Louis Febre

Louis Febrehttp://radaris.com/ng/pb/Louis/Febre/CA/report (born June 21, 1959) is a Mexican born composer, best known for his work on the television series Smallville. He also won an Emmy Award for his score to The Cape in 1997.http://filmscoremonthly.com/daily/article.cfm?articleID=2225
== Life ==
Born in the city of Saltillo, Mexico, Febre composed his first works for the piano at age 8 while studying piano at a private academy in Northern Mexico. In 1973, his family moved to Los Angeles where he continued his study of the piano under the tutelage of Robert Turnerhttp://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/06/local/me-12044 and Francoise Regnat.http://www.csun.edu/~hfmus003/BioRegnat.html
Febre went on to formal composition study with Lorraine Kimballhttp://www.jamesdomine.com/?section=music-56 and Frank Campo.http://www.csun.edu/catalog/music.html During this period, he wrote several chamber works and other large form compositions.
He is married to Lisa Febre, a Los Angeles-area multi-instrumentalist performer and teacher.
== Career ==
In 1992, Febre was employed by B-movie company PM Entertainment, where he discovered his true compositional passion: film scoring. In 1996, he met his mentor John Debney, a partnership that would produce successful collaborative efforts such as the movie Doctor Who in 1996 and led to Louis’ first television series The Cape which would earn him an Emmy in 1997 for Best Dramatic Underscore.http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000223/1997
Febre has enjoyed success with the movies Swimfan (2002), Tower of Terror (Disney) and a set of Scooby-Doo straight-to-video movies in 2001. He earned an Annie Award nomination for his score for Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. That same year, he won a Pixie Award for the independent short film: Revenge of the Red Balloon. According to some critics, his score for Alien Trespass transcended the tepid reviews of the film itself.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/alien-trespass-film-review-93024 Variety compared it to the classic sci-fi scores of noted composer Bernard Herrmann.http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939324?refcatid=31
In 2001, Febre collaborated with Steve Jablonsky on the first season of the hit television series Desperate Housewives. As an additional orchestrator, he worked again with John Debney on Cats & Dogs, Jimmy Neutron, the Disney film Chicken Little, Disney World Tokyo, and with Mark Snow on The X-Files (1998).
=== Smallville ===
Febre is probably best known for his work on the hit television series Smallville. With the departure of Mark Snow from Smallville, Febre became the credited composer in season seven. His score reflected the maturation of the series' protagonist, Clark Kent: "as Clark grew emotionally and intellectually more complex, [he] found a need to comment musically on his growth, and as he drew closer to his Superman persona, it became obvious that a 'Superman' theme would be required."http://www.smallvilleph.com/2009/09/louis-febre-exclusive-interview/
Febre maintains a prominent presence in the Smallville fan community. He is a featured personality on fan sites where he blogs about his process for composing for the show, and several fan magazines have published interviews with him on the subject of score composition for Smallville.
In 2011, Smallville: Score From The Complete Series Vol. 1 with Mark Snow, was released.
== Awards ==
Year	Award 	Result
1997	Emmy Award - Best Dramatic Underscore: The Cape 	Win
1998	BMI TV Music Award 	Win
2001	Pixie Award - Best Music Score: Revenge of the Red Balloon 	Win
2001	Annie Award - Best Music Score: Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders	Nomination
== Filmography ==
=== Television ===
Title 	Studio
Charlie's Angels 	Sony/ABC
Smallville 	Warner Bros./WB
Desperate Housewives	Touchstone Television/ABC
Birds of Prey 	Warner Bros./WB
The Fugitive 	Warner Bros./WB
Mr Murder 	Pratchett-Kaufman/ABC
Medusa's Child 	Topanga Productions/NBC
The Cape 	MTM Television/CBS
LA Heat 	PM Entertainment
=== Feature Films ===
Title 	Director 	Studio
Control 	Tim Hunter 	Millennium Films
Nine Lives 	David Carson 	Millennium Films
Bad Girls from Mars 	Fred Olen Ray 	
Swimfan 	John Polson 	20th Century Fox
A Woman's A Helluva Thing	Karen Leigh Hopkins	Regent Entertainment
Jack and Gord 	John Comri 	C3 Productions, Inc.
Hobb's End 	Philip David Segal 	A.V.R.I.O. Filmworks/Avrio Filmworks/Polestar Entertainment Group
=== Video Feature Films ===
Title 	Director 	Studio
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase 	Jim Strenstrum 	Hanna-Barbera Prod.
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders	Jim Strenstrum 	Hanna-Barbera Prod.
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost	Jim Strenstrum 	Hanna-Barbera Prod.
The Force 	Mark Rossman 	Republic Entertainment
Last Man Standing 	Joseph Merhi 	PM Entertainment
Martial Outlaw 	Karl Anderson 	Image Organization
Private Wars 	John Weidner 	PM Entertainment
Rage 	Youssef Kdiry, Joseph Merhi	PM Entertainment
Scanner Cop 	Pierre David 	Image Organization
Serial Killer 	Pierre David 	Image Organization
The Silencers 	Richard Pepin 	PM Entertainment
Two Bits & Pepper 	Carey Michael Eubanks 	Republic Pictures
=== Cable Films ===
Title 	Director 	Studio
Time Bomb 	Steven Gyllenhaal 	Viacom/CBS
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life 	Tom McLoughlin 	Working Title/Lifetime
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story 	Russell Mulcahy 	Orly Adelson Prod/ESPN
Red Water 	Charles Robert Carner	Sony Pictures/TBS
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story	Peter Levin 	Patriarch Pictures / Lifetime
Christmas Rush 	Charles Robert Carner	Sony Pictures TV/TBS
Dead In A Heartbeat 	Dan Sackheim 	Shavick Entertainment / TBS
Hidden Target 	Armand Mastroianni 	Columbia TriStar TV / TBS
First Target 	Armand Mastroianni 	Columbia TriStar TV / TBS
Nowhere To Run 	Armand Mastroianni 	Columbia TriStar TV / TBS
Final Run 	Armand Mastroianni 	Columbia TriStar TV / TBS
First Daughter 	Armand Mastroianni 	Columbia TriStar TV / TBS
To Love, Honor and Betray 	Peter Levin 	Orly Adelson / CBS
My Father's Shadow 	Peter Levin 	Jaffe Braunstein Films / CBS
Tower Of Terror 	D.J. McHale 	Disney TV / ABC
Doctor Who 	Geoffrey Sax 	Universal Studios TV / FOX
The Secretary 	Andrew Lane 	Imagine / CBS
== External links ==
* Louis Febre
* Louis Febre at the Internet Movie Database
* Louis Febre interview in Durance Magazine
* Gorfane/Schwartz Agency Louis Febre
== References ==
Category:American television composers
Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:American musicians of Mexican descent
Category:People from Saltillo
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:Musicians from Coahuila