Dave Maric

Dave Maric (born 12 June 1970) is a British composer and musician.

Born in Bedford, England to Greek and Bosnian immigrants, he moved to London in 1988 where he studied at City University.^[1] During the 1990s he regularly performed and recorded as a jazz and classical pianist with a number of new music ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and the Steve Martland Band. Since 2000 he has been regularly composing stylistically varied works for various instrumental combinations including music for classical soloists, chamber and orchestral ensembles and works for live performers with computer generated sound sources.

Amongst the musicians that he has composed for are the percussionist Colin Currie,^[2] guitarist Fred Frith,^[3] contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and violinist Viktoria Mullova.^[4] Many of his works have been choreographed to and he has created scores for a number of full evening dance pieces including adaptations of Ibsen's "Ghosts" for the Royal Opera House and Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" for Northern Ballet Theatre.^[5] He has also worked with Paris based film makers Cserhati and Lartigue on scores for short^[6] and feature film^[7] projects.

A selection of his works are published by Norsk Musikforlag A/S.^[8]

Key Works

2000 - Trilogy (for live and sampled percussion)
2001 - Falling to the Sky (for violin and piano)
2002 - Lifetimes (for string ensemble and percussion)
2002 - Exile (for two pianos, percussion and electronics)
2003 - Borrowed Time (for organ and percussion)
2004 - Spellbound (for band and orchestra)
2005 - Ghosts (for chamber ensemble and recorded electronics)
2006 - Shore (for voices, winds and percussion)
2006 - Lucid Intervals (for trumpet/flugelhorn and tuned percussion)
2008 - A Tale of Two Cities (for orchestra)
2009 - Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Heights) (for live and sampled contrabass)
2010 - Blood Wedding (for symphony orchestra)

Discography

As pianist:
Steve Martland: Crossing The Border (Factory 1992)
Steve Martland: Patrol (BMG 1994)
Bassistry: Bassistry (Okapi 1995)
Steve Martland: The Factory Masters (BMG 1996)
Marc Ribot: Shoe String Symphonettes (Tzadik 1997)
Mike Westbrook: The Orchestra of Smith's Academy (Enja 1998)
John Adams: Gnarly Buttons/John's Book of Alleged Dances (Nonesuch 1998)

As composer:
The Katia Labèque Band^[9]: Unspoken (KML 2003)
Colin Currie: Borrowed Time (Onyx Classics 2007)

External links

Home page - "www.davemaric.co.uk"
Northern Ballet Theatre: "Interview with David Maric", 11 August 2008
Tobias Fischer: "15 Questions to Dave Maric", Tokafi, 1 July 2007

Notes

1. ^ "dave maric : biography", davemaric.co.uk
2. ^ Matthew Rye: "Borrowed Time", The Daily Telegraph, 13 September 2007
3. ^ David Lasserson: "Katia Labèque Band", The Guardian, 30 November 2005
4. ^ "Onyx Artists - Viktoria Mullova", onyxclassics.com
5. ^ "A Tale of Two Cities", northernballettheatre.co.uk
6. ^ "Dave Maric" at the Internet Movie Database
7. ^ "27m²" the movie
8. ^ "Maric, Dave (UK)" - Publisher's site (Norsk Musikforlag)
9. ^ "Katia Labèque Band | Biography", katialabeque.com

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