Dean Wareham
Visiting Composer, MFA in Film
Profile
Dean Wareham (guitar, vocals) is, according to the New York Times, “a respected cultural figure who cut a wide swath through the ‘90s independent music scene.” Born in Wellington, New Zealand, he moved to New York City as a teenager in 1977. In 1985 he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies. He then founded Galaxie 500 (as singer/guitarist and songwriter), recording three albums between 1988 and 1991. His next band, Luna, recorded seven studio albums between 1992 and 2004. Dean’s memoir, Black Postcards, published by Penguin Random House, is a personal and cultural chronicle of his years spent in indie rock. His most recent album, I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A., was released in 2021 on Double Feature Records.
Dean is part of the duo (Britta Phillips), who will be visiting at the summer 2024 residency in July.
About the duo: Dean & Britta have released four full-length albums as a duo. They also compose music for film, including the Squid & the Whale (2005) and Mistress America (2015) for Noah Baumbach, the Irma Vep series by Olivier Assayas, and 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, which is a live multi-media commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.