The first year of the course is the common entry programme shared with all the pathways (Irish Music, Irish Dance, Contemporary Dance, Voice and World Music).  However, your focus from the start of this first year is on voice. Here you will focus and develop your own vocal performance practice through one-to-one, choral, ensemble and performance classes. You will also engage academically with classical, popular, traditional and world music and dance through a performative lens.

From second year onwards, you will focus on the voice pathway of the programme. Voice students will undertake additional specialist modules in vocal pedagogy and voice studies as well as shared performance technology and community music modules with students from different pathways.

Vocalists engaged in this course at the Irish World Academy will experience a number of vocal traditions and will be facilitated to develop further in the context of their chosen genre at the Academy.  Students can be from popular(CCM), music theatre/stage school, classical,  sacred or choral contexts (among others). You will find that the core aspects of the programme will support your development across a range of styles, broadening and deepening your approach to singing and functional awareness of your instrument. The Academy has an unparalleled team of faculty and tutors who will guide and facilitate the growth of students as vocal performers and academics.

As a student, you will be based at the world-class facilities of the Irish World Academy building, equipped to the highest standards with cutting edge performance and rehearsal spaces and technological infrastructure. Tuition is provided by a faculty of excellent performers and academics, as well as industry professionals and international guest artists and researchers.

The programme prepares you for many different career paths including professional performance; further study; work in cultural institutions; media related posts; archival work; performance production; portfolio careers combining the preceding and others in entrepreneurial ways.

Dr Kevin O’Carroll
Máire Keary-Scanlon
Ewa Zak-Dyndal
Eóin Scanlon  

HOW TO APPLY:
All Irish and EU applications (including mature applications) are processed by the CAO (www.cao.ie).  Applications from outside the European Union are processed by the international office of the University (http://www.ul.ie/international/)

Students applying for first year of the programme and intending to graduate with the BA Voice need to apply for LM026 – BA Performing Arts

All enquiries in relation to admission of students should be addressed to the course director (details below) or:
Admissions Office
University of Limerick
Limerick
tel : +353-61-202700
email : admissions [at] ul.ie 
Web sites:  https://ulsites.ul.ie/admissions/ and https://www.ul.ie/courses/bachelor-arts-performing-arts

SCHOLARSHIPS:
Click here for a list of scholarships available to prospective Irish World Academy of Music and Dance students.

For information on the Erasmus options available in the third year of study please see this link.

Enquiries in relation to the course can be made to:

Dr Hannah Fahey
Course Director, BA Performing Arts (Voice)
Room No: IW2.20,
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
University of Limerick,
Limerick, Ireland.
Tel: +353-61-202958
e-mail: Hannah.Fahey [at] ul.ie