Saluting the Feminists

Royal Irish Academy of Music

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<P CLASS="MsoNoSpacing"><I><SPAN>Saluting the Feminists</SPAN></I><SPAN>, the Academy’s day-long celebration of women composers, performers and pedagogues, returns on March 28th. Once again the performance of an opera by a leading female composer, on this occasion Judith Weir’s <I>Scipio's Dream</I>, affords the Academy an opportunity to highlight the legacy of some of its key female pedagogues and salute a strong army of female composers and performers. On March 28th, the Academy proudly presents a series of fringe events comprising performances, talks and panel discussions highlighting the extraordinary impact women have had and continue to have on Irish musical life.<BR><BR></SPAN>Featuring Majella Boland (RIAM Senior Examiner), Dearbhla Brosnan (piano), Siobhán Cleary (composer), Joanna Crooks (Founder/Director, St Agnes Music Project, Crumlin), Thérèse Fahy (piano), Amy Gillen (flute), Ciara Higgins (Head of Artistic Programming, RIAM), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Lorna Horan (Chair, RIAM Senior Examiners), Deborah Kelleher (Director, RIAM), Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Kevin O’Connell (composer), Linda O'Shea Farren (Communications &amp; Projects Manager, Contemporary Music Centre) Schuyler Perry (cello), Gillian Smith (piano) and Judith Weir (composer)</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNoSpacing">Music by Nadia Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade, Siobhán Cleary, Ailbhe McDonagh and Jennifer Walshe</P>
<P>11.00 am<BR>Panel Discussion with Majella Boland, Lorna Horan and Ailbhe McDonagh<BR>Composing for the next generation of musicians and building an examination syllabus featuring female composers </P>
<P CLASS="MsoNoSpacing">11.45 am<BR> Pianist and professor of piano, Thérèse Fahy in conversation with Ciara Higgins</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal">12.30 pm<BR>Composer Judith Weir in conversation with Kevin O’Connell</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal">2.30 pm<BR>Deborah Kelleher looks at the legacy of Dr Olive Smith, founder/director of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and co-founder of the Music Association of Ireland, with Gillian Smith and Joanna Crooks</P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal">3.30 pm<BR>Panel Discussion <SPAN>with Siobhán Cleary, Ciara Higgins, Elizabeth Hilliard and Linda O’Shea Farren</SPAN><BR>Women in Contemporary Music from Ireland </P>
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