Rich O'Meara

Rich O’Meara is most known for his compositions for marimba that are
performed and recorded throughout the world. His critically acclaimed solo
album, Red Chard, features works for solo marimba, chamber percussion,
electronic music, and improvisation. His work has been featured on the
NPR program “New Sounds” and the PBS documentary “The Music Instinct,
Science and Song”. He presented a master class and concert of his works at
the Eighth International Festival of Percussion in Argentina and has
received four ASCAP Plus awards.
As a founding member of Silent Orchestra, he began a collaboration with
Carlos Garza to develop and perform new scores for classic silent films.
They have appeared at museums, theaters, and film festivals throughout
the U.S., as well as at PASIC in 2001. Their scores for the iconic films
Nosferatu (1922) and Salome (1923) are available on DVD.
Working with playwright/actor David Kessler, he created and performed
music for two live multi-media theater productions during the Capital
Fringe Festival in Washington, DC.
O’Meara has performed with Kwo’m Percussion, Sandbox Percussion, One
Earth Percussion Theatre, the Contemporary Music Forum, the National
Symphony Orchestra, and as a soloist, with the Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony and The Women Composer’s Orchestra. Along with the
members of So Percussion and his son, Kevin O’Meara, he has played with
the Dan Deacon Ensemble and appears on Deacon's albums Bromst,
America, and the soundtrack for Well Groomed. He is an active member of
the experimental music scene, and has produced three albums with Colla
Parte, a quartet that creates music in the moment.
Rich and his wife, Patsy, currently live in Bethel, Connecticut with their
extended family and four dogs.
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