User:Louis Febre

Louis at the piano (b&w)

Born in the city of Saltillo, Mexico, Louis Febre composed his first works for the piano at age 8 while studying piano and theory at a private academy. In 1973, his family moved to Los Angeles where he continued his study of the piano under the tutelage of Robert Turner.

Louis went on to formal composition study with Lorraine Kimball and Frank Campo. During this period, he wrote several chamber works and other large form compositions.

In 1992, Febre was employed by the notorious B-movie company PM Entertainment, where he discovered his true compositional passion: film scoring. In 1996, he met his mentor John Debney, a partnership that would produce successful collaborative efforts such as the movie Doctor Who in 1996 and led to Louis’ first television series The Cape which would earn him an Emmy in 1997 for Best Dramatic Underscore.

Febre has enjoyed success with the movies Swimfan (2000), Tower of Terror (Disney) and a set of Scooby-Do straight-to-video movies in 2001. He earned an Annie Award nomination for his score for Scooby-Do and the Alien Invaders. That same year, he won a Pixie Award for the independent short film: Revenge of the Red Balloon.

In 2001, he could be found collaborating with Steve Jablonsky on the first season of the hit television series Desperate Housewives. As an additional orchestrator, he worked again with John Debney on Cats & Dogs, Jimmy Neutron, the Disney film Chicken Little, Disneyworld Tokyo, and with Mark Snow on The X-Files movie (1998). With the departure of Snow from the television series Smallville, Febre became the credited composer in 2007. Febre now devotes most of his time and talent to his work on Smallville which is in its 10th and final season.