Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2023 Music- Listening & Composing papers (Higher Level) by Ciara Coleman, Music teacher at The Institute of Education. A fair and balanced paper which played to students’ strengths, especially students who had studied their set works…
Congratulations to 6th Year student Lucy Byrne who recently won the Nordell Cup in the Senior Feis Ceoil. Lucy competed against college students from both England and Ireland at the event which took place over two weeks, in the RDS, Dublin
Congratulations to 6th year student Sarah Fitzsimon on her new song. The song is called ‘This Existence’. Sarah worked on the song as an individual artist, recording all the tracks with equipment at home. This Existence is available to pre-save,…
Congratulations to our students who were the overall winners of the City of Derry International Choir Festival with the Continuum Youth Choir, last weekend. The students also won First place in the Sacred Music category, Youth Choir category, Mixed Voice…
Congratulations to Lucy Byrne who has reached the finals of the Frank Maher Classical Music Awards. We would like to wish Lucy the best of luck next Friday as she competes with 5 other finalists for a €5,000 scholarship in…
Congratulations to 5th year student Michael Moloney on the release of his new song “Home”. The song which Michael wrote and performs is available on all streaming platforms from today, Friday, 9th September. We wish Michael continued success with his…
Music at The Institute has always found a way to bring joy to our students. Even through tough times and not being able to meet up in person, our 5th year choir members were determined to join together to do…
Music at The Institute has always, by it’s nature, been a very interactive subject. To help students understand music better and to give them a better sense of what is happening in terms of tempo, time signature, other musical concepts,…
Congratulations to Sophie Shaw, TY student, who has recently been awarded two music diplomas. Sophie did this as part of the Personal Skill section of her Bronze Gaisce Award. Sophie has been awarded an ARSM (Associate of the Royal Schools…
Dr. Susan McCormick, our Music teacher, was invited back on RTE Radio One’s Drive Time Study Hub on Thursday evening to speak more about the Leaving Cert 2021 Music Practical exam. During the Study Hub Susan shared lots of invaluable…
Music teacher, Susan McCormack organised a beautiful message for the class of 2020 with her 6th Year music group. Watch it below as we look back on being a 6th year in 2020.