Marcelo Zarvos has composed music for many artistic mediums.
His movie scores include ones for Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland and Tod Williams' The Door in the Floor (both also Focus Features releases); Ross Katz' upcoming telefilm Taking Chance; Rowan Woods' soon-to-be-released Winged Creatures; Bruno Barreto's Última Parada 174 [Last Stop 174]; Barry Levinson's What Just Happened; Jieho Lee's The Air I Breathe; John Dahl's You Kill Me; Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (co-composed with Bruce Fowler); Robert Cary's Ira & Abby (which won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival); Matt Tauber's The Architect (which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival); Susan Seidelman's Boynton Beach Club; Paul Dinello's Strangers with Candy; Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's Kissing Jessica Stein; Rachel Boynton's documentary Our Brand is Crisis; Michael Burke's The Mudge Boy; Hilary Birmingham's Tully (nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards), and Paulo Machline's Academy Award-nominated short film A Soccer Story. Additionally, he composed the score for Cosmic Collisions, the space show at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Mr. Zarvos' dance scores include "Aquatica" (for Pilobolus); and "Divinities" (for Cleo Parker Robinson Dance) and "The Path," both of which were presented at NYC's Joyce Theater.
Among his chamber music compositions are the string quartet "Nepomuk's Dances" (performed at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress); "Changes," for wind quintet and piano; and an NEA commission presented by the string quartet Ethel in the fall of 2006.
As a recording artist, Mr. Zarvos has released three critically acclaimed albums on the MA Recording label: "Dualism," "Music Journal," and "Labyrinths." The latter was cited by CDNow as one of the Top 10 Jazz CDs of 1999.
He has collaborated, as arranger and pianist, with the Paul Winter Consort. Mr. Zarvos has also been guest conductor with Sadao Watanabe and the Tokyo Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
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