i m u s i c . i e traditional music, flute, education, information

Fintan Vallely - work in Traditional-music education

2008 –10 Supervision of full time, PRTLI-funded post-doctoral fellowship at DkIT, research title: "The interaction of artistic impulse and cultural precedent with technology and popular culture in the globalisation of Irish traditional music, song and dance"

2008 – Half year research secondment (June) award funded under PRTLI, project: Digitisation of hard resourrce information in Irish Traditional Music.

2008 01 Development of 2 imminent MA research projects in Traditional music:

1/ Sean McElwaine - Challenging Music Canon – style and repertoire in the Music of Co. Monaghan

2/ Seosamh Ó Neachtain - A critical evaluation of style in Irish Step Dancing

2007  Development and compilation of taught MA programme in Traditional Music Studies at DkIT.

2007 – 06 – Flute tuition school at Young Traditional Musicians’ weekend, McNally-Smith Conservatoire, Minneapolis, USA.

2006 – 10  Song symposium at Singers’ Club, McNally Smith Conservatoire, Minneapolis.

2005 – 8 Development and Supervision of MA Research projects in Irish Traditional Music: 

1/ Gerry O’Connor, Luke Connellan’s Music of Oriel (completion 2008 04)

2/ Jesse Smith, Realising the Music of Michael Coleman. (completion 2008 04)

3/ Jacinta McEvoy, Irish Dance in the National School Curriculum  (completion 2009 02)

3/ Oisín Mac Diarmada, The Shapes of Melody – Music and Movement  (completion 2008 11) Funded programme, Strand 1.

2004 Origination and teaching of two ten-unit, distance-learning modules on Music and Borderlands on joint University of Ulster / Dundalk Institute of Technology, web-based degree in Borderlands Studies.

2003 07-08 Seven-lecture module on traditional music for New York University’s Irish Studies summer schools at Trinity College Dublin.

2003 07 – Appointed lecturer in Irish Traditional music, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Co. Louth.

2002 - 03 Appointed Lecturer in the Regional Musics of Ireland at University of Ulster’s Irish studies unit Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages [AICH]; teaching module in Traditional music to BA and BMus students at University of Ulster.

2002-3, Development of Traditional  music units for real-time and web-based MA Irish Studies modules, AICH, UU.

2001 Intensive flute and ensemble workshop week and weekend for Folkworks project at Durham, England

1999-2001 Lectures on Traditional music, Classicisation and Identity to An Cuirt Chruiteareachta (harp summer school), Termonfeckin, Co.  Louth.

1999 – 2002 Devising and teaching a six-semester course (years 1-3) in Irish Traditional music with Ethnomusicological overview at St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, Dublin.

1997 08 Lecture series on Irish music at Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School

1997- teaching flute at Rencontre Musique Irlandaise, Tocane, Irish Music Summer School, Perigord region, France.

1996 – present  Lectures on Irish music and performance for International summer schools at Trinity College Dublin.

1993 Facilitating workshops in Local District Council-organised, mixed-religion, Traditional Music exchange seminars in counties Down (Portaferry) and Fermanagh (Lisnaskea). 

1994 Seminars on Bulgarian and Irish Traditional musics presented at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. 

1994 - 1999 Development of courses in, and lecturing on, 1/ Ethnomusicology (to final year Anthropology); 2/ Irish Traditional music (2nd year Music); 3/International Folk musics and Ethnomusicology (3rd year Music) at National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

1985 – present Teaching annually at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare.

1984 - 1985 Innovation of and instructing ANCO  training course in local-magazine editing and production (Blanchardstown, Co. Dublin). 

1980 - 1984 Teaching flute at Bunting Summer School, Benburb, Co. Tyrone. 

Education projects

2000 Member, assessment panel for NCEA (National Council for Educational Awards) r/e Institute of Technology, Tralee’s Traditional music programming School of Business Studies and Social Studies.

2000 Advisory/consultancy for traditional music centre at Glenarm, Co.  Antrim

1998  Design of integrated Traditional Music/Ethnomusicology course for Siamsa Tíre, Tralee  project with Co. Kerry VEC.

1997 Arts Council of Ireland- and Sligo Co. Council-sponsored consultancy r/e Michael Coleman Centre, Sligo, on feasibility of establishing as a full music college based in Traditional music, targeted on local, national (third level) and international bases. Commissions