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About|the music composer|the member of the Nazi party|Max Scheubner-RichterBLP sources|date=August 2011primary sources|date=August 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Max Richter| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = non_performing_personnel| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = 1966|birth_place = Germany | death_date =| origin =| instrument =| genre =| occupation = Composer, pianist, producer| years_active = 1990s–present| label = Fat Cat Records | associated_acts =| website = http://www.maxrichtermusic.com/ maxrichtermusic.com| notable_instruments = Max Richter (born 1966) is a Germany|German -born United Kingdom|British composer .
Early career
Richter studied composition and piano at University of Edinburgh , the Royal Academy of Music and with Luciano Berio in Florence .cite web|title=Max Richter|url= http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/artist.php/max+richter|work=FatCat Records|accessdate=19 August 2011 After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.cite news |url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music--many-hands-make-light-work-piano-circus-had-a-problem-six-keyboards-but-only-one-piece-to-play-what-could-they-do-without-steve-reich-1506360.html |title=MUSIC / Many hands make light work |publisher=The Independent |author=Mark Pappenheim |date=24 November 1993 |accessdate=2011-10-19 |location=London He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt , Brian Eno , Philip Glass , Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich . The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, Max collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities (album)|Dead Cities , beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled "Max"). Richter subsequently worked with the band over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness . In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Mode . Richter produced Vashti Bunyan 's 2005 album Lookaftering cite web |url= http://www.boomkat.com/article.cfm? id=10 |title=The Richter Scale |author=Adam Park |publisher=Boomkat |date=11 October 2006 |accessdate=2011-10-19 and Kelli Ali 's 2008 album Rocking Horse (album)|Rocking Horse .cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/artist/e91466e9-e518-4b02-9198-a6c338694c9d |title=Biography Kelli Ali |publisher=The Guardian |accessdate=2011-10-21 |location=London
Solo work
Memoryhouse (2002)
In 2002, Richter released his solo debut Memoryhouse , an experimental album of "documentary music" recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra , which explores real and imaginary stories and histories.cite web |url= http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php? id=299 |title=Max Richter Memoryhouse |accessdate=2011-10-21 It combines ambient sounds, voices, and poetry readings. The album went out of print several years later, but was re-released in 2009. Four tracks—"Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers"—were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution produced by Laurence Rees. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0941057/
The Blue Notebooks (2004)
On his second album The Blue Notebooks , released in 2004, actress Tilda Swinton reads from Kafka’s Blue Octavo and other "shadow journals".cite web |url= http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan05/articles/ritcher.htm |title=Max Richter Recording The Blue Notebooks |publisher=Sound On Sound |author=Paul Tingen |date=January 2005 |accessdate=2011-10-21
Songs from Before (2006)
In 2006, he released his third solo album, Songs from Before , which features Robert Wyatt reading texts by Haruki Murakami .cite web |url= http://www.puremusic.com/71max.html |title=SONGS FROM BEFORE • Max Richter |publisher=Puremusic |accessdate=2011-10-21
24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008)
Richter released his fourth solo album 24 Postcards in Full Colour , a collection of 24 classically-composed miniatures for ringtone s, in 2008.cite web |url= http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4621 |title=Max Richter - "Berlin By Overnight" (24 Postcards In Full Colour) |date=22 October 2008 |author=Michael Crumsho |publisher=Dusted Magazine |accessdate=2011-10-21 The pieces are a series of variations on the basic material, scored for strings, piano and electronics.
Infra (2010)
Richter's latest album, Infra , is an extension of his 25-minute score for a ballet choreographed by Wayne McGregor which was staged at the Royal Opera House.cite news| url= http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/royal-ballet-royal-opera-house-londonbrrambert-dance-company-sadlers-wells-london-1020245.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=Jenny | last=Gilbert | date=16 November 2008 Infra is composed of music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, the full performance score, as well as material that subsequently developed from the construction of the album. http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15534/reviews/4140557
Film and television work
Richter has composed numerous film soundtracks. He executed the score to Ari Folman ’s Golden Globe -winning film Waltz with Bashir in 2007, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/02/richters-scale-scoring-waltz-with-bashir.html supplanting the standard orchestral soundtrack with synth-based sounds. Max Richter also composed music for the independent feature film Henry May Long , starring Randy Sharp and Brian Barnhart , back in 2008. Richter wrote the music for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (with additional music by Stéphane Moucha). http://www.discogs.com/Max-Richter-Stéphane-Moucha-Die-Fremde-Original-Soundtrack/release/2412419
In 2010, Dinah Washington 's " This Bitter Earth " was remixed with Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island . http://newcityfilm.com/2010/02/17/a-life-in-the-mind-with-shutter-island-scorsese-goes-for-baroque-review/ In July 2010, "On The Nature Of Daylight" and "Vladimir's Blues" featured throughout the BBC Two two-part drama Dive , which was co-written by Bafta award winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. "On The Nature Of Daylight" was also featured in an episode of HBO's television series Luck (TV series)|Luck . http://www.hbo.com/luck/episodes/01/04-episode-04/music.html Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson’s documentary, How to Die in Oregon , http://criterioncast.com/2011/03/26/joshua-reviews-peter-richardsons-how-to-die-in-oregon-sxsw-2011-review/ and the score to Les Impardonnables (2011) directed by André Téchiné. http://www.arte.tv/de/3911890,CmC=3913052.html An excerpt of the song "Sarajevo" from his album "Memoryhouse" is used in the international trailer for the Ridley Scott film Prometheus (film)|Prometheus . Films featuring Max's music which go on release in 2011 include French drama Elle s’appelait Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and David MacKenzie's romantic thriller Perfect Sense . Richter is currently composing the score to Ari Folman’s new film The Congress which is set for release in 2012-13.
Collaborations
Richter wrote the score to Infra as part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie. The production was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008. In 2010, Richter's soundscape The Anthropocine formed part of Darren Almond’s film installation at the White Cube gallery in London.
Songs from Before (Max Richter album)|Songs from Before ( Fat Cat Records , 2006)
24 Postcards in Full Colour ( Fat Cat Records , 2008)
Infra ( Fat Cat Records , 2010)
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