DOCTOR IN MUSIC PERFORMANCE
The latest doctoral dissertations have been added to the TARA Research Repository and are available at the links below.
O'Neill, Megan, 'Reimagining Mary Magdalene: an exploration of John Adams's The Gospel according the the other Mary' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2025)
Pedder Daly, Mary, 'The effectiveness and relevance of post-Vatican II Irish liturgical works in the context of Musicam Sacram in twenty-first century Irish Catholic liturgy' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2024)
Brennan, Deirbhile, 'A performer's exploration of aspects of selected nineteenth-century solo piano works by female composers: Schumann, Chaminade and Beach' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2024)
Carroll, Máire, 'A twentieth- and twenty-first-century piano étude soundworld: obsessions and self-portraiture in Philip Glass's Twenty Piano Études' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
Linehan, Conor, 'Orchestrations of French piano music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a pianist's perspective' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
Adams-Toomey, Molly, 'Communicating meaning in Petr Eben's Písne nelaskavé : a performance perspective' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
Kalninš, Didzis, 'An investigation of Janis Medinš's Piano Sonata (1946) : historical context, analysis, editing and performance' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
Mantu, Adrian, 'Aspects of a late-developing repertoire : the string quartet in Ireland 1916-2016' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
O'Brien, Billy, ''Connecting abstract values to artistic choices' : memory, metaphor and interpretation in Ravel's Miroirs' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)
Judge, Madeline, 'Alan Louis Smith's Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman : a historical and musical analysis from a performer's perspective' (DMusPerf dissertation, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2023)