Marius De Vries

MARIUS DE VRIES composed, arranged and produced the music for "Sucker Punch." A four-time Grammy Award nominee, he has been involved in some of the most culture-defining recordings and soundtracks of the past two decades, winning two BAFTA Awards and an Ivor Novello Award for his work in film composition.

Beginning his music career playing keyboards for the English 80's pop-soul band The Blow Monkeys, de Vries has since written, arranged and produced across a wide range of styles and genres for such artists as Madonna, Björk, Rufus Wainwright, Neil Finn, Annie Lennox, Bebel Gilberto, David Gray, PJ Harvey, U2, Massive Attack, Elbow, Teddy Thompson and Josh Groban, amongst many others.

His film music career took off in the mid-90s when his collaboration with Nellee Hooper and Craig Armstrong on the soundtrack and score for Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" won de Vries the first of his two BAFTA Awards. A few years later, he music-directed Luhrmann's groundbreaking "Moulin Rouge!" starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor, resulting in another Grammy nomination, his second BAFTA and numerous other awards. De Vries also composed the scores for Stephan Elliott's surreal thriller "The Eye of the Beholder" and his jazz- age comedy "Easy Virtue," as well as contributing score and song productions for last year's action adventure comedy "Kick-Ass."

In the world of musical theatre, de Vries has worked several times with Andrew Lloyd Webber, on his co-production of the cast album for A.R. Rahman's "Bombay Dreams," and on his production and orchestration on the forthcoming sequel to "Phantom of the Opera," "Love Never Dies." He also produced the cast album for Richard Thomas's hugely successful and controversial West End comedy hit, "Jerry Springer: The Opera."

In early 2008, de Vries created an hour-long contemporary dance piece, "Squaremap of Q4," for award-winning Spanish choreographer Rafael Bonachela, which premiered at the South Bank in London. He also completed work on the eclectic Chinese singer Sa Ding Ding's album "Harmony," recorded in Beijing and mixed in London.

De Vries co-produced an LP with and for Robbie Robertson, featuring guests Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Tom Morello and others.

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