Antón García Abril, Gold Medal from the Film Academy

The institution will present the award to the Aragonese composer next October. The veteran and renowned composer has a filmography of more than two hundred soundtracks.

Antón García Abril has been recognized with the Gold Medal that the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences awards annually to a member of the film sector. The Board of Directors of the institution has decided to award this trophy to the veteran and renowned composer who has a filmography for which he has composed more than two hundred soundtracks.

"I am very excited about this award. I am very happy," said this great defender of the melody who was caught working by the news. An outstanding figure in Spanish music, recent and current, García Abril is preparing a cycle of seven songs for voice and orchestra, a project that the Granada Festival has commissioned him to do and that will be released next September. “As long as my body lasts, I will continue in my profession,” declared the man who is the author of an extensive symphonic and chamber work that covers most musical forms, which is very popular for having provided music for numerous films, television series and theater pieces. "It is difficult for me to choose a musical form because in everything I have done I have always tried to give the best of myself. I have participated in splendid films, others less so, but in all of them I had the opportunity to express the best of myself," adds the Teruel maestro, who mentions his collaborations with the directors Mario Camus, Pilar Miró, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and Pedro Lazaga.

Always ahead of his time, Antón García Abril (Teruel, 1933) understands that music is a language, regardless of its form or genre, and that film music “when it is well written” there is a moment in which it becomes a pure image. "It is a music that is fed by many parameters and when there is a perfect communion with the image it induces reflection. The film musician, by nature, must be a very cultured person and his music must have a natural flexibility to adapt to all types of discourses and narratives, as well as sufficient skill to address disparate aesthetics from chamber music, electroacoustics or symphony," he highlighted in an interview recently published in the magazine 'Academia'.

Protagonist of the documentary Man and Music, by Laura Sipán, and the object of numerous tributes in recent years, Antón García Abril will receive next October this decoration that in previous editions has been awarded to Vicente Casanova (head of the CIFESA production company), Fernando Rey, Carlos Saura, Francisco Rabal, Alfredo Matas, Ana Belén, Sara Montiel, Elías Querejeta, Gil Parrondo, José Luis Borau, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Carmelo Bernaola, Concha Velasco, Antonio Banderas, Basilio Martín Patino, Geraldine Chaplin, Pablo Núñez, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Rosa María Sardá, José Luis Alcaine, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Ángela Molina.