Kodály Ireland

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Kodály Ireland is delighted to announce our winter workshop, Listen, Sing, Move! Taking place in DCU All Hallows on Sunday December 7, this afternoon is aimed at primary and post-primary teachers, conductors of youth and children’s choirs, music students and Kodály enthusiasts of all kinds. 

 

Tutors Amy Walsh and Meadhbh Campbell will lead sessions on using the Kodály approach to enhance student engagement, build listening skills and aural awareness, and encourage freedom and creativity in classroom and rehearsal settings. With Amy, participants will explore the use of songs, games and movement across a variety of age groups, discovering how to use child-friendly repertoire to unlock musical skills, while Meadhbh will demonstrate vocal exercises, warmups and repertoire to use with children’s choirs and singing groups of any type, all with a healthy dose of singing and harmonising for participants to enjoy! 

 

The workshop fee is €40, or just €20 for Kodály Ireland members and current participants in our online courses, who are particularly encouraged to join us in-person to sing and learn together! A special rate of €10 is available to DCU staff and students. 

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WORKSHOP INFORMATION

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Date: Sunday December 7, 2025 ​

Time: 1-4pm 

Venue: DCU All Hallows Campus, Drumcondra 

Workshop fee: €40/€20 for Kodály Ireland Members 

€10 for DCU staff and students

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Meet the Course Instructors​

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Amy Walsh is a committed music educator who has worked in many different settings throughout her career. She is committed to her work with musicians of all ages and experience, and
aiding the professional development of teachers in Ireland, particularly relating to Zoltán Kodály, his philosophy and concept of music education. 

After completing her BA Music and H.Dip in Trinity College Dublin, Amy completed a one-year diploma in the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Hungary, which further instilled her passion for music education. Following this, she graduated with the first cohort of the MA in Choral Studies in Dublin City University achieving a First Class Honours. 

More recently, Amy has completed the International Kodály Certificate Level 3 in Musicianship and Pedagogy from the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, and the Professional Certificate in Secondary Level Teaching from the British Kodály Academy and National Youth Choir of Scotland. She is currently working to complete the complementary certificate for Primary Level. 

From 2011 to 2022, Amy worked as a Music Teacher in Newpark Comprehensive School in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Since then, she has worked in Dublin City University working with undergraduate and post-graduate trainee music teachers; ExWell Medical Unity Choirs; teaching music and taking choirs in Our Lady of Fatima School; teaching musicianship with Kodály Ireland and in Leeson Park School of Music; and occasional work with the Post-Primary Music Teachers’ Association, and Sing Ireland.  Amy currently lives in Wexford and enjoys a freelance career. 

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Meadhbh Campbell is a conductor and educator from Cork, Ireland. She began her training at the MTU Cork School of Music, and continued her postgraduate studies at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy in Hungary. She completed an Advanced Diploma in Kodály Pedagogy and subsequently graduated with a Masters in Kodály Music Pedagogy, specialising in choral conducting.

 

Meadhbh has a passion for singing-based music education and works with choirs around Cork city. For many years she taught piano and cello privately and in schools around Cork, both through English and Irish. She now lectures in musicianship across conservatoire and degree levels in the MTU Cork School of Music, as well as conducting the conservatoire's two children's choirs. Her research areas include music literacy, sight-singing, and the role of singing-based learning in instrumental pedagogy. 

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