In 1955, Schifrin played piano with Argentine bandoneon giant Ástor Piazzolla and represented his country at the International Jazz Festival in Paris.Īfter returning home to Argentina in his twenties, Schifrin formed a jazz orchestra, a 16-piece band that became part of a popular weekly variety show on Buenos Aires TV. At night, he played jazz in the Paris clubs.
At age 20, he successfully applied for a scholarship to the Conservatoire de Paris. During this time Schifrin also became interested in jazz.Īlthough Schifrin studied sociology and law at the University of Buenos Aires, it was music that captured his attention. Schifrin began studying piano with the Greek-Russian expatriate Andreas Karalis, former head of the Kyiv Conservatory, and harmony with Argentine composer Juan Carlos Paz. Lalo Schifrin shares a familial link to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin. At the age of six, Schifrin began a six-year course of study on piano with Enrique Barenboim, the father of pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section of the orchestra at the Teatro Colón for three decades.
Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires to a Jewish family. In 2019, he received an honorary Oscar "in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring." He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.
#Composer schifrin series#
Schifrin is also noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry series of films. Schifrin's best known compositions include the " Theme from Mission: Impossible", as well as the scores to Cool Hand Luke (1967), Bullitt (1968), THX 1138 (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and the Rush Hour trilogy (1998–2007). He is a five-time Grammy Award winner he has been nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards.
#Composer schifrin tv#
He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestrations. Boris Claudio " Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.
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