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THEATRE
designs include the world tour of DIAMONDS for Holiday on Ice, the UK tour
of DANCING ON ICE - THE TOUR and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER; ROMEO AND JULIET at
the Piccadilly Theatre; PETER PAN at the Royal festival Hall; DASH and THE
HOT SHOE SHOW for Wayne Sleep; BACK WITH A VENGEANCE for Barry Humphries
at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; THE WOMEN at The Old Vic; THE ANCIENT
MARINER for Michael Bogdanov at The Young Vic; DAPHNE and TAMBURLAINE for
Philip Prowse at Opera North; ICE ADVENTURES for Torvill and Dean; ICE
MAJESTY and ELECTRIC ICE for Robin Cousins; ICECAPADES tour of Canada; LE
ICE SHOW at the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas.
LENNON,
THE MUSICAL at the Astoria Theatre; THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Michael
Attenborough; LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and IL SERAGLIO for Giles Havergal at The
Welsh National Opera; THE REPRESENTATIVE and JOAN OF ARC at The Citizens'
Theatre, Glasgow; PRISONER OF CELL BLOCK H with Lily Savage at the Queen's
Theatre; SATURDAY
NIGHT FEVER at the Musical Dome Cologne and European tours of THE ROCKY
HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and JESUS CHRIST
SUPERSTAR.
TRADE
designs include the Creative Direction of a multimedia event to celebrate
the 100th Anniversary of the TAJ HOTEL Mumbai, India; the lighting design
for the Volkswagen 'Big Box' multimedia theatre at the Frankfurt Motor
Show 2001; the 1999 JORDAN FORMULA 1 car reveal at the London Palladium;
BRITISH AIRWAYS IMPACT DAY, a multi-media event on the River Thames; an
Orascom Telecom Celebration at the PYRAMIDS in GIZA for which Durham was
nominated for A MIDDLE EASTERN LIGHTING DESIGN AWARD; a
Major Civic and Television launch of the new FIAT 500 in TURIN, 2007
and
over two hundred product launches, conferences and exhibition designs for
a wide variety of business clients worldwide.
CONCERT
events include BACK TO THE EARTH, a mammoth son-et-lumiere for Isao Tomita
on the River Hudson, New York; CLASSICAL SPECTACULAR for Raymond Gubbay at
the Royal Albert Hall and arenas and stadia throughout Europe and
Australia; EXPO`92 BRITISH DAY CONCERT for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber in
Seville; EQUALITY `94 AND `95 featuring Sting, Elton John, Alison Moyet
and East 17; the European tour of ANDREA BOCELLI for Barry Marshall; THE
MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER in the grounds of Woburn Abbey and at St
Paul's Cathedral and several carol concerts for Cancer research UK at St
Paul's Cathedral.
FASHION
events include THE CLOTHES SHOW LIVE at the NEC, Birmingham; THE BRITISH
FASHION WEEKEND for the DTI in Warsaw; PHILIP TREACY at the London, Paris
and New York Fashion Weeks and the
illumination of exhibitions at the DESIGN MUSEUM in London for Philip
Treacy, Manolo Blahnik and Peter Saville.
PERMANENT
INSTALLATIONS Durham
has formed an Architectural lighting company LUMITECT
which offers theatrical lighting design to Architects and their clients;
projects
include
the interior specialist lighting for THE SPACE CENTRE in Bremen Germany,
the largest indoor theme park in Europe for which Durham won an
International Illumination Design Award; KING
HENRY'S KEEP at Dover Castle; THE GLASS HOUSE in St Helens and S.P.A.C.E.
a charity project providing an environment for handicapped children
utilising lighting for sensory therapy.
TELEVISION
broadcasts include the
critically acclaimed QUEEN'S GOLDEN JUBILEE LIGHT AND FIREWORKS
EXTRAVAGANZA at Buckingham Palace in June 2002; the NEW YEAR'S EVE Light
and Fireworks show from the LONDON EYE every year since 2004; the event
lighting of THE WALL for Roger Waters in Berlin 1990, arguably the biggest
rock show of the last decade; THE WORLD STUDENT GAMES opening ceremony
from Sheffield Stadium; RED SQUARE INVITES, an Arts festival from Moscow
featuring Jose Carreras and the Mosseiyev Ballet; THE CLASSICAL MUSIC
AWARDS from the Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the Royal Albert Hall,
London; SHIRLEY BASSEY IN AUSTRIA for Andrew Bridge; CODEX,
a Television game show for Channel 4 filmed at the BRITISH MUSEUM.
SAVE
THE LAST DANCE FOR ME broadcast from the QEII in Cherbourg Harbour on the
50th Anniversary of D-Day with Bob Hope and Dame Vera Lynn; A GOSPEL
SPECIAL from the London City Temple, broadcast on Christmas Day; Channel
Four Gospel Singer of the Year 2002; OMAN NATIONAL DAY `94 AND `95,
stadium spectaculars featuring 25,000 Omani children; A CELEBRATION OF
CHRISTMAS from Vienna with Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Natalie
Cole;
The HONG KONG HANDOVER CEREMONY on June 30th, 1997; MY SECRET PASSION for
Michael Bolton at the Bellini Opera House in Catania, Sicily.
ANDREW
LLOYD WEBBER's 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION at the Royal Albert Hall;
STANDING STONE at the Royal Albert Hall and WORKING CLASSICAL at the
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for Sir Paul McCartney;
THE CLASSICAL BRIT AWARDS 2000 from the Royal Albert Hall and
the 2005 DUBAI WORLD CUP Opening Ceremony on
the occasion of the famous horse race's 10th Anniversary;
T200 from
Trafalgar Square celebrating the 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF
TRAFALGAR; the Royal Opening Ceremony of the ASPIRE SPORTS COMPLEX in
Doha, Qatar; a BBC CHILDREN'S GARDEN PARTY at Buckingham Palace in honour
of Her Majesty the Queen's 80th Birthday; the WINTER OLYMPICS OPENING AND
CLOSING CEREMONIES and the PARALYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY in
Turin 2006
and
the LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC HANDOVER in Beijing 2008.
Durham
is a member of The Society of British Theatre Designers, The Society of
Television Lighting Directors, The Association of Lighting Designers and
Equity and
is an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College.
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his leisure time Durham is a certified SCUBA diver and has undertaken
conservation work in the Maldive Islands, he is also a keen fly fisherman.
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