Gary Marlowe

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Gary Marlowe (born March 7, 1967 in Berlin) is a German musician, composer and music producer.

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Life

Marlowe began playing piano at four. He started as a professional musician in the 1980s, as a session keyboardist, and soon became a producer. He studied Composition for Film with the Academy Award winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He is currently working in Bavaria and Berlin, also in Italy and Los Angeles.

Musician, composer and producer

Marlowe is a multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, keyboards, synthesizers, organ, guitar, drums, bass, buzuk, saz, oud, ethnic flutes and percussion. He also is a lead singer. He works primarily for movies, television and commercials.

Marlowe´s credits include many record releases, among them a No. 1 hit single and various Top Ten chart entries. He worked with artists including Motörhead producer Guy Bidmead, Ten Years After, Rage, Coroner, Rasca Cocous (with Seeed producer Olsen Involtini), Jam&Spoon, and also comedians Diether Krebs, Dieter Hallervorden and Frank Zander. His more recent collaborations include the Orchestra Sinfonica di Trieste, cello soloist Tiziana Gasparoni, Fulvio Zafret, Ben Mono, Cecil Remmler, Laura Bee, Alessandro de Crescenzo (Gianna Nannini) and singer Sofi de la Torre. Together with Nine Inch Nails and Moby, Marlowe worked on a UNESCO web series in 2012.

In October 2013, Marlowe was chosen as one of the top 40 international film composers, to perform with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra for the 40th anniversary of the Gent Film Festival. He performed his piece "el palmar", written for the occasion, playing live guitar with the orchestra, conducted by Dirk Brossé.

He owns a recording studio, ULTRA | VIOLET recording, in Schleching, in the Bavarian/Austrian Alps, near Kitzbühel and Salzburg, and has partner studios in Berlin. Recent productions featuring instrumental performances by Marlowe include Sofi de la Torre, punk band WIZO, and a Tears for Fears remix.

In 2018, Gary Marlowe officially received the title Steinway Artist.

Marlowe is lecturing as a docent in various academies, such as the SAE School of Audio Engineering. He is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus, a member of the World Soundtrack Academy, and the European Film Academy.

Installations

Marlowe developed his concept of aural frames, ambient music installations for indoor and outdoor spaces, in collaboration with painters, sculptors and video artists. Those were exhibited also by the Biennale di Venezia (music for a Richard Nonas exhibition) and Scatola Bianca ("requiem | repeat", personal exhibition in collaboration with Gianni Moretti).

Work and filmography

Awards and nominations

He is five times Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010), and was nominee at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2012.


     Official acknowledgement as a “STEINWAY ARTIST” by Steinway & Sons.
     “When Paul came over the Sea”: WINNER 20th Shanghai International Film Festival.       NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany.
“Autumn Tingles: Speed Dating for Silver Hairs”: Winner Grimme Preis, Germany.
“Mordsfreunde”: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist, Spain.
Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist as “Best Music for Advertisement”.
Best Use of a Song in a Television Program: Gary Marlowe, “Rise” - “Kunstfehler”
Best Score for a Dramatic TV Program: Gary Marlowe - “Schuld Und Unschuld”
Best Instrumental Performance by an Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Trieste - “Schuld Und Unschuld”
Best Instrumental Performance by a Soloist in a Film Score: Gary Marlowe - “Schuld und Unschuld”
Platinum Award at the 38th Houston International Film Festival, U.S.A.
The Berlinale Festival chose Gary Marlowe for the “Berlinale Talent Campus”.

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