Mel Mercier
Mel’s previous work at the Abbey Theatre includes Medea (Drama Desk Award nomination -West End, Broadway, Paris) and Happy Days (National Theatre, London, Greece, Paris, Madrid, New York,Amsterdam) featuring Fiona Shaw and directed by Deborah Warner, with whom he works regularly. Other work with Warner/Shaw includes Mother Courage, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National Theatre, London), Fewer Emergencies (Royal Court, London) and Julius Caesar (London, Paris, Madrid, Luxembourg). Other compositions include Fleischmann in Java (2010), The Beauty Queen of Affane (2009), Kelly and Andy (2005) and Telephones and Gongs (2004), all for UCC Gamelan Ensemble, and Panarama (Signature Music for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture). Mel is a performer, composer, academic and teacher. He is Head of the School of Music and Theatre, University College Cork, where he lectures on Irish, African, Indian and Indonesian musics. He is the Director of the UCC Javanese gamelan Nyai Sekar Madu Sari. He has performed and collaborated with pianist and composer, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin for over twenty-five years and throughout the 1980s he performed extensively in Europe and the USA with John Cage and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Roaratorio, Inlets, Duets). He has also performed and recorded with many of the leading Irish traditional musicians and has presented bodhrán and bones workshops in the USA and Europe for more than twenty years. Mel is the director of the FUAIM Music at UCC event series and a co-founder of the Cork-based, intercultural music ensemble Trasna. He is the director of the From the Sources project and the project leader on the Henebry/O’Neill wax cylinder digitisation project at UCC.
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