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PHILIP FEENEY

Of Love and Rage – Music Arrangement

Philip Feeney studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood at

Cambridge University and with Franco Donatoni in Rome. He has written extensively for ballet and dance and is well known as a pianist, working with many companies including ,

Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, Carlos Acosta, Adventures in Motion Pictures and the Martha

Graham Company.

As a composer, he has collaborated with choreographers including ,

David Nixon, Michael Pink, Didy Veldman, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Derek Williams, Adam

Cooper, Sara Matthews and hip-hop artist Jonzi D. His music has been performed by companies as diverse as , Boston Ballet, Rambert, Cullberg Ballet, Scottish Dance

Theatre, Bern Ballett, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, for which he wrote scores for the company’s critically acclaimed Giselle (2003) and award-winning

The Bull (2005).

Feeney’s association with Northern Ballet in Leeds, extends more than 25 years. He has written eight full-length scores for the company including Cinderella (Gable, 1993);

Dracula (Gable/Pink, 1996); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gable/Pink, 1998); A Streetcar

Named Desire (Veldman, 2001); Hamlet (Nixon, 2008); Cinderella (Nixon, 2013); Jane Eyre

(Marston, 2016) and Victoria (Marston, 2019).

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Feeney arranged the music for Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage based on the score to Aram Khachaturian’s Gayane and interpolations from the composer’s Piano Concerto,

Piano Sonatina, Pieces for the Young Pianist and Ostinato for Two Pianos.

Of Love and Rage is Feeney’s first work for American Ballet Theatre.

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