Mel Mercier

Pioneering musician had a ‘fearless sense of exploration’, says president

President said pioneering musician, composer and academic 'fearless sense of exploration'

Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers

Elias Canetti’s play presents a world where everyone knows the age at which they’ll die

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised

Former Riverdancer Colin Dunne takes on challenge of ‘The Liffey Banks’ album

Cork’s Midsummer Festival’s centrepiece is a triumph

Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script

A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott

What attracted Iarla Ó Lionáird, Duke Special and Julie Feeney to collaborate with Cork Gamelan Ensemble?

To adapt Eimear McBride’s unconventional book can’t have been easy, but they’ve pulled it off

Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

Nineteenth-century New England comes closer to home in Corn Exchange’s austerely beautiful production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy