HANS ZIMMER announces SPECIAL GUESTS for ARENA tour
Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer has announced two special guests for his upcoming Australia and New Zealand concert experience ‘Hans Zimmer Revealed.’
With all shows selling fast, Zimmer has announced that he will be joined on stage by two of the world’s most renowned film vocalists, Lebo M and Lisa Gerrard. Known the world over as the voice and spirit of The Lion King, the Tony-nominated Lebo M worked as an arranger, co-producer and performer on both the Disney feature film and the hit broadway musical as well as other films including The Power of One, Congo, Tears of the Sun and The Legend of Tarzan.
Lisa Gerrard is herself an acclaimed film composer, winning a Golden Globe for her work with Hans Zimmer on the score for Gladiator. She was further nominated for her work onAli and The Insider as well as snaring an Academy Award nomination for the lauded score for Whale Rider. She is also one of the world’s most in-demand vocalists, recently performing alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
‘Hans Zimmer Revealed’ is a multi-layered experience for concertgoers and a must-see concert event, featuring career-spanning music from Zimmer‘s multi-decade career. The tour kicked off last year with a sold-out two night run at London’s Wembley Arena before embarking on a 33-city run that included shows in major European cities including London, Paris, Munich, Prague, Geneva, Dublin and Vienna to name just a few. The tour received rave reviews in every city.
The concert will be in two parts: the first being some of Zimmer’s classic movie scores including GLADIATOR, THE LION KING and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and the second featuring re-imagined versions of some classic scores such as THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY and INCEPTION.
“Performing a concert series like this is something that I have always wanted to do, and I am thrilled to visit Australia and New Zealand and return to Europe where we had so much fun playing in the summer.” said Zimmer. “I am very excited to get some of my very talented friends together and give our audiences an experience unlike any concert they have ever been to before.”
ABOUT HANS ZIMMER
Hans Zimmer has scored more than 120 films, which have, combined, grossed over 24 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. His upcoming film projects include Sean Penn’s The Last Face and 20th Century Fox’s Hidden Figures, with Pharrell Williams and Ben Wallfisch out January 2017. Zimmer has been honored with an Academy Award®, two Golden Globes®, three Grammys®, an American Music Award, and a Tony® Award. His most recent Academy Award-nomination for Interstellar marks his 10th career Oscar nomination with the Academy. In 2003, ASCAP presented him with the prestigious Henry Mancini award for Lifetime Achievement for his impressive and influential body of work. He also received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, and in 2014 was honored with the Zurich Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Zimmer recently completed his first concerts in the UK, “Hans Zimmer Revealed,” at the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo, and concluded his first ever European tour, “Hans Zimmer Live,” on June 5, 2016.
Other recent releases include: Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince, Peter Sollet’s Freeheld, Simon Curtis’ Women in Gold, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Ron Howard’s Rush, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, History Channel’s miniseries The Bible, the Christopher Nolan-directed films Inception, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises; and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Some of Zimmer’s most notable works include his scores for Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Thelma & Louise, Crimson Tide, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible II, Hannibal, Pearl Harbor, Tears of the Sun, Spanglish, The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar films, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon, and The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award.
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HANS ZIMMER REVEALED 2017
SATURDAY 29 APRIL – VECTOR ARENA – AUCKLAND
TUESDAY 02 MAY – QUDOS BANK ARENA – SYDNEY
THURSDAY 04 MAY – ROD LAVER ARENA – MELBOURNE
FRIDAY 06 MAY – BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE – BRISBANE
TUESDAY 10 MAY – PERTH ARENA – PERTH
