RIAM Teaching Network Conference 3 & 4 July 2014
Director s Welcome You are most welcome to the inaugural RIAM Teaching Network Conference. The Royal Irish Academy of Music was created over 160 years ago by music practitioners who were committed to nurturing music making and enjoyment in Ireland. Across this span of almost two centuries the RIAM has engaged with over 1,000,000 musicians, and we have seen the music teaching profession grow across the island of Ireland to include many thousands of practitioners who are working at nurturing a love for music in enthusiasts of all ages. The RIAM Teaching Network was founded to support these professionals, to create a community of learning where the music teacher could connect with, and learn from, their peers. This new conference is one example of how we envisage reaching out and connecting with you, and we plan to roll out other opportunities across a range of media. I hope that you enjoy the conference and I look forward to meeting you. Please keep checking www.riamteachingnetwork.ie for new initiatives. Deborah Kelleher Director, Royal Irish Academy of Music Teaching Network Welcome I would like to welcome you all to the Royal Irish Academy of Music for the first RIAM Teaching Network conference. The Teaching Network website, teachingnetwork.riam.ie, has been live now for just four months, and already it has allowed the RIAM to reach out and connect with teachers, all over Ireland. I hope that you are finding it useful so far and that you will continue to find it beneficial and engaging as it develops further in the coming months. Today s conference is an event we are very proud of, because it brings together the RIAM faculties, along with staff from the Library and the Local Centre, to provide you with, what we hope, will be an interesting, educational and thought-provoking two days. We are also delighted to have Finghin Collins with us to give the keynote address on his journey with the piano. My hope is that you will leave the conference full of new ideas and enthusiam for the next academic year! This event would not be possible without the help of so many people and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them. In the Local Centre Office Dorothy McCauley, Ruth Milligan-Moody, Claire O Callaghan and Bernadette O Sullivan; In the General Office Frances Hogan, Elizabeth Pink, Roisin Murphy and Ellen Inwood; In reception - Bernard Fox, Darina Marks and Maurice Slater; The Senior Examiners Lorna Horan, Jennifer McCay and Hilda Milner; Kevin Kelleher, Ruth Meehan and Sinéad Heyenga; In the Library Philip Shields and Laoise Doherty; and from the RIAM Faculties Jean Archibald, Anthony Byrne, William Dowdall, Kim Fallen Bailey, Réamonn Keary, Miriam Roycorft, Maureen V. Ward and Anne Woodworth. Special recognition is due to Theresa Doyle, the Local Centre Manager, for her unwavering dedication to making this event a success. I would also like to thank Deborah Kelleher for her constant enthusiasm and support throughout the planning for today s conference. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the teachers, who have been so positive and encouraging about the RIAM Teaching Network. I look forward to talking to you all over the course of the two days and I hope you enjoy the conference. Jennifer O Connor-Madsen Conference Organiser and Project Manager, RIAM Teaching Network
RIAM Teaching Network Conference Programme Thursday, 3 July 2014 9.30-10.00: Registration 10.00-11.00: Teaching Aural Tests through the Grades (Organ Room) This workshop will be given by Senior Examiner, Lorna Horan. She will discuss the aural tests for the RIAM Local Centre exams and give hints and tips on teaching them. She will also introduce teachers to the new Aural Tests Handbook. 11.00-11.30: Coffee Break 11.30-12.00: Music Resources & Editions (Organ Room) RIAM Librarian, Philip Shields, will give a presentation on music resources accessible via library networks throughout the country and also on selecting music editions 12.00-1.00: Bill Dowdall - Flute and Woodwind (Organ Room) 12.00-1.00: Reamonn Keary - Piano (Recital Room) 12.00-1.00: Anne Woodworth - Singing (Board Room) 12.00-1.00: Miriam Roycroft - Strings (Room 33) 1.00-2.00: Lunch 2.00-3.30 Approaching Scales and Sight Reading (Organ Room) Tips for teaching with Anthony Byrne 3.30-4.00: Coffee Break 4.00-4.30: Finding the Music You Need (Organ Room) RIAM Librarian, Laoise Doherty will give a presentation on finding and obtaining the music you need. She will also discuss freely accessible music download websites. 4.30-5.30: Keynote Address (Organ Room) Finghin Collins: A Pianist s Journey Friday, 4 July 2014 10.00-11.00: The RIAM Cara Awards (Organ Room) Hilda Milner, Project Leader of the RIAM Cara Awards, will provide an introduction to approaching the exams and take questions on the examination process. 11.00-11.30: Coffee Break 11.30-12.00: Managing your Accounts and Taxes (Organ Room) Kevin Kelleher, Financial officer at the RIAM, will give a short presentation on managing your business accounts and taxes as a music teacher. 12.00-1.00: Leaving and Junior Certificate Music (Organ Room) Teaching the Junior and Leaving Certificate programmes RIAM Junior and Leaving Cert teacher, Kim Fallen Bailey will discuss teaching the Junior and Leaving Cert Music courses in private music lessons, and exam preparation and revision. 1.00-2.00: Lunch 2.00-3.00: Music Theatre and Popular Singing (Organ Room) Maureen V. Ward, compiler of the Music Theatre and Popular Singing syllabus, will be discussing the syllabus, choosing programmes, teaching the scales and musicianship tests. 3.00-4.00: Music Theory: The Music Theory questions and RIAM Musicianship Exams (Organ Room) Jennifer McCay, Senior Examiner, and Jean Archibald, a member of the RIAM Musicianship faculty and co-author of the Music Workout Series, will give a brief introduction to the books and lead a Q and A session on preparing students for the theory exams and the theory questions in the instrumental exams. 4.00-4.30 Coffee Break 4.30-5.00: Reflections and Suggestions (Organ Room) As the first RIAM Teaching Network draws towards a close, RIAM Senior Examiners Jennifer McCay and Lorna Horan will lead a Q and A where teachers can ask questions on any aspect of the examinations system that they are unsure about or make suggestions for the future developments. Dorothy McCauley from the Local Centre office will also be there to answer questions on the administration and exam applications. 5.00-5.30: Closing Address: Deborah Kelleher, Director of the RIAM (Organ Room) Towards a National Community of Learning: The Future of the Private Music Teacher in Ireland
Keynote Address: Finghin Collins A Pianist s Journey In this lecture recital, Finghin Collins takes us through his own personal journey with the piano, from the earliest pieces he studied, up to his most recent performances. Finghin Collins, Piano One of the most important musicians to emerge from Ireland in recent times, Finghin Collins was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied with John O Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and with Dominique Merlet at the Geneva Conservatoire. He established his international reputation by winning the 1999 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. Since then he has performed with leading orchestras such as the Chicago, Houston, City of Birmingham and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, the Seoul, London, Rotterdam, BBC and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Emmanuel Krivine, Gianandrea Noseda, Sakari Oramo, Heinrich Schiff, Vassily Sinaisky and Leonard Slatkin. In 2013 he completed his three-year tenure as Associate Artist of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, rounding off his cycle of the complete Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos. His double CD recording for the RTÉ lyric fm label of four Mozart piano concertos directed from the keyboard with the RTÉ NSO was also released in May 2013. In June 2013 he made his début in the London Pianoforte Series at the Wigmore Hall in London. Engagements in the 2013/14 season have included appearances with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Gábor Tákacs-Nagy, London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Gree, the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau / Antony Hermus and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Gábor Tákacs-Nagy. In 2014/15 he will tour with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland / Mark Wigglesworth and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century / Kenneth Montgomery as well as returning to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra/ Alan Buribayev. Collins two double CD recordings of Schumann s solo piano music for Claves Records in Switzerland have received widespread acclaim, including Editor s Choice in Gramophone magazine in 2006. His more recent recording for Claves of works by C.V. Stanford with the RTÉ NSO / Kenneth Montgomery has also been very well received, and was Editor s Choice in 2011. Finghin Collins has been Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival since its inception in 2006, and is also Artistic Director of Music for Galway since January 2013. Currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Dublin International Piano Competition, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Concert Hall (2001-2006), Musician-in-Residence in South Dublin County Council (2005-2008) and Artist-in-Residence in Waterford Institute of Technology (2005-2009). Closing Address: Towards a National Community of Learning: The Future of the Private Music Teacher in Ireland Deborah Kelleher, Director, The Royal Irish Academy of Music Biography: Appointed Director in October 2010 having worked for a number of years as Head of Musicianship, Deborah Kelleher has played an integral role in the establishment and development of outreach, distance and in particular academic courses in the Academy over the last number of years, including the introduction of a specialised undergraduate degree in composition, the first music technology programme at the RIAM and numerous professional development courses for teachers throughout the country. Since 2008 she has been the Academy s International coordinator, representing the RIAM internationally at conferences and meetings, and forging significant relationships with many of the world s most prestigious music conservatoires. Deborah studied music at Trinity College Dublin and was subsequently awarded masters degrees in musicology (UCD) and business administration (DCU). Recognised as one of Ireland s finest pianists of her generation, in recent years she has specialised in working with singers, counting Ailish Tynan, Mairéad Buicke, Tara Erraught and the late Bernadette Greevy, amongst her recital partners. She is a member of the board of the Dublin International Piano Competition and is a member of the Arts Council s Peer Review Panel. In addition, Deborah has been active in a working group sponsored by the Association of European Conservatoires (AEC) that studies international best practice in the area of strategic planning in music performance education. See www.finghincollins.com for more.
RIAM Information TEACHING Technology NETWORK Solutions PRESENTS The RIAM Teaching Network teachingnetwork.riam.ie In March 2014 the RIAM was delighted to go live, with Ireland s first Virtual Learning Envoirnment(VLE) for music teachers, the RIAM Teaching Netowork. Throught the website the RIAM will facilitate the development of an active community of music teachers in Ireland, as well as creating a space for virtual learning and networking. The RIAM Teaching Network is updated regularly with contributions from RIAM staff, with videos, articles and PDFs on all aspects of music teaching. We are constantly working towards creating new and exciting content, to benefit music teachers of all disciplines. Some highlights so far are the notes from Réamonn Keary s Key Skills workshop in 2013, an article from the RIAM Librarian, Philp Shields, on sourcing the music you need, a video with Anthony Byrne on preparing scales and a video with Bill Dowdall on the melodic exercises for Flute. As we move towards the new syllabus for 2015, we will have lots of new videos and articles on aspects of the syllabus for all instruments. Our Online Community The RIAM Teaching Network has several areas dedicated to the members - the Groups Section and the Teaching Directory. The groups allow users to connect with other teachers in the same field. Each group has a built-in forum to allow teachers to discuss aspects of teaching, the syllabus and the exams. The teaching directory allows members of the public to search for teachers in their area. If they find a suitable candidate, they can send them a private message through the Teaching Network. The Network allows teachers to create their own profile, adding as much information as they like. If you have any questions or would like any further information, you can email jenniferoconnor@riam.ie or teachingnetwork@riam.ie. You will also find us on Facebook and Twitter. VENUES Holland Pianos Carlow The Model Sligo Sunday 21 September Athlone Education Centre Sunday 28th September Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda Sunday 5th October Aula Maxima NUI Galway Radisson Blu Hotel Letterkenny Sunday 12th October Rochestown Business Centre Sunday 19th October RIAM Dublin Sunday 2nd November TIMES 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (tea/coffee served at 11.15 am) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC 36 Westland Row Dublin 2 Tel: +353-1-6325300 Email: localcentre@riam.ie Website: www.riam.ie Teaching Network: teachingnetwork.riam.ie Payments: https://www.riam.ie/payment/ KEY SKILLS SERIES 2014 A Series of Teacher-training Workshops for the Local Centre 2015-2018 Piano Syllabus conducted by Anthony Byrne & Réamonn Keary help teachers prepare for the 2015-2018 Piano Syllabus including new pieces for Grades VI, VII & VIII introduce teaching methods based on the pieces from the upcoming syllabus present a systematic approach to technical training and practical solutions to common pianistic problems provide tips on how to develop musicality and expressiveness in students give advice on the successful execution of scales and arpeggios advise on Aural Tests and Sight-Reading from examiners perspective offer tips on what to do on the day of the examination BOOKING FORM You may pay your registration fee of 125.00 online by completing the booking form and indicating your venue preference at http://www.riam.ie/examinations/key-skill-series/ no later than Friday 4 July 2014. Athlone Carlow Cork Drogheda Dublin Galway Letterkenny Sligo Name: Address: Mobile no: Email: If you prefer to pay by cheque please complete this application form and post it together with a cheque to the value of 125 made payable to the RIAM. Applications should reach the Local Centre Examinations Office no later than Friday 4 July 2014 at 5.00 pm. Please contact localcentre@riam.ie if you have any queries.
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