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DURHAM  MARENGHI

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Welcome to the website of British lighting designer Durham Marenghi who has created the lighting design for a wide variety of theatre, opera, dance, trade, heritage, concert and television productions worldwide. Durham also creates theatrical lighting design for Architecture with his new company LUMITECT, discover more at www.lumitect.com

Lighting Designs include Dancing On Ice - The Tour; the Royal Opening of London St Pancras Station; the naming ceremonies of the Ventura and Queen Victoria luxury liners; a fashion event for celebrity milliner Philip Treacy at the G-Hotel in Galway; 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 New Year's Eve Light and Fireworks Show from the London Eye and the tour of 'Diamonds' for Holiday on Ice. Durham has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Rose Bruford College.

Durham designed the lighting for the Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Turin 2006 thus becoming the only British Lighting Designer to have illuminated an Olympic event, the ceremonies were broadcast in High Definition Television to two Billion viewers. Other lighting designs include a Children's Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in honour of Her Majesty the Queen's 80th Birthday and also broadcast in HDTV; the 200th Anniversary of The Battle of Trafalgar in Trafalgar Square; the Royal Opening Ceremony of the Aspire Sports Complex in Doha, Qatar and the 2005 Dubai World Cup opening ceremony on the occasion of the famous horse race's 10th Anniversary.

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. Durham shares the award with the original concept designers Ted Ferreira and Marc Rosenberg and the design was one of four awards from five hundred entries.

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. Durham also specialises in the art of Virtual Lighting Design creating rendered presentation images of architectural and theatre lighting designs in a virtual world.

This website is optimised for 1024 x 768 screen size, it has been created by Durham and was last updated on the 15th of April 2008.

Previous lighting designs include 'Saturday Night Fever' at the Musical Dom in Cologne and the 2003/4 UK tour, 'The Classical Brit Awards 2000' broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall in London,  'THE WALL' in Berlin 1990, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday Celebration from the Royal Albert Hall, the Hong Kong Handover Ceremony broadcast worldwide, the World Student Games in Sheffield, Ice Shows in Britain, Canada and the USA, 'Red Square Invites' from Moscow, 'Standing Stone' and 'Working Classical' for Sir Paul McCartney, Operas for Britain's National Opera Companies and Plays, Musicals and Dance productions staged over the last thirty years in London's West End.

Look for the caricature and profile on my biography page !

Architectural.....Television.....Concerts.....Heritage.....Theatre.....Virtual.....Event.....Trade

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To contact Durham please e-mail me at mail@durhamld.com