Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, producer and instrument builder since 1970. He has composed extensively for film, television, dance, theater, opera, installations and video games, encompassing a wide range of styles.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Club Foot Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent films. Club Foot Orchestra has a repertoire of more than 20 feature-length scores, all of which were composed by Marriott or in collaboration with other orchestra members, and has performed these scores extensively, at venues such as Lincoln Center, BAM, SFJAZZ, Morgan Library, Smithsonian Institution, and most often at the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
Circuit Network has worked with Marriott since 2013, providing project development and project management services, as well as serving as a co-producer of several projects, including his 2017 multimedia opera “Voyage”, presented at Fort Mason’s Southside Theatre as part of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, and his September 2018 Day of Silents program presented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theatre. Most recently, Circuit assisted in the premiere of his BAHAYA, a collaboration with librettist Ruth Margraff. BAHAYA means "Danger" in the Indonesian language, and in this multimodal opera, it refers to the rise of sea level caused by the melting of the Polar Ice. Island countries throughout the world are gravely threatened by the rise of the sea level caused by climate change. BAHAYA weaves together ocean narratives from Indonesia and Greenland with the Sufi writing of Farid Ud-Din Attar to make the case that the defense of the earth's environment is a necessary credo in the path of self-actualization.
