ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC

PART-TIME TEACHER OF VIOLA

Rate of Pay - Assistant Lecturer Salary Scale (full-time equivalent):

€37,111 to €50,992

The appointee will be remunerated at point (01) of the Assistant Lecturer salary
scale on a pro-rata basis according to assigned hours.

The rate of remuneration may be adjusted from time to time in line with
Government pay policy.

The Royal Irish Academy of Music is a home of musical excellence and dynamism, a
place of teaching and learning which consistently achieves its objectives of transmitting
and maintaining the highest standards of performance and appreciation in all musical
disciplines. Founded in 1848 the Academy is Ireland’s oldest musical institution.

This position is part-time, 11 hours per week (maximum), spread over a 30 week
academic year. Saturday teaching may be required. At the interview, the candidate
should be prepared to perform pieces of contrasting styles of about 10 minutes duration
and to hold a demonstration lesson.

The holder of this post will be expected to teach viola from junior to advanced level as
well as graduate-professional level. The Royal Irish Academy of Music currently runs a
Bachelor in Music Performance degree course, a Bachelor in Music Education degree
course, a Masters in Music Performance course and a Doctorate in Music Performance
course.

The appointee may be expected to take both individual lessons and group classes.

The holder will be expected to show imagination and flair in his/her teaching and to be
sympathetic and adaptable to the individual needs of each student.

Dublin has a flourishing musical and artistic life and every effort will be made to
facilitate the skills and interests of the appointee.

It is anticipated that interviews will take place on the week of 30th April 2018.

The Royal Irish Academy of Music is an equal opportunities employer.

Royal Irish Academy of Music
The Royal Irish Academy of Music is a home of musical excellence and dynamism, a place of
teaching and learning which consistently achieves its objective of transmitting and maintaining
the highest standards of performance and appreciation in all musical disciplines. Founded in
1848 the Academy is Ireland’s oldest musical institution. Its Director is Professor Deborah
Kelleher.

As a national thirty-two county institution, the Academy embodies and reflects the traditions and
heritage of Irish musicianship. The Teaching Staff includes many international and national
prizewinners, members of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTÉ Concert
Orchestra and many individuals whose names have become synonymous with music education in
Ireland. With the resources of such talents at its disposal, it is no wonder that the Academy’s
students have been accepted for further study at the most prestigious music institutions around the
world from the Juilliard School in New York to the Royal Academy of Music in London. Today,
with recently established higher education courses, the Academy is in turn able to offer the finest
Irish musical training to students from all corners of the world.

In recent years students of the Academy have garnered prizes from some of the worlds most
prestigious international competitions including the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition,
The Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, the China International Vocal Competition, the
Cologne International Piano Competition, the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition and
the BBC Musician of the Year. On the international stage, former students are currently members
of such leading orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hong
Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as opera houses from the Royal Opera House at Covent
Garden to La Scala, Milan.

Each season Academy staff and students perform a wide variety of concerts in many of Dublin’s
finest venues including the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Concert Hall and
internationally Academy students, through participation in its performing groups, have acted as
musical ambassadors in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Norway and North and South America,
garnering such favourable reviews as “zesty and superbly unified” and “this 16-player group
made a fine case for the state of music education in Dublin”.

The Academy also plays an active role in the community by presenting a large number of
outreach programmes including an annual charity event, Con Anima which over the last number
of years has helped us raise in excess of €60,000 for charities such as The Irish Hospice
Foundation, The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, The Hospitaller Order of St John of God and the
Special Olympics World Summer Games.

The Academy also offers a wide-ranging Local Centre Examination System which offers
examinations in classical music and speech and drama to over 42,000 students annually.

Having reached the twenty-first century, the Royal Irish Academy of Music is confident of
continuing to develop its status as a place of response, excitement, innovation and achievement in
Ireland.