Sxip Shirey

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Sxip Shirey

Sxip Shirey (* in Athens / Ohio ) is an American composer and musician.

In 2006, Shirey released the album Sombule with The Dresden Dolls . He was composer and musical director of Lisa D'Amour's play Marsupil Girl in Minneapolis. In 2008 he had a performance at the TED conference . He has been the composer and musical director of puppet shows by Theodora Skipitares ( Woman of Troy , 2010; Lysastrata , 2011; Prometheus 2012) several times . In 2011 he received a grant from the United States Artists . In the same year he toured Europe with the production Gentlemen and Assassins . In 2012 he composed Neill Gaiman's What Dreams May Come for the English National Opera .

His more recent projects include the performance Sxip's Hour of Charm , which was staged at Lincoln Center , among others , and the theater-circus production Limbo , with which he toured Australia in 2015. He also composed the music for Craig Harwood's musical Excuse Me, There's a Fagot in my Closet , the compositions Distant Pianos Close Pianos for the choreographer Coco Karol and Still Life for Morgan Thorsen . Shirey also teaches at the Norwegian Theater Academy in Frederikstad ("The Black Mountain College of NOW"). The Gauntlet: Fredrickstad was created to mark the city's four- centenary . In 2019 his album Goodnight Little Machines will be released .

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SURNAME Shirey, Sxip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens (Ohio)