Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser (born 13 April 1980 in

Morelia Morelia (; from 1545 to 1828 known as Valladolid) is a city and municipal seat of the municipality of Morelia in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán in central Mexico. The city is in the Guayangareo Valley and is the capital and larg ...

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...

) is a

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musician and film score composer.

Education and career

Hernández Stumpfhauser is one of the newer generations of Mexican film composers, he is an alumnus of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

's National School of Music, who graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors in piano performance. His work has been showcased in various feature and short films, including the double Primetime

Emmy award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

-winning television movie ''

Hemingway & Gellhorn ''Hemingway & Gellhorn'' is a 2012 television film directed by Philip Kaufman about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 28, ...

''. He wrote and/or performed three musical pieces for the multiple

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-winning motion picture by

Alejandro González Iñárritu Alejandro González Iñárritu (; American Spanish: ; credited since 2016 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born 15 August 1963) is a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the hum ...

'', ''Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance'')''. More recently, Hernández Stumpfhauser wrote the score for the Quirino Award winning animated feature film ''

Ana y Bruno ''Ana y Bruno'' (English: ''Ana and Bruno'') is a 2017 Mexican computer-animated horror-comedy-drama film based on the novel, ''Ana'' by Daniel Emil. It is produced by Altavista Films and Lo Coloco Films, and co-produced by Ítaca Films and Áni ...

(2018).''

Awards

Filmography

Films

*''Lioness of Lisabi'' (2008) (short film) *''How I Killed Mumblecore'' (2009) *''Quarter 'til Two'' (2009) (short film) *''Black Swan 2: Epidemic'' (2011) (short film) *''Aquí entre nos'' (2011) *''Victims of Gravity'' (2011) *''Field of Dreams 2: Lockout'' (2011) *''Cuando estemos juntos'' (2011) *''Casi treinta'' (2014) *''

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) ''Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'', or simply ''Birdman'', is a 2014 American black comedyDrama (film and television), -drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It was written by Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Ale ...

'' (2014) (performer) *''

The Hours with You ''The Hours with You'' ( es, Las horas contigo) is a 2014 Mexican drama film by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta in her directorial debut. Cast *Cassandra Ciangherotti - Ema *María Rojo - Julieta *Isela Vega - Abu *Arcelia Ramírez Arcelia Ramír ...

'' (2014) *''Alivio'' (2015) *'' Me estás matando, Susana'' (2016) *''Siempre Contigo''(2016) *''Helena'' (2016) *''

Everybody Loves Somebody "Everybody Loves Somebody" is a song written in 1947 by Irving Taylor and pianist Ken Lane, and made famous by Dean Martin who recorded and released his version in 1964. History Although written almost 20 years earlier, by 1964 the song had al ...

'' (2017) *''

'' (2018) *''Souvenir'' (2018)

Television

*''

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) a ...

'' (2012–15) (additional music) *''

Diablo Guardián ''Diablo Guardián'' is a Mexican streaming television drama based on the 2003 novel ''Diablo Guardián'' by Xavier Velasco and adapted by Televisa for Amazon Video. The series consists of two seasons, the first of 10 episodes and the second of 8 ...

'' (2017)

References

External links

Official website
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