Department Of Music At UCC Receives Largest Gift In It's 113 Year History
The estate of British Master Builder Sidney V. Regan has given €2 million to the department.
He moved to Cork in the 1960s and was member of the Commodore Male Voice Choir in Cobh.
The bequest will enable the Department to provide direct support to students and improve physical resourcing for performers, composers and academics.
The COPE Foundation, Marymount Hospice, the Cork Deaf Association and the National Council for the Blind will also share a separate €200,000.
Prof. John O’Halloran, Interim President of UCC welcomed the significant donation to the Department of Music:
“University College Cork is hugely grateful to the estate of Sidney V. Regan for this exceptionally generous bequest to further support Music at UCC. His generous support will enable us to continue to build on the great tradition of Seán Ó Riada, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Aloys Fleischmann, and more recently the likes of Ann Cleare, Karen Power, Karen Desmond, Julie Feeney, Rosaleen Molloy, Eibhlín Gleeson, Jack O'Rourke and so many others in inspiring the creation, performance and study of music for the next generations."
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