- WEBSITE : http://www.richardmarriott.com/
- RESIDENCY DATES : Aug 1st 2008 to Aug 14th 2008 | Jun 21st 2008 to Jun 26th 2008
- PRACTICE : Composer
- FROM : USA
Composer
Richard Marriott has been active as a composer and musician for over 30 years. He has composed extensively for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games, encompassing styles ranging from avant garde to commercial mainstream. He is founder and artistic director of the Club Foot Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent film. This ensemble, originally an experimental night club act, began to perform with film in 1987 and now has a repertoire of nine feature-length scores, which have been performed at venues such as Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Smithsonian Institution, World Financial Center, NuArt Theater (Santa Monica) and Castro Theater (San Francisco) His new group, Ensemble Lumiere New York, was unveiled in 2006 for a performance at the Rubin Museum of his new score for "The Indian Tom."
Composing credits also include music for the feature film "Rising Sun," the score for the Academy Award nominated documentary "Silver into Gold," music for the CBS series "The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat" and the score for "Legong, Dance of the Virgins" (picked by the New York Times as one of 20 "Notable DVD's of 2004," describing the the score as "ravishing"). Among his silent scores which are often broadcast on television are "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "Nosferatu" and "Sherlock Jr."
Marriott was employed as a staff composer for Atari Games (1992-97) and also composed extensively for Leapfrog Toys. He has worked with California-based choreographer Della Davidson on six productions since 1991 and collaborated with choreographer Yoshiko Chuma on "Page Out of Order," produced at New York's Dance Theater Workshop. He is currently collaborating with New York choreographer Yin Mei.
A current opera collaboration with Beijing-based director Xu Ying entited "Prince Lan Ling," is scored for western symphonic orchestra, Chinese instruments and singers, chorus and dancers. His interactive opera "God Machine" is written for for an ensemble of Balinese, Chinese and Western instruments and voices. Other works for theater include "Encarnation" with shadow puppet master Larry Reed, "Happy Hour Becomes Electra" and "University of Alaska," both musical theater collaborations with Los Angeles based Overtone Theater, and music for three California Shakespeare Company productions.
