Richard Marriott

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Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, 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, will be 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 Dickenson, features a 45 voice choir, three operatic solists and the Del Sol String Quartet.

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 begun work in New York with Yoshika Chuma's School of Hard Knocks.

Many of his recent compositions are especially noteworthy in their innovative synthesis of Asian and Western elements. A current collaboration with Beijing-based libretist Xu Ying, entitled "Prince Lan Ling", is scored for Western Symphonic Orchestra, Chinese instruments and singers, chorus and dancers. This 90 minute work is scheduled to premiere in Bangkok in 2008.