Richard Marriott | |
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.jpg) Marriott in India, 2017 | |
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| Born | (1951-10-29)October 29, 1951 (age 74) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Website | www |
Richard Marriott (born 1951) is an American composer and performer. He has composed for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games. He is the founder and artistic director of theClub Foot Orchestra, an important modern ensemble for live music performance with silent films. His teachers includeDominick Argento andPaul Fetler at the University of Minnesota,Pauline Oliveros at UCSD, North Indian sarod masterAli Akbar Khan, shakuhachi masterMasayuki Koga, and Balinese composersNyoman Windha andMade Subandi. Marriott was a member of Snakefinger's History of the Blues[1] and has recorded withThe Residents,[2]Brazilian Girls,[3] "Singer at Large" Johnny J. Blair, and many others. He performs on brass and woodwind instruments, Western and Asian.
Composing credits also include music for the feature filmRising Sun,[4] music for the CBS seriesThe Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, the score for the 1988 Academy Award nominated short filmSilver into Gold and the score forLegong: Dance of the Virgins commissioned byGamelan Sekar Jaya and composed for Balinese gamelan and Western instrumentation.[5] He was employed as a staff composer forAtari Games 1992–1997, where amongst other things he composed the music for Mace the Dark Age and contributed compositions forLeapFrog Enterprises. He has worked with California-based choreographerDella Davidson since 1991,[6] and in New York withYoshiko Chuma's School of Hard Knocks[7] and choreographerYin Mei.[8]
Many of his recent compositions feature a synthesis of Asian and Western elements. A collaboration with Beijing-based librettist Xu Ying, entitledPrince Lan Ling, is scored for Western Symphonic Orchestra, Chinese instruments and singers, chorus and dancers.[9] Operas includeDivide Light (with visual artistLesley Dill) andPassion of Leyla (with librettist Ruth Margraff), and the experimental opera God Machine.Metropolis Violin Concerto premiered in 2015 with violinist Alisa Rose. TheKlezmorim Bass Concerto premiered in 2018 with soloistGary Karr and the Gonzaga University Orchestra, conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah. TheGhost Ship Cello Concerto[10] also premiered in 2018, with soloist Matthew Linaman and the Oakland Symphony with conductor Michael Morgan.
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