Saluting The Feminists at RIAM

Saluting the Feminists, the Academy’s day-long celebration of women composers, performers and pedagogues, returns on March 28th. Once again, the performance of an opera by a leading female composer, on this occasion Judith Weir’s Scipio’s Dream, affords the Academy an opportunity to highlight the legacy of some of its key female pedagogues and salute a strong army of female composers and performers. On March 28th, the Academy proudly presents a series of fringe events comprising performances, talks and panel discussions highlighting the extraordinary impact women have had and continue to have on Irish musical life.
 

Featuring Dearbhla Brosnan (piano), Siobhán Cleary (composer), Joanna Crooks (Founder/Director,St Agnes Music Project, Crumlin), Thérèse Fahy (piano), Amy Gillen (flute), Ciara Higgins (Head of Artistic Programming, RIAM), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Lorna Horan (Chair, RIAM Senior Examiners), Deborah Kelleher (Director, RIAM), Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Kevin O’Connell (composer), Linda O’Shea Farren (Communications & Projects Manager, Contemporary Music Centre), Schuyler Perry (cello), Gillian Smith (piano) and Judith Weir (composer)

 

Music by Nadia Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade, Siobhán Cleary, Ailbhe McDonagh and Jennifer Walshe.

 

Register here.