- The composer of the music for The Lord of the Rings trilogy and an essential composer for filmmakers such as David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, will receive the FIMUCITÉ – Antón García Abril Award at the Closing Night Gala of the Tenerife International Film Music Festival.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, May 27th, 2016.- The Canadian composer and three times Academy Award winner, Howard Shore, will be a guest of honor at the Tenerife International Film Music Festival (FIMUCITÉ X), to be held from September 23rd to October 1st, 2016 and sponsored by Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Canary Islands Government and Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council. The acclaimed author of the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies will receive the FIMUCITÉ – Antón García Abril Award. Moreover, a selection of his music will be performed at the Closing Night Gala of the festival, which will be held at Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín”, venue belonging to Cabildo de Tenerife.
The program for the concert on Saturday, October 1st, will include a wide range of Howard Shore’s great collaborations with prestigious filmmakers such as David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese and, especially Peter Jackson and his films set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The program will be completed with a choice of his wonderful scores for Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, David Fincher’s Se7en, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs and more.
Another FIMUCITÉ – Antón García Abril Awards will be given posthumously to the composer Shirley Walker, who died in 2006. The twice Emmy Award winner became, in 1992, the first woman composer to work for a Hollywood production, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, directed by John Carpenter.
Tickets for the concert “Space Opera: a Journey to the Stars”, to be held on September 30th, are already on sale at the box office of Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín” and at www.auditoriodetenerife.com. This program will be devoted to the most popular Science Fiction scores, from Star Wars to Star Trek, Dune and Battlestar Galactica. The tickets for the Closing Night Gala will be available on Friday, June 3rd, as well as the season tickets to enjoy both symphonic concerts with a €5 discount from the total price.
Howard Shore’s Biography:
Howard Shore is one of today’s premier composers whose music is performed in concert halls around the world by the most prestigious orchestras and is heard in cinemas across the globe.
Shore’s musical interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative world of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as portrayed in the films directed by Peter Jackson, have enthralled people of all generations for years. This work stands as his most acclaimed composition to date awarding him with three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes as well as numerous critic’s and festival awards.
He is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and has also been recognized by Canada with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures honored Howard Shore with an award for Career Achievement for Music Composition and the City of Vienna bestowed him with the Max Steiner Award. Shore has received numerous other awards for his career achievements.
Perhaps most notable from his early career, Shore was one of the creators of Saturday Night Live and served as musical director from 1975 - 1980. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg and has since scored 15 of the director’s films, including The Fly, Crash, and Naked Lunch. He was awarded Canadian Screen Awards for Maps to the Stars for score and Cosmopolis for both score and song. His original scores to A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises and Dead Ringers were each honoured with a Genie Award. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, The Departed, The Aviator (for which he won his third Golden Globe Award) and Gangs of New York to Ed Wood, Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Mrs. Doubtfire and his most recent score for Tom McCarthy’s Academy Award-winning Film Spotlight.
Other recent works include the piano concerto Ruin and Memory for Lang Lang (2010), the song cycle A Palace Upon the Ruins featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano (2014), a cello concerto Mythic Gardens featuring Sophie Shao (2012), and Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (2008).
His opera, The Fly (2008), which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera, recently completed a successful run in Germany at Theatre Trier.