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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, live event and television productions worldwide. 

Durham has been appointed as the first Curator for the ARC Show London’s most respected and anticipated lighting show, dedicated to the global architectural, retail and commercial lighting industry. The Arc Show will be held at the Business Design Centre in Islington on the 29th of February and 1st of March 2011. www.arcshow.com

For those of you who missed Durham's New Year's Eve 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 New Year's Eve Light and Fireworks Show from the London Eye every year since 2004; 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 in the Ukraine and 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.

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.

This website has been created by Durham and was last updated on the 26th of January 2012.

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. Durham also creates theatrical lighting design for Architecture, discover more at www.lumitect.com

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

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To contact Durham please send an e-mail to mail@durhamld.com