Matt Marks - Professional Composer, Professional Arranger, Professional Musician
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COMPOSING
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CONCERT COMPOSITIONS

* Three Munch Paintings
2000
string quartet

* Piano Trio #2 (Gypsy Ashes)
1998
piano, 'cello and violin

* Aunt Edith Never Married
1992
shop display stand, bass drum and mouth trumpet

* Weed Piece
1992
sculptural live art piece for weed, pot and plinth

* Hamster Jelly
1990
live art and mixed-media

* Eisen
1989
double Bass, 'cello and glockenspiel

* Piano Trio
1989
piano, 'cello and violin

* Gui Gong Qui
1988
piano and computer (collaboration with Andrew Taylor-Maskrey)

MUSICAL THEATRE PIECES

* The Egg Factory (collaboration with Esther Davis)
- first reading, Ollerton, Notts. March 2001
- commissioned by Arts Council of England Nottingham Playhouse and Nottinghamshire County Council

* The Bridge (collaboration with Liv Cummins)
- Public reading of first draft, 2nd Avenue Black Box New York April 1999

* The People Could Fly ( collaboration with Adam Mathias )
- Cooper Square, New York April 1998

* The Crow and the Pitcher (collaboration with Tim McCanna)
- NYU December 1997

* Monday Afternoon ( Lyrics by Adam Mathias)
- Macarter Theatre, Princeton

* Going To Soweto (lyrics by Diana Hansen-Young)
- NYU, May 1998

* The Last Bank Holiday (Book/Music/Lyrics)
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham Midland Group 1987

* Mothsong: an opera (collaboration with David Wilkinson, Mark Bowyer)
Nottingham Powerhouse 1987

 


DANCE SCORES

* 1st Equation - Chor. Rebecca Hart - Nottingham 2007

* Retina Springs - Retina Dance Company, Chor. Filip Van Huffel - Nottingham 2007

* Black Wings - Chor: Cidinha Fursan Bendixen - Birmingham 2005

* Long Room - Chor: Eunmi Kuk - The Yard, Martha's Vineyard, May 1998

* Looking After - Chor: Mara Smaldone - Second Avenue Dance Co, April 1998

* Gypsy Ashes - Chor: Romy Reading, Eryc Jelen - Second Avenue Dance Co, April 1998

* Crystal Line - Chor: Various - Rambert Inter-Arts Project, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

* Carrying the Lotus Shoots Home - Chor: Claire Russ - Touring for New Midland Dance Company

 

COMPOSITION/MUSICAL DIRECTION

* Stone Moon - Live Music & Songs/MD - Momentous Youth Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse May 2007

* On Saturdays This Bed is Poland - Recorded Songs - New Perspectives Theatre Company April-June 2007, Dir: Daniel Buckroyd

* The Caretaker - Recorded Soundtrack - Nottingham Playhouse 2006, Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* Big Sister, Little Brother - Live Music & Songs/MD - Nottingham Playhouse TIE, Dec-Jan 2006/7

* The Sound Collector - Live Music & Songs/MD - Nottingham Playhouse TIE, Nov-Dec 2006

* The Dumb Waiter - Recorded Soundtrack - Nottingham Playhouse TIE, Oct 2006

* The Book of Kings - Composer/Performer - Nottingham Playhouse TIE, March 2006

* The Jazz Conductor - Composer/Performer - Sheffield Crucible, November 2005

* Aesop's Fables - Live Music/MD - Nottingham Playhouse TIE, Nov-Dec 2005

* Children of the Crown - Live Music/MD - Nottingham Playhouse, Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* The Nobel Proze - Recorded Soundtrack - Short Film, Dir: Richard Jones

* The Journey - Live Music and songs/MD - People Express, Swadlingcote, Derbyshire, Dir: Kamaluddin Nilu

* An Ordinary Death - Live Music and songs/MD - RSC Learning Project, Dukeries Arts Centre, Ollerton

* The Institute for Crazy Dancing - Live Music and songs/MD/performer - Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax/South Hill Park, Bracknell /Leeds city centre - Dir: Jason Hird [ex Leikin Loppu Theatre Company]

* The Railway Children -Live Music and songs/MD Sadlers Wells Peacock Theatre / Nottingham Playhouse, Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* The Wind in the Willows - Live Music and songs/MD - West Yorkshire Playhouse, Dir: Ian Brown

* Mohammed - Recorded Soundtrack/MD - Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout TIE production

* The Silver Sword - Live Music and songs/MD - Nottingham Playhouse, Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* Zagazoo - Live Music and songs/MD - Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout TIE production

* Broken Spaces - Recorded Soundtrack/MD - Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout international collaboration

* Saving Energy - Recorded music and songs/MD - Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout TIE production

* The Night Maze - Live Music and songs/MD - International tour - Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout TIE production

* The Last Post - Recorded Soundtrack/MD - Live Theatre, Newcastle & touring N.E. England

* Bloody Brecht - Recorded Music and songs/MD
Roundabout TIE production, Nottingham Playhouse (arrangements of Weill & Eisler) Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* Warrior Square - Recorded Soundtrack - Roundabout TIE production, Nottingham Playhouse Dir: Kevin Dyer

* Stepping on the Cracks - Recorded Soundtrack - Roundabout TIE production, Nottingham Playhouse Dir: Kevin Dyer

* Come With Me - Live Music and songs/MD - Roundabout TIE production, Nottingham Playhouse Dir: Andrew Breakwell

* Insight In Mind - Recorded Soundtrack - Independent film about mania and depression broadcast on BBC2


* The Empire - Live Music - Lancaster Litfest & touring North West - Collaborative poetry performance by 3DV

* Das Kaspar Theater - Composer/Performer
Experimental Theatre Wing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York Dir: Raina Von Waldenberg


* The Pirates of Penzance - MD/Arranger - Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Dir: Chris Wren

* Fiddler on the Roof - MD/Arranger - Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Dir: Chris Wren

* Oliver! - MD/Arranger - Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Dir: Chris Wren

* There's a Girl in my Soup - Recorded Soundtrack - ID Productions No.1 tour, UK

* Alex - Feature Film Soundtrack - Sundowner Films

* The Morris Jelly House of Fashion - Film Soundtrack - Channel Four Fourmations Series

* Our Day Out - Live Music and Songs/MD - Repertory Season, Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man

* A Slice of Saturday Night - Live Music and Songs/MD - TT Production, Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man

* Mansfield Road - Recorded Radio Piece - BBC Radio Nottingham

* Habeas Corpus - Live Accompaniment/MD - Repertory Season, Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man

* Opera Cabaret - Recorded Soundtrack - Notts. Education Theatre Co., Edinburgh Fringe

* As You Like It - Live Music and Songs/MD - DP Productions No.1 tour, UK

* Macbeth - Recorded Soundtrack - DP Productions No.1 tour, UK

* Around and Around - Live Accompaniment/MD - Pathbreaker Theatre Co., Nottm.Trent University

* Civic Monument - Recorded Soundtrack - Marty St James/Anne Wilson, Touring Live Art

* Neville and the Timestone - Recorded Soundtrack - 20/20 Theatre Company TIE Production

* The Crooked Smile - Live Songs/MD - Cloak and Dagger Theatre Co. Touring Production

* Hotel - Recorded Video Soundtrack - Channel Four Dazzling Image Series

* Money her Motive, Murder her Means - Live Music and Songs - Cloak and Dagger Theatre Co.

* Shocking Standards - Recorded Soundtrack - 20/20 Theatre Company Touring Production

* The Keeper's Keys - Recorded Soundtrack - 20/20 Theatre Company Touring Production

* The Storytelling - Recorded Soundtrack - 20/20 Theatre Company Touring Production

   
 
 
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