Úna-Frances Clarke
Originally from Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Úna-Frances Clarke was awarded a BMus degree with first class honours from University College Dublin in 2004, having completed a BA in Modern Irish the previous year. In 2006, she graduated with an MMus degree (Theory and Analysis) from King's College London.
An active musician, Úna-Frances studied both flute and piano at Royal Irish Academy of Music, where she was successful in attaining a Licentiate teaching diploma in 2004 (LRIAM). She has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles and was Concerto Soloist with UCD Baroque Orchestra in 2003-2004.
Whilst an undergraduate, Úna-Frances co-founded The Musicology Review; she continues to be involved with the academic yearbook as a member of the advisory board, and co-edited Issue 4. Úna-Frances also writes for the music review website MusicalCriticism.com
Following her master’s degree, Úna-Frances worked with Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers in London, but has now returned to Dublin as a PhD student of Julian Horton in UCD School of Music. Funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, her current research is focused on symphonic sonata forms of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century.
Úna-Frances is a member of the Society for Music Analysis, the Society for Music Theory and the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
Blathnaid Healy
Blathnaid Healy graduated with a first class honours degree in music from University College Dublin in 2004. For her final year dissertation she focused on the music of William Byrd. Together with Úna-Frances Clarke she co-founded and edited The Musicology Review, which was first published in June 2005. Blathnaid continues to serve as an Advisory Editor to the publication.
Moving away from musicology, Blathnaid graduated from Northwestern University in the United States with a master of science in journalism in 2006. Blathnaid's articles have been published in The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Irish Echo, Magill, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and other publications.
Blathnaid also participated in the prestigious News21 reporting project funded by the Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation. She has reported in Dublin, Chicago, Washington DC, Kenya and Rwanda.
Blathnaid has a keen interest in the Internet and the future of journalism. She currently works for Ireland's public service broadcaster RTÉ as an Online News Journalist.
Johanne Heraty
Johanne Heraty is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Wolfgang Marx at University College Dublin. Her thesis concentrates on the microtonal music of Ezra Sims. Part of her research was to interview Sims in Boston, which took place while she was a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Sept-Dec 09). At Dartmouth, she was teaching assistant for Jody Diamond for the course Indonesian Gamelan. She is currently working on editing Sims' complete writings to be published late in 2010. Johanne is also working as Sims' copyist helping to make his entire repertoire available through Frog Peak Music.
Johanne is also a composer and a member of the Irish Composers' Collective. Her music has been performed at the National Concert Hall, the Goethe Institute, The New Theatre in Dublin, NUI Maynooth, the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast and at festivals in Dublin and York. She is currently working on a project, the Oral Archives of Irish Composers, conducting interviews with Irish composers aimed at creating primary sources for researchers.
Johanne currently teaches at the Kingston Academy of Music and has worked in the School of Music, University College Dublin since 2004. Her writings on Schubert and Ruth Crawford Seeger have been published by The Musicology Review. Johanne has given papers at DIT (SMI Postgraduate Conference) and the University of York (RMA Postgraduate Conference) for which she received funding from the SMI Student Award.
Anne Hyland
Anne is currently pursuing doctoral research at King’s College, Cambridge with Dr Nicholas Marston. She completed her B.A., B.Mus and M.Mus degrees in University College Dublin under the supervision of Dr Julian Horton. Her Ph.D. work is centered on the conceptual direction of Franz Schubert’s instrumental music, with particular emphasis on the roles of memory and repetition in his variation forms.
Anne was co-editor of the second issue of The Musicology Review in 2006, in which she published the essay “Idling on Some Compulsive Fantasy: Schubert’s Second Subjects and the String Quintet in C Major, D.956”. She recently delivered conference papers at the TAGS’ day in King’s College, London and the European Music Analysis Conference, in Freiburg im Breisgau, both organised by the Society for Music Analysis. She has also presented papers at three plenary meetings of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and is the society’s inaugural student representative.
Anne’s research is generously funded by an NUI Traveling Studentship, an AHRC Doctoral Award and an Isaac Newton Trust European Research Studentship.
Helen Lyons
Helen Lyons is a PhD candidate and Ad Astra Research Scholar at University College Dublin under the supervision of Dr Thérèse Smith, School of Music. The title of her PhD dissertation is ‘Contemporary Irish Harping on the Irish Harp and Cruit’. Helen graduated with a Bachelor in Music Education, Trinity College, Dublin in 2003 and in 2005 graduated with a first-class honours in her Master’s in Musicology from University College Dublin. She was co-editor of The Musicology Review, Issue 3 and published an article on the Irish Harp in Issue 2 entitled ‘Irish Harping: Styles, Repertoire and Technique’.
Helen lectures in Irish music at UCD and the RIAM and lectures in Ethnomusicology at DIT. She has contributed several articles on harp for the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Her research interests include: the Irish harp, Irish music, transmission, technology and music, sociology of music and music education. Helen also plays Irish and concert harp.
