Composer Biography


Yasmina Ramzy

Richard Feren

Richard Feren has been creating original music and sound scores for Canadian theatre since 1992. He is the resident composer for acclaimed company da da kamera, winning a 1995 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Sound & Music. He is the recipient of the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, and his score for Modern Times Aurash won a 1999 Dora Mavor Moore Award. Richard first collaborated with Yasmina Ramzy on the 1994 production of Das Rheingold by Platform 9/Xcess of This. In 1998 he completed the ten-piece suite Dance of the Seven Veils for Arabesque Dance Company's Descent of Ishtar, and is now collaborating with Dr. George Sawa for the new Arabesque production of Isis.