FROM: AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE 890 Broadway New York, New York 10003 (212) 477-3030 Kelly Ryan
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 Northern Ballet,
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, Carlos Acosta, Adventures in Motion Pictures and the Martha
Graham Company.
As a composer, he has collaborated with choreographers including Christopher Gable,
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 English National Ballet, 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, England 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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