Time
20:30
21:00
1 ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Department of Music, University College Cork
November 11 th -13 th 2011
Friday 11 TH of November 2011
Details
Informal meeting in the foyer of the River Lee hotel for guided walk to Irish traditional music session.
Welcome Irish traditional music session.
Venue
Foyer of The River Lee Hotel
Spailpín Fánach
(See map for directions)
Time
09:00-09:45
09:45-10:00
10:00-11:15
10:00-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45:12:45
Saturday 12 th of November 2011 –Department of Music, UCC
Details
Registration with Tea/Coffee
Welcome: Dr. Mel Mercier – Head of UCC School of Music and Theatre
Music, Community and Culture (Parallel Paper Presentations-Session 1) Chair: Thomas Johnston
 Musical Development in Irish Traditional Music: The Influence of Family Members - Jessica Cawley, University College
Cork.
 More than just ABC: developing social and cultural awareness in Irish traditional music - Daithí Kearney, Dundalk
Institute of Technology.
 An Investigation of Traditional Singing Among Children in Ireland -Máire Ní Bhaoill, St. Patrick's College, Dublin City
University & The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.
Music Teacher Education (Parallel Paper Presentations-Session 2) Chair: Julie Tiernan
 A 21 st Century Model for Music Teacher Expertise - Randall Everett Allsup, Teachers College Columbia University, New
York, USA.
 Keeping Skilled Music Educators in the Classroom: Why We Leave and Policies to Make us Stay - Joshua A. Russell, The
University of Hartford, USA.
 From Facebook to F2F: Music-making, learning and belonging in a college choir - John O’ Flynn, St. Patrick’s College,
Dublin City University.
Tea/Coffee
Keynote Address
We are all Community Musicians - Phil Mullen, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Chair: John O’Flynn
Venue
Aloys Fleischmann
Room
Ó Riada Hall
Ó Riada Hall
Aloys Fleischmann
Room
Ó Riada Hall
Ó Riada Hall
12:45-13:30
13:30-13:45
Lunch (including research posters)
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Research Posters
The attitudes of Senior Cycle Students and Music Teachers to the inclusion of dance in the Leaving Certificate Music

Examination - Louise Keating, Bishopstown Community College, Cork.
Exploring the musical culture of children in Ireland - Michelle Finnerty, University College Cork and St. Patrick’s College,

Dublin City University.
Encouraging Partnership through the Medium of Music: An examination of a pre-school music enrichment proramme in a special school for pupils with physical and learning disabilities - Siobhán Keane, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City
University.
St Vincent’s Hall
Ó Riada Hall

13:45-14:15
1 ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Department of Music, University College Cork
November 11 th -13 th 2011
 Beyond Just Access – Inclusive Music Education and Performance in Cork City - Gráinne McHale, University College Cork.
 New Dynamic Finger Power: updating Bach’s finger technique for 21st century - Roy Holmes, Conservatory of Music and
Drama, Dublin Institute of Technology
Musical Performance
The Cresendos Orchestra and Choir – Maria Assumpta Girls School, Ballyphehane.
14:15-15:55

Music Learning and Teaching– Higher Education (Parallel Paper Presentations- Session 3) Chair: Mel Mercier
The Effects of Undergraduate Students Viewing Their Teacher as a Creator of Music - James Lindroth, University of South

Florida.
Citing Influential Teachers: Perceptions of University Music Education Majors - Dale Misenhelte, University of Arkansas,

USA.
Training Flexible and Socially Aware Musicians for the 21 st Century: An examination of current provision at one national
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3 rd level institute - Edel Sullivan & Caoimhe Conlon, CIT Cork School of Music.
Cultural capital and curriculum: exploring the relationship between undergraduate students’ musical backgrounds and their experiences of higher music education - Gwen Moore, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
14:15 –15:55 Make it relevant! (Parallel Paper Presentations- Session 4) Chair: Regina Murphy
 The composing process in primary classroom music -Yvonne Higgins, Marino Institute of Education.
 L’Orfeo -Mariacarla Cantamessa and Paola Cencio, Scuola Media Statale’G. Vida Pertini’ Alba, Italy.
 Composing in Irish secondary schools: sustaining the momentum - Anna-Marie Higgins, University of Cambridge.
16:00-16:15
 The impact of the graded examination system on instrumental music teaching and learning: Who is calling the piper’s tune? - Kay O’Suillivan, The Leinster School of Music & Drama.
Musical Performance
Cillian McSweeney and the Knocknaheeney Youth Music Initiative.
16:15-16:45 Break
Ó Riada Hall
Aloys Fleischmann
Room
Bax Room
Ó Riada Hall
16:45-17:40
16:45-17:40
16:45-17:40
18:30
19:00
Music Workshop (50 minutes)
What is Music and Health? Caoimhe Conlon & Kevin O’Shanahan – Music Alive.
Music Workshop (50 minutes)
Beyond Major and Minor: A Practical Approach to Understanding Modes -Roisin Blunnie, Mater Dei Institute, Dublin.
Music Workshop (50 minutes)
Intuitive Use of Geometric Visualisation Tools in Early Learning of Music - Steven Cooney, Artist In Residence (Music
Education) SMARTlab, School of Education, UCD.
Pre-dinner wine reception for the launch of Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music
Education 2009 and performance by Adult Grúpa Cheoil, Craobh na Dúglaise CCÉ
Dinner
Ó Riada Hall
Aloys Fleischmann
Room
Bax Room
River Lee Hotel
The Weir Bistro
River Lee Hotel

Time
09:00-10:40
09:00-10:40
10:40 – 11:00
11:00-12:15
11:00-12:15
12:15-13:00
1 ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Department of Music, University College Cork
November 11 th -13 th 2011
Sunday 13 th of November 2011 –(Department of Music, UCC)
Details
Identity and Music Education (Parallel Paper Presentations- Session 5) Chair: Daithí Kearney
 Into the Unknown: Partnering Ethnomusicology and Pedagogy in the New Music Classroom -
Elizabeth Rosner, Bowling Green State University.
 North Indian Classical Music and the Phenomenology of the Foreign Phenomenon: an emerging cultural identity - Matthew Noone, University of Limerick.
 Lakota Music Education - Benjamin Lemay, University College Cork.
 Cultural discourses at play: Investigating an Irish fiddle class in the United States - Nate Olson,
Teachers College, Columbia University.
Access and Inclusion (Parallel Paper Presentations - Session 6) Chair: Gwen Moore
 Who pays and who plays? Social equity and access to publicly funded instrumental music education in Ireland - Ciaran DeLoughry, University College Cork.
 Cas Ceol: Comhaltas in the classroom - Deirdre Harnedy, Independent Researcher.
 The contribution of the VECs to music education in Ireland - Ita Beausang, DIT Conservatory of
Music and Drama.
 But Ireland is not Venezuela!” - Issues in Community Music and performance music education in Ireland. - Evelyn Grant, CIT, Cork School of Music.
Tea/Coffee
Participation and Policy (Parallel Paper Presentations- Session 7) Chair: Evelyn Grant
 “Choral Music and Adolescent Boys: What are We Missing?” Patrick Freer, Georgia State
University - School of Music.
 Memorandum of a Musical Association - Teresa O'Donnell, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City
University.
 Philanthropy, Partnership and Participation: Generating and sustaining a national system of performance music education -Rosaleen Molloy, Music Generation.
Participation and Policy (Parallel Paper Presentations- Session 8) Chair: Patricia Flynn
 Shaping Irish identity through primary school music -Maire Thornton, Lincoln University, UK.
 The Band in the Classroom? Group Music-Making in Irish Secondary School Practice - Mairéad
Berrill, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University.
 Advocating Proactive Participative Music Making through Instrumental Performance – A
Reflection on the Belvedere College Wind Band Initiative-Marie-Louise Bowe, Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York.
Conference Close and Musical Performance by UCC Department of Music Students and the
Venue
Ó Riada Hall
Aloys Fleischmann Room
Ó Riada Hall
Aloys Fleischmann Room
Bax Room
Ó Riada Hall

13:00-13:50
13:00-13:50
1 ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND
Department of Music, University College Cork
November 11 th -13 th 2011
‘Bodhrán Bookills’ from St. Josephs Primary School, Mardyke, Cork.
50 minute Music Workshop – Composition in the Primary School - Aingeala De Búrca,
Independent Practitioner.
50 minute Music Workshop – Working with Adolescent Singers and their Changing Voices -
Patrick Freer, Georgia State University - School of Music.
Colour Key:
Parallel Paper Presentations
Music Workshops
Aloys Fleischmann Room
Ó Riada Hall
Key note address and
Conference Close
Musical Performances