James Reynolds (composer)

James Reynolds studied contemporary music under John Adams, as well as percussion at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and composition in Cologne under Michael von Biel. Informed by many different influences – from Neue Musik, Broadway and European music theatre to avant-garde synthpop – Reynolds’ compositions explore the combination of words, sounds and images. He was Composer in Residence at the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus in Basel and Visiting Artist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For over three decades, he has written music for literary productions, thrillers, fairytales and children's radio plays for West German Radio (WDR/Cologne). His compositions for music theatre, dance-theatre, film and television productions are performed and broadcast for and to an international audience.
James Reynolds lives in Berlin.

Productions (selected)

POE – Dreamworlds Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Bremerhavener Symphoniker 2019
Ghost Knight, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duisburg & Düsseldorf 2019
Ghost Knight, Opera Bonn 2017
Tucholskys Spiegel, Chamber Opera Festival Rheinsberg 2017
A Throw of the dice will never abolish chance, Sydney Conservatory of Music 2017
Das Moses-Jahwe-Projekt, WDR Köln 2005
Vergeltung, WDR Köln 2003
Die Prozedur, WDR Köln
Fantasy1, Viola d’amore Society New York, HR Frankfurt 1987

Sammlung Prinzhorn, Theater Heidelberg
Über das Marionettentheater, Accor Festival for Alternative Theatre, Israel
Fürst Pücklers Utopia, Staatstheater Cottbus
Felix Nussbaum, Stadttheater Osnabrück
Die Bibel als Theater, Stadttheater Bern, Jewish Museum New York, Accor Festival for Alternative Theatre in Israel
Maestro, Salzburger Landestheater
Amerika, Theater Bremen
RATS, Bonn Opera
Tanzmarathon, Bonn Opera
Die Mäusehochzeit w/ Michael Villmow, Opera Cologne, Philharmonie Cologne