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  Royal Irish Academy of Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) is a linked college of Dublin City University located in Dublin, Ireland.
It was founded in 1848 by a group of music enthusiasts and moved to its present address in Westland Row in 1871.
In addition to academic degrees, the RIAM offers a variety of courses and examinations in the fields of music, public speaking and drama, including associate and licentiate diplomas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Irish_Academy_of_Music   (151 words)

  
 Academy of Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academy of Music (Philadelphia), an opera house in Pennsylvania
Montreal Academy of Music, a theater in Montreal, demolished in 1910
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, a conservatory in Glasgow
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_of_Music   (195 words)

  
 Solas: America's Own Irish Band
Their imaginatively arranged medleys of Irish dance tunes are tight, polished, and propulsive, while the singing of lead vocalist Karan Casey, blessed with a two-and-a-half-octave range, is as clear and beautiful as the famous hand-cut crystal from her home county of Waterford.
Irish traditional singing was not always the primary pursuit of Karan Casey, who in the late 1980s began as a music major at University College Dublin and also studied classical piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
It was one of the reasons I left the music department: they were too narrow-minded." The strong-willed Casey still loves jazz, especially the scat singing of the late Ella Fitzgerald, and formally studied it after she had emigrated to New York in May 1993.
www.celticcafe.com /archive/Hitchner/solas.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Paper #2
It is because of the style of music played, how it is played, how it is shared through the people, and the themes that are frequently found that make it everything it is. Irish music has affected two areas in particular, the history of Ireland’s struggles and Irish literature.
Irish music has clear and prominent ties to the history of Ireland and its literature.
The music itself is special to Irish culture and made in such a way that is part of the consciousness of the people.
www.msu.edu /user/mcinto40/eng310d/paper2.html   (2552 words)

  
 The Revival of Irish Music
Irish music, the most precious inheritance of the past, is yet all but completely unknown and ignored by but too many of the Irish people.
In 1855 Petrie gave to the world his volume of "Ancient Irish Music." This is a truly splendid collection of national airs, and is the result of many years of loving labour and research.
Such, then, was the music of ancient Ireland, and such is the music which it ought to be the glory of Irishmen to love and to cherish.
www.libraryireland.com /articles/RevivalIrishMusicIF6-133/index.php   (2151 words)

  
 Frederick May: Irish composer by David Wright for Music on the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Young Fred studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music from 1923 to 1929 where he was awarded seven scholarships including the Vandeleur Academy Scholarship for piano in 1928 and for harmony in 1929.
The musical director also chose the music and sometimes a composer would write incidental music for such a production and this explains the small forces employed rather than the larger ones usually associated with such music.
Seán Ó’Riada did wonderful things for Irish folk music and developed himself in so doing; but there was always a dichotomy between his Irish music and the work with which he achieved international recognition.
www.musicweb-international.com /may/index.htm   (1696 words)

  
 WENDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Wendy Dwyer is originally from Cork and began her musical journey at the age of 7 as a violin student in her home town where she achieved many scholarships and awards through the course of her studies.
She then went to the Cork School of Music to study singing and drama where she was the recipient of many more scholarships and prizes.
Wendy attended University College Cork for five years where she was awarded an Honours Bachelor of Music degree, a higher diploma in education and later received an Honours Masters degree in Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Dublin City University.
www.3irishsopranos.com /wendy.html   (279 words)

  
 World of Piano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A student of John O’Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Lorna Horan is a pianist with extensive international experience.
Her musical training began at the RIAM at the age of six.
Lorna is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Vancouver Academy of Music where she undertook three years postgraduate work.
www.su.edu /piano/horan.html   (169 words)

  
 John O'Conor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He has become a key figure in the development of young artists through his role as Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and was a co-founder of the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, of which he is Artistic Director and Chairman of the Jury.
In addition to his position as Professor of Piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Mr.
For his services to music he has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the National University of Ireland and an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
www.sanbernardinosymphony.org /Bios_2005/JOconorBio.htm   (448 words)

  
 Kerry Records - Grand Irish Variety Concerts
The heart of Ireland is to be found in its music and in its words, and on this evening of storytelling and song we will bring you to that place where words and music meet.
Irish Soprano, Margaret O'Carroll, a Gold Medallist at the Dublin Feis Ceoil, began her voice and piano studies with her mother, Elizabeth, and continued at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, in Dublin, and the Cork School of Music.
Degrees in Music at Cambridge University, and, as a student, she was a founder/member and repetiteur with the University opera group.
www.azirishmusic.com /loveandlyrics.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Distinguished guests of dcc over the years
The RIAM Wind Band is a relatively new addition to the activities of the long established Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Born in Galway' Mary Studied at University College Dublin, The Dublin College of Music, and the Royal College of Music,London.
She was chosen to sing the role of Ines in Verdi's // Trovatore by Maestro Daniele Gatti in a gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall in December 1999.
www.dublincountychoir.com /guests.htm   (1656 words)

  
 Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann - Cooley-Keegan Branch, San Francisco - Music Links
Irish Music in San Francisco An informative site that includes information on seisiúns, music venues, and events around the San Francisco area.
The Irish Traditional Music Archive is a reference archive and resource center for the traditional song, music, and dance of Ireland.
Irish Traditional Music in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas is Jim Scarf's website for Irish Music.
sf.ccewest.org /music/music_links.html   (647 words)

  
 guitar_collections
He was the much-loved professor of early English song at the Royal Academy of Music, and taught here for nearly a quarter of a century.
After his death the 21 volumes of solo guitar music that he had had bound were given to this university by his family in 1963.
Together with an extensive collection of music manuscripts that the composer and his family gave to the Library in the past, and a number of manuscripts by Castelnuovo-Tedesco in the Library's Moldenhauer Archives, this collection is now the preeminent archives for the study of this important composer.
icoldwell.com /robert/music/library/guitar_collections.html   (1419 words)

  
 Sounds Irish, from Minnesota Public Radio Music
Irish composers are lucky that daily life in Ireland contains a wealth of music.
Equally impressive is the music in the Cathedrals of St. Patrick and Christ Church—a stone's throw from where Handel's Messiah first resonated through the Musick Hall in Fishamble Street.
The history of classical music in Ireland is a determined one: amidst the suffering of 1848—the height of the famine years—Dublin's Royal Irish Academy of Music was founded.
music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/0103_soundsirish/crann.shtml   (608 words)

  
 The 4té String Quartet
She was a prize-winner at the Belfast Music Festival and the Feis Ceol in Dublin in both solo and chamber classes.
She went on to graduate with a postgraduate performers diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, London, where her professor was Maurice Hasson and where she was awarded the Winifred Disney prize.
Since completing a Postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with David Smith of the Alberni String Quartet, she has carved a niche for herself as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout Europe.
www.sheltonarts.com /html/4te.html   (797 words)

  
 World of Piano
Elizabeth Csibi, professor of viola and head of the RIAM’s string faculty.
Irish pianist John O’Conor has earned a reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classical and Early Romantic piano repertoire.
O’Conor, director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland is regarded as one of the most important piano teachers in the world today.
www.su.edu /piano   (486 words)

  
 Articles [Walter Beckett Obituary] / CMC
He taught piano, composition, harmony and counterpoint, as well as organ, voice and class music in schools in England and Ireland; he conducted the Dublin Operatic Society and the Dublin Musical Society, and in England he was the conductor of the Leamington Spa Bach Choral Society.
In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Bach's organ music was a strong influence on him as well as the music of Chopin, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Richard Strauss and especially Delius, whose harmonies he greatly admired.
www.cmc.ie /articles/article67.html   (731 words)

  
 peermusic - The Independent Major :: Niall Ó Callanáin
Niall has been involved in the music business in Ireland for nearly 20 years, and is well known as an accomplished, and sought after bouzouki player, and accompanist.
Niall is best known for his involvement in the popular trad/jazz fusion band “Deiseal” with which he recorded 2 groundbreaking albums on the Starc label.
Having recorded and toured with various bands and artists over the years, Niall is now concentrating his efforts on his own projects, composing and recording his own music.
www.peermusic.com /artistpage/49.html   (258 words)

  
 Irish Levenstons
In 1873, he won a scholarship for violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and eventually became Professor of Music there.
Philip Michael Levenston was a devotee of Irish music and wrote many musical and dramatic scores for local groups; he taught violin, without fee, to boys in the Marlborough Street training college, and for a short time conducted a choir at the Adelaide Road synagogue.
He was the first President of the Montefiore Musical and Dramatic Club, founded by the young Jews of Dublin in 1889.
www.cityfarmer.org /IrishLev.html   (517 words)

  
 John Dexter Harmony - John Dexter Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He was educated at Guildford Grammar School, Jesus College Oxford, University of London, and the Royal College of Music where he studied orchestral conducting with Norman Del Mar. From 1975 to 77 he was Organ Scholar in St Paul's Cathedral and Assistant Organist in Holy Trinity Brompton.
He was awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Associate of the Royal College of Music and Licenciate of the Royal Academy of Music.
He is currently Music Teacher in St Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School, Conductor of the Goethe-Institut Choir, Chorus Master of the Dublin County Choir and the Founder and Conductor of John Dexter Harmony.
www.johndexterharmony.com /bio.htm   (552 words)

  
 Milwaukee Irish Arts
Young Conor goes to Dublin to study music with "The Maestro" in a quest to become a “Great Composer.” He imagines himself standing at the foot of Parnassus (a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses of poets and poetry).
In the halls of the school, he discovers his own muse, but she may be unattainable.
After moving to Dublin he studied music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and later with Frederick May. In 1962 he entered the Irish civil service where he worked in the district court until taking early retirement in 1988 to write full time.
www.gaelicweb.com /milwirisharts/past/o-parnassus/o-parnassus.html   (212 words)

  
 Harp Spectrum
She has always combined a deep interest in traditional music and songs with a corresponding interest in classical music.
At the same time as she was studying piano, voice and harp at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, she was learning traditional songs from the Irish-speaking (Gaeltacht) areas, and acquired what has become a very large repertoire of traditional songs and music.
She has done extensive research on the Irish harpers, and has recorded some 40 of their songs and harp solos on a double CD (Gael Linn, CEF CD 156), using both wire and gut harps.
www.harpspectrum.org /bios_authors/yeats_grainne.shtml   (219 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com Music - New Age Interview
I was involved in the Irish rock circuit in the 1980s in various bands, playing keyboards, singing backup, and of course, writing.
When dance music become popular in the late '80s with all those different branches -- trance, trip-hop, hip-hop -- the percussive nature of what was available with modern technology engaged me as a keyboard player.
Much of the foundation of pop music is made from cutting-edge drum sounds, and I was anxious to employ these contemporary elements in my solo work.
music.barnesandnoble.com /features/interview.asp?NID=349081   (1201 words)

  
 Christmas From A Celtic Table
Irish Soprano, Margaret O'Carroll, a Gold Medallist at the Dublin Feis Ceoil, began her voice and piano
studies with her mother, Elizabeth, and continued at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, in Dublin, and the Cork School of Music.
Cambridge University, and, as a student, she was a founder/member and repetiteur with the University opera group.
www.azirishmusic.com /celtic_table_2005.htm   (411 words)

  
 Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The primary purpose of the library is to support and enhance the educational, performing and research activities of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
The library has purposefully developed collections of performing materials for all instruments and voices, recordings, and a core collection of texts and periodicals in music.
· Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
www.riam.ie /about_us/library.htm   (226 words)

  
 Karan Casey - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Wall Street Journal's music writer Earle Hitchner praises her singing, harking that Casey's voice "is one of..
The Wall Street Journal's music writer Earle Hitchner praises her singing, harking that Casey's voice "is one of the true glories of Irish music today."
While studying voice and piano at the University College Dublin and later at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in the late '80s, Casey was singing Ella Fitzgerald standards in a jazz duo at a local pub in Dublin.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,412768,00.html   (470 words)

  
 OCMP Shareware Music - "5 Mood Swings for 5"
5 Mood Swings for 5 was written by Fergus O'Carroll for the Brass Quintet of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
It was performed recently at a Chamber Music competition (which the group won) and was commended by the adjudicator and extremely well received by the audience.
It is a fun piece in 5 short movements (totaling 8 minutes) which highlights the ability of all of the instruments in turn.
www.ocmpireland.com /5.html   (375 words)

  
 John O'Conor, Pianist
O'Conor continues to make significant contributions to the arts in his native country through his numerous performances of music from the traditional repertoire and his championing of the works by Ireland's leading 19th century composer, John Field.
John O'Conor first gained widespread attention in the United States in 1986 with the release of the initial volume of his complete recorded Beethoven sonata cycle which was issued as a box set in 1994.
He gives annual summer courses in Holland and Israel and coaches chamber music at the Yale School of Music Summer School at Norfolk, Connecticut.
www.lclark.edu /org/artslive/oconorbio.html   (518 words)

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