Max Richter
Max Richter (born 1966 in Germany ) is a British composer. He has composed the music for the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman.
Life
Born in Germany and raised in England, lives and Max Richter works in Berlin today. Richter has studied classical composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal Academy of Music. At Tempo Reale in Florence, he studied with the famous Italian composer Luciano Berio.
After his studies, Max Richter founded with the existing ensemble of six pianists Piano Circus, a contemporary compositions, among others, Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Steve Reich lists. He spent ten years with the ensemble and produced five albums with them. In 1996 he collaborated with Future Sound of London as a pianist and co-writer on the album Dead Cities. He then worked for two years with FSOL and collaborated on the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of superconsciousness with. Along with the Mercury Prize winner Roni Size Reprazent worked judge in 2000 on the album In the Mode. Was not only as a composer Max Richter and operates, but also as a producer, he collaborated on albums with. He produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering and 2008 Kelli Ali's album Rocking Horse.
Max Richter characterizes a memorable style of composition, through the combination of ambient samples with chamber music instrumentation. Since his work with the techno and ambient pioneers Future Sound of London, he understands music as a combination of colors, sounds and feelings, which he tried to bring in his compositions.
Solo work
In 2002 Richter published his solo debut Memoryhouse, which he recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Alexander Balanescu. The composer sees his work as an experimental album with "documentary music", deals with the real and fictional stories were. Memory House combines text sequences and poetry readings that are underlaid with ambient sounds. Five pieces of this album ( "Europe, After the Rain ," "The Twins (Prague ) ", " fragment", and " Embers " ) were in the six-part BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution uses. On his second album, The Blue Notebooks 2004 reads the actress Tilda Swinton from Franz Kafka's diary entries. He describes the style of the album as a "post - Classical " - a combination of classical music, electronic sounds and " found- sound".
In Songs from Before ( 2006) Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami Haruki. The works of the Japanese novelist Max Richter have inspired his compositions. By combining classic and a timeless ambience and melancholic album has emerged. In 2008, Richter released his fourth solo album 24 Postcards in Full Colour - a collection of 24 classic composed works which are intended as ringtones. The pieces vary the theme and consist of piano melodies, string arrangements and electronic elements together. His album Infra is an adaptation of his composition for the eponymous ballet by Wayne McGregor, for the visual artist Julian Opie, the computer animation is created. 2008 piece from the Royal Ballet in London was premiered.
Film Music
Judges regularly composes film music. Among his best known works include the film score to Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir, the 2008 European Film Award for Best Film Music brought him. He also wrote the soundtrack for Feo Aladag Die Fremde ( more music Stéphane Moucha ), for which they received the award of the German Film Critics for Best Film Music 2010. For Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Iceland 2010 Judge composition On the Nature of Daylight from his album The Blue Notebooks with Dinah Washington singing This Bitter Earth combined. Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson's documentary How to die in Oregon and in 2011 the film music of André Téchiné to Impardonnables. Other films that use music judge, are the French drama Sarah's Key by Gilles Paquet - Brenner and David Mackenzie's thriller Perfect Sense. For the music to Cate Shortland's film Lore judge received the Bavarian Film Award in 2012.
Collaborations
In collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie Richter wrote the music for the ballet "Infra ", which was premiered in 2008 at the Royal Opera House in London. 2010 Richter created the sound installation The Anthropocine for Darren Almond's film installation at the White Cube Gallery in London.
Discography
- Memory House (BBC, 2002; Fat Cat Records, 2009)
- The Blue Notebooks ( Fat Cat Records, 2004)
- Songs from Before ( Fat Cat Records, 2006)
- 24 Postcards in Full Colour ( Fat Cat Records, 2008)
- Infra ( Fat Cat Records, 2010)
- Recomposed by Max Richter. Vivaldi 's Four Seasons ( German Grammophon, 2012)
Filmography
- 2006: Sound Proof, directed by Edmund Coulthard
- 2007: Hope, directed by Stanislav Mucha
- 2008: Henry May Long, directed by Randy Sharp
- 2008: Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me, directed by John Alexander
- 2008: Waltz with Bashir, directed by Ari Folman
- 2009: Penelopa, directed by Brian Ferris
- 2009: Purple, Purple, directed by Alain Gsponer
- 2009: The Wild Farm, directed by Dominique Garing & Frédéric Goupil
- 2010: Womb, Director: Benedek Fliegauf
- 2010: The Strangers, directed by Feo Aladag, film score: Max Richter with Stéphane Moucha
- 2010: My Trip to Al- Qaeda, directed by Alex Gibney
- 2010: Sarah's Key (Sarah 's Key ), directed by Gilles Paquet - Brenner
- 2011: How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson
- 2011: Perfect Sense, Directed by David Mackenzie
- 2011: Impardonnables, directed by André Téchiné
- 2012: Lore Director: Cate Shortland
- 2008: The Congress, directed by Ari Folman
- 2012: The girl Wadjda, Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
- 2012: Stone of Patience, directed by Atiq Rahimi
- 2013: Lunchbox ( Dabba )
Awards
- European Film Awards 2008: " Best Original Score " for Waltz with Bashir
- Price of the German Film Critics 2010 The Brave
- Bavarian Film Award 2012 for Lore
- ECHO Klassik 2013: " Classical without Boundaries "