Warren Ellis (musician)

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Template:Short description Template:For Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Warren Ellis (born 14 February 1965)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an Australian musician and composer. He is a member of the rock groups Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He performed with the band Grinderman until its disbandment in 2013, and has composed film scores with long-time friend, collaborator and band-mate Nick Cave. Ellis plays the violin, piano, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, mandocello and viola.<ref name="birmingham">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and career

Ellis was born in Ballarat, Victoria.<ref name="flyingoninstruments">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has said that he came to music by accident: while playing at the local tip, he found an abandoned piano accordion. He took it to school and his teacher showed him how to play it.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He later learned classical violin and flute at school in Ballarat.

After winning a scholarship to a private high school,<ref>Option: Volumes 66–71, Sonic Options Network, 1996</ref> Ellis went to university in Melbourne, where he studied classical violin. After that he then worked briefly as a schoolteacher in country Victoria. In January 1988 he travelled to Europe, where he busked in Greece, Hungary, Scotland and Ireland. A year later he returned to Australia.<ref name="flyingoninstruments" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ellis then wrote music for theatre groups and performed at art openings and plays in Melbourne, before he started playing in bands in the early nineties.<ref name="bbc" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1992, Ellis formed The Dirty Three with guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White. As of 2018 the band has recorded nine studio albums, including several to appear on the ARIA charts in their native Australia.

In 1993, Ellis was invited to play with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as part of a small string ensemble for several songs on Let Love In (released 1994). He soon joined the band as a full-time member, initially emphasizing violin but gradually adding many other instruments. Ellis eventually co-wrote many of the band's songs and became a pivotal collaborator with singer Nick Cave in film scores and other projects. Ellis was also a member of Grinderman, a side-group from the Bad Seeds, who have released two albums.<ref name="bbc"/>

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Ellis of the Dirty Three performing at WOMADelaide 2012

In 2002, Ellis released a solo album on King Crab records called Three Pieces for Violin. Since 2005 he has played on several Marianne Faithfull albums. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis composed the award-winning score of the film The Proposition,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and collaborated again on the scores of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Road,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Far from Men.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2009, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis released White Lunar – an album that includes other soundtrack scores.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Following the release of Carnage, Ellis and Nick Cave toured Europe in the autumn of 2021 and the United States in the spring of 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>

Ellis has lived in Paris since 1998 with his French wife and their two children.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="bbc"/>

In 2021, Ellis and his wife announced the purchase of a parcel of land in Sumatra, which they donated to the non-profit Jakarta Animal Aid Network. Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary is adjacent to the existing Sumatra Wildlife Centre, and specialises in animals who need lifetime care and cannot survive in the wild.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ellis Park, a documentary about Ellis and the Sanctuary, was directed by Justin Kurzel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Works

Solo albums

  • Three Pieces for Violin (2002)

Solo scores

  • Mustang, film soundtrack (2015)
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  • Django, film soundtrack (2017)
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Collaborations with Nick Cave

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Books

Awards and nominations

APRA Music Awards

The APRA Awards have been presented annually since 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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ARIA Music Awards

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Australian Music Prize

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National Live Music Awards

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