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| birth_date = {{birth date|1953|11|3|df=y}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|11|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = ], England | birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|1|18|1953|11|3|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|1|18|1953|11|3|df=y}}
| death_place = ], ], Germany | death_place = ], Hesse, Germany
| yearsactive = | yearsactive =
| occupation = {{hlist|Director|composer|playwright}} | occupation = {{hlist|Director|composer|playwright}}
| spouse = {{plainlist| | spouse = {{plainlist|
* Chris van Kampen (divorced) * Chris Perret (divorced)
* {{marriage|]|1989}} * {{marriage|]|1989}}
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'''Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance''' (3 November 1953 – 18 January 2025) was an English director, composer, and playwright. She was composer in residence at the ] from 1986 to 2015, often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director ], then with his successor, ]. She became Director of Theatre Music of the ] in 1997. She wrote a play that was successfully performed in England and also on ]. '''Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance''' (3 November 1953 – 18 January 2025) was an English director, composer, and playwright. She was the founding director of music at ] from 1997 to 2015, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director ], then with his successor, ], often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays. Van Kampen composed music for productions in both London's ]s and on New York City's ] that often starred her husband, covering a wide range of repertoire from '']'' by Euripides to contemporary plays such as '']''; she also worked as musical director and stage director for some of them. She ventured into composing music for a film, '']'', advising and arranging music for the '']'' television series of the ] and composing a ballet for the ]. She wrote a play, '']'', that was successfully performed both in London and on ].


==Early life== ==Early life and education==
Van Kampen was born in ], London, on 3 November 1953.<ref name="Traub" /> As a girl, she met ], a ] player and pioneer of the ] scene in England, and became interested in ].<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Is This a Sackbut I Hear Before Me">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/arts/music/shakespeare-brings-period-music-to-broadway.html| title=Is This a Sackbut I Hear Before Me | work=] | date=29 November 2013 | accessdate=23 February 2015 | author=Cooper, Michael}}</ref> She trained as a pianist at the ] for five years, receiving a John Land scholarship. Van Kampen was born in North London on 3 November 1953, the only child of the businessman Paul van Kampen and his wife Ruth née Relph. As her father died when she was age 12, her mother worked as a secretary to afford piano lessons for Claire, who started teaching others from age 14.<ref name="Coveney" /> As a girl, she met ], a ] player and pioneer of the ] scene in England as a co-founder of the ], and became interested in ].<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Cooper" /> She trained as a pianist at the ] for five years, receiving a John Land scholarship. She studied music theory with ] and piano with Peter Element, and she specialised in the performance of 20th-century music, playing several world premieres.<ref name="Globe" /> She graduated as both concert pianist and composer.<ref name="Coveney" />

She studied music theory with ] and piano with Peter Element; she specialised in the performance of 20th-century music, playing several world premieres.<ref name="Globe">{{Cite web |title=Claire van Kampen {{!}} Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/bio/claire-van-kampen/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Shakespeare's Globe |language=en-GB}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
]. Musicians generally perform from the raised music gallery at the back of the stage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Music at Shakespeare's Globe: Experimenting with Original Practices |url=https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/04/30/music-at-shakespeares-globe-experimenting-with-original-practices/ |publisher=Shakespeare's Globe |access-date=20 January 2025 |date=30 April 2020}}</ref>]] ]. Musicians generally perform from the raised music gallery at the back of the stage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Music at Shakespeare's Globe: Experimenting with Original Practices |url=https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/04/30/music-at-shakespeares-globe-experimenting-with-original-practices/ |publisher=Shakespeare's Globe |access-date=20 January 2025 |date=30 April 2020}}</ref>]]
In 1986, she joined the ] and the ] in 1987, making her the first female musical director to work with both companies.<ref name="Globe" /> In 1990, she co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with her husband ].<ref name="Traub" /> She served at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1986–2006 as Artistic Associate to Rylance, and from 2007 to 2015 as musical consultant and resident composer to his successor ],<ref name="Globe" /> often creating a Tudor soundworld for Shakespeare's plays.<ref name="Traub" /> She composed the music for her husband's 1989 performance as ]. Her composing credits include music for productions of the plays '']'' and '']''. She joined the ] (RSC) in 1986 and the ] in 1987, making her the first female musical director to work with both companies.<ref name="Globe" /> At the National, she met her future husband, ], and she composed the music for his 1989 performance as ] at the RSC. She co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with Rylance in 1990.<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Traub" />


Since the opening of the ] in 1997, van Kampen was the Director of Theatre Music,<ref name="Globe" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /> creating both period and contemporary music for 30 of the Globe's productions – including the 'jazz' '']'' in 2001, and '']'' in 2002, which contained a 30-minute opera ''Cupid and Psyche''. At the opening of the ] in 1997, van Kampen was appointed the Director of Theatre Music,<ref name="Globe" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /> where she created both period and contemporary music for 48 of the Globe's productions<ref name="Globe" /> – including the 'jazz' '']'' in 2001,<ref name=macbeth2001>{{cite web |title=Macbeth: 2001 Celtic Season |url=https://archive.shakespearesglobe.com/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=GB+3316+SGT%2fED%2fRES%2f2%2f5%2f29 |website=Research Bulletin |publisher=Shakespeare's Globe |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> and ]'s ''The Golden Ass'' in 2002, which contained a 30-minute opera ''Cupid and Psyche''.<ref name=ass2002>{{cite web |title=The Golden Ass: 2002 Globe Season |url=https://archive.shakespearesglobe.com/calmview/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&type=default&fname=ae%5C5aed31-0d7b-4c88-b34b-1ef123f35766.pdf |website=Research Bulletin, Issue No. 27, October 2002 |publisher=Shakespeare's Globe |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> She worked at the Globe during Rylance's term as the theatre's first artistic director<ref name="Coveney" /> and remained there as musical consultant and resident composer under his successor, ] from 2007 to 2015.<ref name="Globe" />


In the spring of 2007, she received the Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, conferred upon her by ] in ], United States. Together with Rylance and theatrical designer ], she received the 2007 ] for her founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.<ref name="Globe" /> Her composing credits include music for productions of the plays '']'' and '']''. In 2015, she was a historical music advisor and arranger of ] on the ] TV series '']''.<ref name="Traub" /> In the spring of 2007, she received the Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, conferred upon her by ] in ], United States. Together with Rylance and theatrical designer ], she received the 2007 ] for her founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.<ref name="Globe" /> She was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by ] in 2019.<ref name="Coveney"/>


Other composing credits include music for the film '']''<ref name="Palm Springs" /> and the play '']''.<ref name="Theatricalia" /> In 2015, she was a historical music advisor and arranger of ] for the ]'s television series '']''.<ref name="Traub" />
She wrote a historical play, ''Farinelli and the King'', about the relationship between the ] ] and the Spanish King ].<ref name="Traub" /> It was first performed at ] in February 2015, then at the ] in the ] from September to December 2015, with Mark Rylance as Philippe V.<ref name="Traub" /> It was also produced on Broadway, directed by ] at the ].<ref name="Traub" /> It received six ] nominations, including ].<ref name="Globe" /> In 2016 she directed Mark Rylance in '']'' at the ], New York City. The production subsequently transferred to the ].<ref name="Traub" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Rickwald |first=Bethany |date=20 January 2016 |title=St. Ann's Warehouse Extends Nice Fish and A Streetcar Named Desire |url=http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/nice-fish-starring-mark-rylance-extends_75649.html |access-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref><ref name=longman>{{cite news |last=Longman |first=Will |date=16 September 2016 |title=Mark Rylance's ''Nice Fish'' extends by three weeks |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/mark-rylance-nice-fish-extends_41796.html |access-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref>


She wrote a historical play, '']'', about the relationship between the ] ] and the Spanish King ].<ref name="Traub" /> It was first performed at ] in February 2015, then at the ] in the ] from September to December 2015, with Rylance as Philippe V.<ref name="Traub" /> It was also produced on Broadway, directed by ] at the ].<ref name="Traub" /> It received six ] nominations, including ].<ref name="Globe" /> In 2016 she directed Rylance in '']'' at the ], New York City. The production subsequently transferred to the ].<ref name="Traub" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Rickwald |first=Bethany |date=20 January 2016 |title=St. Ann's Warehouse Extends Nice Fish and A Streetcar Named Desire |url=http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/nice-fish-starring-mark-rylance-extends_75649.html |access-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref><ref name=longman>{{cite news |last=Longman |first=Will |date=16 September 2016 |title=Mark Rylance's ''Nice Fish'' extends by three weeks |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/mark-rylance-nice-fish-extends_41796.html |access-date=30 March 2017 }}</ref> Her ballet ''Uncaged'', with choreography by ], premiered with the ] in 2020.<ref name="Globe" />
Her ballet ''Uncaged'', with choreography by ], premiered with the ] in 2020.<ref name="Globe" />


==Personal life== ==Personal life==
She married an architect, Chris van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters, the actress ] and the late filmmaker Nataasha van Kampen.<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gurewitsch|first1=Matthew|title=A Bridge of Two: In the Wings with Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance|date=12 January 2010 |url=http://www.beyondcriticism.com/2010/01/christian-camargo-juliet-rylance}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce. She met ] in 1987,<ref name="Traub" /> and they married in ] on 21 December 1989.<ref name="Play On">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/18/play-on | title=Play On | magazine=] | date=18 November 2013 | accessdate=22 January 2015 | last=Schulman |first=Michael}}</ref> Her daughter Nataasha died of a suspected brain haemorrhage on a flight from New York in July 2012 at the age of 28.<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /> She married an architect, Chris Perret, with whom she had two daughters, ] and Nataasha.<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gurewitsch|first1=Matthew|title=A Bridge of Two: In the Wings with Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance|date=12 January 2010 |url=http://www.beyondcriticism.com/2010/01/christian-camargo-juliet-rylance}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce.<ref name="Coveney" />
Van Kampen met ] in 1987,<ref name="Traub" /> and they married at the ] in ] on 21 December 1989.<ref name="Coveney"/><ref name="Play On">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/18/play-on | title=Play On | magazine=] | date=18 November 2013 | accessdate=22 January 2015 | last=Schulman |first=Michael}}</ref> Her daughter Juliet became an actress and took the surname of her stepfather. Her daughter Nataasha van Kampen became a filmmaker.<ref name="Coveney"/><ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gurewitsch|first1=Matthew|title=A Bridge of Two: In the Wings with Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance|date=12 January 2010 |url=http://www.beyondcriticism.com/2010/01/christian-camargo-juliet-rylance}}</ref> She died of a suspected brain haemorrhage on a flight from New York in July 2012 at the age of 28.<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz" />


Van Kampen died of cancer in Kassel, Germany, on 18 January 2025, at the age of 71.<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz">{{cite web |title=Composer & Musical Director Claire van Kampen Has Passed Away |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Composer-Musical-Director-Claire-van-Kampen-Has-Passed-Away-20250118 |last=Rabinowitz |first=Claire |date=18 January 2025 |access-date=18 January 2025 |publisher=Broadway World}}</ref> It was her husband Mark Rylance's 65th birthday.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> Van Kampen died of cancer in Kassel, Germany, on 18 January 2025, at the age of 71.<ref name="Traub" /><ref name="Rabinowitz">{{cite web |title=Composer & Musical Director Claire van Kampen Has Passed Away |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Composer-Musical-Director-Claire-van-Kampen-Has-Passed-Away-20250118 |last=Rabinowitz |first=Claire |date=18 January 2025 |access-date=18 January 2025 |publisher=Broadway World}}</ref> It was her husband's 65th birthday.<ref name="Rabinowitz" />


==Productions==
==Selected productions==
Productions for which van Kampen composed music and/or was music director, or stage director, include:
{| class="wikitable" {| class="wikitable"
|- |-
! Year !! Play !! Theatre or company !! Role ! Year !! Work !! Theatre or company !! Role
|-
<!-- unsourced
| 1991
| '']''
| ], New York City
| Composer and musical director<ref name="ART" />
|-
| 1991
| '']''
| ], New York City
| Composer and musical director<ref name="ART" />
|- |-
| 1994 | 1994
| '']'' | '']''
| ], New York City | ], New York City
| Composer<ref name="ART" /><ref name="TFANA" />
-->
|- |-
| 2000 | 2000
| '']'' | '']''
| ], New York City | ], New York City
| Original score<ref name="Globe"/> | Original score<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Globe" />
|- |-
| 2000–2001 | 2000–2001
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Master of music<ref name=macbeth2001/>
| Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A a production of the play Macbeth (by William Shakespeare), 2000 – 2001, at Shakespeare’s Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/t/macbeth/production/e56 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
|-
| 2001–2002
| '']''
| ], London
| Master of music<ref name=ass2002/>
|- |-
| 2004–2005 | 2004–2005
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''The Tempest ''(by William Shakespeare), 2004 – 2005, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1p/the-tempest/production/e82 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''The Tempest ''(by William Shakespeare), 2004 – 2005, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1p/the-tempest/production/e82 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
|- |-
| 2006–2007 | 2006–2007
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (by William Shakespeare), 2006 – 2007, at Shakespeare’s Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/15/loves-labours-lost/production/e94 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (by William Shakespeare), 2006 – 2007, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/15/loves-labours-lost/production/e94 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
<!-- unsourced
|- |-
| 2007 | 2007
| ''Bash'' at the ] | ''Bash''
| ], London | ], London
| Composer<ref name="Queille" />
|-
| 2007
| ''I am Shakespeare''
| ], ]
-->
|- |-
| 2007–2008 | 2007–2008
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Original music<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Boeing Boeing ''(by Marc Camoletti), 5th February 2007 – 5th January 2008, at Comedy Theatre |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4e2/boeing-boeing/production/11hv |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Original music<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Theatricalia">{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Boeing Boeing ''(by Marc Camoletti), 5th February 2007 – 5th January 2008, at Comedy Theatre |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4e2/boeing-boeing/production/11hv |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
<!-- unsourced
|- |-
| 2008 | 2008
| '']'' | '']''
| ], ] | ], ]
| Composer<ref>{{cite web|url= https://playbill.com/article/complete-casting-for-guthries-peer-gynt-with-mark-rylance-com-145822|title= Complete Casting for Guthrie's ''Peer Gynt'' with Mark Rylance|website= Playbill|accessdate=20 January 2025}}</ref>
-->
|- |-
| 2008 | 2008
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| ], London | ], London
| Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''King Lear'' (by William Shakespeare), 23rd April – 17th August 2008, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/y/king-lear/production/thd |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Composer<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''King Lear'' (by William Shakespeare), 23rd April – 17th August 2008, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/y/king-lear/production/thd |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
<!-- unsourced
|-
| 2008
| '']''
| Theatre of Memory at ] Hall, London
|-
| 2008
| '']''
| ], Northampton
-->
|- |-
| 2008–2009 | 2008–2009
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| '']'' | '']''
| ], London, and US Tour | ], London, and US Tour
| Composer and musical director<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Helen'' (by Euripides), 5th – 23rd August 2009, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/7ws/helen/production/p04 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Composer and musical director<ref name="Coveney" /><ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Helen'' (by Euripides), 5th – 23rd August 2009, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/7ws/helen/production/p04 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
<!-- unsourced
|-
| 2009
| '']''
| ], London
-->
|- |-
| 2010 | 2010
| '']'' and '']'' | '']'' and '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Composer and musical director<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Henry IV, Part 1'' (by William Shakespeare), 6th June – October 2010, at Shakespeare’s Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/v/henry-iv-part-1/production/n82 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Henry IV, Part 2 ''(by William Shakespeare), 3rd July – October 2010, at Shakespeare’s Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1s/henry-iv-part-2/production/n83 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Composer and musical director<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Henry IV, Part 1'' (by William Shakespeare), 6th June – October 2010, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/v/henry-iv-part-1/production/n82 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Henry IV, Part 2 ''(by William Shakespeare), 3rd July – October 2010, at Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1s/henry-iv-part-2/production/n83 |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
<!-- unsourced
|-
| 2010
| '']''
| ], London, and ]
-->
|- |-
| 2012–2013 | 2012–2013
| '']'' | '']''
|], London, and ] |], London, and ]
| Music<ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Twelfth Night'' (by William Shakespeare), 2nd November 2012 – 9th February 2013, at Apollo Theatre |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/f/twelfth-night/production/13ea |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref> | Music<ref name="Coveney" /><ref>{{cite web |title=A production of the play ''Twelfth Night'' (by William Shakespeare), 2nd November 2012 – 9th February 2013, at Apollo Theatre |url=https://theatricalia.com/play/f/twelfth-night/production/13ea |website=Theatricalia |access-date=20 January 2025}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| '']''
| ]
| Music advisor and arranger<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name="Traub" />
|- |-
| 2016–2017 | 2016–2017
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Director<ref name=longman/> | Director<ref name="Coveney" /><ref name=longman/>
|- |-
| 2018 | 2018
| '']'' | '']''
| ], London | ], London
| Director<ref name="Globe"/> | Director<ref name="Globe" />
<!-- unsourced
|-
| 2019
| '']''
|], London
-->
|- |-
| 2020 | 2020
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|- |-
| 2024 | 2024
| '']'' | '']''
| ] | ]
| Composer<ref name="Coveney" /><ref>{{cite web |title=''Pericles'': Cast and creatives |url=https://www.rsc.org.uk/pericles/cast-and-creatives |publisher=Royal Shakespeare Company |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref>
| Composer<ref name="Globe"/>
|-
| 2024
| '']''
| ]
| Composer<ref name="Coveney" />
|-
|} |}


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| refs = | refs =


<ref name="Traub">{{cite web <ref name="Cooper">{{cite news
| last = Cooper
| first = Michael
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/arts/music/shakespeare-brings-period-music-to-broadway.html
| title = Is This a Sackbut I Hear Before Me
| work = ]
| date = 29 November 2013
| access-date = 23 February 2015
}}</ref>

<ref name="Coveney">{{cite news
| last = Coveney
| first = Michael
| title = Claire van Kampen obituary
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/21/claire-van-kampen-obituary
| access-date = 21 January 2025
| work = ]
| date = 21 January 2025
}}</ref>

<ref name="Traub">{{cite news
| last = Traub | last = Traub
| first = Claire | first = Claire
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| date = 19 January 2025 | date = 19 January 2025
| access-date = 20 January 2025 | access-date = 20 January 2025
}}</ref>

<ref name="ART">{{cite web
| url = https://americanrepertorytheater.org/bio/claire-van-kampen/
| title = Claire van Kampen
| work = American Repertory Theater
| date =
| access-date = 21 January 2025
}}</ref>

<ref name="Globe">{{cite web
| title = Claire van Kampen
| url = https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/bio/claire-van-kampen/
| access-date = 14 June 2024
| work = ]
| language = en-GB
}}</ref>

<ref name="Palm Springs">{{cite web
| url = http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24827&FID=70
| title = Days and Nights
| work = Palm Springs International Film Festival
| date = 2014
| access-date = 21 January 2025
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140102225303/http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=24827&FID=70
| archive-date = 2 January 2014
}}</ref>

<ref name="Queille">{{cite web
| url = https://www.queille.com/uploads/4/1/9/7/41973745/q5webprogramme.pdf
| title = Q5: Bash
| work = The Queille Trust
| date = 2007
| access-date = 21 January 2025
}}</ref>

<ref name="TFANA">{{cite web
| url = https://tfana.org/about/production-history
| title = Production History
| work = ]
| date = 2025
| access-date = 21 January 2025
}}</ref> }}</ref>


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* {{IMDb name|2329436|Claire van Kampen}} * {{IMDb name|2329436|Claire van Kampen}}
* {{discogs artist|Claire van Kampen}} * {{discogs artist|Claire van Kampen}}
* intermusica.com 2025 * intermusica.com 2025
* {{youtube|HnsUobyUcm8|Music in the new theatre / Building the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Part 5) / Shakespeare's Globe}} * {{YouTube|HnsUobyUcm8|Music in the new theatre / Building the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (Part 5) / Shakespeare's Globe}}
{{Authority control}} {{Authority control}}


Latest revision as of 21:40, 22 January 2025

English director and composer (1953–2025)

Claire van Kampen
Van Kampen in 2016
Born(1953-11-03)3 November 1953
London, England
Died18 January 2025(2025-01-18) (aged 71)
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Occupations
  • Director
  • composer
  • playwright
Spouses
  • Chris Perret (divorced)
Mark Rylance ​(m. 1989)​
Children2, including Juliet Rylance

Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance (3 November 1953 – 18 January 2025) was an English director, composer, and playwright. She was the founding director of music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre from 1997 to 2015, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director Mark Rylance, then with his successor, Dominic Dromgoole, often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays. Van Kampen composed music for productions in both London's West End theatres and on New York City's Broadway that often starred her husband, covering a wide range of repertoire from Helen by Euripides to contemporary plays such as Nice Fish; she also worked as musical director and stage director for some of them. She ventured into composing music for a film, Nights and Days, advising and arranging music for the Wolf Hall television series of the BBC and composing a ballet for the New York Theatre Ballet. She wrote a play, Farinelli and the King, that was successfully performed both in London and on Broadway.

Early life and education

Van Kampen was born in North London on 3 November 1953, the only child of the businessman Paul van Kampen and his wife Ruth née Relph. As her father died when she was age 12, her mother worked as a secretary to afford piano lessons for Claire, who started teaching others from age 14. As a girl, she met David Munrow, a recorder player and pioneer of the early music scene in England as a co-founder of the Early Music Consort, and became interested in Renaissance music. She trained as a pianist at the Royal College of Music for five years, receiving a John Land scholarship. She studied music theory with Ruth Gipps and piano with Peter Element, and she specialised in the performance of 20th-century music, playing several world premieres. She graduated as both concert pianist and composer.

Career

The stage at Shakespeare's Globe. Musicians generally perform from the raised music gallery at the back of the stage.

She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1986 and the Royal National Theatre in 1987, making her the first female musical director to work with both companies. At the National, she met her future husband, Mark Rylance, and she composed the music for his 1989 performance as Hamlet at the RSC. She co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with Rylance in 1990.

At the opening of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1997, van Kampen was appointed the Director of Theatre Music, where she created both period and contemporary music for 48 of the Globe's productions – including the 'jazz' Macbeth in 2001, and Peter Oswald's The Golden Ass in 2002, which contained a 30-minute opera Cupid and Psyche. She worked at the Globe during Rylance's term as the theatre's first artistic director and remained there as musical consultant and resident composer under his successor, Dominic Dromgoole from 2007 to 2015.

In the spring of 2007, she received the Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, conferred upon her by Concordia University in Oregon, United States. Together with Rylance and theatrical designer Jenny Tiramani, she received the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award for her founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Brunel University in 2019.

Other composing credits include music for the film Days and Nights and the play Boeing-Boeing. In 2015, she was a historical music advisor and arranger of Tudor music for the BBC's television series Wolf Hall.

She wrote a historical play, Farinelli and the King, about the relationship between the castrato Farinelli and the Spanish King Philip V. It was first performed at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in February 2015, then at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End of London from September to December 2015, with Rylance as Philippe V. It was also produced on Broadway, directed by John Dove at the Belasco Theatre. It received six Olivier Award nominations, including Best New Play. In 2016 she directed Rylance in Nice Fish at the St. Ann's Warehouse, New York City. The production subsequently transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre. Her ballet Uncaged, with choreography by Antonia Franceschi, premiered with the New York Theatre Ballet in 2020.

Personal life

She married an architect, Chris Perret, with whom she had two daughters, Juliet and Nataasha. The marriage ended in divorce.

Van Kampen met Mark Rylance in 1987, and they married at the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire on 21 December 1989. Her daughter Juliet became an actress and took the surname of her stepfather. Her daughter Nataasha van Kampen became a filmmaker. She died of a suspected brain haemorrhage on a flight from New York in July 2012 at the age of 28.

Van Kampen died of cancer in Kassel, Germany, on 18 January 2025, at the age of 71. It was her husband's 65th birthday.

Productions

Productions for which van Kampen composed music and/or was music director, or stage director, include:

Year Work Theatre or company Role
1991 Hamlet American Repertory Theater, New York City Composer and musical director
1991 The Seagull American Repertory Theater, New York City Composer and musical director
1994 As You Like It TFANA, New York City Composer
2000 True West Circle in the Square Theatre, New York City Original score
2000–2001 Macbeth Shakespeare's Globe, London Master of music
2001–2002 The Golden Ass Shakespeare's Globe, London Master of music
2004–2005 The Tempest Shakespeare's Globe, London Composer
2006–2007 Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare's Globe, London Composer
2007 Bash Theatre of Memory, London Composer
2007–2008 Boeing-Boeing Comedy Theatre, London Original music
2008 Peer Gynt Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Composer
2008 King Lear Shakespeare's Globe, London Composer
2008–2009 Boeing-Boeing Longacre Theatre, New York City Original music
2009 Helen Shakespeare's Globe, London, and US Tour Composer and musical director
2010 Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 Shakespeare's Globe, London Composer and musical director
2012–2013 Twelfth Night Apollo Theatre, London, and Broadway Music
2015 Wolf Hall  BBC Television Music advisor and arranger
2016–2017 Nice Fish Harold Pinter Theatre, London Director
2018 Othello Shakespeare's Globe, London Director
2020 Uncaged New York Theatre Ballet Composer
2024 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Royal Shakespeare Company Composer
2024 Juno and the Paycock Gielgud Theatre Composer

References

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  9. "Days and Nights". Palm Springs International Film Festival. 2014. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
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  21. "Complete Casting for Guthrie's Peer Gynt with Mark Rylance". Playbill. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  22. "A production of the play King Lear (by William Shakespeare), 23rd April – 17th August 2008, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
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  24. "A production of the play Helen (by Euripides), 5th – 23rd August 2009, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  25. "A production of the play Henry IV, Part 1 (by William Shakespeare), 6th June – October 2010, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  26. "A production of the play Henry IV, Part 2 (by William Shakespeare), 3rd July – October 2010, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  27. "A production of the play Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare), 2nd November 2012 – 9th February 2013, at Apollo Theatre". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
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