Dave Maric


Dave Maric is a British composer and musician.
Born in Bedford, England to Greek and Bosnian Serb immigrants, he moved to London in 1988 where he studied at City University. During the 1990s he regularly performed and recorded as a jazz and classical pianist with a number of new music ensembles including the London Sinfonietta and the Steve Martland Band. Since 2000 he has been regularly composing stylistically varied works for various instrumental combinations including music for classical soloists, chamber and orchestral ensembles and works for live performers with computer generated sound sources. Since 2010 his activities have broadened further to include curating music/art events regularly in London, and performing/recording with a range of new ensembles and bands including: Vicious Circus and the Colin Currie Group.
Amongst the musicians that he has composed for are the percussionist Colin Currie, guitarist Fred Frith, contrabassist Mich Gerber, trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger, jazz trio Phronesis, pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and violinist Viktoria Mullova. Many of his works have been choreographed to and he has created scores for a number of full evening dance pieces including adaptations of Ibsen's "Ghosts" for the Royal Opera House and Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" for Northern Ballet Theatre. He has also worked with Paris-based film makers Cserhati and Lartigue on scores for short and feature film projects.
A selection of his works are published by Norsk Musikforlag A/S.

Key Works

2000 - Trilogy

2001 - Falling to the Sky

2002 - Lifetimes

2002 - Exile

2003 - Borrowed Time

2004 - Spellbound

2005 - Ghosts

2006 - Shore

2006 - Lucid Intervals

2008 - A Tale of Two Cities

2009 - Sturmhöhe

2010 - Blood Wedding

2012 - Towards Future's Embrace

2012 - Forgotten Lands

2014 - A Greek Tragedy

2014 - Trophic Cascades

2016 - Vigil

2017 - Thrice Into Flames

2017 - Decade Zero

2017 - We Made Us

2018 - Musica Antiqua Tronica

2018 - Spiel

Discography

As pianist:

Steve Martland: Crossing The Border

Steve Martland: Patrol

Bassistry: Bassistry

Steve Martland: The Factory Masters

Marc Ribot: Shoe String Symphonettes

Mike Westbrook: The Orchestra of Smith's Academy

John Adams: Gnarly Buttons/John's Book of Alleged Dances
As composer/improviser:

The Katia Labèque Band: Unspoken

Colin Currie: Borrowed Time


Dave Maric: The Pianos Work


Vicious Circus: Troglodytes Troglodytes


Dave Maric: Musica Antiqua Tronica