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Name
  
Michelle DiBucci

Role
  
Composer

Music director
  
Wendigo, Gemeas


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Albums
  
Wendigo, WENDIGO - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Similar
  
Yutaka Minobe, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Marc‑Andre Dalbavie, Fernanda Montenegro, Evandro Mesquita

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Michelle DiBucci is a composer who writes scores for opera, theater, dance, film and TV. She worked on the film scores for Wendigo, Carrier, Gêmeas and Creepshow.

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Her soundtrack for Wendigo won the WNYC New Sounds Listeners Poll: Best New Soundtracks. She is primarily a composer for the theater with more than 30 credits. Her ballet, Charlotte Salomon: Der Tod und die Malerin (Death and the Painter), was premiered at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 2015 under the direction and choreography of Bridget Breiner. The work was awarded the 2015 Der Faust, Germany’s highest prize for theater and dance, winning in the category of Best Choreography for Breiner. DiBucci’s music-theater work, Basetrack Live, had its New York premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, in 2014 and was deemed part of the "Best Theater of 2014" list by Charles Isherwood of the New York Times. Her music has been performed at Komische Oper in Berlin, Alice Tully Hall, Stockholm Concert Hall, the BAM Harvey Theater and at Zankel Hall in New York.

DiBucci received her B.M. in music composition from Carnegie Mellon University and her M.M. in music composition from The Juilliard School in New York. She has been on the faculty at the Juilliard School since 1992, teaching in both the music and drama divisions.

Works

  • Charlotte Salomon: Der Tod und die Malerin (Death and the Painter), a ballet with singers based on Leben? oder Theater? by Charlotte Salomon. Commissioned by Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Choreography Bridget Breiner. Premiere: February 14, 2015.
  • Basetrack Live, New York premiere: November 11, 2014, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • On the Nature of Things, for Pilobolus Dance Theater, New York at The Joyce Theater on 15 July 2014.
  • Biederman’s Match, based on Max Frisch's Biedermann und die Brandstifter adapted by Beau Willimon with lyrics by Portia Kamons. Premiered on 11 February 2011 at the artist residency program, Launch Pad, at UCSB, Risa Brainin, Director.
  • References

    Michelle DiBucci Wikipedia