RIAM Teaching NetworkConference 29th & 30th June 2015

Director’s Welcome - Reaching Out

I am delighted to welcome you to the RIAM’s second Teaching Network Conference. The RIAM Teaching Network was set up in 2014 with the goal of reaching out to the many thousands of practical music teachers in Ireland, to facilitate their own professional development and also to foster a community of practice through networking events.

We are delighted with the response from teachers who have joined up. One major new development is the expansion of Jennifer O’Connor-Madsen’s role as coordinator of the RIAM Teaching Network from next September, as part of an increasing investment in this area from the RIAM, so you can expect exciting new initiatives in the months and years ahead.

This year’s conference continues in this spirit of ‘reaching out’. We have put together a programme which challenges you to expand your own skill-set, and also describes settings for music performance that move beyond the concert hall or traditional lesson format. We continue to offer focused advice on repertoire and aspects of music technique, and we will introduce you to RIAM’s new advanced training programmes for those teachers who wish to engage in more in depth study.

I look forward to meeting you over the course of the two days.

Deborah KelleherDirector, Royal Irish Academy of Music

Teaching Network Welcome

I am delighted to welcome you to the second RIAM Teaching Network Conference. This past year has been a busy one for the RIAM Teaching Network. We launched our first E-Course, with Kim Fallen Bailey on teaching Leaving Certificate music, we held several workshops for teachers including the Key Skills workshops last autumn, a workshop for Flute Teachers in February 2015 with William Dowdall, head of the RIAM Wind, Brass and Percussion Faculty and a workshop on Group music teaching, in association with the RIAM Cara Awards in April 2015. Our network has also grown to include 670 members, based all over Ireland. We are delighted with the involvement of teachers all over the country with the RIAM Teaching Network. We hope to grow it further next year. Therefore, if you have any suggestions for resources or workshops you would like to see us include, please let me know.

This event would not be possible without the help of so many people in the RIAM, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them. In the Local Centre Office – Theresa Doyle, Dorothy McCauley, Ruth Milligan - Moody, Claire O’Callaghan and Bernadette O’Sullivan; In the General Office – Frances Hogan and Ellen Inwood; On reception - Bernard Fox, Darina Marks and Maurice Slater; Patrick Burke; My fellow Senior Examiners Jennifer McCay and Lorna Horan; Kevin Kelleher, Ruth Meehan and Sinéad Heyenga; In the Library –Philip Shields and Laoise Doherty; and the conference speakers – Kim Fallen Bailey, Eve O’Kelly, Anthony Byrne, Jonathan Browner, Hilary Moss, Rebecca O’Connor, Virginia Kerr, Graínne Deery and Réamonn Keary, I would also like to thank Deborah Kelleher for her constant enthusiasm and support throughout the planning for today’s conference and for the RIAM Teaching Network in general.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, the teachers, who continue to help the RIAM Teaching Network grow and develop through your support and interaction with the Network and it’s events. 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-MadsenConference OrganiserSenior Examiner and Project Manager, RIAM Teaching Networkjenniferoconnor@riam.ie

RIAM Teaching NetworkConference Programme

Monday, 29 June 2015

9.30 - 10.00 Registration

10.00 - 11.00 Kim Fallen Bailey: Music and Technology - Resources and Apps

11.00 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.00 Eve O’Kelly: Music Generation - Progress and Future Plans

12.00 - 1.30 Anthony Byrne: The Senior Piano Grades

1.30 - 2.30 Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 Jonathan Browner: Using the Voice and Group Singing in the Instrumental Lesson.

3.30 - 4.00 Tea/Coffee Break

4.00 - 5.30 Jonathan Browner Continued

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

10.00 -11.00 Hilary Moss (Director of Arts and Health at the National Centre for Arts and Health) and Rebecca O’Connor (Music Therapist) - Music for Health: Introducing Music Therapy and the Role of Music in Promoting Health and Well-Being.

11.00 -11.30 Tea/Coffee Break

11.30 - 1.00 Viriginia Kerr - The Psychology of Music Teaching and Performance

1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 Réamonn Keary and Gráinne Deery - RIAM Diplomas - the ARIAM and the LRIAM and an Introduction to the DipRIAM.

3.30 - 4.30 Tea/Coffee Break

3.30 - 4.30 Q and A with Senior Examiners - Jennifer McCay, Lorna Horan and Jenny O’Connor-Madsen.

4.30 - 5.00 Closing Address: Deborah Kelleher - An Expectation of Excellence: Challenges, Possibilities and Future Directions for the Music Teaching Profession in Ireland.

5.00 Wine Reception to Launch the new DipRIAM

Biographies: Kim Fallen Bailey graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007 with an honours BMusEd degree and a commendation award for teaching. For the past eight years she has taught music in a variety of settings. She delivers the junior and leaving certificate music classes in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, which allows 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th year students to study music as an extra subject outside of their school. Kim is also the director of Ceol Draiochta, in Donabate, Co. Dublin. She founded the music school 10 years ago and as part of its classes she teaches  piano, theory, vocal training and grind classes for junior and leaving cert students.

Kim also teaches music part-time in a school for children with emotional and behaviour difficulties in North County Dublin, Crannog Nua. As part of her work within the school she deals with children with special learning difficulties such as ADHD, ADD, FAS, MGLD and dyslexia amongst many other things. At the RIAM teaching Conference in July 2014 Kim presented a detailed informative talk on teaching the junior and leaving certificate music courses. Eve O’Kelly is an arts consultant and senior cultural manager working with a range of client organisations, particularly in the music sector. For Music Generation, she works in a support and development role as well as managing the Music Generation/Arts Council Partnership.

A graduate of UCC and the University of London, she is a former Director of Ireland’s Contemporary Music Centre, where she played a key role in developing the profile of contemporary Irish music at home and internationally. She is also an experienced music educator at all levels. From 2010-13 she was Adjunct Professor of Musicology at University College Dublin, and she is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the Arts, London.

Anthony Byrne studied piano in Dublin with Marie Jones and John O’Conor.  He continued his studies in Canada, New York and London with internationally renowned teachers such as Peter Katin, Adele Marcus and Alexander Kelly.  He studied conducting in Juilliard with Patricia Handy and Vincent La Selva and in Dublin with Colman Pearce. He has given concerts in Ireland, England, the US, Canada and Japan. In 1986 he made his London debut at the Purcell Room and his Wigmore Hall debut in 1989. He has performed with the Dublin Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on more than 30 occasions.

1999 saw the release on CD of the complete piano music of John Buckley and Raymond Deane’s Quarternion with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colman Pearce for Naxos Marco-Polo. In 2001 he released a CD of the piano music of Bernard Geary and in 2002 a CD of piano music by the 19th century Irish composer Arthur O’Leary. Throughout his career he has performed more than 50 works by contemporary Irish composers, many of them commissions and first performances.

Anthony is a senior lecturer in piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and in 2013 was appointed Visiting Specialist Keyboard Examiner at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland. He was recently elected chair of the Academic Board of Studies at the RIAM. On the 9th of October Anthony will give a lunchtime recital of popular piano pieces at the National Concert Hall.

Jonathan Browner teaches music, directs  choirs and coordinates the extensive music programme at Sandford Park School, Dublin where he has worked for 23 years. He spent eight very happy years lecturing on the B.Mus.Ed programme at TCD and in the RIAM. Working with Dublin Youth Orchestras, a variety of choirs and music societies, examining, accompanying, leading workshops for second-level music teachers and conducting are all things that Jonathan has enjoyed doing over the last 10 years or so. His academic background is in Music Education (TCD), he also holds a first class honours Masters Degree in Education (TCD) and performing and teaching diplomas in flute and piano (LRSM, LTCL.)

Dr Hilary Moss is Director of Arts and Health at the National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght Hospital and Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. She is a musician and a Music Therapist, specializing in working with older people and in mental health services and has just completed a PhD on the role of the arts and creativity for older patients in hospitals at Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine. She established and delivers a post graduate course for artists working in healthcare settings at NUI Maynooth and contributes to the Medical Humanities course in the School of Medicine, TCD. She was external clinical supervisor for the Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust 2005 - 2012.

Virginia Kerr A constant on the international stage, Virginia Kerr’s career includes celebrated performances on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls and has taken her as far afield as Russia, Asia, Mexico and North and South America. She has sung with the Royal Opera House: Ortlinde  Die Walküre, Guinivere  Gawain, Jenifer Midsummer Marriage, Frau Erwartung; Opera North, Scottish Opera, Leipzig Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Rome Opera to name but a few. She is a fine exponent of 20th century music and has given numerous Irish and world premieres. She was awarded the Margaret Burke Sheridan medal in 1996 in recognition of her achievements in the field of classical music.  Recordings include Victory’s Ultima Rerum. Stanford Requiem/ The Veiled Prophet of Khorassen and her solo CD “My Heart and I” recorded with the RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Dean.

Virginia has been a member of the vocal faculty of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Maynooth University for several years and has given master classes in the United States of America, Mexico, Georgia, Malta, France and the UK. She is in great demand to work with choirs throughout the country with a view to improving vocal technique. A keen interest in the workings of the psyche of musicians and performers led Virginia to pursue an MSc in Psychotherapy with an emphasis on Musical Performance Anxiety. She lectures in Performance Psychology at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and her recently published book “Stage Fright” is available on her website www.virginiakerr.ie

Réamonn Keary studied piano with Gerard Shanahan in Limerick, John O’Conor in Dublin and, following the awarding of an Austrian government scholarship, with Leonid Brumberg in Vienna. Réamonn is a frequent broadcaster and lecturer on the topics of piano teaching and interpretation and was for many years John O`Conor`s teaching assistant at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Réamonn performs regularly as a chamber musician and accompanist and has worked with Ireland`s most distinguished instrumentalists and singers. He has been a soloist with the RTE Concert Orchestra and in 2011 performed in recitals in Beijing and Shanghai. He has performed in a number of concert series which he designed around the music of individual composers, among them Poulenc, Brahms, Schubert, Berwald, Chopin and Debussy.

He has championed the music of contemporary Irish composers and has brought many world premier performances to the stage. Réamonn is a highly valued teacher and a number of his students are enjoying international careers. He was for seven years the Chairman of the Senior Examiners at the RIAM and is currently the Head of the Keyboard Faculty there.He is in demand as adjudicator and in 2006 and 2009 was a jury member of the Dublin International Piano Competition.

Gráinne Deery is a passionate advocate of music education and a key contributor to the development of music education in Ireland. Her research interests include the development and perception of musical potential within teaching and learning environments. She holds a dual appointment as Lecturer in Musicianship at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (with a specialism in instrumental and classroom pedagogy) and Lecturer in Music Education at Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University. Gráinne sits on the Committee of the Society for Music Education in Ireland and from 2009–13 she held the position of Chair of the Irish branch of the European Piano Teachers’ Association. During this time she founded the EPTA Ireland Piano Competition, for which she continues to act as Director.

Gráinne holds a Masters in Music Performance (University of Leeds, 2001), and a Bachelor in Music Education (Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, 1998). In addition, she holds a Higher Diploma in Music Teaching, Graduate and Associate Diplomas in Piano Teaching and was awarded a Commendation for Excellence in Teaching by Trinity College Dublin (1998). She continues to be active as a pianist, adjudicator, and instrumental teacher. z

Closing Address: An Expectation of Excellence:

Challenges, Possibilities and Future Directions for the Music Teaching Profession 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, includingthe 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. In November 2014 she was appointed as a member of the RTÉ board.

TWO DAY WEEKEND

PIANO WORKSHOPDR. JOHN O’CONOR

On all the music prescribed for the new Local Centre Pianoforte Syllabus 2015-2018

Details of examination procedures will also be discussed.

Venue - Katherine Brennan Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 36 Westland Row, Dublin 2.

Saturday 22nd August 2015 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm

(Tea/Coffee breaks at 11.15 am and 3.15 pm approx)

Sunday 23rd August 2015 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm

(Tea/Coffee breaks at 11.15 am and 3.15 pm approx)

During the Piano Workshop Dr. O’Conor will play all the pieces set for Elementary to Grade V 2016. He will

play a selection from each Grade VI to VIII 2015 – 2018, and he will give advice on which pieces to choose for

the Senior Certificate Grade. He will suggest phrasing, dynamic marks and tempo possibilities. He will also

consider any important changes in the syllabus, and discuss methods of preparing for scales and arpeggios, sight-

reading, ear tests and theory questions.

The attendance fee for the Piano Workshop (including detailed course notes) is €250.00. Members of the

RIAM Teaching Network can avail of a 10% discount (€225.00) Fees and completed entry forms should

reach Dorothy McCauley, Derrybawn, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin by Friday 24th July

2015. There is a strict limit on the number of places allowed, so early booking is advisable. Please make

cheques, postal orders etc payable to Dr. John O’Conor. Unfortunately no cash payments can be accepted. All

applications will be acknowledged.

We would request that all participants bring along their own set of Local Centre Grade Piano Albums 2016 to the

course in order to comply with copyright regulations. The piano albums will be available from music stockists by

July 2015.

____________________________________________________________________________________

ENTRY FORM FOR PIANO WORKSHOP – AUGUST 2015

Name: _________________________________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Email Address:______________________________Phone:________________________

help teachers prepare for the 2015-2018 Piano Syllabus

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

Information Technology Solutions

V EN UE S

Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda

Sunday 6th September

Community Youth Centre &

Palace Theatre Fermoy

Sunday 13th September

The Connacht Hotel Galway

Sunday 20th September

RIAM Dublin

Sunday 27th September

T I M E S

10.00 am to 4.00 pm

(tea/coffee served at 11.15 am)

R O YA L IR I SH A CA DE MY O F M US I C

36 Westland Row Dublin 2 Tel: +353-1-6325300 Email: localcentre@riam.ie Website: www.riam.ie Teaching Network: teachingnetwork.riam.ie

KEY SKILLS SERIES 2015

RIAM TEACHING NETWORK PRESENTS

A Series of Teacher-training Workshops for the Local Centre 2015-2018 Piano Syllabus conducted by Anthony Byrne & Réamonn Keary

BOOKING FORM You may pay your registration fee of €135.00 online by completing the booking form and indicating your venue preference at http://www.riam.ie/examinations/key-skill-series/ no later than Friday 3 July 2015. Cork □ Drogheda □ Dublin □ Galway □ 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 €135 made payable to the RIAM. Applications should reach the Local Centre Examinations’ Office no later than Friday 3 July 2015 at 5.00 pm. Please contact localcentre@riam.ie if you have any queries.

THE RIAM TEACHING NETWORK

PRESENTS

Teaching Leaving Certificate Music (Set A and B)An E-Course in 16 weeks

Course Tutor: Kim Fallen Bailey

These 16-week E-courses, commencing in October 2015, are aimed at music teachers who want to develop their current knowledge of teaching the Leaving Certificate music course

for Set A or B. The course is delivered on a weekly basis, through a variety of comprehensive handouts, sound files, podcasts and screencasts to help you with study. There are dedicated

weeks for each of the set works, along with the composition paper and the Irish music listening question.

Each week the worksheets and handouts will examine the marking scheme and all the information studied will be based on past questions from the Leaving cert papers. At the end of each week participants must submit a completed assignment, which will be based on the topic of study for that week. As part of the E-course there will be an information evening at both the beginning and the end of the course, along with several live Q and A’s with course

tutor, Kim Fallen Bailey, over the duration of the course.

Cost: €395 (Teaching Network Members)For more information:

http://teachingnetwork.riam.ie/Email: jenniferoconnor@riaam.ie / teachingnetwork@riam.ie

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES

A week-long orchestral academy at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, July 2015

This five-day event is led by conductor Ciaran Crilly and features experttraining by Members of the RIAM’s distinguished Teaching Staff, as well as a number of rehearsal sessions with visiting conductors. In addition to exploring exciting repertoire, developing as an orchestral musician and having fun, students of this summer orchestral academy with a difference will:

• Help select repertoire to be rehearsed and performed during the week• Participate in sight-reading sessions• Study the anatomy of the orchestra in a series of entertaining,

interactive workshops• Study alongside student conductors from the IAYO Programme• Perform in a closing celebratory concert in St Andrew’s Church,

Westland Row on July 10th 2015

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES Royal Irish Academy of Music, 36, Westland Row, Dublin 2

July 6th to 10th, 2015 from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm to 5pm Age Group: 14 to 18

Ability Range: Recommended from Grade IV upwards. No audition required. Cost: €150 non-residential For application forms and/or for further information, please contact: generaloffice@riam.ie

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