SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CHALLENGES, POSSIBILITIES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS THE LONG ROOM HUB, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 1 APRIL 2015, 10AM 3PM
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Symposium on Music in Higher Education in Ireland: Challenges, Possibilities and Future Directions The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 1 April 2015, 10am 3pm Programme 10.00 10.20 Registration & Tea/Coffee 10.20 10.30 Welcome Address: Professor Carmel O Sullivan (Head, School of Education, Director, Arts Education Research Group) 10.30 11.30 Keynote 1: Dr Helen Julia Minors (Head, Department of Music, Kingston University; Vice-Chair of NAMHE) The Value and Range of Music and Creative Practice in UK HEIs 11.30 12.00 Research Report: Dr Gwen Moore (Lecturer, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) The Changing Landscape of Irish Higher Music Education: Findings from Policy and Practice 12.00 12.30 Light Lunch & Tea/Coffee 12.30 1.30 Keynote 2: Professor Stephanie Pitts (Director of Student Experience, Department of Music, University of Sheffield) Researching Students' Experiences of Music in Higher Education 1.30 3.00 Plenary Discussion - Representing Music in Higher Education in Ireland (Chair, Deborah Kelleher) Professor Emeritus Gerard Gillen, Professor Hormoz Farhat, Marita Kerin, Dr Helen Minors, Professor Stephanie Pitts, Dr Gwen Moore, Dr John O Flynn This session opens with an address by Professor Gillen to mark the establishment of the Council of Heads of Music in Ireland (CHMHE) in 1994. The remainder will explore how music in higher education in Ireland might best be represented in the future. Each panel member will make a short statement after which the discussion will be opened to all delegates. Proceedings from this session will inform further meetings regarding the possible establishment of a broad-based representative group for music in higher education in Ireland.
Abstracts and Biographies Keynote 1: Dr Helen Julia Minors, Head, Department of Music, Kingston University, Vice- Chair of NAMHE The Value and Range of Music and Creative Practice in UK HEI This talk will explore the place of music within UK HEIs by reference to recent politically driven debates regarding fees, facilitating subjects, the training of transferable skills, the contribution of the creative economy to the GPA, and employability success rate for students with music degrees. Vocational study, practice as research, and diversity in the curriculum are key themes in setting out the value of a music department and its breadth of activity. As Vice Chair for the National Association for Music in Higher Education, evidence and advocacy will be drawn from the work of NAMHE. Dr Helen Julia Minors is the Head of Department of Music and Creative Music Technologies and Associate Professor of Music at Kingston University. She is also Associate Director of the Practice Research Unit, Vice Chair of the National Association of Music in Higher Education, and editor of the international peer review journal Ars Lyrica. She is a musicologist with interests in music from the turn of the twentieth century, especially music and dance, music and visual arts, word-music relations in France. She is also a perfomer (trumpet, alto, recorders) and a Soundpainter (a live multimodal creative sign language). Her research outlook is interdisciplinary, confronting cultural musicology and word-music / gestural analysis. She has recently published two book chapters on Erik Satie, as well as an articles on Soundpainting. Helen has completed a book on music and translation (exploring the interart aesthetic) which was launched in 2013. Following the work on the book, Helen was awarded, along with her colleague Lucile Desblache, an AHRC grant as part of the Networking Development Call, under the theme Translating Cultures. Keynote 2: Professor Stephanie Pitts, Director of Student Experience, Department of Music, University of Sheffield Researching students' experiences of music in higher education This talk will draw upon recent research that explores students' experiences of undergraduate music education, and how the 'lived curriculum' relates to institutional and national debates about the place of the arts and humanities in the higher education landscape. Small-scale research projects on extra-curricular performance, concert-going, arts enterprise and community partnerships will each illustrate how students form their musical identities within and beyond their degree studies. Dilemmas to consider will include how and why students acquire particular skills and attitudes for their musical futures, how students can gain from reflecting on their learning, and what might be the ethical and educational responsibilities of researching student experience. Professor Stephanie Pitts is Director of Student Experience in the music department at the University of Sheffield. She previously served a year as Acting Head of Department and three years as Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has research and teaching interests in musical participation, concert audiences and music education. She is author of numerous publications
including two books Valuing Musical Participation and Chances and Choices: Exploring the impact of music education. Other books include A Century of Change in Music Education (Ashgate, 2000), Music and Mind in Everyday Life (OUP, 2010, co-authored with Eric Clarke and Nicola Dibben), and Becoming a Successful Early Career Researcher (Routledge, 2012, co-authored with Adrian Eley, Jerry Wellington and Catherine Biggs). Her research on music in higher education and on audience experiences of live musical events has been funded by PALATINE and the British Academy, respectively. Professor Pitts is also the international advisor for Music Generation: Ireland s National Music Education Programme. Research Report: Dr Gwen Moore, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick The Changing Landscape of Irish Higher Music Education: Findings from Policy and Practice This paper will present findings from a summary report of my doctorate which explored student and lecturer experiences of Irish higher music education. Of particular focus will be the impact of policy changes regarding student numbers, modularisation, curriculum, access and opportunity inter alia, on music teaching and learning at undergraduate level. Dr Gwen Moore is lecturer in music education at the Department of Arts Education and Physical Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Prior to her appointment at MIC, Gwen taught music at primary, secondary and higher education levels. Gwen received her PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London in 2013 and has published in Music Education Research and Irish Educational Studies. She is Chairperson of the Society for Music Education in Ireland www.smei.ie. Professor Gerard Gillen was appointed Professor Emeritus of Music by the Governing Authority in November, 2007, having spent 22 years as Professor, Head of Department, and director of the University Choral Society. Professor Gillen has an international reputation as an organ recitalist and has given close to 1000 recitals throughout Europe, the Middle East, America and Australia. Gerard Gillen was founder-chairman of the Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival (now Pipeworks ) of which he was artistic director from 1990-2000. He is currently chair of the National Advisory Committee on Church Music to the Irish Episcopal Conference and chair of the Dublin Diocesan Commission on Church Music. In 2007 he was elected to honorary Fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (FRIAM) and was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Pontifical University of Maynooth. He was also created an Officer of the Crown by King Albert of the Belgians, and was awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Arts by the Austrian Government in 2011. Gillen s academic publications have centred on various aspects of Catholic Church Music, past and present, and he co-founded with Harry White the academic journal Irish Musical Studies, of which he continues to be co-general editor with Harry White. He was chair of the Editorial board of Ireland s largest research project in music todate, the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin, 2013), of which he was the subject editor for Catholic Church Music, on which subject he contributed numerous articles to the two-volume work.
Professor Hormoz Farhat was born in Iran. He studied music at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Mills College, California, graduating with the degrees of BA in music, MA in composition and PhD in composition and ethnomusicology. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud, Lukas Foss and Roy Harris. After holding a number of academic music posts in the USA and Iran, he took up the post of professor of music at Trinity College Dublin in 1982 until his retirement in 1995. As a composer, he has written a sizeable body of works including concertos for piano, flute and clarinet, six string quartets and numerous chamber works. Marita Kerin is a lecturer in Music Education with research interests in performance pedagogy, reflective practice in music education, teacher education and the development of the artistic disposition. Marita also acts as music education co-ordinator on the professional postgraduate in education programme as well as overseeing research in the area of music education. After taking two undergraduate qualifications in Education and Music, Marita studied at postgraduate level in the United States and later at Trinity College Dublin. Her previous roles involved teaching at primary, secondary and tertiary levels in Ireland, West Africa and in the United States and working on syllabus development and assessment for the Department of Education and Science in Ireland. She continues to serve as Music Education advisor on the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. She has worked as examiner for the Department of Education and Science and as adjudicator for various music festivals. She is hugely committed to the potential transformational power of music education on the lives of the young and not so young. Marita is co-author of Bravo!- a popular textbook for Secondary School Music. Dr John O Flynn is Head of Music at St. Patrick s College, Dublin City University and is the founding chair of the Society for Music Education in Ireland. His research interests include the sociology of music, music education practice, and contemporary genres/practices of music in Ireland. John has contributed to international publications in the areas of national identity and music, popular music, and intercultural music education. He is author of The Irishness of Irish music (Ashgate, 2009) and is co-editor of Music and Identity in Ireland.
List of Delegates Adams Martin Blunnie Roisin Bowe Marie-Louise Burns Shannon Commins Adele Coolahan John Cournane Miranda Dakin Ian Dignam Barbara Downey Jean Duckworth Richard Eggleston Melanie Farhat Hormoz Flanagan Orla Flynn Patricia Fuertes Cruz Gillen Gerard Graham Pauline Higgins Yvonne Kearney Daithí Keegan Niall Kelleher Deborah Kerin Marita Lawlor Helen Lennon Mary Love Claire Mangaoang Aine Marshall Frances McDonagh Claire Minors Helen Julia Molloy Rosaleen Molumby Cecelia Moore Gwen Morris Christopher Mulhall Eamonn Mullen Maurice Murphy Regina Nestor Emer Nic Athlaoich Roisin Nugent Mary O'Brien Rachel O'Connell Lorraine O'Connell Bridget O'Donnell Teresa O'Flynn John Pitts Stephanie Power Sharon Purcell Cathy Ryan Amy Sexton Hilary Spratt Geoff Sweeney Katie Talbot Rachel Tallon Grace Zutshi Raeghnya