FIMUCITÉ 15 unveils its program – Once Upon a Time in FIMUCITÉ

CONCERTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Teatro Leal – La Laguna

20:00h “Electric Arcade – A VGM History”

Conducted by Eímear Noone

 

La Laguna’s Teatro Leal will be the stage for the opening concert of FIMUCITÉ 15 on Friday, September 17. Dedicated to video games music, it will be conducted by the award-winning Irish composer Eímear Noone, who surprised those attending the 2017 edition of the Festival as guest conductor in front of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra for the concert ‘Sword and Sorcery: Symphonic Chronicles of a Legendary Age”. She has been the first woman to conduct the orchestra during the Oscar gala. Famous for her music for video games such as ‘World of Warcraft’, on this occasion she will conduct a chamber orchestra, with a pop-rock combo, to the program ‘Electric Arcade – A VGM History’. Emblematic compositions for essential titles such as ‘Castlevania’, ‘The Witcher’, ‘Zelda’, ‘Halo’, ‘Assassin’s Creed’, ‘Fortnite’ or the classic ‘Tetris’, will be performed in this unmissable event, with arrangements by Craig Stuart Garfinkle, Emmy-nominated and prolific music producer and composer whose work ranges from feature films and documentaries to multimedia content, video games, commercials and live shows.

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

Teatro Guimerá – Santa Cruz de Tenerife

20:00h “Route 66”

The Pop Culture Band

 

The Pop Culture Band returns this year with a new and original proposal: a tribute to one of the most important and long-lived genres of cinema, the “road movies”, with plots developed along a road trip. The Guimerá Theater of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will offer on Saturday, September 18 the program ‘Route 66’, in which the resident band of the Festival, led by Gonzalo de Araoz, will perform fundamental songs that were part of movies such as ‘Easy Rider’, ‘Thelma & Louise’, ‘Wild at Heart’, ‘True Romance’ or ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’.

 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Ex-convent of Santo Domingo (La Laguna)

20:00h White Voices Choir concert

Professional Conservatory of Music of Tenerife

 

Concert by the White Voices Choir of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Tenerife, under the baton of Juan Ramón Vinagre, where you will enjoy a varied selection of soundtracks covering a wide range of styles, with exclusive choral arrangements made for the concert. Titles such as ‘Life is Beautiful’, ‘Casablanca’, ‘Frozen’, ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘La La Land’ or ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’.

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

Ex-convent of Santo Domingo (La Laguna)

20:00h Tribute to Antón García Abril

Polyphonic Choir of the ULL

 

The Ex-convent of Santo Domingo de La Laguna will host the tribute concert to Antón García Abril, one of the great creators of Spanish music of the twentieth century, linked to the history of FIMUCITÉ since its inception. The honorary award given by the Festival in recognition of fundamental figures of music for film at the international level, bears his name, and was collected by García Abril himself in 2014 as composer of emblematic titles in Spanish filmography such as ‘Sor Citroen’ or ‘El crimen de Cuenca’, as well as for series such as ‘Fortunata y Jacinta’, ‘Ramón y Cajal’, ‘Anillos de Oro’ or ‘El Hombre y la Tierra’, by Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. It will be a unique concert, performed by the Polyphonic Choir of the University of La Laguna, in which an extraordinary selection of his most iconic scores, thanks to the collaboration of the composer, arranger and orchestrator Jorge Magaz, will be heard in world premiere and for the first time outside the screen.

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Tenerife Auditorium (Santa Cruz)

20:00h “Once Upon a Time Ennio Morricone: A Tribute to His Film Music”

Symphonic Gala with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra conducted by Diego Navarro

 

Renowned composer and conductor Diego Navarro, director of FIMUCITÉ, will lead the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in two performances of the concert “Once upon a time Ennio Morricone: A tribute to his film music”, which will take place on Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25 at the Tenerife Auditorium. Winner, after five previous nominations, of the Oscar for the original music with Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ (2016), Ennio Morricone created more than five hundred soundtracks and FIMUCITÉ, in co-production with the European Film Philharmonic Institute, is preparing an extraordinary musical production to remember the highlights of his filmography. Both events will offer the public an exciting journey through the legacy of the legendary author of unforgettable film compositions, such as ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’, ‘Cinema Paradiso’, ‘The Untouchables’, ‘The Mission’ or ‘Novecento’.

 

Tickets (45-50€):

https://auditoriodetenerife.com/en/erase-una-vez-ennio-morricone

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Tenerife Auditorium (Santa Cruz)

19:00h “Once Upon a Time Ennio Morricone: A Tribute to His Film Music”

Symphonic Gala with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra conducted by Diego Navarro

 

Tickets (45-50€):

https://auditoriodetenerife.com/en/erase-una-vez-ennio-morricone