Music At UCC

Warm congratulations to Purab Riddhi Chaudhuri, who successfully completed his doctoral viva online earlier this week. Purab's thesis is entitled "Dialogues and Crossovers: Re-creating community space through Applied Ethnomusicology for miji-migun repertoire among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh" (supervisors, Jonathan Stock and Lidia Guzy from the Department for the Study of Religions).

Here we all are in the viva, including Richard Widdess (external examiner), Alexander Khalil (internal examiner), Emma Nic Carthaigh (independent chair). Purab has also sent a set of photos that illustrate his study experience in Cork.

Happy Cork Midsummer! One the many events we are excited for in this year's program is the live reading and music performance of "Said The Dead"
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Linda Buckley 📚🎶

UCC Music graduate Linda Buckley holds a PhD in composition! A recent alumni spotlight article was dedicated to her brilliant work on our website.

About "Said The Dead":
‘In Cork city, a derelict mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs. Following them, she finds herself drawn into an irresistible river of forgotten voices, those of the women who knew this place best: insistent, vivid and true. They murmur from archives and old records; they whisper from stairwells and walls. Among them – and in one figure in particular — she may find meaning, solace, rage; her own salvation, perhaps, or her own vanishing?’

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s writing leaps between genres and times, to explore how the past makes itself felt within the present. Her book A Ghost in the Throat went on to be translated into 20 languages, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the James Tait Black Prize.

Linda Buckley is an award winning Irish composer (born in Cork) with a particular interest in working across many disciplines. Most notably film and in the realm of drone and dark ambient music. She was featured by Iggy Pop on BBC Radio 6 as “somebody really special”. She has written extensively for orchestra (BBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ NSO), was elected to Aosdána in 2021, and is Associate Artist with Chamber Music Scotland.

Interested in joining the UCC Concert Band or Choir next year?🎶

UCC Choir and UCC Concert Band’s Dr. Eva McMullan and Eithne Egan are pictured here with President John O’Halloran and Sandra O’Mahony (Staff Wellbeing) at the President’s Orientation Café this afternoon. ☕

If you’re interested in joining either group, please get in touch!

Congratulations to our past Music graduate and former winner of the Staf Gebruers prize 23/24, Óisín Dilger who recently completed post-graduate studies at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen (Belgium) in which he has been awarded the highest category of “With great distinction”.

 

Well done Óisín from all here in Music, UCC!

The Department of Music at UCC was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Desi Wilkinson. Desi was a gifted and acclaimed flute and whistle player, singer, educator, and academic. A decade ago, we had the privilege of hosting Desi as the UCC / Arts Council Traditional Artist in Residence for 2015-16. He greatly contributed to the university during his residency and he was a valued colleague who was extremely popular with both students and staff. We offer our sincere condolences to Desi's family and to his wider community of friends, musicians, and colleagues.

Suaimhneas síorraí dá anam uasail.

Beautiful performance and presentation by Eva McMullan and the UCC Choir (featuring soloist Sally Cole) this week at the world café on "AI and Us - Community Engagement in a Changing Technological Landscape"!

Eva presented different initiatives community engagement initiatives undertaken by the UCC School of Film, Music and Theatre after the performance

An Erasmus+ project led by Natalie Koutsougera of PANTEION UNIVERSITY - ΠΑΝΤΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ and our own Ophelia McCabe of University College Cork. Info and sign up below!

🎭 We’re offering a free 8-session online training for people engaged with building community in LGBTI+ and women’s scenes and culture. Over May and June, we’ll cover how we protect each other, tell our own stories, fund our work, and pass what we know forward.

🤜🤛 The training is for you if you’re an activist, cultural worker, or someone who wants to make entertainment and culture better.
🆓 Free & online | 8 sessions | May-June 2026
📌 EQF Level 2-3 | In English

🔗 Link in bio/first comment
The training is part of Module 1: Community Engagement & Adult Education, part of the project “UFemTP: Empowering Education and a Multimedia Platform”. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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💡 Знанието може да промени всичко.
🎭 Предлагаме безплатно онлайн обучение от 8 сесии за хора, които градят ЛГБТИ+ и женски общности в сферата на развлеченията и културата. През май и юни ще разгледаме как да се пазим взаимно, да разкажем историите си, да финансираме работата си и да предаваме знанията нататък.
🤜🤛 Обучението е за теб, ако си активист/ка, културен/на работник/чка или просто си част от сценичния и културен живот.
🆓 Безплатно | Онлайн | 8 сесии | май-юни 2026
📌 EQF ниво 2-3 | На английски 🔗 Линк в биото/първия коментар

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💡Knowledge changes everything.
🎭 We’re offering a free 8-session online training for people engaged with building community in LGBTI+ and women’s scenes and culture. Over May and June, we’ll cover how we protect each other, tell our own stories, fund our work, and pass what we know forward.
🤜🤛 The training is for you if you’re an activist, cultural worker, or someone who wants to make entertainment and culture better.
🆓 Free & online | 8 sessions | May-June 2026
📌 EQF Level 2-3 | In English
🔗 Link in bio/first comment

The training is part of Module 1: Community Engagement & Adult Education, part of the project “UFemTP: Empowering Education and a Multimedia Platform”. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

📣📣📣The Department of Music student end-of-year recitals take place from the
4th to 7th May 2026.

For full schedule and locations please see following link (or link in bio):
https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/music/events/recitals-2026.html
All welcome!!

And for staff and students in Music, we will also have our annual 'Open Mic' end of year party in Cyprus Avenue from 8.30pm on Wednesday 6th May!!!! 💃🕺

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