Elia Cmiral: Carl Orff Competition 2020 Šla Nanynka do zelí

Elia Cmiral Born in Czechoslovakia, Elia Cmiral is the son of an actress and a theater director, and grandson of one of Antonin Dvorak’s pupils. A multi instrumentalist, Cmiral attended the Prague Music Conservatory, where he studied composition and double bass. Elia's first scoring opportunity came with his father's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac." From this experience he discovered his passion for writing for the stage.
By the early 80's, Cmiral had moved to Sweden. Throughout his time there he wrote scores for several European films, TV and three ballets. In 1989, he moved to America for USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. His year at USC culminated with the scoring of his first American feature, "Apartment Zero” starring Colin Firth.
Over the next decade, Elia continued building a reputation for himself in Sweden and in America. His musical style combines contemporary electronica with the modern orchestra, joining cutting edge technology and production with evocative and haunting melodic themes. Elia scored the first season of Don Johnson‘s TV series “Nash Bridges” and his first studio feature, John Frankenheimer’s suspense thriller “Ronin”, which earned him the Movieline Young Hollywood Award for Best Soundtrack of 1998, won International Film Music Critics award for Breakthrough Film Composer of the Year as well as was nominated for the Best Original Score for an Action Film.
To the date Elia has written nearly sixty scores for independent films, TV and major studios including "Stigmata", trilogy "Pulse", "Wrong Turn", "Journey to the End of the Night", "The Deaths of Ian Stone" produced by Stan Winston.
For the score for “Splinter” a cutting edge horror film with stunning visuals, directed by Toby Wilkins, Elia received the Best Score award at the Screamfest '08 film festival in Los Angeles, and for his work on "Lost Boys – The Thirst", he was nominated for the Golden Reel.
Elia worked with Czech director Juraj Herz on the score for the German/Czech produced film "Habermann". The movie is a WWII drama based on a true story, the movie won the top price at the 7th “Jewish Eye” Film Festival in Ashkelon, Israel. Other projects included a rock score for "Spec Ops: The Line", a video game by German-based developer Yeager and 2K. Elia also composed part of a movement in collaboration between twenty-four Hollywood composers, “A Symphony of Hope”, which is on sale to benefit victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster. Elia wrote and epic orchestral scores for "Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and 3", based on Ayn Rand’s novel.
Elia wrote and produced an album for four piano trios based on his film scores (Ronin, Apartment Zero, Habermann and Atlas Shrugged Part 1) released on a Swedish label Moviescoremedia. Next Elia wrote a score for "Lacrimosa" a short Austrian art film directed by Vienna based director Tanja Mairitsch. The score is featuring world star Master Zamfir on the pan flute. The movie and the score were awarded at many international film festivals.
Following was Elia's hybrid score for action/thriller "Armed Response", starring Wesley Snipes, later Elia reteamed with the director Mark Young on their four collaboration for the thriller/horror "Feral", following a period Hawaiian drama directed by David Cunningham. "Running for Grace" starring Matt Dillon.
In the next collaboration with the director Mark Young in drama "Limbo" Elia connected a classical theme featuring a female soprano and a chamber orchestra.
The film was selected for the opening night at the film festival in Manchester, UK and at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles, US.
For the Polish director Renata Gabryjelska and her feature drama "Safe Inside" Elia wrote a dramatic score for a chamber orchestra mixed with his electronica. The score will be soon available on the CD album.
Recently Elia finished writing a concert suite for solo pan flute and symphonic orchestra, composition is dedicated to a Romanian virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir, who will play the premiere of the suite.