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Fernando Velázquez (composer)
Film score composer

Fernando Velázquez (composer)

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Film score composer
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Bilbao
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Biography

Fernando Velázquez (born November 22, 1976) is a Spanish-born composer of concert and orchestral music, as well as that for film and television. Velázquez may be best known for his World Soundtrack-nominated score for The Orphanage.

Life and career

Fernando’s experience as an accomplished cello player in various orchestras and his training in conservatories as “Jesus Guridi” from Vitoria and composition studies in the RCSM Madrid and Paris are the foundations of his talent. Fernando Velázquez already had experience in the world of cinema, and especially in the terror genre, having composed movies like Devil (written & produced by M. Night Shyamalan) and the Guillermo del Toro produced feature The Orphanage. His other credits include The Backwoods starring Gary Oldman and Savage Grace starring Julianne Moore. In 2010 he was selected to create symphonic works for the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. He was one of eleven selected composers. Also in 2010, Film Music Magazine rated his score to 'Devil' as one of the best scores of the year, quoting "Velazquez’s brassily orchestral ambitions pay more of a blood oath to Bernard Herrmann and James Newton Howard, with the kind of churning, melodically rich symphonic sound that makes DEVIL’s mostly elevator-bound setting anything but claustrophobic"In 2012, Film Music Magazine ranked his score to 'The Impossible' as one of the Top 10 scores of the year.

He composed the music for the film Mama (2013), produced by Guillermo del Toro. He also composed the full soundtrack to the award-winning total conversion modification The Last Days of the Third Age for Mount & Blade.

Awards & Nominations

World Soundtrack Awards

  • 2008: The Orphanage (nomination)

International Film Music Critics Association Awards

  • 2012: The Impossible (win, Film Music Composition of the Year, for "Main Titles")
  • 2012: The Impossible (nomination, Film Score of the Year)
  • 2012: Film Composer of the Year (nomination)
  • 2012: The Impossible (nomination, Best Drama Score)
  • 2009: Garbo: The Spy (nomination, Best Documentary Score)
  • 2007: Best New Composer of the Year (nomination)
  • 2007: The Orphanage (nomination, Best Horror/Thriller Score)

Barcelona Film Awards

  • 2007: The Orphanage (nomination)

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

  • 2011: Lope (nomination)
  • 2008: The Orphanage (win)

European Film Awards

  • 2008: The Orphanage (nomination)

Goya Awards

  • 2008: The Orphanage (nomination)
  • 2013: The Impossible (nomination)

Spanish Music Awards

  • 2008: The Orphanage (win)

Discography

Films & TV

YearTitleNotes
1999Amor de MadreShort film
1999El Trabajo"Short film
2000TorreShort film
2001LoopsShort film
2006The Backwoods
2007GominolasTV series
2007Savage Grace
2007The OrphanageSoundtrack released by Rhino Records
2008ShiverSoundtrack released by MovieScore Media
2009Garbo: The SpyDocumentary, Soundtrack released by MovieScore Media
2009Spanish Movie
2010KarabudjanTV series
2010For The Good Of Others
2010LopeSoundtrack released by Warner Bros. Records
2010Julia's Eyes
2010DevilSoundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande
2011They SayShort film
2011The Monitor
2012Cuéntame un cuentoTV series
2012Sons of the Clouds: The Last ColonyDocumentary
2012The ImpossibleSoundtrack released by Quartet Records
2013Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang
2013MamaSoundtrack released by Quartet Records
2014HerculesSoundtrack released by Sony Classical
2015Crimson Peak
2016Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016A Monster Calls
2016Colonia
2018Anubis

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