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NEW RELEASE !  BIG NIGHT ON VINYL  ! 
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 Performer/Actor/Songwriter/Instrumentalist

Producing state of the art scores for award winning feature films and media                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               


News- 2023
Gary DeMichele has been awarded the Ingmar Bergman residency at Faro.
https://bergmangardarna.se/our-guests/

The Swedish radio network P2 has just done a feature on film music featuring discussions and tracks from Gary's soundtrack from the feature film  'Big Night'.

links to the program can be found here -
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/restaurangkokets-aptitretande-toner


Gary has just concluded an artist residency in June at NES in Skagastrond, north Iceland.
find here-https://www.facebook.com/nesres/
In July ,Gary has just returned stateside, from a week at the Copenhagen jazz festival.


New store page under construction,in the meantime, should anyone wish to purchase exclusive tracks,a
'Big Night' or 'Impostors' soundtrack CD, 'Music for Dance' or, of course ,digital downloads of tracks exclusively available here, only , please email scrimdy@yahoo.com with 'product request' in the heading.
NEW releases  on Bandcamp   https://garydemichele1.bandcamp.com

                                                                                                      

 


                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  


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Manuscript of the Score /'Big Night' Theme
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'Gary and I have known each other since college, and he's been the composer on most movies (and a few plays) I've directed or produced since then, starting with 'BIG NIGHT' in 1993 and continuing to 'COMPANY RETREAT' this year. Gary is a musician first - a jazz  composer, percussionist, pianist - and a film scorer by way of his other disciplines, which makes him the ideal composer for the very different movies I'm involved with.  His ideas are never what I would expect, which challenges me to make more effective choices in the editing room, and the movies always turn out more layered and provocative as a result. His scores always make the movies better, wider, more compelling'.

Campbell Scott,Actor/Director


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'Long before I had the great pleasure to meet and perform with Mr. DeMichele, his film music for Big Night and The Secret Lives of Dentists hugged my ears and sparked my emotions. I have since realized that Mr. DeMichele is a renaissance man in the truest of definition. In this age of specialization it is a rare individual who has absorbed the entire history of music and utilizes this knowledge to create its future. The platforms in which Mr. DeMichele presents his talents...film scoring, orchestral and electronic composition, theatrical composition, jazz orchestra and performance on piano and drums...are impressive, genuine and on the highest level of craft. His music expresses the entire palette of human emotion.'

Tim Hagans
Composer/Musician/Educator
Blue Note recording artist
Artistic Director, Composer-in-Residence Emeritus/Norrbotten Big Band



Review Excerpts-

Joel  E.Siegel
Washington City Paper
'Big Night' Dirs. Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci
'As with fine cooking, Big Night’s savor stems from careful attention to quality ingredients. Pascal’s Vegasy restaurant is production designer Andrew Jackness’ special triumph, a circuslike crimson-and-faux-stone Mafia hangout complete with walls of autographed celebrity glossies and plastic Leaning Towers of Pisa. Ken Kelsch’s crisp cinematography and Gary DeMichele’s musical score, which incorporates vintage recordings by Rosemary Clooney, Keely Smith and, of course, Prima, enhance the film’s ambience.'.
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Kevin Tomas  Los Angeles Times
'The Secret Lives of Dentists'
Dir Alan Rudolph
'......."The Secret Lives of Dentists" is a stylish work from an accomplished, sophisticated filmmaker that bristles with intelligence and gleams with Scott's and Davis' multifaceted, astutely judged portrayals. The film also glows with the clear light and cool tones of cinematographer Florian Ballhaus' images, and its shifting moods are expressed beautifully by Gary DeMichele's distinctive score, at once spare yet dramatic.'
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Ken Eisner
Variety
'Hamlet'
Dir.Campbell Scott and Eric Simonsen
..'Also striking is Gary DeMichele’s piano-and-trumpet-centered score, which offers a kind of medieval jazz commentary on the action. Dan Gillham’s lensing, which occasionally rests on the buildings’ cornices and gargoyle-like adornments, is straightforward, with just enough interpretive movement to heighten the drama.

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Todd McCarthy
Variety
'The Impostors'
Dir. Stanley Tucci
......'Andrew Jackness’ production design and Juliet Polcsa’s costumes are constantly diverting delights to the eye, and Gary DeMichele’s score is spry.

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Julio Martinez
Variety
'Drums in The Night'(Actors Gang Theatre co.,artistic Director Tim Robbins (Gary DeMichele,Composer/Sound design) )
Dir.John Kellam.
..A decided plus in this production is the compelling sound design of Gary DeMichele that constantly underscores the harrowing conditions in the world just outside the walls of our agenda-challenged protagonists.

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Some of the numerrous perofmers,directors,collaborators and organizations whith whom
Gary DeMichele has worked are listed below.Many Film,Theater and Televison credits are listed also.

 

Tim Hagans  (Composer/Arranger/Trumpet )
 
Glenn DeMichele(Musician)

Ernie Denov(Musican)

Cameron Pfiffner(Musician,rtist,Actor)

Katherine Gallagher(Vocalist,Actress)

Lori Ellsworth(Musician,Vocalist)

John Belzaguy(Natalie Cole)(Musician)

">Chicago Academy of the Arts

>Rob Williams(Musician)

Alejo Poveda (musician)
Tim Robbins Director,Actor,Writer)

Actors Gang Theatre Co.
Sally Murphy (Actress)

 College(staff,Accomp,composerumbia

Academy of The Arts

Dede Sempaio(musician)

Dorian DeMichele(Vocalist,Actress)

Steve Bergere(musician)

Howard Levy(musician)

Kenny Drew Jrl(Musician)

Bob Brookmeyer(Musician)

Richard Drexler(Musician)

(Jeff Berlin,Woody Herman)

Arnie Lawrence(musician)

Walt Weiskopf
(Buddy Rich,Steely Dan)