Huge thanks to Anchal, MMus alumna, for sharing her insightful experience at @ucddublin.bsky.social 💬Thinking of pursuing postgrad study in music? Join our live webinar this Thurs, 3pm to learn more about the MMus Music and Culture! Register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

💾 Online Webinar: 29th May, 3pm (Irish Time) Find out more about the MMus Music & Culture course content, new scholarship opportunities and have a chance to ask our academics questions about studying with us! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1jtV...

We're excited to welcome Prof Deborah Wong (UC Riverside) to UCD tomorrow for her lecture 'Music and Conviviality: Empathy, Repair, and Homage'. Prof Wong will explore the role of conviviality in music scholarship. 🔗 Full abstract: bit.ly/4iNnG5W 📍UCD Sutherland School of Law 🕔 Wed 7 May, 5pm

💙💛 Sending positive vibes to everyone starting exams tomorrow 💪🧠📚🪑📝🎓🔜🎉

📢Calling all Early Career Ethno/Musicology Researchers Join us in a discussion with Deborah Wong, UC Riverside this Wed 3pm to share research and discuss key challenges in Ethnomusicology. Folks from all music disciplines are welcome! bit.ly/3YZYW3o @ucddublin.bsky.social

Currently recruiting masters students @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social for September. This year myself & composition students have worked with Crash Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, and Line Upon Line amongst others. Contact me if interested in applying people.ucd.ie/sean.l.clancy

On Wednesday 23 April, Dr Francesco Milella (UCD) will give a paper on ‘Navigating turbulent waters: Italian opera and the trauma of modernity at the end of the Spanish empire (1800-1830)’ | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!

Job Opportunity-Associate Conductor We are seeking an Associate Conductor for the 2025–26 academic year. Open to students and non-students, this position is intended as an apprenticeship to aid in the development of an early-career conductor. See here for details: journalofmusic.com/listing/17-0...

Delighted to see my article '“Reminiscence Therapy”: Musical Nostalgia in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (2015–2019)' published in Émergences! I've so much to say about these complex scores, far beyond the wordcount! But I try scratch the surface here! publications-prairial.fr/emergences/i...

The UCD Trad Group were welcomed to the Irish Traditional Music Archives this week. The group had a great time browsing the archive. The visit finished up with a couple of tunes in the library while the archives secretary Bridie Flaherty danced a jig! A great day 😄

Was wonderful to catch the first performance of ‘seismic’ by one of my PhD students Viktória Šinkorová last night played by @ucddublin.bsky.social Symphony Orchestra. Thanks to players for great job, Mary Walsh for conducting & Ciaran Crilly for facilitating project. @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social

A great couple of days for composers in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social as they got to work with both @crashensemble.bsky.social and Line upon Line. Exciting stuff happening on campus

THIS EVENING!! We are delighted to welcome @crashensemble.bsky.social this evening for their first performance in @ucddublin.bsky.social They will be premiering works by postgraduate students Sebastian Adams, Xinyi Chen, Bethany Martin, Calum Quinn, and Viktória Šinkorová. 7pm, Trapdoor Theatre

Had a fabulous workshop with Line Upon Line today in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social . Great insights and lovely pieces from the students, including projecting an animated score onto the instruments… More fun tomorrow, as we welcome the mighty @crashensemble.bsky.social

Busy couple of days ahead for @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social composition students as we welcome not 1, but 2 acclaimed ensembles to campus. Delighted to be hosting both @crashensemble.bsky.social & Line Upon Line from the US to work with student composers on Thursday & Friday.

A nice job opportunity to work with the CCI Team in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy. More Info: www.performingartsforum.ie/job/teaching...

Warmest congratulations to Subhashini Goda Venkataramani who successfully passed her PhD Viva Voce! Here is Subha flanked by supervisor Dr @jaimejaimejones.bsky.social and external examiner Professor Rumya S. Putcha, University of Georgia. The School is enormously proud of Subha's achievement🎉

Job Opportunity: Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Prof in Digital Music Cultures Deadline Extended: 3rd March The deadline to apply for the Assistant Prof in Digital Music Cultures has been extended to 3rd March. So there is still plenty of time to get your application in! www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...

Re-amplifying this job going in digital music cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Come work with me and many other nice people in arts & humanities. Plenty of opportunity to collaborate in the school & in the college The search is deep & wide www.ucd.ie/adastrafello...

Tomorrow: Placeholder Premiere, 4pm Come along to the premiere of Placeholder, a short film about music and practice spaces in Ireland. Q+A with the filmmakers will be followed by a wine reception. Friday 7 February 4pm - details here: tinyurl.com/ycxkxhyu youtu.be/r5LGOfZEK7o?...

🎬RESCHEDULED DATE Storm Éowyn delayed this screening, but we're back on track! Join us for the premiere of Placeholder, a short film exploring DIY music and the fragile importance of practice spaces in Ireland. 📅7th Feb, 4 PM 📍Trapdoor Theatre, Newman Building placeholderfilmpremiere.eventbrite.com

Just 3 days remain to submit your proposal for *The Expansive Canvas*! This international conference & symposium invites us to explore the large-scale forms of women composers in the long 19th century—through scholarship, performance, industry perspectives, & music education.

Huge congrats to @seanlclancy.bsky.social on receiving Project Funding from @artscouncilireland.bsky.social🎉 This will bring Plus Minus Ensemble to Ireland for the 1st time to perform Seán's piece 'Where the Paths End' & record it with Lankum producer, John "Spud" Murphy ❤️ youtu.be/IwUx0RPt0DY?...

🐍🎉 Happy Lunar New Year to all our students and colleagues celebrating!

Job Opportunity! Applications are open to join the School of Music as an Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Prof in Digital Music Cultures in @ucddublin.bsky.social. Please help us spread the news by sharing with anyone you think might be a good fit. ⏰ Closing date: 21st Feb @ 12:00pm bit.ly/40RFfwi

🚨Seminar Alert, 29th Jan, 3:00pm🚨 We are delighted to announce Dr Seán Clancy (@seanlclancy.bsky.social) will be kicking off the Spring Research Seminar Series tomorrow with "Implicit Trust: Collaboration in New Music" All are more than welcome to attend, J305, Newman Building

Come along to the premiere of Placeholder, a short film about music and practice spaces in Ireland. Q+A with the filmmakers will be followed by a wine reception. Friday 7 February 4pm - details here: tinyurl.com/ycxkxhyu

Welcome to the clann James! We are so happy to have to teach with us this Spring 🙂

Cancelled! We are sad to have to cancel the Placeholder screening tomorrow evening, but rescheduling plans are already in motion - watch this space! Stay safe and well!

🎞️Premiere "Placeholder: music and musings on practice spaces" Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com

Lovely stuff from @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social gamelan and composition ensembles this evening in @ucddublin.bsky.social Trapdoor theatre. Fair play to my colleague Peter Moran, and the students for bringing it all together.

Delighted to stumble upon the UCD Gamelan ensemble doing a lil pop-up performance on my way back from teaching a class earlier today. Led by my colleague Peter Moran.