In June 2002 Durham designed the lighting for the much acclaimed Her Majesty The Queen's Golden Jubilee Light and Fireworks Extravaganza performed at Buckingham Palace and along the Mall and is delighted to have been appointed as lighting designer for The Diamond Jubilee Concert this year.

On Monday 4 June 2012 there will be a star-studded concert, set against the spectacular backdrop of Buckingham Palace, celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's 60 year reign. The Diamond Jubilee Concert, produced by the BBC, is going to be one of the most spectacular shows ever staged in the UK. The BBC and music maestro Gary Barlow are bringing together some of the biggest names from the worlds of music, dance and musical theatre – including Shirley Bassey, Alfie Boe, Jools Holland, Jessie J, JLS, Elton John, Tom Jones, Lang Lang, Annie Lennox, Madness, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard and Ed Sheeran.

Durham has designed the lighting for the New Year's Eve Light and Fireworks Show from the London Eye every year since 2004. For those of you who missed the latest collaboration with Kimbolton fireworks at the London Eye for Jack Morton Worldwide please check out New Year's Eve 2011

Durham designed the lighting for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Turin 2006 thus becoming the first British Lighting Designer to have illuminated an Olympic event, the ceremonies were broadcast in High Definition Television to two Billion viewers; Durham also illuminated the London 2012 Handover at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Other lighting designs include Dancing On Ice - The Tour; the Royal Opening of London St Pancras Station; the naming ceremonies of the Ventura, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria luxury liners; a lighting extravaganza at The Pyramids in Giza  which was nominated for a Middle Eastern Lighting Design Award; the 70th Birthday party of the Cinecitta Film Studios in Rome; 'Classical Spectacular' at the Royal Albert Hall London and Arenas in Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom; the tour of 'Diamonds' for Holiday on Ice; the Royal Opening Ceremony of the Aspire Sports Complex in Doha, the inauguration of the Donbass Arena and the 75th Anniversary of Shakhtar FC the Opening Ceremony of the new headquarters of the Olympic Council of Asia in Kuwait.

In 2006 Durham Marenghi received an International Illumination Design Award of Excellence from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America for the interior speciality lighting of the Space Centre, Bremen at that time the largest indoor theme park in Europe. Durham also specialises in the art of Virtual Lighting Design creating rendered presentation images of architectural and theatre lighting designs in a virtual world. 

In February 2012 Durham became the first Curator of the ARC Show London’s respected  lighting show dedicated to the global architectural, retail and commercial lighting industry. Durham is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers, the Society of Television Lighting Directors and the Society of British Theatre Designers and is an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College.

This website has been created by Durham and was last updated on the 17th of April 2012.

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