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| birth_place = Ballarat, Victoria, Australia| origin = | genre = | occupation = Musician, composer Violin accordion bouzouki > guitar mandolin | viola}}| years_active = Anchor & Hope | Bella Union }} Dirty Three | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds }}| past_member_of = Grinderman| associated_acts = Charlie Marshall and the Body Electric| website = }}Warren Ellis (born 14 February 1965)WEB, Warren Ellis {{!, Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/warren-ellis-mn0000235929/biography|access-date=1 May 2021|website=AllMusic|language=en}} is an Australian musician and composer. He is a member of the rock groups Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He also performed with the band Grinderman until its disbandment in 2013. He has also 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.WEB,weblink CULTURE : Digging diamonds from the dirt; Dirty Three Birmingham Academy 2, Thefreelibrary.com, 2 September 2014, WEB,weblink Warren Ellis Interview, BBC, 27 September 2014, He has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994.BOOK, Baker, J., The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays, 2013, Intellect Books, 72, WEB,weblink Liverpool – Entertainment – Dirty Three @ Carling Academy, BBC, 12 March 2011,

Life and career

Ellis was born in Ballarat, Victoria.WEB, Calkin, J., Flying on instruments,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140903151212weblink">weblink dead, 3 September 2014, The Telegraph, 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.NEWS,weblink Warren Ellis of Dirty Three: music is a place to get away from things, Badham, Van, 3 January 2016, The Guardian, en-GB, 0261-3077, He later learned classical violin and flute at school in Ballarat.After winning a scholarship to a private high school,Option: Volumes 66–71, Sonic Options Network, 1996 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.WEB, Dwyer, M., Wild seed, 31 March 2002,weblink The Age, 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.WEB,weblink From The Archives -Dirty Three- Concert Chronology / Gigography, Fromthearchives.com, 27 September 2014, 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 emphasising 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.(File:Warren Ellis of the Dirty Three.JPG|thumb|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,NEWS,weblink The Proposition OST, Stephen M., Deusner, 21 February 2006, 14 August 2019, Pitchfork (magazine), Pitchfork, and collaborated again on the scores of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,NEWS,weblink The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Joshua, Klein, 1 February 2008, 14 August 2019, Pitchfork (magazine), Pitchfork, The Road,NEWS,weblink Warren Ellis On 'The Road' Score, Robin, Murray, 12 January 2010, 14 August 2019, Clash Magazine, and Far from Men.NEWS,weblink Sample the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Score for 'Far From Men', 6 April 2015, 14 August 2019, Russ, Fischer, Slash Film, In 2009, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis released White Lunar – an album that includes other soundtrack scores.NEWS,weblink Nick Cave & Warren Ellis White Lunar Review, Jon, Lusk, 2009, 15 August 2019, BBC Music, BBC, 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.WEB,weblink Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Ellis has lived in Paris since 1998 with his French wife and their two children.WEB,weblink More than one string to his bow, January 2006, The Age, 27 September 2014, 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.Alex Gallagher (23 June 2021). Warren Ellis is opening a wildlife sanctuary for animals with special needs. wafv951.com, accessed 17 March 2022Ellis Park website

Works

Solo albums

• Three Pieces for Violin (2002)

Solo scores

• Mustang, film soundtrack (2015)
• Bad Girl, film soundtrack (2017){{Citation |title=Warren Ellis – Bad Girl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017, CD) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Warren-Ellis-Bad-Girl-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack-/release/10761981 |language=en|access-date=24 August 2021}}
• Django, film soundtrack (2017)
• This Train I Ride, film soundtrack (2020)WEB, 16 March 2020, Warren Ellis set to release 'This Train I Ride' film score,weblink 24 August 2021, en-US,
• Purple Perilla, book soundtrack (2021){{Citation |title=Purple Perilla by Warren Ellis |date=24 February 2021 |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/purple-perilla/1554312693 |language=en-US|access-date=16 May 2021}}

Collaborations with Nick Cave

{{see also|Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds discography}}

• Woyzeck, theatre score (2005), adaptation by Gísli Örn Gardarsson
• The Proposition, soundtrack (2005)
• The Metamorphosis, theatre score (2006)WEB,weblink Vesturport, Vesturport.com, 27 September 2014,
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, soundtrack (2007)
• The English Surgeon, soundtrack (2007) with Nick Cave
• The Road, soundtrack (2009)
• The Girls of Phnom Penh, soundtrack (2009)
• Lawless soundtrack (2012)WEB,weblink Trailer: Nick Cave-Penned/Scored 'Lawless', 25 April 2012, Twentyfourbit.com, 27 September 2014, composed with Nick Cave
• Days of Grace, soundtrack (2012) With Nick Cave, Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross & Shigeru Umebayashi
• West of Memphis, soundtrack (2013)
• Loin des Hommes, soundtrack (2015)
• Hell or High Water, soundtrack (2016) composed with Nick Cave
• War Machine, soundtrack (2017) composed with Nick Cave
• Wind River, soundtrack (2017) composed with Nick Cave
• Kings, soundtrack (2017) composed with Nick Cave
• Carnage, studio album (2021)
• La Panthère Des Neiges, soundtrack (2021)
• Blonde, soundtrack (2022) composed with Nick Cave
• (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), soundtrack (2022) composed with Nick Cave
• "Wood Dove", a track for the "For the Birds: The Birdsong Project", Vol. 2.WEB,weblink "Wood Dove" – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (Video by David Orr), YouTube,

Other collaborations

• The Blackeyed Susans' album All Souls Alive (1993)
• Kim Salmon's album Hey Believer (1994)
• David McComb's album Love of Will (1994)
• Played live music for Chicago neo-burlesque performer Maya Sinstress in 2000
• Cat Power's album You Are Free (violin on "Good Woman") (2003)
• Loene Carmen's album Slight Delay (2004)
• "Crazy Love" by Marianne Faithfull/Nick Cave, with Isabelle Huppert on Before the Poison (2005)
• "Hell's Coming Down" from Primal Scream's album Riot City Blues (2006)
• Theo Hakola's album Drunk Women and Sexual Water (2008)
• Jim Yamouridis' album Into the Day (2011)
• "Pirate Jenny" with Shilpa Ray and Nick Cave on (Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys) (2013)WEB, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys Review,weblink AllMusic, Steve, Leggett, 23 December 2021,
• Marianne Faithfull's album Give My Love to London (2014)
• "Stepkids" from The Avalanches' album Wildflower (2016)
• "A Common Truth" by Saltland (Rebecca Foon) (2017)
• "Le Brasier Shelley" with Augustin Viard, audio cinema film featuring Marianne Faithfull and Gaspard Ulliel, France Culture (2018)NEWS, Cinésonore : "Le Brasier Shelley", un film sans image en son immersif au mk2 Bibliothèque à Paris, France Culture,weblink 23 December 2021,
• Five tracks on Amadjar by TinariwenWEB, Tinariwen Release New Album 'Amadjar' Today,weblink 6 September 2019, 23 December 2021,
• Co-credit with Marianne Faithfull – She Walks in Beauty (2021)WEB,weblink she walks in beauty &124; Marianne Faithfull Official, Mariannefaithfull.org.uk, 1 May 2021,
• "About You" from The 1975's album "Being Funny in a Foreign Language" (2022)WEB,weblink The 1975 'Being Funny in a Foreign Language' Review, 13 October 2022,

Books

• Nina Simone's Gum (2022, Faber & Faber; {{ISBN|9780571365630}})NEWS, In brief: Three Times a Countess; Queen High; Nina Simone's Gum – review,weblink Alexander, Larman, The Guardian, 2 October 2022, 25 October 2022, NEWS, Book review: Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis,weblink Radio New Zealand, 25 October 2022, 25 October 2022,

Awards and nominations

• 2005 AFI Awards: Best Original Music Score (The Proposition)
• 2005 Inside Film Awards: Best Music (The Proposition)
• 2005 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards: Best Musical Score (The Proposition)
• 2010 Kermode Awards: Best Score (The Road)
• 2016 César Award for Best Original Music: Best Original Music Score (Mustang)

APRA Music Awards

The APRA Awards have been presented annually since 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters".WEB,weblink APRA History, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), 25 April 2022, {{award table}}! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} 2014 | "Jubilee Street" (with Nick Cave) Song of the Year| {{shortlisted}} HTTPS://MUSICFEEDS.COM.AU/NEWS/NICK-CAVE-BOY-BEAR-LEAD-APRA-2014-SONG-OF-THE-YEAR-SHORTLIST/ >TITLE=NICK CAVE, BOY & BEAR LEAD APRA 2014 SONG OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST MUSIC FEEDS >DATE=15 APRIL 2014, 28 April 2022, | "We No Who U R" (with Nick Cave)| {{shortlisted}}APRA Music Awards of 2021>2021 | "Ghosteen" (with Nick Cave)| Song of the Year| {{shortlisted}}WEBSITE=APRA AMCOS ACCESS-DATE=26 APRIL 2022, APRA Music Awards of 2022>2022 | "Albuquerque" (with Nick Cave)| Song of the Year| {{shortlisted}}WEBSITE=APRA AMCOS ACCESS-DATE=26 APRIL 2022,

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual ceremony presented by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the music of Australia. They commenced in 1987.{{Awards table}}ARIA Music Awards of 2006>2006The Proposition (2005 film)>The Proposition (Nick Cave with Warren Ellis)| Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording| {{nom}}ARIA Music Awards of 2007>2007| Nick Cave (honorary inductees Harvey, Ellis, Savage, Casey)| ARIA Hall of Fameinducted}}ARIA Music Awards of 2013>2013Lawless (film)>Lawless (with Nick Cave)| Best Original Soundtrack / Cast / Show Recording| {{nom}}2021 ARIA Music Awards>2021Carnage (with Nick Cave)HTTPS://THEMUSICNETWORK.COM/2021-ARIA-AWARDS-NOMINEES/ WORK=THE MUSIC NETWORK ACCESS-DATE=24 OCTOBER 2021 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20211020000045/HTTPS://THEMUSICNETWORK.COM/2021-ARIA-AWARDS-NOMINEES/ URL-STATUS=LIVE, ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album>Best Adult Contemporary Album| {{nom}}

Australian Music Prize

The Australian Music Prize (the AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. It commenced in 2005.{{awards table}}! scope="row"| 2021WEB, 1 February 2022, Australian Music Prize reveals 'strong & diverse' shortlist,weblink 1 February 2022, The Music Network, | Carnage (with Nick Cave)| Australian Music Prize| {{nom}}

National Live Music Awards

The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016.{{awards table}}National Live Music Awards of 2020HTTPS://WWW.NLMAS.COM.AU/2020/09/08/NOMINEES-ANNOUNCED-FOR-2020-NATIONAL-LIVE-MUSIC-AWARDS-PUBLIC-VOTING-OPENS/ WEBSITE=NLMAS ACCESS-DATE=8 SEPTEMBER 2020, | himself| Live Instrumentalist of the Year| {{won}}National Live Music Awards of 2023HTTPS://THEMUSIC.COM.AU/INDUSTRY/GENESIS-OWUSU-AND-AMYL-THE-SNIFFERS-WIN-BIG-AT-THE-2023-NATIONAL-LIVE-MUSIC-AWARDS/IAS3NZYFNOE/11-10-23WEBSITE=THE MUSIC (MAGAZINE)>DATE= 11 OCTOBER 2023, 12 October 2023, | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Australian Carnage Tour (Supersonic)| Best International Tour in Australia | {{won}}

References

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External links

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• Nick Cave official site
• Grinderman official site
• {{IMDb name|255145|Warren Ellis}}

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