Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father.
This holiday season, relive this heartwarming holiday classic on a giant screen as every note of John Debney’s wonderful score, conducted by Andrew Bryan, is played live to picture in: Elf in Concert!
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Donate a Toy at ELF in Concert!
We are partnering with the Hult Center’s Holiday Donation Drive at all Eugene Symphony’s concerts in December! Help us collect non-perishable food for Food for Lane County, new and used cold weather essentials for Catholic Community Services and new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots. Donations can be dropped off in the Hult Center lobby at this concert.
Andrew Bryan
Conductor
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Equally at home in the orchestra pit and on the concert stage, American Conductor Andrew Bryan is active leading symphony pops, films in concert, ballet and musical theatre performances worldwide.
An avid film music lover, he enjoys working with orchestras on live-to-film performances including the Harry Potter Film Concert Series. This season he conducts the San Antonio Philharmonic, Anchorage Symphony and Saskatoon Symphony, with additional performances across the country.
Mr. Bryan was Music Director for national tours of Les Misérables and multiple tours of Chicago - The Musical, which he also conducted on Broadway and in Canada, Mexico, Israel and Japan. He has led over thirty musicals, from West Side Story to Evita, including the World Premieres of The Gershwins’ An American in Paris at Houston’s Alley Theatre and Disney’s When You Wish.
As a conductor of dance and opera, he collaborated with Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne, conducting the 10th Anniversary tour of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and was Music Director for the NYC Premiere and North American tour of Edward Scissorhands. He covered dozens of performances as Assistant Conductor for Nashville Ballet and worked on nearly twenty operas as Assistant Music Director for Nashville Opera.
Mr. Bryan has conducted the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and Tennessee Philharmonic’s July 4th Pops Celebration and was selected for workshops with conductors Gustav Meier and Marin Alsop.
Through his company, Opus Blue Productions, he also produces theatre and concerts, with projects in various stages of development, including exciting symphony pops programs, available soon.
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John Debney
Composer
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John Debney is the ultimate film music character actor. In equal demand for family films such as Jingle Jangle, Come Away, and Elf, as he is for adventure films like Iron Man 2, the Oscar-nominated composer also scored the powerful and poignant The Passion of the Christ. Debney is an agile jack-of-all-genres, sci-fi adventure (ORVILLE), composing for comedies (Bruce Almighty), horror (Dream House) and romance (Valentine’s Day) with the same confidence and panache. Debney is also known for his work in such films as Princess Diaries, Sin City, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, No Strings Attached, The Emperor’s New Groove, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Hocus Pocus. Debney’s work also includes Disney’s The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau, Fox’s Ice Age: Collision Course directed by Mike Thurmeier, and Twentieth Century Fox’s award-winning musical The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. Debney’s most recent films include The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Harmony Korine, the Warner Bros. comedy feature Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson, Paramount Pictures’ family adventure feature Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Bleecker Street’s biopic Brian Banks. Upcoming for Debney is Come Away directed by Brenda Chapman and starring Angelina Jolie.
Born in Glendale, California, Debney’s professional life began after he studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts, when he went to work writing music and orchestrating for Disney Studios and various television series. He won his first Emmy in 1990 for the main theme for The Young Riders, and his career soon hit a gallop. Since then he has won three more Emmys (Sea Quest DSV), and been nominated for a total of six (most recently in 2012 for his work on the Kevin Costner western miniseries Hatfields & McCoys). His foray into videogame scoring—2007’s Lair—resulted in a BAFTA nomination and a Best Videogame Score award from The International Film Music Critics Association.
Debney has collaborated with acclaimed directors as diverse as Robert Rodriguez, Garry Marshall, Mel Gibson, the Farrelly Brothers, Jon Favreau, Jim Sheridan, Ivan Reitman, Peter Chelsom, Rob Cohen, Brian Robbins, Tom Shadyac, Sam Raimi, Adam Shankman, Howie Deutch, Renny Harlin, Peter Hyams and Kenny Ortega. He was nominated by the Academy for his Passion of the Christ score. Inspired by that score, he then created The Passion Oratorio, performed in 2015 in the historic Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain in front of 6,000 people during Holy Week. In 2005, Debney was the youngest recipient of ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Career Achievement Award.
“If I’m doing my job well,” says Debney, “I need to feel it. I really try to make sure that whatever I’m doing— even if it’s a comedy—that I’m feeling it and feeling either humor or the pathos or the dramatic impact of what I’m seeing. That’s the way I approach it.”