Gary Marlowe

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Gary Marlowe (2011)

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

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Life

Crystal Pine Award winner Gary Marlowe began playing piano at four. He started as a professional musician in 1980s Berlin, as a composer and synthesizer specialist, and soon went on to become a No.1 hit songwriter and a Gold Record-winning music producer. He studied Composition for Film with the Oscar winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

Musician, composer and producer

With his ensemble Echoes of Space, Gary Marlowe creates immersive 3D Audio live concerts, co-produced with 2025 Grammy winner Hans-Martin Buff (Peter Gabriel).

Gary Marlowe´s body of work includes many record releases, among them a No. 1 hit single and various Top Ten chart entries, recordings with progressive thrash metal acts Coroner and Rage, sharing the stage with Iggy Pop and The Ramones, compositions for art exhibitions like the Biennale di Venezia, and performances with international orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic and various Italian ensembles.

Gary Marlowe’s film scores include award-winning features such as “Everything Will Change” (with Wim Wenders), “Lautlos”, “Planeta 5000”, and the documentaries “The Milk System”, “A Place Called Los Pereira”, and “Alcohol”. He also composed music for series like “Inside the Stones” (with Nine Inch Nails and Moby), and the prime time drama series “Tatort”.

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

In 2025, Gary Marlowe won the Crystal Pine Award at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Varazdin, Croatia, with his compositions for the film “Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?”.

He is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus, a member of the World Soundtrack Academy, the Ivors 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

Gary Marlowe is a 2025 Crystal Pine Award winner, a five times Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010), and was nominee at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2012.


“Planeta 5000”: WINNER PREMIOS SIMÓN 2020
NOMINATION DEUTSCHER FERNSEHKRIMI PREIS 2019.
NOMINATION GRIMME PREIS 2019 for “When Paul came over the Sea”.
     Official acknowledgement as a “STEINWAY ARTIST” by Steinway & Sons.
WINNER 51st German Economy Film Award 2018, WINNER German Environmental Film Award 2018.
     “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”.

References

    https://celluloidtunes.no/everything-will-change-gary-marlowe/

    https://www.colonnesonore.net/news/premi-e-concorsi/11132-gary-marlowe-vince-il-crystal-pine-award-2025.html

    https://www.digitalinberlin.de/gary-marlowe/