On Friday, September 23rd, FIMUCITÉ X will start with a concert in the Infanta Leonor Auditorium in Los Cristianos.
The 10th Tenerife International Film Music Festival (FIMUCITÉ) will open on September 23rd with the concert “Lalo Schifrin's Jazz Goes to Hollywood” in the Infanta Leonor Auditorium in Los Cristianos. The Big Band de Canarias, led by the renowned saxophonist Kike Perdomo, will play some of the most known works of the Argentinian musician, composer of the score for the TV series “Mission: Impossible”.
The opening concert repertoire of FIMUCITÉ X will include Schifrin’s pieces for film classics such as “The Cincinnati Kid” (1965), “Cool Hand Luke” (1967), “Bullit” (1968) and “Enter the Dragon” (1973), Bruce Lee’s last film. The soloist Alba Serrano will be performing at this opening recital.
The tickets for this first concert of FIMUCITÉ X, sponsored by the councillorship for Culture of the Arona City Council, will be soon on sale at Los Cristianos Cultural Center and at the box office of the theater. Information at www.arona.org/auditorio. The concert “Lalo Schifrin's Jazz Goes to Hollywood” will begin at 20.00 hours.
The Big Band de Canarias has been an important part of the festival’s program since FIMUCITÉ VI. Thus, the band led by the saxophonist Kike Perdomo and the guitarist Yul Ballesteros has performed repertoires dedicated to the film noir and to other legendary composers such as Henry Mancini (“The Pink Panther”, “Peter Gunn”) and Elmer Bernstein (“The Magnificent Seven”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”). In addition, at the end of 2014, the prestigious label Varèse Sarabande released "Elmer Bernstein: The Wild Side", a CD of the unforgettable concert the Big Band de Canarias gave at FIMUCITÉ VII, accompanied by the soloist Esther Ovejero and the flutist Sara Andon.
FIMUCITÉ X is sponsored by Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government and Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council.
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires, in June 1932, and started playing the piano at the age of 6. As a musician, he has played with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. He has also worked as an arranger for both Xavier Cugat and The Three Tenors, José Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti. As a film music composer, he has been nominated six times for the Oscar Academy Awards.