Adrienne Quartly

Cre­ative Sound Designer

The sound design, too, is superb and atmos­pheric. Birds sing as if in warn­ing; ice­bergs crack and break …

–Lyn Gard­ner, The Guardian, 6th March 2008

Adri­enne Quartly’s eclec­tic sound design empha­sises Jarman’s Eng­lish­ness, from a brass band play­ing An Eng­lish Coun­try Gar­den to a high-energy disco ver­sion of Jerusalem to the ecsta­t­i­cally soar­ing strings of Vaughan Williams. It’s a sub­lime inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sen­sual assault.

–Sam Mar­lowe, The Times, 24th Feb 2004

Trained

Cen­tral School of Speech and Drama:
MA ATP (Dis­tinc­tion) Sound and Music for Performance

City Uni­ver­sity

Bsc (Hons) in Music (includ­ing Cello at Guild­hall School of Music and Drama).
Asso­ci­ated Board of Music Piano & Cello, Grade 8.
Arts Coun­cil Research and Devel­op­ment Grant for Sound-led The­atre Project (Bab­bage).
Fol­low­ing a career as a Radio Pro­ducer, Adri­enne retrained as a cre­ative sound designer.

    The­atre includes

    The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, Royal Shake­speare Com­pany
    (Wiltons Music Hall).
    365, National The­atre of Scot­land (Edin­burgh Inter­na­tional
    Fes­ti­val and Lyric Lon­don).
    Stock­holm by Bry­ony Lav­ery, Fran­tic Assem­bly (Brighton Fes­ti­val 2008 & Hamp­stead The­atre)
    Nos­tal­gia, (Drum Ply­mouth).
    An Enemy of the Peo­ple, Sil­ver Birch House, Bin­tou, The Last Waltz (Arcola).
    Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Ware­house, Brook­lyn & Gate The­atre).
    93.2FM (Royal Court The­atre, Lon­don).
    Hys­te­ria, (BAC, Assem­bly Edin­burgh 07 & Mime Fes­ti­val Lon­don).
    The Con­tainer, Under­belly, Edin­burgh 07 (Fringe First win­ner).
    The Stage Coach, (Far­quhart Fes­ti­val, Derry).
    Hide­away (Com­plicite).
    Amedee, (Jer­wood Direc­tors prize at the Young Vic).
    My Real War (National Tour).
    Play­ing For Time, A Touch Of The Sun (Sal­is­bury Play­house).
    Mercy Fine (Clean Break The­atre).
    Tejas Verdes (Gate The­atre).
    Attempts On Her Life (Bat­tersea Arts Cen­tre).
    Jar­man Gar­den, Inflated Ideas, National Alien Office (River­side Stu­dios).
    Habeas Cor­pus, Quartermaine’s Terms, Romeo & Juliet (Royal The­atre, Northampton).

    Devel­op­men­tal work­shops include Var­jak Paw for ROH2 and The Idiot directed by Katie Mitchell.

    Adri­enne is also a mem­ber of devis­ing group The Play­ground, and has attended many work­shops includ­ing those run by David Lasser­son and Linda Kerr Scott.

    Adri­enne is a cel­list, fea­tured on Artist Rifles Piano Magic (Rocket Girl Records), and per­formed in National Alien Office (River­side Stu­dios). She also com­piled Bal­le­rina Magic (Gut Records) which has sold 25,000 copies to date.