Leinster School of Music & Drama

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Leinster School of Music & Drama


Motto:	Gan Ceol Gan Tir (Without Music Without Country)
Established:	1904
Location:	Dublin, Ireland
Website:	http://www.gcd.ie/lsmd

The Leinster School of Music & Drama provides tuition and examinations in music and drama throughout Ireland.

"She beckoned to him with her finger like one preparing a certificate in pianoforte...at the Leinster School of Music." (Samuel Beckett)

1 History
2 Location
3 Higher Diploma in Arts in Music Education
4 People associated with the School
5 External links

[edit] History

The School was founded in 1904 by Samuel Myerscough, an acclaimed musician, teacher and examiner. Even in the School‘s infancy students travelled from throughout Ireland to attend lessons. The Musical Herald of 1 July 1909 wrote at length of Mr Myerscough‘s prominence in Irish musical life:

"The work by which Mr. Myerscough will be best remembered is the Leinster School of Music, of which he is the founder and inspiring force. .... Pupils came from as far north as Enniskillen, southwards from Waterford, and across from Galway."

The School‘s original teaching staff included Madame Quinton Rosse, Madame Coslett Heller and esteemed piano tutors Patricia Read and May Cosgrave.

[edit] Location

The Leinster School‘s original location was on Harcourt Street was followed by a move to Upper Stephen Street in 1982. In 1998 the school moved to the Griffith College Dublin campus on the south circular road where it is a constituent School of the College.

[edit] Higher Diploma in Arts in Music Education

In 2008 the School will offer the HETAC validated Level 8, Higher Diploma in Arts in Music Education in Griffith College Dublin and Griffith College Cork.

[edit] People associated with the School

The School is known for some of its renowned musical instrument and vocal coaches such as Dr Veronica Dunne, Evelyn Dowling, & Mabel Swainson. A number of figures in Irish music have studied at the Leinster School of Music, Anthony Kearns, Sarah O'Kennedy(Anúna), Emma Kate Tobia, Patrick McBeth, David, Quigley, Cecilia Redmond to name but a few.