Hollywood in Vienna - Film Music Symposium

Ein einmaliges Highlight bietet heuer unsere MASTERCLASS: Zum ersten Mal seit Bestehen des FIMU werden zwei Komponisten-Stars gemeinsam eine Masterclass abhalten! Am 22. September 2022 werden ALAN MENKEN und RANDY KERBER einen Einblick in ihre Arbeitsweise gewähren und auf individuelle Fragen der Teilnehmenden eingehen. Es gibt noch Plätze - Don't miss it!

Unser diesjähriger Schedule - check it out 🙂

Unser heuriges FIMU-Symposium ist der Disney-Legende Alan Menken gewidmet: "Arielle, die Meerjungfrau", "Die Schöne und das Biest", "Aladdin", "Der Glöckner von Notre Dame" sind nur einige der Werke für die er mit insgesamt 8 Oscars, 11 Grammys und 7 Golden Globes ausgezeichnet wurde. Neben Alan Menken selbst, wird eine exklusive Runde an hochkarätige Speakern für einen Tag voll spannender Vorträge sorgen!

Hollywood in Vienna Featuring AlanMenken MichaelKosarin SusanEgan RandyKerber SandraTomek Am 21. September 2022 findet nach zweijähriger Pause wieder das International Film Music Symposium an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW) statt. Für das diesjährige Symposium ist es gelungen, einen de...

Impressions of the masterclass with Gabriel Yared.
What a great experience!

FIMU presents one of our speakers 2019: Gabriel Yared

Versatile artist Gabriel Yared, with his elegant, sensual-emotional musical language, is one of the most sought-after film composers worldwide

Gabriel Yared was born in 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived there until the age of eighteen. He first came into contact with music at a very early age at school. He attended accordion and piano lessons. As a teenager, he began to study music theory and composition. At the tender age of fourteen, he became the organist at the university of his hometown. Nevertheless, Yared decided to study law after graduating from school.

In the following years Yared increasingly dedicated himself to his own compositions and wrote music for radio and TV. He met Jean-Luc Godard and made his debut as a film composer for his film SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE) in 1980. Since then, he has set around 100 films to music for well-known directors such as Jean-Jacques Beineix, Robert Altman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and Anthony Minghella. Among the well-known French films for which he wrote the film music are works such as BETTY BLUE - 37 DEGRÉE LE MATIN, CAMILLE CLAUDEL, L'AMANT, and COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY.

He made his international breakthrough with the film music for Anthony Minghella’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT in 1996. He won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy for his score. Since then, Yared has worked regularly in both the USA and Europe. For THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) and COLD MOUNTAIN (2003) respectively, he was nominated for another Oscar. In 2005, he wrote the music for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Yared’s more recent works include the music for THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN by Xavier Dolan, THE HAPPY PRINCE directed by Rupert Everett, and Rupert Gold’s film biography of Judy Garland, JUDY, with Renée Zellweger in the leading role.

Yared is founder and director of the Académie Pléiade, which supports talented young composers in the production and promotion of their works. In 2017, Yared was a jury member at the 70th Cannes Film Festival.

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FIMU presents one of our speakers 2019: Ralf Wengenmayr

Born in Germany, Ralf Wengenmayr studied Piano and Composition at the University of Augsburg. In 1984 he began performing as a solo and bar pianist, until he joined the "Original Broadway Show Company“ for their "West Side Story“ European tour in 1987. In 1989, Wengenmayr won the top prize at the German Film Score Competition which led to consistent score work in film and television.
ERKAN & STEFAN (2000) marked the beginning of Wengenmayr's successful collaboration with German director Michael Bully Herbig. Original scores for other Herbig films followed like MANITOU’S SHOE (2001) and DREAMSHIP SURPRISE - PERIOD 1 (2004), LISSI AND THE WILD EMPEROR (2007) and WICKIE THE MIGHTY VIKING (2009). In addition to three nominations at the German Film Awards for Best Soundtrack, legendary composer Ennio Morricone awarded Wengenmayr with the "Marc Aurelio Jury Prize“ for his soundtrack work on Leander Haussmann’s HOTEL LUX (2011) at the Rome International Film Festival. In 2012, Wengenmayr won the German Music Composer Award for Best Film Score.

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FIMU presents one of our speakers 2019: Johannes Vogel

Johannes Vogel has worked as a conductor with orchestras including the Brussels Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava and at the Synchron Stage Vienna as musical director for “Inferno” by Hans Zimmer, “The Crown” by Rupert Gregson Williams and Hans Zimmer and many more. Also he is working as a composer/producer/conductor for Film and TV. Works include the „MGM/Paramount-production „Hercules“ with Dwayne Johnson and director Brett Ratner, Guillermo del Toro’s „Crimson Peak“ with Jessica Jastain and Tom Hiddlestone and “The Colony” with Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl.

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FIMU presents one of our speakers 2019: Judit Varga

Judit Varga (born 1979 in Hungary) lives and works in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been teaching composition and applied and film music at the Franz Liszt Music University in Budapest. From October 2019 she is Professor of Media Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Judit Varga works with orchestras and ensembles from all over the world, including Ensemble Modern, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Riot Ensemble London. The Hungarian State Opera performed her opera Szerelem (Love) in 2016/17. The opera received outstanding positive reviews in international professional magazines. In 2014 Judit Varga received the “Best Music” award from the Austrian Film Academy for her soundtrack to the cinema production “Deine Schönheit ist nichts Wert”.

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