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March 23rd-29th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Royal Irish Academy of Music
RIAM’s inaugural Wigmore Hall Festival has drawn to a close. How did the new venue perform?
Review: The academy’s 300-seat Whyte Recital Hall could be a boon for the kind of events now held in the National Concert Hall’s John Field Room
Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss: A thoughtful, extraordinarily detailed performance of Schubert piano duets
Whyte Recital Hall, the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s new venue, has a puzzling acoustic on its opening night
Stephen Hough: ‘So many concert halls are built and don’t sound good, and they’ve had millions spent on them’
The mesmerising English pianist, who plays this month at Dublin’s new Whyte Recital Hall, on the importance of a venue
John Gilhooly: ‘I stand in the foyer every night. You learn a lot by just chatting to your public’
The Irishman who runs Wigmore Hall, one of the world’s great concert venues, is bringing a roster of classical stars to Dublin’s new recital hall
Living with Leo Varadkar: Ukrainian musician on how she fled home and ended up in the Taoiseach’s house
Having spent several weeks of living in hotels, Olesia Borsuk was asked if she wanted to move in with a gay couple. She knew nothing about her new housemates
First Look: Royal Irish Academy of Music unveils €25m addition to its Georgian Dublin home
The seven-year redesign ‘packs a lot into a city-centre site and gears us up for the future’, says the national conservatoire’s director
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From nursing to engineering and environmental studies, there’s plenty of choice
Irish-born director of Wigmore Hall awarded CBE in honours list
John Gilhooly’s ‘immense contribution to classical music’ marked by Queen Elizabeth
Veronica Dunne’s Dublin home on the market for €2.3m
Late soprano held legendary dinner parties at Victorian four-bed on Bushy Park Road in Rathgar
Veronica Dunne ‘radiated’ light into lives of others, funeral Mass hears
Dunne leaves ‘indomitable legacy’ which ensures ‘future generations will continue to hear your voice’
Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne dies aged 93
Operatic community loses highly respected figure and ever-present artist for over 60 years
Other institutions: All you need to know about open days
A diverse range of courses are on offer for prospective students
Children missing out on after-school activities during Covid restrictions
Young dancers and performers unable to ‘do their thing’ during Covid restrictions
Dramatic mountain handover strikes the right note for National Harp Day
Young harpist collects her new harp at county border to keep to Covid-19 restrictions
Limerick man keeps music playing during lockdown at famous London venue
London Letter: Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly says response to streamed concerts has been ‘incredible’
The ultimate parents’ survival guide to summer 2020
Activities are curbed due to Covid-19, but there’s plenty of ways to keep kids occupied
Irish conductor the first woman to lead orchestra at Oscars
Eímear Noone, originally from Galway, will perform at the Academy Awards in February
Open days at other educational institutions
No better way to weigh up your study options than by visiting the campuses and facilities
Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’
The ‘My Left Foot’ child actor does not only act - he’s now a writer and film-maker too
Classical music development has lagged behind since foundation of State
Classical music has not been documented the way it is in other European countries
School’s out: 20 things to do around Ireland over the Easter holidays
From bunnybots and egg hunts to classic board games and easy introductions to opera
Director’s Choice: Theatre directors pick the soundtracks of their lives
Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces
Creative Schools initiative: A new way to learn
Programme aims to enable children’s creative potential
First orchestra for disabled people a ‘game-changer’ for teaching music
Le Chéile will bring together children with physical and intellectual disabilities
‘Kids in Foxrock play the violin, not Crumlin’: the school that’s changing lives through music
No Child 2020: Scoil Úna Naofa gives its pupils a chance to learn an instrument – free and in school hours
‘I was asked to play the national anthem on my flute. I felt honoured’
New to the Parish: Miriam Kaczor arrived from Poland in 2008
Royal Irish Academy of Music set for €20m transformation by 2021
Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy
What Ireland’s specialist third-level institutions have to offer
Life on campus: Institutions around the country offer a diverse range of course options for prospective students
How Bono lost his vox: An ageing rockstar’s big fear
Why are singers’ voices at risk as they age, and what happens if they are lost on stage?
Venezuelan voice on his way to the Royal Irish Academy
Opera singer Luis Magallanes: ‘I’ve gone from a humanitarian crisis to being here’
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Tribalism will make people believe fake stuff
Evan Davis gave the annual Hubert Butler lecture at Kilkenny Arts Festival. Other highlights included a gaze-activated dress
‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’
Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry
Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend
New this week: An Irish zombie pic, a feminist western and a Canadian drama
Almost every film in cinemas this week, reviewed and rated
The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland
Gig of the Week: MusicTown 2018
Dublin festival features concerts, workshops, masterclasses and creative partnerships
Making the Grade: Irish documentary is one of the great, affecting films about teaching
Review: A colourful cross-section of the 30,000 Irish children who learn piano
Another mountain to climb: Celine Byrne takes on Mother Abbess
Ireland’s best-known soprano effortlessly moves from opera to ‘The Sound Of Music’
John O’Conor to receive NCH Lifetime Achievement award
The pianist marks his 70th birthday year with a wonderful coda
Other institutions: All you need to know about open days
Institutions around the country offer a diverse range of course options for prospective students
‘Give up teaching? I wouldn’t live six months’ - Podcast
Approaching 90, Veronica Dunne, the doyenne of Irish opera talks to Róisín Ingle
Other Institutions: All you need to know about open days
Open days offer students opportunity to become informed about courses and campuses
Mary Gallagher O’Rourke: Masterful musician with a skill for nurturing talent
Obituary: She accepted the crucial role of forming not one, but two chamber orchestras, which were the highlights of Irish music-making from 1970 onwards
Ireland is my old flame, but I’m in love with Greece now
Life in a bankrupt state with a refugee crisis is not barrel of laughs, but Corfu is home
Gavan Ring sees the funny side of The Barber of Seville
The Kerry baritone brings energy and a touch of John Cleese to the role of Figaro in Rossini’s classic opera
Imelda May, Glen Hansard and Colm Meaney in town for MusicTown
Festival celebrates the capital’s music scene including choruses from Handel’s ‘Messiah’
Ben Folds: 'you sit on the song toilet and nothing comes out’
Swap the first and second verse; remove two beats before the first chorus . . . An acclaimed songwriter reveals his tricks
Father figure and mentor of Irish dramatic talent
Phelim Donlon: July 17th, 1936 - December 14th, 2014
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