Claire van Kampen, a composer of music for performs and tv dramas, in addition to a director, author and frequent collaborator of her Oscar-winning husband Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning at age 71, her household has introduced.
Formally know as Girl Rylance, van Kampen died within the historic city of Kassel, Germany, surrounded by her household, stated a press release issued by Mark Rylance and van Kampen’s daughter Juliet Rylance.
The assertion famous that van Kampen died on Mark Rylance’s sixty fifth birthday.
Van Kampen was an achieved musicologist, and her compositions graced many theatrical productions in London and on Broadway. Her first credited Broadway rating was for Sam Shepard’s True West in 2000, which starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Robert LuPone and Celia Weston.
5 different reveals, together with Boeing-Boeing, La Bête, Richard III, Twelfth Night time and Farinelli and the King all starred her husband.
Van Kampen wrote the play Farinelli and the King and its baroque music. It was initially produced for the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by Shakespeare’s Globe in London, subsequently transferring to the West End earlier than transferring to Broadway.
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, a household pal, noticed the play, about a Spanish king who couldn’t sleep till he’d been soothed by the voice of a castrato, and persuaded van Kampen to pen a screenplay. “Steven’s mentoring me on the script,” van Kampen had stated.
Van Kampen was named the primary feminine composer for each the Royal Shakespeare Firm and the Nationwide Theatre. She served because the Tudor music arranger and historic musical adviser for the TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Corridor collection of novels. She at all times stated that she was at her happiest when learning historic sheet music.
On the time of her loss of life, van Kampen and Rylance had been engaged on a number of initiatives, together with a historic TV drama for Spielberg at Amblin Leisure.
Van Kampen, who was typically vivacious and had a vigorous humorousness, was beloved by those that got here into her orbit.
Right here’s the assertion signed by Mark and Juliet Rylance.
Claire Louise van Kampen, Girl Rylance, has died this morning, Saturday the 18th of January at 11:47, within the historic city of Kassel, Germany, surrounded by her household. Spouse of architect Christopher van Kampen and, later, actor Sir Mark Rylance, Claire was mom of two women with Christopher, Nataasha van Kampen and Juliet Rylance.
Live performance Pianist, Composer, Musical Director at Shakespeare’s Globe for twenty years beneath Rylance after which Dominic Dromgoole, Playwright, Theatre Director, she was additionally one of many funniest and galvanizing girls we’ve ever recognized.
Claire has died of most cancers on Mark Rylance’s sixty fifth Birthday. Her youngest daughter having died in 2012, she leaves her eldest daughter, Juliet Rylance, her two husbands, and numerous beloved associates in England and America.
We thank her for imbuing our lives together with her magic, music, laughter, and love. Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, one thing is finished, one thing is starting. One of many nice smart ones has handed.
Mark and Juliet Rylance
