Emer Mayock is a musician and composer from Co. Mayo. As a young musician she learned to play traditional Irish music on a range of instruments including the Flute and Uilleann Pipes.

In 1996, Emer recorded her debut CD ‘Merry Bits of Timber’ and released it on an independent record label. The music that emerged from this recording was a mix of both traditional music and pieces written by Emer. The overwhelming response to the recording led to a series of tours and live performances as well as radio and television appearances.

She has worked with among others, traditional musicians Donal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Michael O’ Domhnaill, Cormac Breathnach, Flook!, Grada, guitarist John Doyle, flautist Jean-Michel Veillon, singer Damien Dempsey, jazz musician Michael Buckley, French music producer Hughes de Courson, Breton harpist Alan Stivell, the Irish Chamber Choir, Italian baroque ensemble il Giardino Armonico and Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki.

Alongside a busy schedule of live work with her own band and the Afro Celts (she has worked with the band since 1999), Emer became increasingly interested in writing new music; for her second release she wrote thirteen pieces of music and gathered together an array of musicians to record the music. ‘Playground’ was recorded in Co. Mayo, Dublin and New York in the Autumn of 2000 and released on Emer’s own record label Is Mise.

Emer has continued to travel world wide with her music. Highlights include concerts in China where she performed a new work written by Chinese composer Jia Daqun. Emer was part of the Masters of Tradition festival in Bantry in August 2004 where she performed with the festival’s artistic director Martin Hayes as well as Steve Cooney and Altan members Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh &Dermot Byrne.

She collaborated with British musician Nitin Sawhney on one of his compositions as part of The Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire. More recently Emer presented a nine-week series on RTE Radio One entitled 'The Wider Embrace' which explored music from a range of diverse sources. In 2006 Emer composed music for 'Winter Pictures', a play for children which toured Wales for two months before opening at The Ark, Dublin and Glor Irish Music Centre, Ennis.

Emer is now rehearsing new repertoire with Breton flautist Jean-Michel Veillon in preparation for an extensive tour with him and guitarist Donal Siggins in Autumn 2007