Club Foot Orchestra
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Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, producer and instrument builder for over thirty years. He has composed extensively for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games, encompassing a wide range of styles.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Club Foot Orchestra , the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent films. The Orchestra has a repertoire of 16 feature-length scores, all of which were composed by Marriott or in collaboration with other orchestra members, and has performed these scores extensively, at venues such as Lincoln Center, BAM, SFJAZZ, Rubin Museum, Morgan Library, and the Smithsonian Institution. The core instrumentation of three woodwinds, two brass, violin, contraba
His operas include Divide Light , in collaboration with visual artist Lesley Dill , with text drawn from the poetry of Emily Dickinson. DIVIDE LIGHT premiered at the Montalvo Art Center in 2008 with The Choral Project and Del Sol String Quartet. A new production by New Camerata Opera opened on April 26, 2018 at Dixon Place, New York NY. Voyage premiered at the San Francisco Internation al Art Festival in June 2017, featuring Balinese virtuoso Made Subandi and American experimental vocalist Pamela Z . The Pa
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