Vangelis
1943 - 2022
Greek
Summary
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou[a] (born 29 March 1943), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/; Greek: Βαγγέλης [vaɲˈɟelis]), is a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire, also composing scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis began his career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album 666 going on to be recognized as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack's single, the film's "Titles" theme, also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners' medal presentation ceremonies. Vangelis also received acclaim for his synthesizer-based soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Having had a career in music spanning over 50 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums, Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music.
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Performances
28th April 2024
- SOLOISTS
- David Stewart Wiley
- PERFORMERS
- Symphonicity
- CONDUCTOR
- Daniel W. Boothe
- LOCATION
- Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, United States of America
4th May 2024
- SOLOISTS
- Yolanda Brown;
- PERFORMERS
- All Souls Orchestra
- CONDUCTOR
- Michael Andrews
- LOCATION
- The Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
5th May 2024
- PERFORMERS
- Tucson Symphony Orchestra
- CONDUCTOR
- Sean Bresemann
- LOCATION
- Tucson Music Hall, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
6th May 2024
- PERFORMERS
- Tucson Symphony Orchestra
- CONDUCTOR
- Sean Bresemann
- LOCATION
- Tucson Music Hall, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
14th July 2024
- PERFORMERS
- Richmondshire Orchestra
- CONDUCTOR
- Martin Budgett
- LOCATION
- Richmond School, Richmond North Yorks, United Kingdom