Richard Marriott

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Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, producer and instrument builder for over thirty years. He has composed extensively for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games, encompassing styles ranging from the avant garde to the commercial mainstream. He is the founder and artistic director of the Club Foot Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent films. His new opera, DivideLight, was presented on August 13, 2008 at Montalvo Center of the Arts in Saratoga, California. This eighty minute work, conceived by visual artist Lesley Dill with text by Emily Dickinson, features The Choral Project, a 45 voice choir, three operatic solists and the Del Sol String Quartet .

A movie of DivideLight, by filmmaker Ed Robbins, is available online, as is the CD.

Composing credits also include music for the feature film Rising Sun (1993), starring Sean Connery and directed by Phil Kaufman, the score for the Academy Award nominee Silver into Gold (1986), music for the CBS series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995) also the score for Legong, Dance of the Virgins (picked by New York Times as one of 20 "Notable DVD's of 2004" describing the the score as "ravishing"). He was employed as a staff composer for Atari Games 1992-1997 and contributed compositions for Leapfrog Toys (1996- 2004). He has worked with California-based choreographer Della Davidson since 1991 and has since composed for choreographers Yoshika Chuma and Yin Mei both based in New York.

Other recent projects include a newly revised score for Metropolis, performed at the Morgan Library with Club Foot Orchestra East; scores for Love Suicides and Intifada NYC, both independent films directed by David Teague, and a score for Red Terror on the Amber Coast. He also writes and produces music for iPhone developer Super Happy Fun Fun.

He performs on brass and woodwind instruments, especially trombone and Balinese suling.