Arts

Dr Diane Daly talks about how the MA in Classical String Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance is unique in many ways.

Simon Thompson, lecturer on the MA Festive Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, on the serious business of taking performance skills to the virtual world

On March 12th, like most in UL, Carl Corcoran left his office at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance due to COVID - now he writes about how the show must go on

Quite a lot actually, and the programme named after him even more so. That is according to Professor Joachim Fischer, Jean Monnet Chair in European Cultural Studies at University of Limerick who writes on deep connections with Europe

The Irish Chamber Orchestra celebrates 50 years in 2020 with a packed calendar of events scheduled for the year ahead.

The Javanese gamelan is an orchestra of 60-plus musical instruments - bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two-stringed fiddle - which together create a rich, distinctive sound.

Sitting in between the two worlds of traditional and contemporary, IN LiMBO takes a journey where few have gone within Irish step dancing, but who is the performer behind the dance.