EDUCATION
- MA, Music Composition: 1995, University of Sussex, England
- BA, Music Composition: 1993, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
AWARDS/GRANTS/PUBLICATIONS
- Ballet Review Magazine: “The Collaborative Spiral: Composing Music for Dance” (2007)
- New England Foundation for the Arts / National Dance Project Creation Grant (2005)
- June in Buffalo Festival, NY (1995)
- May in Miami Festival, FL (1995)
- Stockhausen Prize, University of Sussex (1994)
- The Quarterly Magazine: “Love” issue #24 (1992)
- Remis Summer Study Grant, Brandeis University (1992)
- Reiner Prize, Brandeis University (1992)
- Reiner Prize, Brandeis University (1991)
- Harvard Musical Association’s Achievement Awards, First Prize (1988)
- Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop (1988)
FILM
- “Red Sneakers,” a short narrative children’s film by Little Plum Pictures. (2007) Official Selection 2008 Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival
- “Beyond Belief,” a feature-length documentary by Principle Pictures (2007) Official selection 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. - Best of Fest 2007 Woods Hole Film Festival.
- “A Meeting Like This,” a short narrative film by Siobhan Culliton. (2007) Official selection 2007 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
- “A Conversation with Isabelle,” a short narrative film by Anima Films (2006)
- "Third Bank of the River,” a short narrative film by Dan Winer. (1999)
- "Midburb" additional music for the award winning documentary by Zach Stratis. (1993)
- “Eugenia's Crown" a short film commissioned by the Louvre Museum, Paris. (1992)
ADVERTISING
- Freelance Composer, NYC. Working for several NYC based music houses and advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Massive Music, Elias, Human and Smack. (2005 – currently)
- Kelliher, Samets and Volk, Burlington, VT. Composed music for the Chittenden Bank brand campaign. (2005)
- Sweet Potato / Hothouse Music and Sound Design, NYC. Staff Composer. Compositions included a :60 TV award-winning spot with Ogilvy for TIAA-CREF. (1998-2001)
THEATER & DANCE
- Murray Spaulding Movement Arts, NYC. Composer-in-residence. (1997-currently)
- Ben Munisteri Dance Projects, NYC. Composition and Sound Design (1998-2005)
- University of Texas Pan American Dance Company, Texas. Artist-in-residence (2004)
- Dance As Ever, NYC. Composed a 20 minute ballet "The New Rome" (2003)
- Union Dance Company, London, England. Sound Designer (1999)
- Doug Elkins Dance Company, NYC. Composition and Sound Design (1998-2003)
- Shumpka Dance Theater, NYC. Composition and Sound Design (1997-1998)
PERFORMANCES (selected)
The Mermaid @ Boston Center for the Arts 10/08
Red Sneakers @
Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival 10/08
New Hampshire Film Festival 10/08
Rhode Island International Film Festival 8/08
Beyond Belief @
Hamptons International Film Festival 10/07
Woods Hole Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival 4/07
A Meeting Like This @ New York Internat. Independent Film and Video Fest. 7/07
Thunderblood @
Alverno College, Milwaukee 4/06
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 1/06
Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA 7/05
The Secret Ark @ Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA 7/05
Movement Mandalas @ St. Mark’s Church, NYC 4/05
Orange Peel Piñata @ University of Texas, 3/04
Smash Through to Sunlight @ The Joyce Theater, NYC 1/04
The New Rome @ Riverside Church Theatre, NYC 9/03
Lust Is a Pig @ P.S. 122, NYC 2/00
Starlings Scatter @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 11/99
Train to Philly @
Best of the Fringe, Annenberg Center, U Penn 10/99
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Painted Bride Theater 9/99
Joyce Soho, Downtown Arts Festival, NYC 9/99
Swarthmore College, PA 8/99
Philenor @ Carillo Rec Center, Santa Barbara, CA 7/99
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 4/99
Smash Through to Sunlight @ St. Mark’s Church, NYC 3/99
Bipolarbear NOS @ Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 4/99
Dance Umbrella, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 11/98
Bates Summer Dance Festival, Maine 7/98
The Joyce Theater, NYC 6/98
Teatro Gustavo Modena, Genova, Italy 11/98
UC Santa Barbara, CA 7/98
Movement Mandalas @ The Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. 7/98
Trio and Figure in White @ Cunningham Studio, NYC 4/98
D is for... @ Context Hall, NYC 2/98
The Trojan Women @ Westside Repertory Theater, NYC 9/97-10/97
The Cure @ the Forman Festival, Todo con Nada, NYC 7/97-8/97
Missing Objects @ Mobius, Boston 10/98
Ohio Theater, NYC 10/97
Broome Corner Studio, NYC 10/97
Dancespace, NYC 7/97
Here Theater/American Livingroom Festival, NYC 7/97
Five Fingered Voodoo @ NYU Festival of New Works, NYC 4/97
As Waves of the Sea @ the June in Buffalo Festival, NY 6/95
Prelude for Clarinet @ the May in Miami Festival, FL 5/95
Free To Be You and Me @
the Music Breaks Free Festival, University of Sussex, UK 3/95
String Quartet performed by the Lydian String Quartet, Brandeis University, MA '92
Eugenia’s Crown film score for The Louvre Museum, Paris.
Film premiered @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 1/92
COMPOSITIONS
2008 The Mermaid: for chorus, strings and baritone and soprano soloists.
2008 Movement Mandala 12
2008 Red Sneakers: short film score for Little Plum Pictures.
2007 Woman with Knife #5: short film score for Olive Barrel Productions.
2007 Three Pieces for Piano.
2006 Beyond Belief: score for a feature length documentary produced by Principle Pictures
2006 A Conversation with Isabelle: score for a short film produced by Anima Films
2006 A Meeting Like This: score for a short film by Siobhan Culliton
2006 Homefront: a short film by Richard Ruiz
2006 3 :30 TV commercials for Chittenden Bank
2005 The Secret Ark: a quartet for 4 horns
2005 Movement Mandala 10: a collaboration with choreographer Murray Spalding.
2005 Thunderblood: a collaboration with choreographer Ben Munisteri.
2004 Movement Mandala 9: a collaboration with choreographer Murray Spalding.
2004 Orange Peel Pinata: a collaboration with choreographer Doug Elkins.
2003 The New Rome: a ballet for string quartet, collaboration w choreographer Leigh Witchel
2001 Maneri’s Second Life: a full length record of complex sampling
2001 Anthem: a :60 TV commercial for TIAA-Cref.
2000 Movement Mandalas 5-8: a collaboration with choreographer Murray Spalding.
2000 Pavane for a Dead Princess (remix): a work for Sean Curran & Heidi Latsky.
2000 Lust is a Pig: a collaboration with choreographer Ben Munisteri.
1999 Starlings Scatter: commissioned by Union Dance, London.
1999 Train to Philly: a collaboration with choreographer Doug Elkins.
1999 The Third Bank of the River: independent film score.
1999 The Universe: a play by R. Foreman, collaboration with director David Vining.
1999 Philenor: a collaboration with choreographer Doug Elkins.
1999 Smash through to Sunlight: a collaboration with choreographer Ben Munisteri.
1998 The Yellow Sound: music for WWW animation by Gertrude Stein Rep. Theater.
1998 Trio: a collaboration with choreographer Jeanette Stoner.
1998 Figure in White: a collaboration with choreographer Jeanette Stoner.
1998 Bipolarbear NOS: a collaboration with choreographer Doug Elkins.
1998 D is for . . .: a collaboration with choreographer Allan Tibbetts.
1997 Movement Mandalas 1-4: a collaboration with choreographer Murray Spalding.
1997 I Eat My Words: a collaboration with choreographer Tanya Kane-Parry.
1997 The Trojan Women: a collaboration with director Tanya Kane-Parry.
1997 The Cure: a play by R. Foreman, collaboration with director Tanya Kane-Parry.
1997 Missing Objects: a collaboration with Tanya Kane-Parry.
1997 Five Fingered Voodoo: a play by Keith Wasserman.
1997 Where is the center of the Sea?: for String Quartet.
1994 Free To Be You and Me: 3 pieces for solo piano.
1994 The Invisible Circus: flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, french horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello.
1994 As Waves of the Sea: clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and cello.
1994 The Joy of Reunion: clarinet, piano and cello
1993 Dawnbreaker: tenor voice and vibraphone.
1993 The Lovers: flute and clarinet.
1993 Prelude for Flute.
1993 Prelude for Clarinet.
1993 Sonata for Violin and Piano.
1992 String Quartet.
1992 Midburb: string quartet, independent film score.
1991 Eugenia’s Crown: string quartet, film score for The Louvre Museum, Paris
1991 Walking into Love: voice and piano, 2 poems by Marge Piercy.
1991 Us: voice and piano, poem by Anne Sexton.
1990 Love’s Philosophy: voice and cello, 3 poems by Percy Shelley.
PRESS CLIPS
WQXR Radio – May 7, 2005 Review by Francis Mason
Murray Spalding, “Movement Mandalas”
“The loveliest dance I’ve seen in many a moon… the way (the) dancers moved to the music of Evren Celimli created a wondrous sense of now and forever.”
The New York Times – April 30, 2005 Review by Jennifer Dunning
Murray Spalding, “Movement Mandalas”
“The effect of Ms. Spalding's well-worked designs was enhanced by Evren Celimli's subtly gradated score of drums, drones and hums.”
The Dance View Times, New York Edition – September 19, 2003 Review by Mindy Aloff
Dance As Ever, “The New Rome”
“a newly commissioned – and fascinatingly irascible – score for a string quartet, by Evren Celimli, …”
The Village Voice - October 2003 Review by Adele Nickel
Dance As Ever, "The New Rome"
"A splendidly abstract commissioned score by Evren Celimli was a perfect mate for Witchel's choreography..."
showbusinessweekly.com - March 2002 Review by Sophia Ernst
Murray Spalding, "Movement Mandalas"
"Evren Celimli’s haunting score of droning, spacey, rhythmic music matched the energy of each Mandala, never overpowering."
New York Times - February 1, 2000 Review by Jack Anderson
Ben Munisteri, “Lust Is a Pig”
“The music was lush and it inspired big broad movements that left the cast looking happily dazed at the end.”
Show Business - March 31, 1999 Review by Jayne Lawson
Ben Munisteri, “Smash Through to Sunlight”
“Evren Celimli compiled a wonderfully textured and highly integrated score.”
alt.arts.ballet – July 7, 1998 Review by Leigh Witchel
Doug Elkins Dance Company, “Philenor”
“The score... references both the classical construction of baroque music and the kitsch of early synthesizer scores from the 1970s, only with a skip in the record or feedback from a disconnected wire.”
Time Out New York - June 25, 1998 Review by Gia Kourlas
Doug Elkins Dance Company, “Bipolarbear NOS”
“...Bipolar is set to a wonderful, abstract sound score by the young composer Evren Celimli.”
Backstage - November 8, 1997 Review by Eric Grode
Tanya Kane-Parry, “The Trojan Women”
“Evren Celimli’s everpresent score adds immeasurably to the evening...”