Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin ( born June 21, 1932 in Buenos Aires, real name: Boris Claudio Schifrin ) is an Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. Among his most famous compositions include the title themes of the series cobra, you ( Original title: Mission: Impossible ), Starsky & Hutch and Mannix.
Life
Lalo Schifrin learned at the age of six years with Enrique Barenboim, the father of the conductor Daniel Barenboim, piano playing; In his youth, he deepened his knowledge as a student of Andreas Karalis and Juan Carlos Paz; also woke up to this time, his interest in jazz. With 20 to Schifrin competed at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Olivier Messiaen and Charles Koechlin. He pursued his education financed by appearing as a jazz pianist in Paris nightclubs.
Back in Argentina, he founded a jazz orchestra in which Gato Barbieri played among others. He also appeared together with Bola Sete, who toured through South America at that time. In 1956, he met Dizzy Gillespie, for whose orchestra he composed the suite Gilles Piana. After the dissolution of Gillespie's big band Schifrin joined his new quintet. He quickly became the musical director and arranger. Gilles Piana was finally taken in 1960, and Schifrin remained until 1962 in Gillespie's ensemble. For Gillespie, he also wrote The new continent in 1962 listed on the Monterey Jazz Festival. He also participated as pianist with Piazzolla 's first recorded in Paris Tango Album Concert for bandoneon and orchestra and worked with Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy and Count Basie.
1963 Schifrin was offered by his record company MGM, the music for a film Rhino! to compose. It should be the first of more than 100 film scores. Schifrin's jazz compositions for film classics like Bullitt (1968 ) and Dirty Harry (1971 ) gave the film music new impetus. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Schifrin also composed some of the most famous theme songs of classic TV series such as Cobra, you ( Original title: Mission: Impossible ) or Mannix.
In 1986, he led the Glendale Symphony Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl with great success his Salute to the Statue of Liberty on. At the Pan American Games in 1987, he composed the overture and the finale 1995. His Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra with Angel Romero as soloist.
From 1987 to 1992 he was Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Paris. He has conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in the world, such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Saint Luke and the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina.
From 1989 to 1995, Schifrin musical director of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. For the appearance of the Three Tenors Caracalla in 1990, he wrote the final. In 1992, Diana Ross, Placido Domingo and José Carreras, together with the Vienna Symphony in his arrangements of traditional event Christmas in Vienna on.
Since 1993 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded the series Jazz Meets the Symphony, participated at the Jazz musicians such as Ray Brown, Grady Tate, Jon Faddis, Paquito D' Rivera and James Morrison. Another famous " cross-over work" was The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin 's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade (aka Schifrin / Sade ).
Also in 1993, Lili'uokalani was his Symphony in honor of the last monarch of Hawaii; In the same year, this was also recorded with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. On behalf of the Sultan of Oman, he created his Symphonic Sketches of Oman, which were taken in 2001 with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 he conducted the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.
In his compositions Schifrin fused elements of classical music with jazz and modern composition techniques of the 20th century. He has composed two piano concertos, a concerto for double bass, pulsation, Tropicos, La Nouvelle Orleans and Resonances.
Schifrin received four Grammy Award, was nominated six times for an Oscar and two-time Golden Globe Award. He also received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. In 2012, Lalo Schifrin has won the Max Steiner Award at the event Hollywood in Vienna.
Filmography (selection)
Music for TV series
- Solo for O.N.C.E.L.
- Mannix
- Medical Center
- Cobra, you ( American Original title: Mission: Impossible )
- Petrocelli
- Starsky & Hutch