2nd Dublin Guitar SympoSium

Description

As we say in Ireland, “one hundred, thousand welcomes to you all!” TU Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama is delighted to host the 2nd Dublin Guitar Symposium in our new campus in Grangegorman. We welcome conference delegates and performers from all over the world to Dublin for these three days of events in homage to the guitar!

The theme of this second symposium “Back to the Future” is a particularly prescient one at this point in time, resonating on many different levels in all of our lives. As we celebrate the guitar through its music, instruments, performers and research, we cannot do so without having with one eye on its past and the path that it has led to this moment and what is to come. Here in TU Dublin we are Ireland’s first Technological University as of January 2019, a birth that emerged from three Institutes of Technology with their own distinguished traditions. As the former DIT campuses move towards the newer single Dublin city campus, we are travelling a historic path as our much beloved locations and schools gather their strengths as ‘one’ in Grangegorman. And as you walk around Grangegorman during these Symposium days, you will notice beautiful historic buildings that have been restored alongside brand new buildings – some, including the Conservatory’s new building beside the Clock Tower are still being built – demonstrating visually and vividly the connection between the past, present and future.

It is in this context, in this moment, that we take these days to share our ideas, stretch our minds and ears and reflect on all things guitar. I would like to thank the Conference Committee for all their incredible work in preparation for the Symposium, in particular its Chair Eoin Flood and Program Director and TU Dublin Guitar Lecturer Marco Ramelli. A very special thanks to our friends at the Italian Institute of Culture for their enthusiastic support of the Symposium. And especially I would like to thank all of the fantastic performers and symposium presenters for travelling to Dublin to share your artistry and research with us all.

Dr. Orla McDonagh

Conference Committee
Eoin Flood (Conference Chair)
Marco Ramelli (Programme Chair)
Morgan Buckley
Kerry Houston
Matthew Mazanek

Period	22 Feb 2019 → 23 Feb 2019
Event type	Conference
Location	Dublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International