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Bill Whelan to Take Part in RDS Speaker Series

bill_whelan_2010Bill Whelan | “Publish and Perish: Music and Creativity at the Gateway to Babylon”

Wednesday 13th February at 6pm| RDS Minerva Suite

Composer, Bill Whelan, will be taking part in the RDS Speaker Series on Wednesday 13th February with a talk entitled “Publish and Perish: Music and Creativity at the Gateway to Balylon”.

In a wide ranging talk, Bill Whelan will explore the influence that the internet has had on music creativity and particularly how audiences experience music since the recent technological revolution began.

Bill’s production and arranging credits include U2, Van Morrison, Kate Bush, Richard Harris, Planxty and The Dubliners.  He was honoured with the 1997 Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Show Album’ for his Riverdance record.    Riverdance The Show has been seen live by more than 22 million people and by a television audience of nearly 2 billion.

Bill is a member of the Boards of Berklee School of Music in Boston, The University of Limerick, Crash Ensemble and Music Generation, the newly established music education body for Ireland.  He has completed co-teaching a course at Princeton for composers and authors and was recently appointed adjunct Professor to Trinity College Dublin’s School of Drama, Film and Music.  Bill Whelan is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.

Admission to this lecture is free and open to the public but advance booking is necessary. For bookings and further information, please contact RDS Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 at 01 240 7254 or librarydesk@nullrds.ie. Bookings may also be made online at www.rds.ie/speakerseries.

 

 

Traditional Music Seminar at the Ark | Dublin | 25th January

Performing Irish Traditional Music for Child and Family Audiences with Cormac De Barra and Sinéad Madden. Presented in partnership with Music Network.cormacdebarra_highres_the_gathering

Date & Time Fri 25 Jan: 12.15-4pm (including performance, lunch and workshop)

This professional development workshop, facilitated by traditional harper Cormac De Barra and fiddle player and singer Sinéad Madden, will support professional musicians to develop performance skills for child and family audiences.

The workshop will begin with an opportunity to attend The Magic of the Harp – a traditional music performance for schools taking place at The Ark at 12.15pm. Following this, musicians Cormac and Sinead will then lead a practical two-hour workshop which will introduce approaches to interacting with young audiences, stage communication skills, audience management, creating engaging music sets and addressing particular challenges that musicians may encounter.

For full details and bookings visit: http://ark.ie/events/view/professional-development-for-musicians

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