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GEORGES TOMB

Biography “I honestly feel that it is a gift from God, a message He wants me to share with all Mankind. I have never understood how I compose, or how I start a new composition. It was always divinely there.” Georges Tomb is an award-winning composer and concert pianist of international fame that has performed in some of the world most prestigious stages, such as “Carnegie Hall” in New York, “Petit Palais” of Paris, the “Royal Cultural Center” in the Middle East and “Teatro La Fenice” in Italy just to name a few. Just this October 12th 2024, he won the “Crystal Pine Award” from the International Sound and Film Music Festival -one of the 3 most important music festivals in the world-. Raised in a Christian family of professional artists, Tomb passionately delved into the world of music at the age of four. His first orchestration, composition and piano teachers were his father Samir Tomb, Liza Tutunjian and Fadi Tok. By the early age of ten in 2002, Georges was honored with the “Talent Award” by Lebanon’s First Lady, Mrs. Andrée Lahoud at the Presidential Palace. He later studied composition & orchestration with Conrad Pope and Christopher Young in Vienna and Los Angeles. He premiered his classical career with the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestra Joanna Nachef who flew in from Los Angeles to be part of this journey. Together, they inaugurated the “Theatre du Boulevard” in Beirut. In 2015, the Golden Murex Award honored George as the “Youngest Lebanese Composer”. But Tomb’s international breakthrough came at the age of twenty, when in November 2016 his music was performed side by side with the perennial opuses of Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, and Mendelssohn, by the San Remo Symphony Orchestra. The performance took place at the San Remo Opera House and was conducted by nonother than Maestro Francesco Attardi. Attardi, impressed by Tomb’s compositions, repeated the same feat in 2018 during an official Christmas concert of the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana at the Basilica Di San Marco in Milano. This event took place during the prestigious classical Italian festival Serate Musicali under the patronage of the Italian government. He introduced Georges to the public as “The Young Morricone”, stating that Tomb is the worthy successor of the famed Italian composer. Later, he described the enthusiastic reception of Tomb’s music -by the demanding and punctilious Milanese audience- as “A Real Triumph”. In 2017 at the prestigious Petit Palais in Paris, Tomb shined in a piano concert attended by Elie Saab, Princess Rawda Al-Thani and celebrities such as Emanuelle Béart, Patrick Fiori and Diane Pernet, which lead Mont Blanc to hand-pick Georges as its “Art Ambassador” for the Middle East. Consequently, the book “Meet The 100” -published by LGM Société de Presse in 2017- selected Tomb as One Of The Hundred Most Influential Lebanese Figures Around the Globe. Georges has written the music for the world-renowned Soprano Aida Garifullina’s show that toured all over Europe, and for Master Choir Soprano Andrea Zomorodian in April 2018. So, as a consequence of Tomb’s meteoric artistic rise, awards and recognitions piled up. 2018 was also the year that Tomb was mentioned in Zeina Kayali’s book as being amongst the Most Influential Arab Composers since the 19th century. And in 2019 he was recognized as the “Most Promising International Composer” by the House of The Artist in Lebanon. The Beirut Marathon adopted Tomb’s music to be the official Marathon anthem for its 2021 campaign edition. So, under the patronage of Queen Noor Al-Hussein, Georges was invited to perform at the “Royal Cultural Center” of Jordan as well as at the “Oman Opera House” and the “Theatre Du Boulevard Beirut & Palais Des Congrés”. In 2022, ambassador Dorothy Shea honored Georges -in a special ceremony called “Meet the Artist Georges Tomb” held at the US ambassy in Beirut- for his accomplishments and awards he received while touring the United States, where he also premiered his musical piece “Promise” accompanied by the Los Angeles Orchestra and Choir at the Norris Theater for The Performing Arts. Mr. Tomb has been involved in the contemporary and Classical world of composition and performance, including Opera, theatre, ballet and cinema. Besides the ones named a top and further below… His stations, orchestral performances and concerts have been featured in a long list of world prestigious venues such as “Salle Gaveau” in France, at the “Misericordia di Venezia” and “Casino di San Remo” in Italy. In Los Angeles at the “James Armstrong Theater” and “The Jonathan Club”, as well as at the “Brethren Evangelical Cathedral” of Prague and “Casino Baden” in Vienna, not to forget his performances at the grand “La Belle Epoque Hall” of Monaco. His first Monegasque station event was on the 6th of April 2023, for the closing exhibition ceremony of “Les Carabiniers du Prince” at the “Prince Rainier III Monte Carlo Hall”. This Monaco station in partnership with SNCF/Tomb has many orchestral projects in Europe. Mr. Tomb is also the official composer of the Italian ballet "Pinocchio", performed by the prestigious Balletto Del Sud and Choreographed by non-other than Mr. Freddy Franzutti. Pinocchio’s world tour debuts at Italy’s Opera Di Lecce end of 2024 commemorating the 140th Anniversary of the legendary novelist Carlo Collodi. It will then be stationed in Monaco before hitting the US, Asia, the rest of Europe, and the Middle East. 2024, in memory of the great Picasso’s 50th Anniversary, Mr. Tomb was officially commissioned to write the first creation of “Picasso, The Ballet”. Georges’s album with the Kiev Philharmonic of Ukraine reached the “Best Sellers” list at the Virgin Megastores in the Middle East, paving the way for his new 2024 album release called “If Only” -that he recorded with the Budapest Symphony-. On May 25th 2024 Mr. Tomb was invited to premiere “A Memorial Baw” at New York’s Carnegie Hall. This classical masterpiece written by Georges was dedicated to those brave heroes that gave their lives to preserve freedom. His performance was accompanied by the choir & orchestra conducted by Maestra Joanna Medawar Nachef. That evening, Mr. Tomb also performed -on a solo piano- another one of his compositions called “United Against Violence” urning him a standing ovation. And just as John Lennon’s “Imagine” comes to mind when you think of the United Nations… “United Against Violence” was Tomb’s masterpiece commissioned by UNICEF and aired all over the Middle East. The Vatican also commissioned Georges for an “Ave Maria” that will be dedicated to World Peace and performed at the Vatican’s 2024 Papal Mass. At the 2022 Venice Film Festival, in support of the David Lynch Foundation, Mr. Tomb performed his set filling the Misericordia Di Venezia for the opening of the “Better World Fund Gala”, whose guests were of such caliber as the legendary French actress “Ms. Catherine Deneuve”. The following year at the Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Tomb was again hired to play his concert for the opening Gala with the attendance of guest stars such as Mr. Leonardo Dicaprio. Due to his star name amongst the stars and his spectacular performance at the Carlton for the opening of the Cannes film festival, 2023 turned Mr. Geroges Tomb into a “Look-For, Sought-After” film scorer. He was nominated in 2 different categories for the “International Sound and Film Music Festival” this October 2024 for scoring both movies “Inferno in Paris” and “Reviving Bugatti”. That was besides scoring other films like “Sicilian Holiday”, “Clay”, “Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour”, “I want to be Neenja” the movie, and more to come in 2024 including, “Purple Gold”, “L’Homme des Signes”, “Regarde et Ferme Les Yeux”, the “Siege of Tyre” and “Beyruth” -written by Emmy Winner Suzan Marya Baronoff-, and “Kings of the Cross” -written by Mad Max Furiosa’s Nico Lathouris-. His soundtracks won several awards across Europe and the United States. He was primed at the “Cannes Film Festival” and at the “Hollywood International Golden Age Festival” for “Best Music Feature Film”. He received the “Outstanding Excellence for Original Score” at the “DWB International Film Festival” in Delaware, and “Best Music in a Feature Film” at the Austin International Film Festival in 2023. He is currently writing the soundtrack for Mario Kassar’s upcoming film. Needless to mention the magnitude of this production, since Mario was the producer of such blockbusters like Terminator, Rambo, Stargate, and Basic instinct amongst others. Georges also wrote the music for the song “Foolish Acrobat”, the main song on the movie “Sicilian Holiday” directed by Michela Scolari and produced by Oscar winner and former Disney VP Adam Leipzig, where Georges also acted as himself in a cameo. Cover Hollywood called it “The Best Musical Easter Egg of The Year”. Both Georges and Adam Leipzig also wrote a new song for the Grammy Award Winning Soprano Hila Plitmann entitled “Rising with the Moon”. Ms. Plitmann also sang to Georges’s music performed by the Los Angeles Orchestra under the patronage of L.A. Mayor Mr. Eric Garcetti. Geroges charm and elegance couldn’t but land him on the front cover of the Los Angeles based newspaper “Easy Reader News” under the title “The Promise of something great”. As a guest on countless occasions, whether American, European or Mid-Eastern media, be it newspapers, radio or television, Tomb had always a message to convey: “Music for me is something sacred”.