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Maynooth University Music Department offers a variety of music programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level

15/10/2026

Mathieu Gaudet rehearses for today's lunchtime concert at 1.10 pm in Riverstown Hall.

08/10/2026

A short excerpt from today's lunchtime concert featuring Gediminas Karkauskas (piano) & Riccardo Marenghi (drums)
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02/10/2026

A short excerpt from yesterday's lunchtime concert featuring flautist Alessandra Rombolà.

12/08/2026

Congrats to harp player and graduating Music student Rachael Dooley on winning the senior harp competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil this weekend! Great to see more Maynooth University Music Department student success at the Fleadh Cheoil.

30/04/2026

Today's lunchtime concert offers a varied programme of works for pot plants, light sabres and wheels of fortune. Confused? Join us at 1pm and all will be revealed.

20/04/2026

This week's lunchtime concert in Riverstown Hall on 23rd April @ 1pm features an ambitious programme of works from composers such as John Cage, Luciano Berio and Luc Ferrari that utilise voice and live electronics.

31/03/2026

For this week's research seminar we welcome Dr Adam Melvin from the University of Ulster.

Performativity, Presence and Practice: Perspectives on Screen Scoring and the Soundtrack

The performative language of music and its relationship with our perception of presence have been a central concern in both my ongoing research in soundtrack studies and my compositional practice (installation work and scoring for screen). Drawing on current collaborative research undertaken with Dr, Brian Bridges (Ulster University) and Dr. Mark Ward (Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney) exploring the application of embodied cognition to the study of Sound, Music and Moving image, this seminar will develop ideas initials outlined in the recent paper, more Beautiful Areas, Performativity and Presence in the Integrated Soundtrack. By considering examples of screen scoring that harness and even challenge perceived notions of acoustic vs synthesized sound and the live vs the virtual, I will discuss to what extent Donnelly’s analogy of the film soundtrack as spectral presence may be further expanded and adapted to reflect current trends in screen scoring practice.

Dr. Adam Melvin is a composer and lecturer in Music at Ulster University, Magee, Derry~Londonderry. Both his compositional and research practice is concerned with interrogating the relationship between music, sound, site and the visual arts, particularly moving image. His work has been performed throughout the UK and Ireland, mainland Europe, USA and Japan and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Radio 1 & Lyric FM, Antenna 2 (Portugal) and WFMT, Chicago. His research has been published in The Soundtrack, Short Film Studies (Intellect) and in Routledge’s Doing Research in Sound Design and Foundations in Sound Design series. He is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin.

25/03/2026

Don't miss today's research seminar in the Bewerunge Room at 4 pm, El Putnam: 'Inverted Imitation: Performing Android'. Tea, coffee and biscuits provided!

Dr El Putnam is Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University, where she teaches digital media practice and theory classes on the BA Media Studies and BA Media and Cultural Studies programmes. Prior to coming to Maynooth in 2022, she worked at University of Galway as programme director of the MA in Digital Media and at TU Dublin. She holds a PhD from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in Visual Arts: Aesthetics, Art Theory, and Philosophy. In addition, she is a practicing artist who regularly exhibits nationally and internationally.

12/03/2026

This week's lunchtime concert on Thursday 12 March @ 1 pm in Riverstown Hall, welcomes Northern Irish pianist and composer, Ian Wilson.

Ian Wilson is a composer, pianist, conductor, and curator originally from Northern Ireland. He has composed over 250 works in many different genres which have been performed and broadcast on six continents.
As a pianist Ian has given the world premiere performances of pieces written specially for him by composers such as Colin Riley, Stephen Gardner, Deirdre McKay and David Morris; also the territorial premieres of works by Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Arvo Pärt, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, Milan Mihajlović and Howard Skempton.

He has conducted many choirs, ensembles and orchestras including Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ulster Orchestra, Ficino Ensemble, Chamber Choir Ireland, and Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra.
Ian is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s national association of creative artists, and his music is published by G. Ricordi & Co. Ltd and Universal Edition. Visit: www.ianwilson.ie

10/03/2026

For this week's seminar, which will take place in the Bewerunge Room on Wednesday 11 March @ 4 pm, we welcome composer Ian Wilson who will be speaking on the title: 'Why Feldman?'

"What first drew me to Feldman’s music was a performance of his best-known work, “Rothko Chapel”, and its very specific atmosphere of hushed concentration. There is a definite tension in that piece yet its quietude seems to conceal it, creating an intensity unlike anything I had encountered".

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Ian Wilson is a composer, pianist, conductor, and curator originally from Northern Ireland. He has composed over 250 works in many different genres which have been performed and broadcast on six continents.
As a pianist Ian has given the world premiere performances of pieces written specially for him by composers such as Colin Riley, Stephen Gardner, Deirdre McKay and David Morris; also the territorial premieres of works by Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Arvo Pärt, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, Milan Mihajlović and Howard Skempton.
He has conducted many choirs, ensembles and orchestras including Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ulster Orchestra, Ficino Ensemble, Chamber Choir Ireland, and Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra.
Ian is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s national association of creative artists, and his music is published by G. Ricordi & Co. Ltd and Universal Edition. Visit: www.ianwilson.ie

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