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2/16/2014 First Visit 1987 From Irish-American Mezzo to Chu Tian Scholar Tour of Beijing, Chang Sha, Guang Zhou with Seoirse Bodley Lecture-Recital Programmes of Irish Melodies and A GIRL with text by Brendan Kennelly Hugh Lane

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From Irish-American Mezzo to ‘Chu Tian Scholar’

Lecture-Recital

Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

In celebration of Chinese New Year Saturday, 1 February 2014

  • Prof. Dr. Aylish E. Kerrigan, Mezzosoprano

Dearbhla Collins, Piano

First Visit 1987

  • Tour of Beijing, Chang Sha, Guang Zhou with

Seoirse Bodley

  • Programmes of Irish Melodies and A GIRL with

text by Brendan Kennelly

  • Understanding of Republic of Ireland and

Northern Ireland

  • Warm welcome but we were separated from the

Chinese

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Second Visit - Wuhan 1992

  • Tour with Prof. George Burden,

Ergonomics and Industrial Design

  • Concerts of Lieder from the time of the

Industrial Revolution

  • Lectures on the Industrial Revolution
  • Lieder by Mahler and Brahms
  • Accompanists worked in freezing rooms

with candles due to electricity shortages

  • Wanted to leave out difficult notes!

Cultural Exchange Project 1993

  • Group of young musicians and an entourage of culturally

interested supporters and local politicians went to Wuhan

– Concerts at the Wuhan Conservatory and various schools

  • Group of Chinese musicians (both classical and

traditional) and accompanying businessman (sponsor), President of the Wuhan Conservatory of Music and Wuhan political representatives came to Germany

– Concerts in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Sindelfingen

  • Resulting invitation to me to come to Wuhan and teach

German Lieder at the Conservatory

– promise of support disappeared, WCM stepped in

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What is it about Wuhan? 1994

  • Fiery, passionate people with hearts of gold

and desire to learn

– Teaching German Lieder and Art Songs to Chinese students – Singers at the Conservatory knew Western Opera – No knowledge amongst singers of Wolf, Mahler, Brahms, R. Strauss

  • They knew a few very melodic Schubert songs
  • Cultural Revolution had taken its toll
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Food and Friends and Work

  • Nothing takes place without food
  • Food is this side of heaven
  • Great resilience – rats – don’t look!
  • Friends during first visit have remained

close now for 20 yrs.

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Lectures and Vocal Classes

  • Diction a huge issue
  • Desire to learn Lieder due to international

competitions

  • Long struggle to get recognition for the

pianist

  • Accompanist Class is now established in

WCM

  • Lectures on various styles of singing and

composers now standard

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Concerts become established

  • German Lieder

– Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Wagner, Dvorjak

  • Irish Contemporary Music

– Seoirse Bodley

  • A Girl (3x), Carta Irlandaise, A Passionate Love,

Fraw Musica, After Great Pain, The Naked Flame, Remember Me, Canal Bank Walk, various arrangements

– John Buckley, Aloys Fleischmann – Jim Wilson – Frederick May

Irish Women Composers

Ina Boyle, Rhoda Coghill, Elaine Agnew, Anne-Marie O’Farrell

Women Romantic Composers

Clara Schumann, Josephine Lang, Alma Mahler

  • 2nd Viennese School

Schoenberg (2002), Berg

made history in Chinese musical literature

Contemporary American Works

Charles Ives, George Crumb, John Cage, Berio, Henry Cowell, Samuel Barber

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Establishment of German Lieder Competition

  • Encourage young singers to learn German

Lieder

  • Cooperation from the German Embassy
  • Funds for a Foundation
  • Incorporation of contemporary music
  • 1998
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Establishment of Irish Music Library, 2007

  • Help from Foreign Affairs Department
  • Help from SMI, Culture Ireland, Northern

Arts Council

  • Support from Irish Embassy in Beijing
  • Irish Library of contemporary music and

traditional – scores, CD’s, DVD’s

– Declan Kelleher, Ambassador – Dearbhla Collins, Pianist – First visit of an Irish Ambassador to a conservatory in central China

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Certificates of Appreciation

  • Lieder Donations to the library
  • Contemporary music donations to the

library

  • Irish scores, CD’s, DVD’s
  • Student concerts
  • ‘Chu Tian Scholar’ from Chinese

government

  • 20 years of work in Wuhan
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China Meets Ireland 26 May – 1 June 2014

  • Six talented musicians

– Traditional Musicians – Er Hu, Gu Zheng, Bamboo Flute – Classical – Bass-Baritone, Pianist, Composer

  • Concerts together with Irish Musicians

– St. Ann’s, St. Patricks Cathedral, Birr Castle

  • Workshops

– RIAM and DIT