Mark Warman (born 5 August 1961) is a British conductor, musical director, composer, orchestrator, and educator. He has worked in London's West End on musical productions, orchestrated and conducted albums, and TV and film scores.
Early life
Warman was born in Kingston upon Thames, and attended the Tiffin School. He studied Music at King's College, Cambridge, where he sang in its Chapel Choir and eventually became the Musical Director of the Footlights Revue in 1983.[1][2]
Musical director
At the age of 23, Warman began his West End career as Musical Director of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, which ran for 16 months at the Wyndham's Theatre. For EMI, he conducted an orchestral version of the score by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley at Abbey Road Studios.
Warman served as the Musical Director, Conductor, or Arranger for over 100 shows in the West End and abroad.
Stephen Sondheim
Over the course of his career, Warman has worked with Stephen Sondheim multiple times. In 1998, Warman was the Musical Director for the first UK production of Sondheim's Saturday Night[3][4][5][1] at the Bridewell Theatre in London. This was followed up in 2005 with Warman being the Musical Director for Evening Primrose[1][2] as part of the 'Discover the Lost Musicals' series in London. He then worked on Into The Woods at the Donmar Warehouse in London,[6][7][1][2] Sweeney Todd for Holland Park Opera Company in the UK[8][1] and then Pacific Overtures[9][10][1][2] at the Donmar Warehouse, which went on to win the 2004 Olivier for Outstanding Musical Production. Sondheim is often a guest at the Royal Academy of Music,[1] where Warman currently continues to lead as its Principal Tutor. For the last 10 years, Warman has been a judge for the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Prize of the Year competition, where he, Julia McKenzie, and a panel of judges select the best up-and-coming musical theatre graduate of the year.[11]
Carl Davis
Warman has also had a long working career with American conductor and musician Carl Davis. Together, Warman has orchestrated several TV scores over the years including, the 1995 series of Pride and Prejudice[1] starring Colin Firth, the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered,[1] starring Glenn Close and Kenneth Branagh, The Queen's Nose[1] from 1995-2000, the 1995 series Oliver's Travels,[1] The Thatcher Years,[1] and A Dance To The Music Of Time.
Other film, TV and stage orchestrations
Film and TV
Warman has worked on many scores over his career. He has orchestrated and written for both film and television, mostly with the BBC. In 1986, he started working on the TV series of Mr Pye,[1] followed shortly by A Penny For Your Dreams[1] in 1987. Between 1987 and 1989, Warman worked on Foreign Bodies, another TV series on the BBC. In the 1990s, he worked on Mr. Abbott’s Broadway[1] a BBC Omnibus production and the TV score of The Black And Blue Lamp.
Warman also worked on both the film scores of Vox Lux[12] - a film by Brady Corbet, starring Natalie Portman and The Childhood Of A Leader[13][14][12] - a film score with the music originally written by his long-time friend Scott Walker.
Stage orchestrations
Warman has also orchestrated many West End musicals over his career. Some of these include Nine[15][16][1] at the Donmar Warehouse, Into the Woods[6][7][1][2] at the Donmar Warehouse, Moll Flanders[1] at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, Hard Times[17][1][2] at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket, Metropolis[18] at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole[19][2] at the Wyndham's Theatre in London.
He has also composed and orchestrated many incidental music scores for the theatre, including School For Scandal;[20][21][1] Henry VIII[22] and The Rivals[1][23] for the Chichester Festival Theatre; and Three Hours After Marriage[24][1] for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2019, he composed the score for Alan Ayckbourn's play The Boy Who Fell Into a Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre).[25][26][27]
Lost Musicals (1990 - 2013)
Ian Marshall Fisher, Artistic Director of Lost Musicals,[28][1][2] invited Warman to be Musical Director for his inaugural 1990 season of three musicals: Fanny,[29][30] Allegro and Trouble in Tahiti. Warman went on to musically direct a further 15 shows in this project: Greenwillow[31] (1991), DuBarry Was a Lady[32] (1993), Music in the Air (1993), Red, Hot and Blue[33] (1994), Love Life[34] (1995), Of Thee I Sing (1996), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[35] (1997), As Thousands Cheer[36] (1998), I'd Rather Be Right[37] (1999), Evening Primrose[1][2] (2005), Nymph Errant (2006), Park Avenue (2008), Darling of the Day (2010), Flahooley (2012) and Around The World (2013), which was presented in London and New York. In 2001, a revival of DuBarry Was a Lady,[32][1] with Warman conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Scott Walker
Warman began working with the avant-garde musician Scott Walker on his album, The Drift[1] in 2003. He remained as Walker's musical director, conductor, keyboardist, and orchestrator of albums, ballets and film scores until Walker's death in 2019. Brady Corbet's debut film, The Childhood Of A Leader[13][14] was chosen to close the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam with a live performance of Walker's score, performed by a 75-piece orchestra conducted by Warman.
Royal Academy of Music
In 2003, Warman was invited by Mary Hammond, then Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, to create a one-year postgraduate course in Musical Direction which he continues to lead as its Principal Tutor. He was awarded an Hon ARAM in 2012.[1][2]
Discography
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - 1984 Original London Cast - Orchestrator, Conductor[38][19][2]
- The Six Wives Of Henry VIII - 1988 Studio Cast[39]
- Metropolis - 1989 Original London Cast - Music Director[18][39][40]
- Children of Eden - 1993 Original London Cast - Keyboards
- A Year in Provence - 1993 Original Soundtrack - Keyboards, Arranger[41]
- Moll Flanders - 1993 Original London Cast - Orchestrator, Producer[39][41]
- Pride And Prejudice - 1995 Original Soundtrack - Orchestrator, Producer[41]
- Circle Of Life - 1996 The Kings Singers - Orchestrator[41]
- The Fields of Ambrosia - 1996 Original London Cast - Conductor[40][1][39][41]
- Beauty And The Beast - 1997 Original London Cast - Keyboards[41]
- Saturday Night - 1998 Original London Cast - Vocal Arrangements, Music Supervisor[3][4][5][39][40]
- Hard Times - 2000 Original London Cast - Orchestrator, Producer[39]
- DuBarry Was a Lady - 2001 Concert Cast - Music Director[32]
- Here's To The Ladies - 2002 Christine Andreas - Conductor[39][41]
- The Drift - 2006 Scott Walker - Orchestrator, Conductor[1][41]
- Voices Of The Valley - 2006 Fron Male Voice Choir / Czech Film Orchestra - Conductor[1][41]
- Charles Dickens' Hard Times -The Musical - 2008 Original London Cast - Recording Producer, Orchestrator[41]
- And Who Shall Go To The Ball? - 2007 Scott Walker - Orchestrator, Conductor[41][42]
- Chess In Concert - 2008 Concert Cast - Music Director[2][39][41]
- From the Valleys: The Best of the Welsh Choirs - 2008 - Conductor[41]
- Carl's War - 2010 Czech National Symphony Orchestra - Orchestrator
- Unburied Treasures: A Musical Revue - 2010 Original Cast - Producer[39]
- Carl Davis: Heroines in Music - 2011 Carl Davis - Orchestrator[41]
- Bish Bosch - 2012 Scott Walker - Orchestrator, Conductor[43][41][42]
- Soused - 2014 Scott Walker - Orchestrator, Conductor[44][41][42]
- The Childhood Of A Leader - 2016 Original Soundtrack - Orchestrator, Conductor[13][14][42]
- Mary Poppins Returns - 2018 Original Soundtrack - Keyboards[42]
- Vox Lux - 2018 Original Soundtrack - Orchestrator, Conductor
- Minus - 2018 Daniel Blumberg - Choir Director[41]
Personal life
Warman lives in London. He represents himself and still continues to record albums for shows, groups, and solo artists.[1][2]
References
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- 1 2 "London Hears Sondheim's Long-Lost Saturday Night". Playbill.com. January 21, 1998. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- 1 2 Martland, Lisa. "Saturday Night", The Stage, London, 24 December 1997.
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- 1 2 ‘Theatre Week’. "Into the Woods", The Stage, London, 12 November 1998.
- ↑ Hepple, Peter. "Sweeney Todd", The Stage, London, 4 July 1996.
- ↑ "Pacific Overtures - 2003 West End - Creative Team". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Martland, Lisa. "Pacific Overtures", The Stage, London, 3 July 2003.
- ↑ "Sondheim Society competition 2016". Sondheim Society. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
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- 1 2 3 Earls, John (2016-07-01). "Listen as Scott Walker announces new album". NME. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- 1 2 3 "Deep Cuts: Scott Walker". Film Comment. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Wolf, Matt (1997-01-05). "Nine". Variety. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Hepple, Peter. "Silver screen symphony bubbles with style", The Stage, London, 19 December 1996.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "Hard Times", The Stage, London, 1 June 2000.
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- 1 2 "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - 1984 West End - Creative Team". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ ‘Production News’. "The School For Scandal ", The Stage, London, 25 May 1995.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "The School for Scandal", The Stage, London, 6 July 1995.
- ↑ Sell, Michael. "Henry III", The Stage, London, 6 June 1991.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "The Rivals", The Stage, London, 5 May 1994.
- ↑ FitzGerald, Ann. "Full-blooded farcical romp ", The Stage, London, 30 May 1996.
- ↑ "The Boy Who Fell into A Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre)". Whatsonstage.com. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ "Theatre review: The Boy Who Fell into a Book at Stephen Joseph Theatre". British Theatre Guide. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ "The Boy Who Fell Into a Book | Review | Theatre". The Stage. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ "Lost Musicals". Lostmusicals.org. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Shenton, Mark. "Fanny review at Lilian Baylis London | Review | Theatre". The Stage. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Shenton, Mark. "Fanny", The Stage, London, 24 March 2005.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "Greenwillow", The Stage, London, 5 September 1991.
- 1 2 3 "Du Barry Was A Lady - 2001 West End - Creative Team". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "Red, Hot and Blue", The Stage, London, 15 September 1994.
- ↑ ‘Production News’. "Ian Marshall Fisher’s", The Stage, London, 12 October 1995.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "Gentleman Prefer Blondes", The Stage, London, 1 May 1997.
- ↑ ‘Theatre Week’. "As Thousands Cheer", The Stage, London, 23 April 1998.
- ↑ Hepple, Peter. "I’d Rather Be Right", The Stage, London, 20 May 1999.
- ↑ "Various - Sue Townsend's Secret Record Of Adrian Mole". Discogs. 1984. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
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- 1 2 3 "The Fields of Ambrosia - 1996 West End - Creative Team". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
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- ↑ "Scott Walker - Bish Bosch - Official Website". Bishbosch.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ↑ Michaels, Sean (2014-07-18). "Scott Walker and Sunn O))) reveal details of collaboration album, Soused". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-16.