EMPOWER 2026 at RIAM - Let The Music Lead!
Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM)
Photo by: Froye Mostue-Thomas
Join us for an inspiring evening of live performances and conversation as EMPOWER: Women Changing Music celebrates the creativity, influence, and diversity of women’s music. This special event brings together engaging chamber performances with thoughtful discussions featuring female leaders from across the music industry.
EMPOWER is dedicated to advancing fairness and gender equality in the music world by spotlighting female composers and performers and expanding opportunities for emerging artists. Through vibrant live music and insightful dialogue, the initiative champions the transformative impact women are making creatively and professionally, while fostering connection, collaboration, and positive change.
Highlights include dynamic chamber pieces alongside the premiere of the OpusHER award commission, created to support emerging female composers and expand contemporary repertoire. Experience music that matters - be inspired, challenged, and moved by an event that celebrates voices shaping the future of music.
Hosts: Sinéad Walsh and Hannah Seymour.
Performers:
Féinics Quartet - Iulia Florescu, Rohan Harron, Jeannette Bogado, Anna Varga
Lux Brumalis - Conducted by David Yau
Trio Aurea - Julianne Forrest, Eve Quigley, Georgina Cassidy
EMPOWER Collective - Sinéad Walsh, Hannah Seymour, Emily Harrison, Eugenia Garcia Cuesta, Hoda Jahanpour
Music Programme:
Féinics Quartet: Beyond Words by Aoife Kavanagh
Lux Brumalis:
O Nata Lux by Lucy Walker
Love Endureth by Roxanna Panufnik
Trio Aurea:
Dumka by Rebecca Clarke
Panellists:
Jessie Grimes - NCH Discover Artist in Residence
Hannah Miller - Principal Horn, Irish National Opera
Deborah Kelleher - Director, Royal Irish Academy of Music
This event is presented in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and is supported by RTE ‘Supporting The Arts'.
Tickets
€5 - 75. Booking at RIAM Dublin.