Description/Bio/Credits:
Gary Marlowe, born on March 7th, 1967 in Berlin, started playing piano at age 4. He specialized in Film Score Composition with Oscar® winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani in Italy, was master class student of Luis Bacalov at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and won the Emma Contestabile Award in 2003.
This composer/producer writes songs which won him a Europe-wide No.1 hit single and many Top Ten chart entries, as well as international Platinum and Gold Record Awards. Gary Marlowe is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano, guitar, buzuk, saz, ud, drums, percussion, and he is a singer. His largest live audience so far counted 250.000, at the German Reunification Ceremony in 1990. With award winning act Rasca Cocous, he later opened for Iggy Pop and The Ramones. In 2004 he worked with Jam&Spoon feat. Rea on a hit single.
Focussing on film music, Gary Marlowe also works for museums, art exhibitions, audioguides and commercials, as for Levi´s (BBH London), Red Bull, O´Neill, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Stiftung Folteropfer (Jung v. Matt), Microsoft, Burton Snowboards and T-Mobile. Recent pitches: BMW, Porsche, Sony, and Lexus U.S.A.
Gary Marlowe records with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Trieste, formed by some of Italy´s best musicians, who play also in concert and opera houses like La Fenice in Venice and Teatro Verdi in Trieste.
With Alberto Roveroni, Gary Marlowe forms the producer team bear&kaiser®, based in Venice and Berlin.
highlights:
2000 „framed“, with a score by Gary Marlowe, won a Nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis Award.
2003 score for the international festival success „Styx“, with compost records artist Ben Mono.
2004 Gary Marlowe´s music hit the cinemas with „Lautlos“ (Soundless), produced by Tom Tykwer for x-filme. Soundtrack album on Island/Universal, DVD on x-Verleih/Warner.
2005 “Lautlos” won the Grand Prix at the 23rd International Film Festival of Cognac, France.
Platinum Award at the 38th Houston International Film Festival, U.S.A.
2006 scores for the prime time tv movie “Kunstfehler” (ZDF, Germany 2007; 4,9 Mill. viewers), and
„Celebration Of Flight“ (ZDF and various international TV, on air 2007). U.S. release of “Soundless”.
As special guest, Gary Marlowe performed live for the Picasso exhibition of Lucia Bosé in Padova.
2007 Gary Marlowe composed the score for the two-parts, prime time tv movie “Schuld und Unschuld” (ZDF, Germany 2007, 3,97 and 4,69 Million viewers).
2008 A major project is the Babylon exhibition by the Louvre, Paris and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, with an ambient music installation by Gary Marlowe, with score and algorithmic music experiments.
acknowledgements:
Gary Marlowe was candidate for the World Soundtrack Awards 2004 as "Discovery Of The Year".
The Berlinale 2005 chose Gary Marlowe for the “Berlinale Talent Campus”.
In 2006, Gary Marlowe became voting member of the World Soundtrack Academy.
Musical Styles:
film scores, soundtracks, filmscores, orchestra, sound design, acoustic, symphonic, ambient, minimal, electronic, world music, ethnic instruments, rock, pop, songs, jazz, arabian/indian elements
Professional Affiliations:
orchestra sinfonica di trieste
World Soundtrack Academy
Film&TV Music Academy Los Angeles, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy
GEMA, GVL
bear&kaiser
