series of Friday lunchtime concerts, which once again brings an eclectic mix of musical talent to the heart of campus. Featuring a diverse array of performers, this season offers something for everyone. As always, all performances begin at 1:10pm and are open to the public and free of charge. We hope you can join us each week for a perfect Friday midday musical escape!

We are delighted to publish the very first edition of our new Department of Music News Bulletin. Keep up to date with recent Department news as we reflect on a very busy semester!

Click here to read the bulletin.

·Value: €3000 per scholarship

·You will need to apply for a Taught Masters programme at the Music Department at UCC before you can apply for this scholarship. 

·Deadline: 5pm on Tuesday 15th July 2025

·Questions about this scholarship can be directed to music@ucc.ie

TRADITIONAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT UCC

The Arts Council and University College Cork invite applications from traditional artists of distinction for the role of Traditional Artist in Residence at UCC for the calendar year 2025.

The Traditional Artist in Residence, based in the Department of Music, is designed to provide a traditional artist (traditional musician, singer, dancer, story-teller or practitioner of the oral arts such as agallamh beirte and lúibíní) with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.

Department of Music doctoral researcher and Senior Technical Officer Phil Maguire will launch his new CD, faint red / pencil lines on Farpoint Recordings at Anima Mundi #5, a series by Errant Sound that is part of Cultúr Éireann's Zeitgeist Irland 24 festival in Berlin. Phil will perform at Morphine Raum on 12th October.

UCC & Cork Opera House MRes Scholar Kevin Terry presents the culmination of his research at this year's Culture Night, with a number of performances of his immersive audio environment at Cork Opera House.

Donnchadh has been awarded this prize for his final-year Major Study composition project, Éist le Fuaim na hAbhann. Echoing Sean-nós in Contemporary Classical Composition. The project is a work for three instrumentalists that interrogates the composer’s relationship with sean-nós song and its usage as musical material in contemporary classical composition.