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

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

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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 is a multi award-winning Scottish people, Scottish virtuoso percussionist. He is the founder and leader of the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble specializing in performing and recording the music of Steve Reich. Biography Ear ...

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

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, contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter

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, jazz trio Phronesis (band), pianists

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and violinist

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. Many of his works have been

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

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pieces including adaptations of

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's "

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" for the

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and

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' "

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" for

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. 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

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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) * 2013 - ''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 - ''Spiel'' (for solo percussion, symphonic wind ensemble and recorded electronics) * 2019 - ''Nascent Forms'' (for percussion quartet)) * 2021 - ''Forecast'' (for solo percussion)

Discography

As pianist: *

: Crossing The Border (

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1992) *

: Patrol (

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1994) * Bassistry: Bassistry (Okapi 1995) *

: The Factory Masters (

1996) *

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: Shoe String Symphonettes (

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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/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) * Dave Maric: From Thin Air (Future Daveotron 2018)

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