Forum for Music in Ireland

Music Network is currently seeking applications from Irish and Ireland-based professional musicians and composers interested in participating in Making Overtures 2010.  
 
Making Overtures is a professional development course that focuses on two key, non-artistic elements of a successful career in music: self-promotion and self-management. The course is delivered by Irish and international professional and addresses a range of areas including: media, marketing, finance & taxation as well as local, national and international supports.
 
In 2010, we are offering applicants three options to engage with the course:
Option 1 Self-Promotion Only (8 & 9 November) Course fee €100
Option 2 Self-Management Only (11 & 12 November) Course fee €100
Option 3 Self-Promotion & Self-Management (8, 9, 11 & 12 November) Course fee €200
 
The course will take place at the Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2 from Monday 8 to Friday 12 November. The closing date for applications is Friday 1st October, 2010.
 
Please find attached a course brochure and application form. Yours is the only email contact that I have with staff members of the Academy and perhaps you may consider distributing the course brochure and application form to yours colleagues as well as any students that you feel may benefit.
 
If you or any of your students require any further information, please contact: 

Aisling Roche
Development Programmes Manager
Music Network
The Coach House
Dublin Castle
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 6719429
Fax: 01 6719430

Thursday 13 May 1.10- 2.00pm
Elizabeth Cooney & Redmond O’Toole  duo (violin and guitar)   Cooney & O'Toole
Crawford Gallery, Cork
Bach: Adagio from Sonata No.1 for solo violin in G minor, BWV 1001
Giuliani: Duo Concertante for violin and guitar, Op. 85
Paganini: Sonata No.1 in a major, Op.3
De Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
Paganini: La Campanella
Tickets €10  086 7397722

Thursday 13 May 8.00pm
Sylvia O'Brien, soprano and Hanna Shybayeva, piano 
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co.Meath
"The Seven Deadly Sins of Opera"
Solstice details on http://www.solsticeartscentre.com/events/?p=991
 

Music & Madness in Galway

Dance Mania, Addiction, Ecstasy, Love…

Galway Early Music is pleased to announce its 15^th Festival of Early Music, taking place in the heart of medieval Galway on 28-30 of May 2010.

The theme of this year’s festival is Music and Madness and we promise our guests a healthy dose of foolishness and absurdity in all the events of our festival. The themes of ecstasy, dance mania, addiction, and love dominate in this year’s edition of the festival. The festival’s programme ranges from the dance epidemics of the Middle Ages, where entire communities of people would join hands, dance, leap, scream and shake for hours, to the madness of love, so beautifully expressed in medieval & renaissance vocal music, to the madness of the gambler who plays to his ruin, and finally to the ecstatic chant music of religious visionaries and mystics such as Hildegard von Bingen. In addition, a madman that can fly and horns that cure a wounded warrior feature in the popular Saturday free events that run throughout the Latin Quarter of the city.

For full programme and on-line booking please visit our website:

www.galwayearlymusic.com

 ‘THE FUTURE OF MUSIC in the Digital World’
to be explored at international conference in Dublin Castle.
 
Arts Minister Mary Hanafin to open Contemporary Music Centre’s conference for the music industry on Friday, 11 June 2010.
 
With access to music now just a click away for most of us, very few of the tried and tested ways of accessing music remain unchanged. Can we, or should we, attempt to predict the future? Have we even begun to deal with the present yet?
 
This major conference brings together high-level international speakers to explore and debate issues around the meaning of digital culture: how it impacts on the creator and the performer; and the implications for copyright in a world which has come to expect music to be free.
 
Who should attend?
Creative artists and organisations engaged in any area of composition, performance, publishing or distribution across all forms of music in Ireland are invited to join the debate in the Coach House, Dublin Castle, on 11 June.

Registration (including buffet lunch, refreshments and wine reception) is €50 (concessions €35).
Early bird discount of 10% if you book and pay by close of business on 7 May.
A limited number of bursaries are available.

PLEASE SEE BROCHURE ATTACHED FOR ALL THE DETAILS AND A REGISTRATION FORM.
Further information at www.cmc.ie/future-of-music

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Eve O'Kelly, Director, Contemporary Music Centre