Classical String Performance MA

Program Overview

The Master of Arts in Classical String Performance program at the Irish World Academy, offered in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, provides comprehensive training in classical string performance. Students benefit from personalized lessons, chamber music classes, and specialized workshops led by Principal players of the ICO. The program also offers elective subjects such as multimedia, improvisation, and somatic movement.

Program Outline

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• The course welcomes national and international applications.
• The Irish World Academy’s Master of Arts in Classical String Performance is offered in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO).
• The programme is led by Principal players of the ICO, who rehearse, tutor and perform with the students.
• Students receive weekly individual lessons, regular technique classes, weekly chamber music classes and other weekly specialized workshops and sessions.
• Specialised tuition is offered in a wide range of performance practice aspects including audition techniques, orchestral excerpts, baroque and contemporary music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics & creative embodied performance development, and other real-life requirements.
• The programme also includes regular sessions with a pianist, including intensive coaching weeks on duo sonata repertoire.
• In addition to the core skills, an eclectic range of elective subjects are offered.
These include multimedia, improvisation, traditional Irish music, gamelan, somatic movement, composition and many more.
• MA Classical String Performance students present solo or chamber music repertoire in an ongoing series of concerts through Limerick and the surrounding area, and gain automatic acceptance onto the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy Project – an exciting, annual collaboration project involving elite students from around the world and members of the ICO.