Dave Maric (born 12 June 1970) is a

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and musician.

Biography

Born in

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and

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immigrants, he moved to

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in 1988 where he studied at City University. During the 1990s he regularly performed and recorded as a

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

and classical pianist with a number of new music ensembles including the

London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert in 1968—givi ...

and the

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Band. Since 2000 he has been regularly composing stylistically varied works for various instrumental combinations including music for classical soloists, chamber and orchestral ensembles and works for live performers with computer generated sound sources. Since 2010 his activities have broadened further to include curating music/art events regularly in London, and performing/recording with a range of new ensembles and bands including: Vicious Circus and the

Colin Currie Colin David Currie (born 25 September 1976) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. He is the founder and leader of the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble dedicated to performing and recording the music of Steve Reich. Biography Early years Colin ...

Group. Into the 2020s he has relocated to rural Scotland, broadening his experiences by also connecting directly to the

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through rewilding from both an artistic and a practical perspective. Amongst the musicians that he has composed for are the percussionist

, guitarist

Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock ...

, contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter

Håkan Hardenberger Ulf Håkan Hardenberger (born 27 October 1961 in Malmö) is a Swedish trumpeter. Taking up the trumpet at the age of eight under the guidance of hometown teacher Bo Nilsson, Hardenberger pursued further studies at the Paris Conservatoire, with P ...

, jazz trio Phronesis (band), pianists

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and violinist

Viktoria Mullova Viktoria Yurievna Mullova ( rus, Виктория Юрьевна Муллова, , vʲɪˈktorʲɪɪ̯ə ˈmuɫəvə; born 27 November 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number ...

. Many of his works have been

choreographed Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

to and he has created scores for a number of full evening

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

pieces including adaptations of

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's "

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" for the

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and

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

' "

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the ...

" for

Northern Ballet Theatre Northern Ballet, formerly Northern Ballet Theatre, is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance productions where the emphasis is on story telling as well as classical ballet. The company ...

. He has also worked with

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-based film makers Cserhati and Lartigue on scores for short and feature

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projects. A selection of his earlier works are published by Norsk Musikforlag A/S.

Key Works

2000 - ''Trilogy'' (for live and sampled percussion)
2001 - ''Falling to the Sky'' (for violin and piano)
2002 - ''Lifetimes'' (for string ensemble and percussion)
2002 - ''Exile'' (for two pianos, percussion and electronics)
2003 - ''Borrowed Time'' (for organ and percussion)
2004 - ''Spellbound'' (for band and orchestra)
2005 - ''Ghosts'' (contemporary dance score for chamber ensemble and recorded electronics)
2006 - ''Shore'' (contemporary dance score for voices, winds and percussion)
2006 - ''Lucid Intervals'' (for trumpet/flugelhorn and tuned percussion)
2008 - ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (ballet score for orchestra)
2009 - ''Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Heights)'' (for live and sampled contrabass)
2010 - ''Blood Wedding'' (ballet score for symphony orchestra)
2012 - ''Towards Future's Embrace'' (for solo percussion and chamber orchestra)
2012 - ''Forgotten Lands'' (for solo trumpet and orchestra)
2014 - ''A Greek Tragedy'' (for solo snare drums with recorded speech)
2014 - ''Trophic Cascades'' (for two pianos and two percussion)
2016 - ''Vigil'' (for solo piano, electronics and chamber ensemble)
2017 - ''Decade Zero'' (for jazz trio and chamber ensemble)
2017 - ''We Made Us'' (for solo percussion, piano, electronics and strings)
2018 - ''Musica Antiqua Tronica'' (album recording)
2018 - ''Spiel'' (for solo percussion, symphonic wind ensemble and recorded electronics)
2019 - ''Nascent Forms'' (for percussion quartet)

Discography

As pianist:

: Crossing The Border (

Factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

1992)

: Patrol (

BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations * Music publishing companies: ** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 *** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...

1994)
Bassistry: Bassistry (Okapi 1995)

: The Factory Masters (

1996)

Marc Ribot Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Wait ...

Shoe String Symphonettes ''Shoe String Symphonettes'' is a 1997 album of film music by Marc Ribot released on Tzadik Records. Recording The album contains soundtracks for five short films; the earliest being ''Landlord Blues'' directed by Jacob Burkardt (1987), followed ...

(

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

1997)

Mike Westbrook Michael John David Westbrook (born 21 March 1936) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces. He is married to the vocalist, librettist and painter Kate Westbrook. Early work Mike Westbrook was born in Hig ...

: The Orchestra of Smith's Academy (Enja 1998)

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Gnarly Buttons ''Gnarly Buttons'' is a composition for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble by the American composer John Adams. The London Sinfonietta and Present Music (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) co-commissioned the work. The work received its premiere at the Que ...

/John's Book of Alleged Dances (Nonesuch 1998) As composer/improviser:
The

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Band: Unspoken (KML 2003)
Colin Currie: Borrowed Time (Onyx Classics 2007)
Dave Maric: The Pianos Work (Online Distribution 2014)
Vicious Circus: Troglodytes Troglodytes (Squib-Box 2014)
Dave Maric: Musica Antiqua Tronica "Dave Maric / MUSICA ANTIQUA TRONICA"
davemaric.co.uk (Future Daveotron 2018)

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