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Mel Mercier wins prestigious Drama Desk Award

2013-05-21T10:42:08+00:00

Congratulations to Head of School, Mel Mercier, on winning a prestigious Drama Desk Award on Monday night in New York.
Mel won the award for Outstanding Sound Design of a Play for THE TESTAMENT OF MARY.
The Drama Desk Awards, which are presented annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category. The winners are selected by a panel composed of some 140 theatre critics, academics, reporters and editors. Presented since 1955, they are considered one of the most important American theater awards.

Coverage in the Irish Examiner: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/irish-composer-in-running-for-tony-after-broadway-success-231850.html

Symposium: Performing Thought, Thinking Performance, 14 June

2013-05-16T22:45:22+00:00

Performing Thought, Thinking Performance, a symposium hosted by the School of Music and Theatre, features keynote presentations and performances by David Toop and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck. Further information here.

FUAIM Theatre and Music Symposium, Sat 15 June 2013

2013-05-10T20:58:27+00:00

School of Music and Theatre (UCC) in association with CACSSS Graduate School (UCC) and Cork Midsummer Festival present FUAIM Theatre and Music Symposium, Saturday 15 June 2013. Full details here.

Mel Mercier nominated for theatre awards

2013-05-10T20:51:35+00:00

Head of School Mel Mercier has been nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for the sound design of Testament of Mary.

First review for Chris Morris’s new book

2013-04-11T15:20:10+00:00

Chris Morris’s recently published Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema has been reviewed on the German theatre research forum Theaterforschung

‘Making music to enhance the moving image’ Irene Buckley featured in Irish Examiner

2013-02-26T16:44:10+00:00

Department of Music PhD student Irene Buckley is featured in the Irish Examiner. Click here to view the article:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/making-music-to-enhance-the-moving-image-223805.html

Graduate Survey 2013

2013-02-05T15:00:08+00:00

We are inviting all our graduates to participate in our online graduate survey for 2013. This is the first step in an initiative designed to help the School keep you up to date with its activities and facilitate greater communication between graduates. Graduates who complete our survey will be automatically entered into a prize draw for a weekend for two in the beautiful River Lee Hotel.
http://www.music.ucc.ie/gradsurvey

Irish Times Theatre Awards nomination for UCC School of Music and Theatre PhD student, Tom Lane

2013-01-16T11:36:47+00:00

FLÅTPÄCK, an “Opera in 5 rooms”, composed by Tom Lane, the inaugural recipient of the CACSSS Seán Ó Riada PhD scholarship, has been nominated in the Best Opera Production category in Irish Times Theatre Awards. Tom, who is currently studying for a PhD in Composition for Theatre at UCC School of Music and Theatre, under the supervision of Dr Mel Mercier and Dr Roisín O’Gorman, wrote the music and libretto, which consists entirely of IKEA product names.
The cast was comprised of 4 post-graduate students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music accompanied by a small ensemble of piano, accordion, cello and percussion. Directed by Conor Hanratty, musical direction was by Cathal Synnott, set and costumes were designed by Deirdre Dwyer, and lighting design was by Kevin Smith. The opera was the first production by Ulysses Opera Theatre which is produced by Matthew Smyth. The piece examines the IKEA phenomenon from the perspective of separate yet inter-locking scenes depicting situations from everyday domestic life. FLÅTPÄCK was performed in the CHQ building in Dublin’s docklands from the 8th-15th of September 2012 as part of the Dublin Abslout Fringe Festival and was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Before coming to UCC, Tom Lane studied Music and Composition at Balliol College, Oxford, the London Royal Academy of Music, and the Berlin University of the Arts. Other recent creative work includes composition of music for DOGS by Emma Martin Dance, as part of the Dublin Absolut Fringe (winner of the Fringe Festival Best Design and Best Production awards) and the music for Bird with Boy by Junk Ensemble at the 2012 Dublin International Theatre Festival. Tom also composed and directed Experimental Evensong in 2010 and Corokinesis in 2011 for the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. http://www.tom-lane.com

FUAIM Roaratorio event reviewed in Irish Times

2012-11-08T09:45:06+00:00

Irish Times music critic, Michael Dervan, described last Saturday’s FUAIM/Cork Opera House production of John Cage’s Roaratorio An Irish Circus on Finnegan’s Wake as “…crazy. It was fascinating. It was meaningless. And yet it all felt so significant.” Read the full review here
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/1106/1224326172021.html

RTE VANBRUGH QUARTET and Niall Vallely

2012-10-30T14:41:31+00:00

The RTE VSQ be playing in the Hugh Lane Gallery this Saturday, Nov 3rd. The programme includes Moeran’s Eb Quartet and two pieces by and with UCC Music graduate Niall Vallely: “The Red Tree” and “The O’Riada Room”. The concert will be recorded for later broadcast on Lyric FM and through the EBU to several million listeners.