Gary Marlowe


Gary Marlowe is a German musician, composer and music producer.
WWW garymarlowe.com

Life

Crystal Pine Award winner Gary Marlowe began playing piano at four. He started as a professional musician in 1980s Berlin, as a composer and synthesizer specialist, and soon went on to become a No.1 hit songwriter and a Gold Record-winning music producer. He studied Composition for Film with the Oscar winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

Musician, composer and producer

With his ensemble Echoes of Space, Gary Marlowe creates immersive 3D Audio live concerts, co-produced with 2025 Grammy winner Hans-Martin Buff.
Gary Marlowe´s body of work includes many record releases, among them a No. 1 hit single and various Top Ten chart entries, recordings with progressive thrash metal acts Coroner and Rage, sharing the stage with Iggy Pop and The Ramones, compositions for art exhibitions like the Biennale di Venezia, and performances with international orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic and various Italian ensembles.
Gary Marlowe’s film scores include award-winning features such as “Everything Will Change”, “Lautlos”, “Planeta 5000”, and the documentaries “The Milk System”, “A Place Called Los Pereira”, and “Alcohol”. He also composed music for series like “Inside the Stones”, and the prime time drama series “Tatort”.
In 2018, Gary Marlowe officially received the title Steinway Artist.
In 2025, Gary Marlowe won the Crystal Pine Award at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Varazdin, Croatia, with his compositions for the film “Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?”.
He is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus, a member of the World Soundtrack Academy, the Ivors Academy, and the European Film Academy.

Installations

Marlowe developed his concept of aural frames, ambient music installations for indoor and outdoor spaces, in collaboration with painters, sculptors and video artists. Those were exhibited also by the Biennale di Venezia and Scatola Bianca.

Work and filmography

2025
  • *H2 concept album inspired by “Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?” 2024
  • *Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?
  • *WINNER CRYSTAL PINE AWARD 2025 INTERNATIONAL SOUND AND FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL2023
  • *Gary Marlowe: ECHOES OF SPACE, 3D audio concerts, world premiere at FMF Kraków Festival 2022
  • *A Special Breakfast 2021
  • *Everything Will Change
  • *WINNER 43. FILM FESTIVAL MAX OPHÜLS PREIS 20222020
  • *Alkohol
  • * NOMINATION CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS 2020
  • *Tatort: Der Welten Lohn
  • *Planeta 5000
  • *WINNER BEST MOVIE, PREMIOS SIMÓN 20202019
  • *Alkohol
  • * NOMINATION CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS 2020
  • *Tatort: Für immer und Dich
  • *WINNER DEUTSCHER FERNSEHFILMPREIS 2019
  • *Al-Hadira - The Hangar 2018
  • *Pete's Last Dance 2017
  • *The Milk System / Das System Milch
  • *WINNER 11th International Fünf Seen Film Festival
  • *When Paul came over the Sea
  • *WINNER 20th Shanghai International Film Festival
  • *NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Max Ophüls Preis Festival
  • *NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC, 6th GERMAN DOCUMENTARY FILM MUSIC AWARDS 20182016
  • *Strawberry Bubblegums.
  • *'. Winner 37th Max Ophüls Preis.
  • *Sex & Crime.
  • *Treffen sich zwei.2015
  • *Winnetous Sohn. Winner 31st Warsaw Film Festival.
  • *Escape. Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2015 finalist.2014
  • *'. Grimme Preis 2015.
  • *Mordsfreunde, Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2014 finalist.2013
  • *concert with The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra in Gent, Belgium.
  • *The Old, the Young and the Sea, winner Cologne & Munich Surf Film Festivals, winner Cape Town Wavescape Film Festival.
  • *additional music for Houston, in competition at Sundance Festival, winner Hofer Filmtage.
  • *Jedes Jahr im Juni.
  • *Sogar die Nacht.
  • *Jerry Goldsmith Awards finalists.2012
  • *UNESCO web series Inside the Stones, music by Nine Inch Nails, Gary Marlowe and Moby.
  • *Hollywood Music In Media Awards nomination.
  • *Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2012 finalist.2011
  • *1949, German predicate of special merit, Nominee Berlin Shortcutz Awards.
  • *Stubbe - Querschläger.2010
  • *personal exhibition requiem | repeat, aural frames installation in Venice.
  • *Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2010 finalist.2009
  • *Heisse Spur.
  • *A Place Called Los Pereyra.
  • *aural frames installation the forest of st. elena, Venice Art Biennale, Richard Nonas exhibition.2008
  • *Das Echo der Schuldl.2007
  • *Schuld und Unschuld, three Nominations Film&TV Music Awards in Los Angeles.2006
  • *Kunstfehler, Nomination Film&TV Music Awards Los Angeles.
  • *Celebration Of Flight, winner Gloria Festival; Thin Line Festival, U.S.A., winner Dijon.2005
  • *Lautlos, Grand Prix Cognac Film Festival; winner Houston Film Festival, U.S.A.2004
  • *Lautlos.
  • *Styx.2001
  • *Birth:day1999
  • *Framed, Nomination Deutscher Filmpreis Award.1998
  • *Fool Moon.1995
  • *Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen.1987-89
  • *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .1989
  • *Vera und Babs .
  • *Die Didi-Show .1985
  • *' ... aka A.I.D.S. Trop jeune pour mourir.1984'
  • *The Bear''.

Awards and nominations

Gary Marlowe is a 2025 Crystal Pine Award winner, a five times Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist, and was nominee at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2012.2025: “Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion?”: WINNER CRYSTAL PINE AWARD, INTERNATIONAL SOUND AND FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL, Varazdin, Croatia2022: “Everything Will Change”: WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD 43. FILM FESTIVAL MAX OPHÜLS PREIS 20222020: “Alkohol”: NOMINATION CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS 2020 2019: “TATORT: Für immer und Dich”: WINNER DEUTSCHER FERNSEHFILMPREIS 20192018: NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC, 6th German Documentary Film Music Awards.
Official acknowledgement as a “STEINWAY ARTIST” by Steinway & Sons.2017: “The Milk System”: WINNER 11th International Fünf Seen Film Festival.
“When Paul came over the Sea”: WINNER 20th Shanghai International Film Festival.
NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany.2017: NOMINATION BEST FILM MUSIC 38th Max Ophüls Preis Festival.2016: “Schrotten!”: Winner 37th Max Ophüls Preis, Germany.2015: “Winnetous Sohn”: Winner 31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland. 2014: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist for “The Old, the Young & the Sea”.2013: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist for “Sogar die Nacht”. 2012: Nomination Hollywood Music In Media Awards as “Best Score Commercial Advertisement”. 2011: Nomination “Best Original Music”, Berlin Shortcutz Awards, for “1949”.2010: Jerry Goldsmith Awards Finalist with “A Place Called Los Pereyra”.2007: Four nominations for the Film&TV Music Awards in Los Angeles:2006: Celebration of Flight: Winner Gloria Film Fest Utah, U.S.A. Winner Thin Line Film Festival, Texas, U.S.A. Grand Prix Audience Dijon Film Festival, France.2005: “Lautlos” won the Grand Prix at the 23rd International Film Festival of Cognac, France. 2003: Winner Emma Contestabile Award.2000: „framed“: Nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis Award.
  • Marlowe had a Europe-wide No.1 hit single and many Top Ten chart entries, as well as international Platinum and Gold Record Awards.