# Gary Marlowe

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

## 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

* 2018
** Planeta 5000 (dir. Carlos Val)
** Tatort: Für immer und Dich (dir. Julia von Heinz)
** Pete's Last Dance (dir. Benjamin Teske)
* 2017
** The Milk System / Das System Milch (dir. Andreas Pichler)
** WINNER 11th International Fünf Seen Film Festival
** When Paul came over the Sea (dir. Jakob Preuss)
** WINNER 20th Shanghai International Film Festival
** NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Max Ophüls Preis Festival
** NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC, 6th GERMAN DOCUMENTARY FILM MUSIC AWARDS 2018
* 2016
** Strawberry Bubblegums.
** Scrappin' [de]. Winner 37th Max Ophüls Preis.
** Sex & Crime.
** Treffen sich zwei.
* 2015
** Winnetous Sohn. Winner 31st Warsaw Film Festival.
** Escape. Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2015 finalist.
* 2014
** Autumn Tingles: Speed Dating for Silver Hairs [de]. Grimme Preis 2015.
** Mordsfreunde, Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2014 finalist.
* 2013
** concert with The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra in Gent, Belgium.
** The Old, the Young and the Sea, winner Cologne & Munich Surf Film Festivals, winner Cape Town Wavescape Film Festival.
** additional music for Houston, in competition at Sundance Festival, winner Hofer Filmtage.
** Jedes Jahr im Juni.
** Sogar die Nacht.
** Jerry Goldsmith Awards finalists.
* 2012
** UNESCO web series Inside the Stones, music by Nine Inch Nails, Gary Marlowe and Moby.
** Hollywood Music In Media Awards nomination.
** Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2012 finalist.
* 2011
** 1949, German predicate of special merit, Nominee Berlin Shortcutz Awards.
** Stubbe - Querschläger.
* 2010
** personal exhibition requiem | repeat, aural frames installation in Venice.
** Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2010 finalist.
* 2009
** Heisse Spur.
** A Place Called Los Pereyra.
** aural frames installation the forest of st. elena, Venice Art Biennale, Richard Nonas exhibition.
* 2008
** Das Echo der Schuldl.
* 2007
** Schuld und Unschuld, three Nominations Film&TV Music Awards in Los Angeles.
* 2006
** Kunstfehler, Nomination Film&TV Music Awards Los Angeles.
** Celebration Of Flight, winner Gloria Festival; Thin Line Festival, U.S.A., winner Dijon.
* 2005
** Lautlos (Soundless), Grand Prix Cognac Film Festival; winner Houston Film Festival, U.S.A.
* 2004
** Lautlos.
** Styx.
* 2001
** Birth:day
* 1999
** Framed, Nomination Deutscher Filmpreis Award.
* 1998
** Fool Moon.
* 1995
** Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen (music consultant).
* 1987-89
** Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series) (title song co-producer).
* 1989
** Vera und Babs (TV Series) (music performance and actor).
** Die Didi-Show (TV Series) (ZDF).
* 1985
** Gefahr für die Liebe – AIDS [de] (title song) ... aka A.I.D.S. Trop jeune pour mourir (France).
* 1984
** The Bear (animated film).

## 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.
* 2018: NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC, 6th German Documentary Film Music Awards.
* 2017: “The Milk System”: WINNER 11th International Fünf Seen Film Festival.
* 2017: NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Max Ophüls Preis Festival.
* 2016: “Schrotten!”: Winner 37th Max Ophüls Preis, Germany.
* 2015: “Winnetous Sohn”: Winner 31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland.
    “Autumn Tingles: Speed Dating for Silver Hairs”: Winner Grimme Preis, Germany.
    “Mordsfreunde”: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist, Spain.
* 2014: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist for “The Old, the Young & the Sea”.
* 2013: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist for “Sogar die Nacht”.
* 2012: Nomination Hollywood Music In Media Awards as “Best Score Commercial Advertisement”.
    Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist as “Best Music for Advertisement”.
* 2011: Nomination “Best Original Music”, Berlin Shortcutz Awards, for “1949”.
* 2010: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist with “A Place Called Los Pereyra”.
* 2007: Four nominations for the Film&TV Music Awards in Los Angeles:
    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”
* 2006: Celebration of Flight: Winner Gloria Film Fest Utah, U.S.A. Winner Thin Line Film Festival, Texas, U.S.A. Grand Prix Audience Dijon Film Festival, France.
* 2005: “Lautlos” won the Grand Prix at the 23rd International Film Festival of Cognac, France.
    Platinum Award at the 38th Houston International Film Festival, U.S.A.
    The Berlinale Festival chose Gary Marlowe for the “Berlinale Talent Campus”.
* 2003: Winner Emma Contestabile Award.
* 2000: „framed“: Nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis Award.
* Marlowe had a Europe-wide No.1 hit single and many Top Ten chart entries, as well as international Platinum and Gold Record Awards.