Hollywood in Vienna
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Hollywood in Vienna is an annual film music gala hosted in the Vienna Concert Hall where the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award is presented. The upcoming "Hollywood in Vienna" concerts will be held on 23rd and 24th of September 2021.
Overview
"Hollywood in Vienna" is a red carpet film music gala-concert in the Vienna Concert Hall, where the City of Vienna honours the most prestigious film composers of our time with the »Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award«. The gala has established itself as one of the leading film music events world-wide and is broadcast via TV to 35 countries.
The gala concert was initiated in 2007 by Sandra Tomek, Tomek Productions, and has since then been produced by Tomek Productions and Echo Medienhaus and co-produced by Michael Balgavy. The gala also commemorates the composers who emigrated from Vienna in the 20th century to establish the classic Hollywood sound in Hollywood. The composers included Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Arnold Schönberg and others.
In recent years, world-famous film music composers such as Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer and, 2019 Gabriel Yared have been among the awardees.
In the course of the celebrations, the honored composers also hold lectures and workshops at the associated "International Film Music Symposium Vienna" (FIMU Vienna) in order to promote young musicians.
The concerts with star guest Alan Menken was originally planned for October 2020, had to be postponed to September 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award
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The award is meant to be a symbol of recognition for exceptional achievements in the art of film music.
The »Max Steiner Award« commemorates the Viennese composer Max Steiner, who invented the essential techniques of film scoring back in the 1920s and wrote the first large orchestral soundtrack in film history: KING KONG. While working at RKO and Warner Brothers, Steiner composed more than 300 film scores (GONE WITH THE WIND, CASABLANCA, amongst many others) and also wrote the Warner Bros Studio Fanfare. He was awarded with three Academy Awards and is considered as the »Father of Film Music« in Hollywood.
Awardees
- 2009: John Barry
- 2010: Howard Shore
- 2011: Alan Silvestri
- 2012: Lalo Schifrin
- 2013: James Horner
- 2014: Randy Newman
- 2015: James Newton Howard
- 2016: Alexandre Desplat
- 2017: Danny Elfman
- 2018: Hans Zimmer
- 2019: Gabriel Yared
- 2022: Alan Menken
Conductors
- 2007: John Mauceri
- 2009-2011: John Axelrod
- 2012-2014: David Newman
- 2015–2016: Keith Lockhart
- 2017: James Shearman & John Mauceri
- 2018: Martin Gellner
- 2019: Keith Lockhart
- 2021: Michael Kosarin
Orchestra
The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Guests, Artists and Contributors
Keith Lockhart, John Mauceri, Marc Shaiman, Lisa Gerrard, David Newman, Judith Hill, Olga Scheps, Ramon Vargas, Yury Revich, Frantisek Janoska, Drew Sarich, Valentian Nafornita, Aleksey Igudesman, Lebo M, Louise Dearman, Steven Gätjen, Martin Haselböck, Staatsopernballet (wie immer man das schreibt), Wiener Sängerknaben, Bolschoi Don Kosaken, Richard Bellis, Daniela Fally, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Superar Kinderchor, Cassandra Steen, Adrian Eröd, Ildiko Raimondi, Deborah Cox, Jeremy Schonfeld, David Arnold, Al Jarreau, Lalo Schifrin, Natalia Ushakova, Bruce Broughton, David Arnold, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, Harald Kloser, Alexander Frey, Barbara Broccoli, John Mauceri, James Shearman, Kate Barry, Klaus Badelt, Nicholas Dodd, Rick Porras, Gedeon Burkhard, John Axelrod, Kevin Costner, John Barry, Patrick Doyle, John Powell, Robert Dornhelm, Rebekka Bakken, Juan Garcia-Herreros, Alastair King, Christian Kolonovits, among others.
References
- Alan Menken to receive Max Steiner Award In: variety.com. 29. Feb. 2020
- Composer Gabriel Yared to Receive Max Steiner Award at Vienna Gala In: variety.com. 28. April 2019
- Hans Zimmer to receive Steiner Awart at Hollywood in Vienna Gala In: variety.com. 21. April 2018
- "Hollywood in Vienna": Hans Zimmer erhält Max Steiner Award In: Die Presse. 21. April 2018
- BMI Composer Danny Elfman Receives Max Steiner Award at Hollywood in Vienna In: bmi.com. 7. Okt. 2017
- Composer Alexandre Desplat to Receive Max Steiner Film Music Award at Hollywood in Vienna Gala In: billboard.com. 27. April 2016
- "Hunger Games" Composer James Newton Howard to Receive Max Steiner Award In: variety.com. 25. März 2015
- Roots Run Deep at Hollywood in Vienna, Where Randy Newman Is Being Honored In: variety.com. 11. Sept. 2014
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