MEDIATHOLOGY, Creative Media Solutions

MEDIATHOLOGY, Creative Media Solutions is owned by Marcel Kroese. Music Recordist, Sound Designer and Mixer. Marcel is a Dutch Tonmeister, Sound Designer and Mixer. He graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Netherlands in Music Education (MEd) and Art of Sound (BA). During his Tonmeister and Education studies he took advanced courses in trumpet, piano, singing, music theory, arranging, conducting, acoustics, psychology, electronics and producing. Possessing thorough musical and technical knowledge, Marcel has mixed more than 3,500 shows over the last 20 years, enjoyed by an audience of over 4,5 million, working closely with internationally renowned designers, composers and musicians. Productions include the European premières of the Disney musicals Aida and Tarzan as well Disney/Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins. He was Head of Sound for Miss Saigon, Elisabeth, Musicals in Concert, Lion King, Beauty and The Beast and Ciske de Rat. Marcel worked as sound operator for Les Misèrables, Wicked, Sister Act and Billy Elliot. Mainly in The Netherlands as well as in Belgium. He joined Disney’s creative sound team for Aida in Essen, Germany. In his work, Marcel forms an important bridge between the artistic vision of the show designers, the language of musicians and soloists, the technical team and the audience. Alongside musical theatre, Marcel works as recording and balance engineer on a variety of educational and commercial productions. Marcel is a lecturer at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, where he teaches Sound Design and Live Audio at the School of Music and Technology.