Lucas Vidal

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Lucas Vidal
music producer
Years active2006 – present

Lucas Vidal (born 1984) is a two time

Goya Award winning Spanish composer, conductor, and record producer. Vidal became the youngest Berklee College of Music student ever to compose and record the score to a feature film with a full orchestra, and he is best known for composing the score for the 2013 film Fast & Furious 6
.

Life

Lucas Vidal was born and grew up in

Juilliard
and worked on some TV movies for NBC Universal and European projects. Then he decided to move to Los Angeles.

Vidal's career was kicked into high gear in 2011 when he was nominated for Breakout Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association for the film “Sleep Tight” ("Mientras Duermes”). In 2012, he composed the musical score for Fast & Furious 6. Other recent projects include The Raven with John Cusack and The Cold Light of Day starring Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, resulting in a nomination for “Discovery of the Year” at the World Soundtrack Awards

In 2015, Vidal co-founded CHROMA with Steve Dzialowski and Chris Ramsdell. CHROMA has created music for trailers such as

Terminator, and Interstellar as well as commercials such as Gatorade, Wendy's, and AT&T
.

In December[when?], Lucas Vidal conducts the official Christmas concert at the Teatro Real in Madrid, playing music by John Williams and his original music too.

Vidal composed the "Olympic Suite for ESPN” for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Later, he was awarded an Emmy for the best original music.[2] He worked as well on recent movies such as Alegría, Tristeza, El Árbol de la Sangre, The Best Day of My Life.

He won the Goya for Best Score for the movie Endless Night.

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles and splits his time between his self-made Music and Motion Productions Studios in Venice, California, and Madrid, Spain. In an interview, he said: “Hollywood has zero glamour for me,” he says. “You work a lot. I get up very early, I go to the studio, I eat in front of the computer, I carry on working and then go to sleep. Only on Tuesdays do I let myself play ping-pong at a club.”[3] At the age of 20, Vidal was diagnosed with cancer. During his chemotherapy treatment, which he underwent in Madrid, he could only think about two things: eating snails and composing film music and finally overcame cancer after three months of chemotherapy.

In an interview with Benoit Basirico he said that he had relationships with other Spanish composers: "I have a really good relationship with all the Spanish composers. We are a very small community. I am a close friend of

Boston Symphony Hall with him a couple of months ago, and I must say that he is a wonderful person.”[4]

Stage

Filmography

Awards

Year Result Award Category Nominated work Ref.
2009 Won Palermo International Sport Film Festival Golden Knight Basket Bronx
2012 Nominated World Soundtrack Awards World Soundtrack Award Sleep Tight
Nominated Gaudí Awards Gaudí Award [5]
Won Las Vegas International Film Festival Silver Ace Award Green Guys
2016 Won Goya Awards Best original music
Nobody Wants the Night
 		[6]
Nominated
III Premios Feroz
 Best original music Palm Trees in the Snow [7]

References

  1. ASCAP
    . 27 April 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  2. ^ Ashton, Kimberly (August 11, 2016). "Berklee Alumnus Lucas Vidal Creates ESPN Theme for Olympic Games in Rio". Berklee College of Music. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
  3. Prisa
    . Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Lucas Vidal, le Compositeur Espagnol qui Monte". Cinezik (in French). 18 June 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  5. Europa Press
    (in Spanish). 7 February 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  6. El Periódico
    (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  7. ^ "La película "La novia", la gran nominada a los Premios Feroz 2016". EFE. Madrid. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

External links

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