TU Dublin Conservatoire

🎶 Final Recitals! 🎶

All welcome - No booking required. Limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Wishing our students every success as they take to the stage for these important performances. Toi toi toi!

Master of Music lecture-recitals 🎶

East Quad Organ Room
Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 May 2026

All welcome! No booking required. Limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

TU Dublin Harp Ensemble ushers in the summer with a lunchtime concert of historical, traditional Irish, classical, and contemporary music for solo harp and harp ensemble.

📅 Monday, 18 May
🕢 13:00 – 14:00
📍 Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🎟️ Free Admission – No Booking Required

Featuring compositions by and arrangements by Zabel, Tournier, Esther Swift, Gráinne Hambly, William Jackson, Gráinne Meyer and Luke Webb. The programme also includes arrangements by the ensemble’s co-director Rachel Duffy and a newly composed work for solo harp by harp ensemble member, Aoibheann Galvin.


Programme

Esther Swift: ‘Time Spinner’

Marcel Tournier: ‘Offrande’

Albert Zabel: ‘Marguerite au Rouet’

Aoibheann Galvin: ‘Dallan’s Delight

Calum Stewart arr. Rachel Duffy ‘Looking at a Rainbow through a Dirty Window’ | Michael McGoldrick arr. Rachel Duffy ‘Farewell to Whalley Range’

Damien McKee arr. Gráinne Meyer: ‘Jump the Broom’ | David Stone arr. Gráinne Meyer: ‘Luke Skywalker Walks On Sunshine’

arr. Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson: ‘Eibhlí Gheal Chiúin Uí Chearrbhaill’ (trad. Irish air) | ‘Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight’ (trad. Irish slip jig)

arr. Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson: ‘Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn’ | Jerry Holland arr. Rachel Duffy: ‘Malcolm’s New Fiddle’ (trad. Cape Breton)

Luke Webb: ‘Freedom's Call’

Damien O’Kane arr. Gráinne Meyer: ‘Seasick Dee’

Performers
Rachel Duffy, Fiona Gryson, Julieta De Cicco, Emma Ovakimyan, Róise Ní Laoire, Aoibheann Galvin

Registration is now open for TU Dublin Conservatoire’s Summer School for Young Pianists! Early bird tickets available until May 25th.

🗓️ Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18
🕠 10:00 – 14:00 each day
📍 TU Dublin Conservatoire, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🔗 Register Now -> https://tudublin.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173680808

Our exciting three-day programme is designed to bring pianists aged 12-18 together in a stimulating and friendly environment. Participants will take part in a series of performance workshops and other relevant musical activities designed to enhance their confidence in, and enjoyment of, playing the piano.

Guided by a team of piano lecturers, topics will include developing and enhancing technique; practice advice; improving skills such as aural and sight-reading; playing with others and more! Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to grow as a pianist!

🎭 The journey of Dido and Aeneas continues 🎶
Hot on the heels of their incredible performance at Birr Festival of Music , TU Dublin Vocal Dept. bring their production of Dido and Aeneas to the Black Box Theatre!

📍 May 12–13 at 7pm
✨ Last chance to see this stunning production — https://tudublin.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173678413

A huge thank you to Birr Festival of Music for inviting us to present the first opera in the festival’s history. Bravo to our incredible students, whose dedication, artistry, and passion continue to bring Dido and Aeneas to life so beautifully. We can’t wait to share this remarkable production with audiences once more! 👑🖤 🏹

Huge thanks to Dan Butler Photography for these incredible photos!

Join us for an evening of captivating piano music with Conservatoire Lecturer and pianist extraordinaire, Dr. Marianna Prjevalskaya.

Opening with Beethoven’s brilliant early Grande Sonate Op.7, the programme continues with Schumann’s deeply imaginative Kreisleriana, inspired by the literary world of E.T.A. Hoffmann. The recital concludes with a selection of Dr. Prjevalskaya’s favourite encore pieces by Rachmaninoff.

📅 Thurs, 14 May
🕢 19:00 – 20:30
📍 Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🎟️ €10 / €5 Concession – Free for TU Dublin Staff/Students!
🔗 Book Here ->
https://tudublin.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173680665

🎹Programme🎹

Beethoven, Piano Sonata Op.7 in E flat major
Allegro molto e con brio
Largo con gran espressione
Allegro - Trio
Rondo. Poco Allegretto e grazioso

Schumann, Kreisleriana Op.16
1. Äußerst bewegt
2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch
3. Sehr aufgeregt
4. Sehr langsam
5. Sehr lebhaft
6. Sehr langsam
7. Sehr rasch
8. Schnell und spielend

Rachmaninoff, Etude-tableau Op.33 No. 1 in F minor

Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op.32 No.10 in B minor and 13 in D flat major

Marianna Prjevalskaya - Concert Pianist

It’s time for the final Thursday Lunchtime Recital of the term!

For our finale we are joined by Gaia Sessa (harp), with Andrea Vecchiato (flute) and Connor Wilcox (piano), performing a varied programme of both chamber and solo music spanning three centuries.

📅 Thurs, 14 May
🕢 13:10 – 13:50
📍 Recital Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🎟️ Free Admission – Booking Required
🔗 Book Now ->
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Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto in C major for Flute and Harp, II mov

Nino Rota: Sonata for Flute and Harp

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata Arpeggiata

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K466

Ottorino Respighi: Notturno

🎓 Ready to take your music to the next level?

Apply now for our Master of Music programmes! Now accepting applications for September 2026.

Find out more and apply on our website:
🔗 https://www.tudublin.ie/study/postgraduate/music--drama/