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SETU Music School Updates – September/October 2023

  • New Ross Piano Festival – Congratulations to students Stephanie Samson and Rajiv Das who performed this year and also to Sasha Keane a member of the Youth Choir who now studies piano at the RIAM.
  • Late Late Toy Show Audition – the Boys and Girls Choir were in festive spirit last week for their audition recording for the Late Late Toy Show – fingers crossed! Thank you to the Choral Programme lecturers and the SETU Sound Team for their help with this recording.
  • IAYO Orchestra Collaboration – Members of Budding Bows and Concert Strings are travelling to Cahir on 18th November for an afternoon of rehearsal with students from Rockwell Music Academy and members of the Banna Cluain Meala Concert Band. This is part of the IAYO Collaboration initiative that supports IAYO members to get together for rehearsals/concerts. The group will be working on a new arrangement of a piece by Eoin O’Keeffe and will record it on the day too!
  • Music Network Masterclass – some of our guitar students with BA Music (hons) students will be participating in a masterclass on 30th November with Jonas Nordberg and Liam Byrne. Once again, thank you to Music Network and Waterford Music for part-funding this for Music School Students.
  • SETU Staff Choir – Congratulations to Sinéad, Oonagh and Gina on their first rehearsal with the SETU Staff Choir in both Waterford and Carlow.
  • Hallowe’en Choir Concerts – the Singing Club and Children’s Choir present a Spooky Concert on Friday 20th October and the Boys and Girls will be performing for parents on Tuesday 24th October.  

We are still actively recruiting for our Orchestral Ensembles – if you know of students who might not yet be participating in one of our Orchestral Ensembles or there are students, adults outside the music school who would be interested do please pass the word around. The Choral Programme would still have some vacancies for Boys within the choirs.

It’s shaping up to be a busy Term 2! Looking forward to Performance Week being back in the calendar. All of the students will be emailed the Information Letter about PW, this will be especially relevant to new students who have joined us since our last Perfordmance Week in 2020!

SETU MUSIC SCHOOL UPDATES

MARCH/APRIL 2025

 

March

  1. Friday 7th – School Choral Day – Secondary Schools 9.30-12noon (nearly 250 children participating)
  2. Saturday 8th – SETU Staff Choir rehearsal day in SETU Arena
  3. Friday 14th – School Choral Day – Primary Schools 9.30-12 noon (nearly 250 children participating)
  4. Friday 14th – Piano Masterclass with Yukine Kuroki, we have three students participating – with support from Music Network and Waterford Music
  5. Friday 14th – Singing Club and Children’s Choir Spring Concert 
  6. Saturday 15th – TBC – Musicianship Practical exams for students who were absent for exams during PW
  7. Monday 17th – St Patrick’s Day – College is Closed
  8. Saturday 22nd – EDI Event hosted by SETU Music School (see below for more information)
  9. Saturday 29th – World Piano Day 2025 – we will be posting videos of piano students throughout the day to celebrate the day
  10. Monday 31st – Boys & Girls Choir travel to Dublin to the Feis Ceoil

April

  1. Tuesday 1st – SETU Music School Gala Concert – 7.00pm MC – Dr Kate McCarthy
  2. Saturday 5th – SETU Staff Choir concerts in Carlow and Waterford
  3. Easter Holidays – 14th April – 25th – lessons resume on Monday 28th 

 

EDI Event – Saturday 22nd March

Plans for this event are nearly finalised – to date we have the following confirmed – the event is open to age 16+ students to attend. Due to supervision considerations, we are not in position to include the children
  • Trinity Gospel Choir with conductor Caoimhe O’Connor (past SETU Music School student and current Lumina member) will lead a choral workshop that is open to choirs and singers. 
  • Sharmistha Das – a classically trained Indian Dance teacher will be leading a cross cultural dance class with participants learning some simple Indian Dance movement.
  • Traces Dance Ensemble – led by Deirdre Grant (SETU) will be working movement into a poem written by Grace Howley – this will also be accompanied by Aisling Crowley on Cello. We are hoping the SETU Dance Society will also be part of this (TBC)
  • Solo Performances by SETU Music School students
All of the groups will be workshopping during the morning 9.30/10am to 11.30am with a performance to finish the morning 11.30-12noon.