New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Elmer Bernstein Award Gala Concert to feature World Concert Premieres of the
Music of
Marco Beltrami
"It is uniquely significant that this award recognizes highly talented composers who are in midcareer, reaching their full potential, and whose greatest contributions to film music may be yet to come."
Peter Bernstein
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Marco Beltrami to receive first Elmer Bernstein Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Film Scoring at the 2nd International FIlm
Music Festival, Córdona, Spain
• Gala Concert to feature World Concert Premieres of brand new concert suites of Beltrami's classic scores for I, Robot and Hellboy as well as the 2013 scifi adventure Snowpiercer and the unused score for
Texas Rangers
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Peter Bernstein, the honorary president of this year's festival, to conduct a grand symphonic tribute to his father, the legendary Elmer Bernstein, featuring classic scores such as The Ten Commandments, Ghostbusters and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Marco Beltrami, one of the busiest film composers in Hollywood, will receive the first Elmer Bernstein Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Film Scoring during a gala concert hosted by the 2nd International Film
Music Festial in Córdoba on June 28. The award will be handed out to Beltrami by the son of the legendary composer,
Peter Bernstein (a composer in his own right), who is also conducting a grand symphonic tribute to his father.
"It is an honor for me to be able to present the first annual Elmer Bernstein Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Film Scoring," said
Peter Bernstein. "Throughout his life my father was dedicated to helping young musicians, and to protecting and preserving the art of film music composition. His 1972 article in High Fidelity Magazine titled 'What Ever Happened to Great Movie Music', along with creating 'Elmer Bernstein's Film
Music Collection' of re-recordings of old scores in 1974, was significant in reviving and expanding public interest in film music, and the results are seen in this festival and award."
Recognizing the unique approach to the Elmer Bernstein Award,
Peter continued: "Late in his life when he was receiving lifetime achievement awards he once said to me that it was a shame that someone should be honored only at the end of a career. Therefore it is uniquely significant that this award recognizes highly talented composers who are in mid-career, reaching their full potential, and whose greatest contributions to film music may be yet to come."
Prolific Hollywood composer
Marco Beltrami, born 1966, is one of the most sought after composers in the film music business. This year alone, he has added the scores for major Hollywood movies such as World War Z, The Wolverine, A Good Day to Die Hard, Snowpiercer and Carrie to his résumé.
Produced by Mikael Carlsson, the Elmer Bernstein Award Concert featuring the Film
Music of
Marco Beltrami will see the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra and the Coro Ziryab conducted by Arturo Diez Boscovich present a number of world concert premieres of Beltrami's music. It will feature brand new suites from I Robot, Hellboy, Showpiercer and
Texas Rangers, as well as world premiere performances of selections from Knowing and A Good Day to Die Hard. The program also features music from Mimic and Soul Surfer.
The
Marco Beltrami section of the concert will be preceeded by a Tribute to Elmer Bernstein, conducted by
Peter Bernstein. This program features a selection of suites and themes from the legendary composer's scores for The Ten Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, Far from
Heaven and The Magnificient
Seven plus a medley arranged by
Peter Bernstein featuring rare themes from films such as The
Journey of Natty Gann, A River Runs Through It, Desire Under the Elms and Stripes.
Marco Beltrami, born 1966, is clearly one of the busiest A-list
composers in Hollywood right now. Among his current and upcoming scores are A Good Day to Die Hard, Warm Bodies, The Sessions, The Wolverine and World War Z. Trained at USC under legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith (Alien, L.A. Confidential, The Mummy), Beltrami enjoyed overnight success with his score for Wes Craven's Screamin 1996 (he scored all three sequels as well). Like many successful film composers, Beltrami first made his mark in the horror genre (Mimic, The Faculty, The Watcher) but is now a highly sought-after composer in virtually every genre. Among his most important film scores are Live Free or Die Hard, I Robot, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Hellboy and Knowing. Beltrami was nominated twice for the Academy Award, for 3:10 to Yuma and The Hurt Locker (shared with Buck Sanders).
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) was one the most influential and respected film composers in Hollywood for a period of six decades. He is credited with being one of the innovative composers of the "young" generation scoring films in the 1950s and 60s bringing in a clear jazz idiom into the traditional film music vocabulary. He scored hundreds of films and television series, always with his own distinct stylistic trademark, and won the Oscar for Thoroughly
Modern Millie. Among his most popular scores are Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, Airplane!, Wild Wild West, Animal House, Trading Places, The Magnificent Seven, Bringing Out the Dead and An American Werewolf in London.
Honorary President,
Peter Bernstein, born 1951, is the son of legendary composer Elmer Bernstein. He is a prolific and versatile composer in his own right, with such film scores as Canadian Bacon, The Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The
Battle of
Endor to his credit. During the 2nd International Film
Music Festival, Córdoba,
Peter Bernstein will also conduct two brand new suites of his score for the Ewok movies and Rough Riders during the concert, "Best of the Best", on June 27.
One of the most spectacular film music events in the world, The 2nd International Film
Music Festival of Cordoba takes place on June 23-30, 2013. Fans from all over the world gather in the beautiuful Andalucian city to enjoy an impressive array of concerts, composer panels and fan events. Confirmed guests this year include Elik Alvarez, Roque Banos,
Marco Beltrami,
Peter Bernstein,
Alfons Conde , Miriam Cutler, Joel Douek, Ilan Eshkeri,
Stuart Hancock, Federico Jusid, Rachel Portman, Michael Price, Zacarías M. de la Riva, Freddy Scheinfeld and Joseph Trapanese.
Arturo Diez Boscovich is the
Music Director in Residence for the festival. Brian Cole, dean at Berklee College of
Music in Valencia, is this year's Guest
Music Director. MovieScore Media's Mikael Carlsson is the festival's symphonic concert producer.
For more information about the festival, please visit https://www.festivaldecordoba.com
