Annette Focks

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Annette Focks with the German Television Award 2019

Annette Focks (born August 28, 1964 in Thuine , Lower Saxony ) is a German musician and composer of film music .

Career

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Annette Focks began playing the piano at the age of five, later adding the organ, trumpet, drums and mallets . From 1985 to 1993 she studied music at the Cologne University of Music . During this time she performed with bands of different styles of music; She recorded two albums with the band The White Men . In 1994 and 1995 she received two-time scholarships from the European Biennial for Music . From 1996 to 1998 she studied composition for film and television at the University of Music and Theater in Munich , which she completed in 1998 with a diploma in composition for film and television . In 2002 she went to Los Angeles and attended an orchestration workshop with Steven Scott Smalley. In 2005 Focks was awarded the German Television Prize for the best film music. In 2007 she was nominated for the European Film Prize in the Prix ​​d'Excellence category for Four Minutes by Chris Kraus and in 2008 for the German Film Prize Lola for A Fleeing Horse by Rainer Kaufmann . She received the Grand Prix spécial du Jury for best music for the film Four Minutes at the 8th Festival International Musique & Cinema D'Auxerre . Marco Kreuzpaintner's Krabat earned her another nomination for the German Film Prize in 2009 . In 2010 the Score Poll at the Festival Internazionale Del Film Di Roma was awarded the prize of the Teatro Politeama di Catanzaro for “Best Film Music” . In 2013, Annette Focks was awarded the Gema Author's Prize for her work as a film composer. In 2019, Annette Focks was awarded the German Television Prize in the Best Music category for the film Freibadclique for the second time .

Focks contributed the music to numerous German cinema and television productions, e.g. B. on Maria's last journey and A strong departure by Rainer Kaufmann or Forever and One Day , directed by Markus Imboden . In addition to the above-mentioned award-winning and nominated works, the soundtracks to the films Malunde by Stefanie Sycholt , Die Wilden Hühner and Die Wilden Hühner and love based on the children's books by Cornelia Funke , Die Three Question Marks by Florian Baxmeyer and Der Liebeswunsch are known by Torsten C. Fischer , the architect by Ina Weisse , John Rabe by Florian Gallenberger , jungle child by Roland Suso Richter , three-quarter moon by Christian Zübert and Simon by Lisa Ohlin. 2013 came u. a. the films Ostwind by Katja von Garnier and Night Train to Lisbon by Bille August . In 2014 and 2015, Annette Focks composed other television films as well as award-winning international films such as Silent Heart by Bille August and Ostwind 2 , Molly Monster by Ted Sieger , which will have its world premiere in the 2016 Berlinale competition, and Chris Kraus's film Die Blumen von Yesterday . In 2017 she composed the music for the award-winning film The Divine Order by Petra Volpe and continued her collaboration with Bille August when she composed the music for the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival The Chinese Widow with Liu Yifei and Emile Hirsch . She then composed the score for the film 55 Steps with Helena Bonham Carter and Hilary Swank in the leading roles.

In addition to film music, Annette Focks also composes for the concert hall. In 2008 she composed a concerto for cello and orchestra entitled A musical letter without words . The first performance of the commissioned work of the Mozart Festival Augsburg 2008 was on May 31st, 2008 with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic under the direction of David Stern (son of the violinist Isaac Stern ) and the Munich soloist Anja Lechner . In 2011 she composed the music for the Janosch story Uncle Poppoff can fly on trees for speakers and a large orchestra (world premiere in February 2012) on behalf of the WDR radio orchestra. In 2015, Annette Focks composed the work “Novem” for large orchestra op. 28 on behalf of the cappella academica. The world premiere took place in January 2016 under the direction of Christiane Silber in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin.

Annette Focks is a member of the German Film Academy . In 2019 she received an invitation to membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscar .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2005 - Nomination for the television award Fipa D'or (Biarritz) for the best film music for: Waves
  • 2005 - German television award for the best music for: Bella Block: ... because they don't know what they are doing , The Canterville Ghost , The Cherry Queen , Mary's Last Journey and Waves .
  • 2007 - Nomination for the European Film Award in the category Prix ​​d'excellence 2007 for four minutes
  • 2007 - Grand Prix spécial du Jury for Best Music for the film Four Minutes by Chris Kraus at the 8th Festival International Musique & Cinema D'Auxerre (France)
  • 2008 - Nomination for the German Film Prize in the category Best Film Music for A Fliehendes Pferd
  • 2009 - Nomination for the German Film Prize in the category Best Film Music for Krabat
  • 2010 - Best film music at the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma for Poll
  • 2012 - Simon was nominated for the Swedish Guldbagge Film Award in the category of best music
  • 2013 - Gema author award for the film music category
  • 2014 - Nomination for the German Film Prize in the category Best Film Music for Ostwind
  • 2015 - Nomination for the Danish Film Award Robert in the category Best Film Music for Silent Hjerte
  • 2019 - German television award for the best music for outdoor pool clique
  • 2020 - Nomination for the German Television Prize for the best music for Lotte at the Bauhaus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. German Film Award: An overview of the nominations at welt.de, March 13, 2009
  2. ↑ German TV Prize 2019: Nine awards for ARD "Gladbeck" in three categories. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Annette Focks. In: deutsche-filmakademie.de. German Film Academy , accessed on March 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Matt Donnelly, Marc Malkin: Academy Reaches Gender Parity in 2019 New Member Invitations. In: Variety . July 1, 2019, accessed on July 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Focks, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuine , Emsland, Lower Saxony