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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 van Kampen (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 composer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1986 to 2015, often creating "period" music for Shakespeare's plays, first as assistant to her husband, actor and director Mark Rylance, then with his successor, Dominic Dromgoole. She became Director of Theatre Music of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1997. She wrote a play that was successfully performed in England and also on Broadway.

Early life

Van Kampen was born in Marylebone, London, on 3 November 1953. As a girl, she met David Munrow, a recorder player and pioneer of the early music scene in England, 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; she specialised in the performance of 20th-century music, playing several world premieres.

Career

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

In 1986, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre in 1987, making her the first female musical director to work with both companies. In 1990, she co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with her husband Mark Rylance. 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 Dominic Dromgoole, often creating a Tudor soundworld for Shakespeare's plays. She composed the music for her husband's 1989 performance as Hamlet. Her composing credits include music for the film Days and Nights Palm Springs International Film Festival</ref> and and the play Boeing-Boeing.

Since the opening of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1997, van Kampen was the Director of Theatre Music, creating both period and contemporary music for 30 of the Globe's productions – including the 'jazz' Macbeth in 2001, and The Golden Ass in 2002, which contained a 30-minute opera Cupid and Psyche.

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. Her composing credits include music for productions of the plays Days and Nights and Boeing-Boeing. In 2015, she was a historical music advisor and arranger of Tudor music on the BBC TV 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 Mark 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 Mark 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 van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters, the actress Juliet Rylance and the late filmmaker Nataasha van Kampen. The marriage ended in divorce. She met Mark Rylance in 1987, and they married in Oxfordshire on 21 December 1989. Her daughter Nataasha 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 Mark Rylance's 65th birthday.

Selected productions

Year Work Theatre or company Role
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
2007–2008 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
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 Royal Shakespeare Company Composer

References

  1. ^ Traub, Claire (19 January 2025). "Claire van Kampen, 71, Playwright and Arranger of Early Music World, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  2. Cooper, Michael (29 November 2013). "Is This a Sackbut I Hear Before Me". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Claire van Kampen | Shakespeare's Globe". Shakespeare's Globe. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  4. "Music at Shakespeare's Globe: Experimenting with Original Practices". Shakespeare's Globe. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  5. "Days and Nights". Palm Springs International Film Festival. 2014. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  6. ^ "A production of the play Boeing Boeing (by Marc Camoletti), 5th February 2007 – 5th January 2008, at Comedy Theatre". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  7. ^ Rabinowitz, Claire (18 January 2025). "Composer & Musical Director Claire van Kampen Has Passed Away". Broadway World. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Macbeth: 2001 Celtic Season". Research Bulletin. Shakespeare's Globe. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  9. ^ "The Golden Ass: 2002 Globe Season" (PDF). Research Bulletin, Issue No. 27, October 2002. Shakespeare's Globe. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  10. Rickwald, Bethany (20 January 2016). "St. Ann's Warehouse Extends Nice Fish and A Streetcar Named Desire". Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  11. ^ Longman, Will (16 September 2016). "Mark Rylance's Nice Fish extends by three weeks". Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  12. Gurewitsch, Matthew (12 January 2010). "A Bridge of Two: In the Wings with Christian Camargo and Juliet Rylance".
  13. Schulman, Michael (18 November 2013). "Play On". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  14. "A production of the play The Tempest (by William Shakespeare), 2004 – 2005, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  15. "A production of the play Love's Labour's Lost (by William Shakespeare), 2006 – 2007, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  16. "Complete Casting for Guthrie's Peer Gynt with Mark Rylance". Playbill. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  17. "A production of the play King Lear (by William Shakespeare), 23rd April – 17th August 2008, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  18. "A production of the play Boeing Boeing (by Marc Camoletti), 4th May 2008 – 4th January 2009, at Longacre Theatre". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  19. "A production of the play Helen (by Euripides), 5th – 23rd August 2009, at Shakespeare's Globe". Theatricalia. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
  20. "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.
  21. "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.
  22. "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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