Marius de Vries
Marius Van Wyk de Vries (* 1961 in London ) is a British musician and composer who has been nominated five times for a Grammy and has worked on numerous recordings and soundtracks over the past two decades. As a film composer he won two BAFTA Awards and an Ivor Novello Award .
Career
Marius de Vrie's musical career began in the 1980s as a keyboardist in the pop-soul band The Blow Monkeys . Since then he has written and produced for a wide variety of styles and genres, including Madonna , Björk , Rufus Wainwright , Neil Finn , Annie Lennox , Bebel Gilberto , David Gray , PJ Harvey , U2 , Massive Attack and Josh Groban . In 2010 he worked for Universal Records on the Chinese singer Sa Dingding's second album Harmony , which was recorded in Beijing and mixed in London.
De Vrie's career as a film composer began in 1996 while working with Nellee Hooper and Craig Armstrong on the soundtrack and score for William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , for which he received the BAFTA Award. Five years later he received his second BAFTA Award, a Grammy nomination and other awards for Moulin Rouge . Together with Henry Jackman , John Murphy and Ilan Eshkeri , de Vries composed mainly modern pieces for the film music for Kick-Ass in eight months in 2009 . In 2010, de Vries worked on the soundtrack and score for Zack Snyder's action fantasy film Sucker Punch .
De Vries worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on various musicals. In 2004 he co-produced the album for Bombay Dreams . He also took care of the production and orchestral work for the sequel to Phantom of the Opera , Love Never Dies .
In 2016 he worked in La La Land as Music Executive Producer and Pilot Director.
Film music
- 1999: The Eye (The Eye of the Beholder)
- 2008: Easy Virtue - An Immoral Wife (Easy Virtue)
- 2010: Kick-Ass
- 2011: Sucker Punch
- 2015: Strange Magic
Web links
- Marius de Vries in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marius de Vries ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at nativemanagement.com
- Chris Hewitt: KICK-ASS, Production Notes. (DOC, 4.87 MB) Marius de Vries (Composer) . In: lionsgatepublicity.com. Lions Gate , April 8, 2010, accessed July 10, 2011 .
- Interviews
- Sound On Sound: MARIUS DE VRIES: Launching A Massive Attack On Madonna , Interview | Programmer / Musician , September 1998
- Sound On Sound: MUSICAL DIFFERENCES , Marius De Vries , November 2001
- The Polymath Perspective: Marius de Vries: Brave New World , 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ That Weird Keyboard from La La Land Is Real, and It's a Hit. Accessed December 31, 2017 .
- ^ La La Land (2016). Accessed December 31, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vries, Marius de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Wyk de Vries, Marius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |