James Reynolds (composer)

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James Reynolds (* 1953 in Long Beach, California ) is an American composer of radio drama and theater music.

Life

James Reynolds studied contemporary music with John Adams as well as drums at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and composition in Cologne with Michael von Biel . He has been writing music for literary productions, thrillers, fairy tales and children's radio plays for WDR since then . His works are shaped by new music , Broadway musicals , European musical theater and avant-garde synth pop . He is interested in the connection of words, sounds and images.

James Reynolds lives in Berlin.

Scholarships

  • 2004 Composer in Residence, Laurenz-Haus Foundation, Basel.  
  • 2008 Visiting Artist, University Of California, Santa Barbara  

Productions (selection)

Musical theater

  • Ghost Knight, Bonn Opera  
  • 2017 Tucholskys Spiegel, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg  
  • A Throw of the dice will never abolish chance, Sydney Conservatory of Music  
  • The Moses-Jahwe-Projekt, WDR Cologne  
  • 2002 retaliation, WDR Cologne  
  • The procedure, WDR Cologne  
  • Fantasy1, Viola d'amore Society New York

Theater and dance theater

watch TV

  • The Timbuktu Treasure - A Salvation Story, Arte
  • 2015 The Vietnam War: Faces of a Tragedy, ARD (Gold World Medal, New York Festivals 2016)
  • Women and Oceans, Arte
  • Beloved Enemies, Arte (Episodes 3-5-8-9)
  • On an expedition to Madagascar, Arte
  • On an expedition through Australia, Arte
  • On an expedition through Tanzania, Arte
  • On an expedition to the coast of Costa Rica, Arte
  • 2012 Hidden Venice, Arte
  • 2011 The land of the Dogon, Arte
  • Sacrifice and seducer, Arte
  • Where is Islam going, ZDF
  • 2010 Theo Files: Unsolved - A Basel Search for Traces, Arte
  • Chaim (winner of the Short Tiger Film Prize Munich, winner of "Best Docu", Woodstock Film Festival)

Radio plays

  • Illegal, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
  • GastSpiele, WDR, Funkhaus Europa  
  • Fool devil, WDR
  • Aladin, WDR
  • Gilgamesh, WDR
  • Moses and the Desert of Miracles, WDR
  • Salammbô, WDR
  • A job, WDR
  • Lies in the dark, WDR
  • The robbers by Liang Schan Moor, WDR
  • The legend of the holy drinker, WDR
  • The portrait of Dorian Gray, WDR
  • The procedure, WDR
  • The last voyage of the Titanic, WDR, NDR , HR
  • Odysseus, WDR

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Detective radio play : Silent witness to a murder - Illegal , DLF Kultur from May 7, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Reynolds, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer of radio drama and theater music
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , California