BMus Year 4 Capstone Presentations
Thursday 14th May - Friday 15th May 2026
Lecture Theatre, RIAM
All Welcome
Thursday - Programme
10.00: Anastasia Despotis, When Loops Forget: Repetition and the Simulation of Nostalgia & Memory Loss in Electronic Music
10.45: Celia Yizhen He Chu, Composing Pandemic Memory: Three Years, Three Nations
11.30: Jack Doyle, The Mat Hears Everything: A Practice-Led Exploration of Sound in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo
13.15: Yulianna Stoi, What are the similarities and differences between piano music in Ireland and Ukraine during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries?
14.00: Zekai Xu, Nature Étude: Composing Electronic Soundscapes of Seasonal Transition
15.00: Aoife O'Donovan, Does the integration of urban and natural soundscapes in a musical composition influence the listener’s perception of the music?
Friday - Programme
10.00: Tracy Lin Chin, How can classical music influence the developmental process for video games?
10.45: Jonathan Blake, S.O.A.P: A Fresh, Clean Take on Originality
11.30: Aoife Goodison-Lawlor, How can music be used as a powerful means of communication in everyday life for non-speaking autistic children?
13.15: Yan Shpak, When music meets poetry: how can the relationship between poetry and music shape contemporary composition?
14.00: Rohan Harron, An Exploration of New Compositional Workflow through Sampling and Audio Processing Techniques
14.45: Eva Kavanagh, An Examination Between Physical Fitness and Vocal Endurance in Opera Singers
MMus Year 2 Research Presentations
Friday 15th May 2026
Organ Room, RIAM
All Welcome
Programme
09.45: Glen Carr, Programme Building for Youth Orchestras in the Dublin Region
10.30: Jeannette Bogado, Casimir Ney’s Prelude No. 15 for Solo Viola: From the Performer’s Perspective
11.30: Yifan Shao, A Harmonic Analysis and Performance Interpretation of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, D.664
12.15: Kwan Yee Lim, Pianism for Small Hands: Strategies and Adaptations for Overcoming Technical Challenges in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 (1913)
14.00: Tim Meng Kin Chong, A Pianist’s Perspective on and Comparative Assessment of the Orchestrations of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by Maurice Ravel and Sir Henry Wood
14.45: Evelyn Abiodun, The ‘Forgotten Concerto’: A Performance Guide for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G Minor
15.45: Remi Ludick, Viola Transcription: A Historical and Theoretical Analysis with Focus on Isabella Leonardas's Sonata No.12, Op.16
16.30: Éadaoin Hassett, How to prepare an informed performance of Joaquín Turina's Poema en forma de canciones - a translation, pronunciation and interpretation guide for non-Spanish speaking singers
