Gary
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Location | West Kirby, Wirral, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | …studied composition under John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. He has lived in Holland and Germany and has written operas, musicals and a radio music-drama - 'THE ONE ALONE' – with Iris Murdoch as well as film scores, ballets and concert music. Musical director and/or arranger-orchestrator on many stage shows and films (including 'The Wicker Man'-1973), he won the British Clavichord Society Composition Competition in 2004 (Van Assendelft’s Vermeer), was shortlisted for a 2005 British Composer Award (same piece), winning in the chamber category in 2006 with the harp trio ‘Azaleas’. 'Die Flimmerkiste' - a portrait CD - is on NMC, and his 'Songs Of Sadness And Piety' on Christian Forshaw’s ‘Renouncement’ (Integra-ING 1001). Gary also teaches composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He was the first Head of Music at LIPA and spent four years as Director of Music at the London School Of Contemporary Dance. |
| Interests | Various - music, film, theatre, food, drink, literature, walking, travel, PLN, politics |
| Favorite movies | Laura, Lola Rennt, Sideways, Slumdog Millionaire, Fantastic Voyage, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In America, Passport To Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Blade Runner, The Lives Of Others, The Orphanage, Pan's Labyrinth, Bourne Trilogy, Les Enfants Du Paradis, Un Chien Andalou, Les Parapluies De Cherbourg, Cabaret, The Night Of The Hunter, Ice Age (1 & 2), Strictly Ballroom, The Life Of Brian, Heat, etc. |
| Favorite music | Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Beatles, Sibelius (but not the software), The El Brothers (-gar and -bow), Goldfrapp, King Crimson, Stevie Wonder, Temptations, Comus, Pentangle, Sondheim, Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Porter, Richard Rodgers, Diana Ross, Burt Bacharach, Unsuk Chin, Kurtag, Ligeti, Dutilleux, Heiner Goebbels, Lachenmann, Bruno Mantovani, John Adams, Jorg Widmann, Puccini, Wagner, Satie; oh I give up - how long have you got? |
| Favorite books | Austerlitz (WGSebald), Natasha's Dance , Nicholas Nickelby, The Rest Is Noise, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, Pies & Prejudice, What A Carve Up, Mobius Dick |
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