www.durhamld.com
DURHAM MARENGHI
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www.durhamld.com 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 Durham is honoured to announce his appointment as Lighting Designer for the London 2012 Handover at the Beijing Olympic Games in August of this year by the The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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 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 every year since 2004; the tour of 'Diamonds' for Holiday on Ice and the Royal Opening Ceremony of the Aspire Sports Complex in Doha. 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. Durham is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers, the Society of Television Lighting Designers and the Society of British Theatre Designers and is an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College.
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