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  • Evita

    DkIT Department of Music & Creative Media will stage Evita from March 10th-12th starting at 7pm nightly in the New Black Box Theatre by special licence from The Really Useful Group Ltd.

  • Composition workshop

    The composer Siobhán Cleary will be giving a masterclass in composition this Thursday, the 4th of March at 2.30 in the Music Department on the Town Campus. All welcome.

  • Czech Opera Lecture

    Professor Jan Smaczny, Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen's University Belfast, will give a lecture on Czech opera as part of Ceol Oirghialla's musicology seminar series on Thursday 25th February 2010.

  • Raulandsakademiet, University of Telemark Staff and Students in Concert

    Students and staff from Raulandsakademiet, University of Telemark will perform a joint concert with music students from Ceol Oirghialla on Thursday 4th February 2010. The concert will commence at 1.30pm in the New Black Box Theatre.

  • Haiti Benifit Concert

    The Department of Music presents a special lunchtime concert on Thursday 28th Jan in aid of GOAL's appeal for victims of the Haiti disaster. The concert will take place in the New Blackbox Theatre at 1:05pm and will finish at 1:50pm to enable staff and students return to class at 2pm. Admission €5

Raulandsakademiet, University of Telemark Staff and Students in Concert

Raulandsakademiet, University of Telemark Staff and Students in Concert

Students and staff from Raulandsakademiet, University of Telemark will perform a joint concert with music students from Ceol Oirghialla on Thursday 4th February 2010. The concert will commence at 1.30pm in the New Black Box Theatre.

University of Telemark in Norway is Ceol Oirghialla's newest partner institutions, and we are delighted to welcome them to DkIT to perform in a joint concert with music students. The concert will feature Norwegian folk music and song. Staff member Mats Johansson will be playing both fiddle and the Hardangerfil, the bowed polychord fiddle-like instrument unique to Norway and western Sweden while his colleague Frode Nyvold will sing. They will be joined on stage by two of their students Samantha Ohlanders on fiddle and Camilla Hole on alto saxophone,
Rauland is situated in the mountains of south central Norway and located in the small village of Rauland at the foot of the Rauland Mountains near the HardangerPlatau. Rauland is well known for preserving its traditional culture, and it is the objective of Raulandsakademiet to present an educational and activity based curriculum rooted on the best aspects of that culture.