Monte Carlo, October 2008
Speaking and Performance 2008
Lectures, Conference, Irish-Studies, Summer Schools
Dec. 2 2008 - An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth, Public Lecture - Hunting for the bodh-rán: unlikely furze, surprising birds. Reflections on how the past use of intuition, imagination or informed speculation for the construction of a Traditional music integrity can be shown to have reflected substantial truth - not just by planned investigation, but also if the right permutation of chance-and-consequence encounters is set in domino-style motion. A paper on findings while scholar in residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, where research was being undertaken for the re-edition of the 1999 work The Companion to Irish Traditional Music in Autumn, 2008.
October 22, 2008. Conférence en langue anglaise par le Dr Fintan Vallely: le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 à la Bibliothèque Irlandaise Princesse Grace. "Artistic Fulfilment, Entertainment and Identity in the Music of Ireland - Lecture & Musical Interludes" ("Epanouissement artistique, divertissement et identité dans la musique irlandaise - Conférence et intermèdes musicaux")
October 21, 2008. Lecture and music demonstration to Lycée students, Monaco.
August, 22, 2008. Guest lecture at the Merriman Summer School, Co. Clare, August - Taste, Space, Tourism – what is so special about Clare and Traditional music? An exploration of ‘style’, space and territory in Traditional music which considers how music defines or alters landscape, mind-set and places.
June 18th, 2008. Creative writing summer school at Carlow College.
July 2, 2008. USIT international Summer School at Trinity College Dublin. July
March 15, 2008. Paper titled 'Cosmotrad?" at the Grian Irish Studies conference at New York University (March 13-15).
Flute teaching
October 2008. Masterclass (flûte) à l'Académie de Musique - Fondation Prince Rainier III - mercredi 15 octobre 2008
July 2008. Teaching flute at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, July 5 - 13.
March 2008. One-week Flute workshop at Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp, Washington, on the Marine campus of Washington State University, March
Performance
December 2008. Performance with Dermot Healy, Pete Galligan Memorial Concert, December 13, 2008, Ross Port, Co. Mayo.
July 2008. Flute recital at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Co. Clare. July 8 and 12.
June, 2008. Lunchtime recital of Satirical song at the Listowel Writers' Week, Kerry, June 1.
April 4, 2008. Performance at Clasach concert, Teacher's Club, Dublin