Called \u201cthe quintessential modern composer\u201d by the London Independent , Austin-based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls with collaborators across a multitude of disciplines. Heard throughout the world in films, TV, stage, and radio, he recently scored Richard Linklater\u2019s Where\u2019d You Go, Bernadette with Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Laurence Fishburne for Annapurna Pictures, Happy Jail for Netflix, the Rude Mechs\u2019 Stop Hitting Yourself for Lincoln Center Theater, Ballet Austin\u2019s Grimm Tales , and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych . He has performed on an array of legendary stages, from the Kennedy Center to the Green Mill Tavern to the Conan O\u2019Brien Show. His Creative Capital Award winning project, Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance , a bilingual cross-border opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides (Rude Mechs), has been staged in over a dozen cities in North America.<\/p>\n
As Artistic Director of the non-profit Golden Hornet, he leads efforts which draw on the collaborative spirit of rock bands and the composer-led nature of classical music, with a focus on commissioning new music, fostering young and emerging composers, and presenting adventurous works in non-traditional settings. Alongside Kronos Quartet’s longtime cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, he curated The Sound of Science , an interdisciplinary, multimedia performance that is touring internationally.<\/p>\n
Reynolds leads the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio. He is a company member with the internationally acclaimed Rude Mechs theater collective and resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and Forklift Danceworks. His accolades include a Creative Capital Award, an Independent Music Award, two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards, ten Austin Critics Table Awards, the John Bustin Award, multiple Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, and a B. Iden Payne Award. Graham released a twelve album set on Innova Recordings in early 2017 and his newest studio effort, MARFA: A Country & Western Big Band Suite , came out in November 2019.<\/p>\n
Prior Press
\n\u201cThe quintessential modern composer\u201d
\nThe London Independent
\n\u201cEerily evocative\u2026 rich and inventive.\u201d
\nVariety
\n\u201cA rare talent\u201d
\nPopMatters
\n…a fantastic player that adds a muscular edge to the rich tones he pulls out of his instrument…
\ncapable of stretching all manner of sonic boundaries\u201d
\nJazz Times
\n– – –
\n\u201cIf the ghost of Keith Moon crash-landed in the midst of Jools Holland’s orchestra, the results might
\nnot be so very different. The Texas-based Graham Reynolds\u2026 goes for broke with his brassy
\nreworkings of Caravan et al \u2026 [A] welcome change from the usual overreverential Dukish disciples.”
\nLondon Sunday Times on DUKE! Three Portraits of Ellington
\n\u201cEvocative & enigmatic”
\nThe Seattle Times on Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance
\n\u201cBeautiful and raucous\u2026\u201d
\nVogue Magazine on The Marfa Triptych
\n\u201cReynolds\u2026 brings out the evocative styles with grace, even when a movement requires sections to
\nrepeat several times like a pop song \u2026 [The remix] portion of the disc comes off strongly, as a
\ncomplete part rather than just a repackaging of what was just performed.”
\nBlurt Magazine on The Difference Engine
\n\u201cStunning to behold\u201d
\nPopMatters on DUKE! Three Portraits of Ellington
\n– – –
\n\u201cFor director Richard Linklater alone, Reynolds has been heartsick and wistful ( Before Midnight ),
\ntense and suspenseful ( A Scanner Darkly ), jaunty and blithe ( Bernie ).\u201d
\nTexas Monthly
\n\u201cGraham Reynolds works in extremes; short take moments of sound \u2013 whether it be a surf-like
\ninstrumental, a country-tinged breather or the sound of stuttering insects crawling through your
\nhair \u2013 are all in his tick box.”
\nFilm Music Magazine
\n\u201cFilm soundtracks are most often difficult beasts to love, because they\u2019re generally so episodic that
\nthere\u2019s little compositional development or time to build up genuine mood. Reynolds\u2019 soundtrack
\nbucks that tendency terrifically, with an entirely instrumental album that holds your attention from
\nthe first few notes, keeps it for the best part of an hour\u2019s duration, and makes you want to come
\ndirectly back for more.” Witch Doctor (New Zealand)
\n\u201c…the unstoppable soundtrack by Texan composer Graham Reynolds is little short of a
\nmasterpiece.\u201d
\nThe Arts Desk
\n\u201cBest Soundtrack of the Decade\u201d
\nCinema Retro Magazine
\n\u201cLast Flag Flying comes from Reynolds\u2019 heart, yielding his most memorable theme yet”
\nFilm Music Magazine<\/p>\n
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\nWebsite: www.grahamreynolds.com<\/a>
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\nTwitter: @grahamreynolds<\/a>
\nInstagram: @grahamreynolds<\/a>
\nSpotify: open.spotify.com\/artist\/6tMpMPtrimgQsbchahB2et<\/a>
\nGolden Hornet: www.goldenhornet.org<\/a>
\nPancho Villa from a Safe Distance: www.panchovillaopera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"