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'{{About|the music composer|the member of the Nazi party|Max Scheubner-Richter}} '''Max Richter''' (born 1966) is a German-born British [[composer]]. ==Biography== Richter trained in [[Musical composition|composition]] and [[piano]] at [[University of Edinburgh]], the [[Royal Academy of Music]], and with [[Luciano Berio]] in [[Florence]]. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble [[Pianocircus|Piano Circus]], with which he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by [[Arvo Pärt]], [[Brian Eno]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Julia Wolfe]] and [[Steve Reich]]. The ensemble was signed to [[Decca Records|Decca]]/[[Argo Records (UK)|Argo]], producing five albums. In [[1996 in music|1996]], he worked with [[Future Sound of London]] on their album ''[[Dead Cities (album)|Dead Cities]]'', initially starting as a pianist but ending up working on several tracks as well as co-writing one track (titled "Max").<ref>http://www.secondthought.co.uk/fsol/deadcities.htm</ref> Richter subsequently collaborated with [[Future Sound of London|FSOL]] over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums ''[[The Isness]]''<ref>http://www.secondthought.co.uk/fsol/isness.htm</ref> and ''[[The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness]]''.<ref>http://www.discogs.com/release/1394575</ref> In [[2000 in music|2000]], Richter collaborated with [[Mercury Prize]] winner [[Roni Size]] on the ''[[Reprazent]]'' album ''[[In the Mode]]''.<ref>http://www.discogs.com/release/12111</ref> In [[2002]], Richter composed an eighteen-track album, ''Memoryhouse'', featuring sounds from nature and recordings of voices as well as readings of poetry in other languages. The album went out of print several years later, but is now again available. Four tracks (“Europe, After the Rain”, “The Twins (Prague)”, “Fragment“, and “Embers”) were used in the six-part [[2005]] [[BBC]] documentary [[Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'|Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’]] produced by [[Laurence Rees]]. In [[2005 in music|2005]], Richter produced the [[Vashti Bunyan]] album ''[[Lookaftering]]''. In [[2006 in music|2006]], Richter's tracks "On the Nature of Daylight" and "Horizon Variations" were used in [[Marc Forster]]'s film ''[[Stranger than Fiction (2006 film)|Stranger than Fiction]]''. "On the Nature of Daylight" was also used in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s [[2010 in film|2010]] film [[Shutter Island (film)|Shutter Island]]. In [[2007 in music|2007]], Richter worked on ''[[Waltz with Bashir]]'', an animated documentary by [[Ari Folman]]. His first U.S. performance was on November 28 at the Good-Shepherd Faith Church, New York, as part of the Wordless Music Series.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} In [[2008 in music|2008]], Richter produced the [[Kelli Ali]] album ''[[Rocking Horse (album)|Rocking Horse]]'' and released in September his fourth solo album, ''[[24 Postcards in Full Colour]]''. The album is an experimental collection of miniatures for mobile phones. The pieces are a series of variations on the basic material, scored for strings, piano and electronics.<ref>http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/news.php?id=521</ref> In [[2009 in music|2009]], Richter composed the scores for [[Feo Aladag]]'s film ''[[Die Fremde]]'' (together with [[Stéphane Moucha]]) and for [[:it:Renato De Maria|Renato De Maria]]'s film ''[[:it:La prima linea|La prima linea]]''. ''[[Memoryhouse]]'', Richter's long out of print debut album, was reissued on November 3. The album was recorded by Richter with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. In [[2010 in music|2010]], Dinah Washington's voice singing "[[This Bitter Earth]]" was remixed with Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight" for the Martin Scorsese film [[Shutter_Island_(film)|Shutter Island]], and the soundtrack was released in January. In July 2010, "On The Nature Of Daylight" and "Vladimir's Blues" were used throughout the BBC Two two-part drama "Dive" co-written by Bafta award winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. ==Solo discography== *''[[Memoryhouse]]'' (BBC, 2002) *''[[The Blue Notebooks]]'' ([[Fat Cat Records]], 2004) *''[[Songs from Before]]'' ([[Fat Cat Records]], 2006) *''[[24 Postcards in Full Colour]]'' ([[Fat Cat Records]], 2008) *''[[Infra]]'' ([[Fat Cat Records]], 2010) ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Richter, Max | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1966 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Richter, Max}} [[Category:21st-century classical composers]] [[Category:European Film Awards winners (people)]] [[Category:Postminimalist composers]] [[Category:Experimental composers]] [[Category:British film score composers]] [[Category:German film score composers]] [[Category:British pianists]] [[Category:German pianists]] [[Category:British people of German descent]] [[Category:1966 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[de:Max Richter]] [[es:Max Richter]] [[fr:Max Richter]] [[he:מקס ריכטר]] [[hu:Max Richter]] [[pl:Max Richter]] [[pt:Max Richter]] [[ru:Рихтер, Макс]]'