Fernando Velázquez (composer) explained

Fernando Velázquez
Birth Date:1976 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Getxo, Biscay, Spain
Occupation:Composer, Conductor, Cellist,
Years Active:1995 - present
Website:https://fernandovelazquez.com/

Fernando Velázquez Saiz (born 22 November 1976) is a Spanish concert, film and TV composer. Among his best known works are the film soundtracks for Juan Antonio Bayona’s films: The Orphanage, The Impossible and A Monster Calls, for which he won the Goya Film Award for Best Original Composition in 2017.

Life and career

He studied cello at a number of different musical conservatories, including, from 1990 to 1993, Andrés Isasi in Getxo, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga in Bilbao (1993–1997) and the Conservatory of Music Jesús Guridi in Vitoria, where he won the Excellence Award at the end of his studies. He then travelled to Paris to continue his education. He studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid from 2003 to 2007, and also holds a degree in Contemporary History from the University of Deusto (1994–1998).

From these studies came a number of opportunities for collaboration including a two year stint as a cellist for the Classical Orchestra of Santa Cecilia (1995–1997), Edinburgh University's Music Society Symphonic Orchestra in 1998, and at the Basque Country's Young Orchestra between 1999 and 2004.

In 1999, Velázquez started his career as a film composer, working with directors such as Koldo Serra for his short film Amor de Madre as well as El Trabajo, by Igor Legarreta and Emilio Pérez Pérez. He continued composing for other short films such as Torre (Óskar Santos, 2000); Hauspo Soinua (Inaz Fernández, 2000); Retruc (Francesc Talavera, 2001); Loops (Tucker Dávila, 2001); Amor, dinero y salud, por este orden (Marc Vigil, 2001); El hombre esponja (J. A. Bayona, 2002); El tren de la bruja (Koldo Serra, 2004); A las 7:35 de la mañana (Nacho Vigalondo, 2004); Temporada baja, (Sergio G. Sánchez, 2003); El soñador (Óskar Santos, 2004); El gran Zambini (Igor Legarreta y Emilio Pérez, 2005) and Dime que yo (Mateo Gil, 2008), which won the Goya Film Award for Best Short Film.[1]

Among his compositions for feature films, which now number more than 50, it is possible to find films such as Agujeros en el cielo (Pedro Santos, 2004); The Birthday (Eugenio Mira, 2004), El síndrome de Svensson (Kepa Sojo, 2006); The Backwoods (Koldo Serra, 2006); Savage Grace (Tom Kalin, 2007); The Orphanage[2] (J.A. Bayona, 2007), the latter film which earned Velázquez a nomination for Best Original Score at the Goya Film Awards of 2008. Additional titles include The Zone (Rodrigo Plá, 2007), Shiver (Isidro Ortiz, 2008); Sexy Killer (Miguel Martí, 2008); Spanish Movie (Javier Ruiz Caldera, 2009); For the Good of Others (Oskar Santos, 2010); Lope (Andrucha Waddington, 2010); Julia's Eyes (Guillem Morales, 2010); Devil (John Dowdle, 2010); 5 metros cuadrados (Max Lemke, 2011); BabyCall (Pål Sletaune, 2011); The Impossible (J.A. Bayona, 2012), which saw him earn his second nomination for Best Original Film Score in the Goya Film Awards of 2013. Mama (Andrés Muschietti, 2013); The Last Days (David Pastor and Álex Pastor, 2013); Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (Oskar Santos, 2013); (Jonathan Newman, 2013); Spanish Affair (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014); Hercules (Brett Ratner, 2014); Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015); Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Burr Steers, 2016); Gernika (Koldo Serra, 2016); Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island (Oskar Santos, 2016). A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona, 2017) winner of the Goya Film Award for Best Original Score in 2017. The Invisible Guest (Oriol Paulo, 2016); Ozzy (Alberto Rodríguez y Nacho La Casa, 2016); The Invisible Guardian (Fernando González Molina, 2017); Deep (Julio Soto Gurpide, 2017); Submergence (Wim Wenders, 2017); Marrowbone (Sergio G. Sánchez, 2017); Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam (Patricia Ferreira, 2017); Que baje Dios y lo vea (Curro Velázquez, 2017); Las leyes de la termodinámica (Mateo Gil, 2017); Los futbolísimos (Miguel Ángel Lamata, 2017), Superlópez (Javier Ruiz Caldera, 2018), Durante la tormenta (2018), Sergio (2020), Poderoso Victoria (2022) o Los renglones torcidos de Dios (2022).

He has also composed music for Documentaries such Sons of the Clouds (Álvaro Longoria, 2012) and (Edmon Roch, 2009), winner of the Goya Film Award for Best Documentary; and TV series such Karabudjan (2010), Gominolas (2007) and Apaches (2017), Diablero (2018), Patria (2020), El inocente (2021), Alma (2022) and music for theatre: Continuidad de los parques, de Jaime Pujol; Macbeth (Eusebio Poncela y María Ruiz, 2004); He has collaborated with the playwright Alfredo Sanzol since 2008 for theatre productions such as Sí pero no lo soy, Días estupendos, En la Luna, Aventura, La ternura, La respiración, El Gollem, El bar que se tragó a todos los españoles, .... In 2015, he composed music for Hacia la alegría-vers la joie, a theatrical production for the Festival d'Avignon, written by Olivier Py.

He also composes concert pieces such Humanity at music,[3] the Christmas cantata Gabon dut anuntzio and Viento del Oeste for the symphony orchestra, commissioned by the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. Amongst his upcoming projects are a cello concerto composed for the Navarra Symphony Orchestra and Asier Polo as well as a concerto for two flutes for the Asturias Symphony Orchestra. Some of these compositions has been published on his first concert music album "Viento", published in 2022 by Pentatone.[4] [5]

He has also produced albums and live concerts for artists such as Pasión Vega, Ken Zazpi, Amancio Prada, Raphael, Doctor Deseo, among others.

As conductor he has conducted, among others, The Euskadiko Orkestra, The Community of Madrid Orchestra, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The RTVE Symphony Orchestra, London Metropolitan Orchestra, Malaga Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Royal Seville Symphonic Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Orchestra, Asturias Symphony Orchestra and Galicia Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, he has taken time to record the majority of his productions with State funded Spanish orchestras.

Awards and nominations

In 2008 Velázquez was nominated for Best Original Film Score at the Goya Film Awards for his work in The Orphanage,[6] which awarded him the Cinema Writers Circle Medal and the Musical Award given by the Spanish General Society of Authors and Publishers. In 2012, he was awarded with the Ojo Crítico Award from RTVE in light of his "capacity to compose music specifically created for cinema that has the ability to transcend and reach its own entity". He was again nominated at the Goya Film Awards with The Imposible (2013)[7] and A Monster Calls (2017). He won the Goya for the latter for Best Original Score and received the Feroz Award and the Cinema Writers Circle Award.[8] Velázquez has also been nominated as the 2016 composer by the International Association of Musical Film Writers.

He is also a member of the America Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

World Soundtrack Awards

International Film Music Critics Association Awards

Barcelona Film Awards

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

European Film Awards

Goya Awards

Feroz Awards

Spanish Music Awards

Original Soundtracks

Films

YearTitleNotes
2022Inspector Sun and the course of the black widow
La contadora de películas
Mummies
Los renglones torcidos de Dios
Poderoso Victoria
El vasco
El test
2020Campanadas a muerto
Ofrenda a la tormenta
La guerra más larga
Sergio
2019El silencio de la ciudad blanca
Legado en los HuesosSoundtrack released by Atresmúsica.
Lo nunca visto
2018El hijo del acordeonista
MirageSoundtrack released by Atresmúsica.
70 BinladensSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.[9]
SuperlópezSoundtrack released by Atresmúsica.
Los futbolísimosSoundtrack released by Atresmúsica.
SanctuaryDocumentary. Soundtrack released by Quartet Records.
The laws of thermodinamicsSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
2017Que baje Dios y lo veaSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
Thi Mai. Rumbo a VietnamSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
MarrowboneSoundtrack released by Mira Mi Música.
SubmergenceSoundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande Records.
DeepSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
The invisible guardianSoundtrack released by Atresmúsica.
2016OzzySoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
ContratiempoSoundtrack released by Sony ATV.
A Monster CallsSoundtrack released by Back Lot Music.
Zip & Zap and the Captain islandSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
Gernika
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesSoundtrack released by Starr Score Holdings, LLC.
2015Crimson PeakSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
The propaganda gameDocumentary.
Colonia
2014Out of the dark
HerculesSoundtrack released by Sony Classical.
321 Days in Michigan
Ocho apellidos vascos
2013
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
The last days
MamaSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
2012Uskyld
The ImpossibleSoundtrack released by Quartet Records.
Sons of the Clouds: The Last ColonyDocumentary.
2011The Monitor
Cinco metros cuadrados
2010Última sesión
DevilSoundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande.
Julia's Eyes
LopeSoundtrack released by Warner Bros. Records.
For the Good of Others
2009Spanish Movie
Documentary, Soundtrack released by MovieScore Media.
2008Sexykiller
ShiverSoundtrack released by MovieScore Media.
2007The OrphanageSoundtrack released by Rhino Records.
Savage Grace
The zone
2006El síndrome de Svensson
The Backwoods

TV Series

AñoPelículaNotas
2022Alma
2021El inocente
2020Patria
2020Scott y Milá
2018-19La otra mirada
2018Diablero
2015-17Apaches
2015Aitaren etxea
2013-14Cuéntame un cuento
2010Karabudjan
2009Go!azen
2007Gominolas

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-01-15 . Fernando Velázquez: «Parece que ahora nada tiene una vocación de permanencia» . 2022-06-27 . Diario Sur . es.
  2. Web site: Fernando Velázquez, compositor de bandas sonoras: «¡Hay tanto que aprender de Queen!». Ideal . 2022-06-27 . www.ideal.es.
  3. Web site: Fernando Velázquez . 2022-06-27 . Humanity at Music . 26 October 2018 . es-ES.
  4. Web site: Deia . Fernando Velázquez lanza su primer álbum "clásico" . 2022-06-27 . www.deia.eus . 23 March 2022 . es.
  5. Web site: velazquez viento - Google Search . 2022-06-27 . www.google.com.
  6. Web site: Premios Goya 2008 elmundo.es . 2022-06-27 . www.elmundo.es.
  7. Web site: 2013-02-17 . Goya 2013: Todos los nominados a los premios del cine español . 2022-06-27 . La Voz de Galicia . es.
  8. Web site: cinececblog . 2017-01-30 . Ganadores de la 72 edición de las Medallas CEC . 2022-06-27 . CÍRCULO DE ESCRITORES CINEMATOGRÁFICOS . es.
  9. Web site: Velazquez, Fernando Archives . 2022-06-27 . Quartet Records . en-US.