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GERMAINE FRANCO is an Oscar-nominated composer, music producer, percussionist and educator who combines her passion for music with her technical and orchestral expertise across a multitude of projects. Franco is the first woman to score a Disney animated feature film with 2021's Encanto, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, an SCL Award for Outstanding Original Score, an Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature, a Grammy Award win for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (including Film and Television) and a Billboard Music Award for Best Soundtrack.
Germaine co-wrote and produced five of Coco's six original songs with co-director, Adrian Molina, including "Un Poco Loco" and "Proud Corazón", and provided additional music. In 2018, Univision celebrated her work as one of "15 Latinas Who Are Changing The World As We Know It," alongside Rita Moreno and Emma Gonzalez. Franco is an advocate of music education and serves on the Advisory Board for Women In Media and The Neighborhood Music School.
Germaine's work is heard in concert halls around the world including the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Puerto Rico Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic, among others. Franco holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in Music from the Rice Shepherd School of Music.
The LA Arts Recovery Fund was created to provide support to small and mid-sized nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in LA County as they rebuild and re-imagine a new path forward, providing grants and resources to assist with long-term recovery. In 2021, after raising over $40 million from more than 25 local and national contributors, the Fund awarded 90 organizations unrestricted, multi-year general operating support grants. The nonprofit grant recipients span visual arts, theater, music, dance, literary arts, and arts education and demonstrate exceptional regional and local significance in LA County.
| GERMAINE FRANCO | La Limpia from Vida (sung in Nahuatl) |
| OTILIO GALÍNDEZ, arr. ALBERTO GRAU | Caramba |
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JUAN GUTIÉRREZ DE PADILLA |
Mirabilia testimonia tua |
| GERMAINE FRANCO |
Music from Disney's Encanto I Need You Antonio's Voice El Camino de Mirabel |
| GERMAINE FRANCO |
Music from Dora and the Lost City of Gold He Has Angered the Gods |
| CARLOS GUASTAVINO | Quién fuera como el jazmin |
| GERMAINE FRANCO |
Music from Little Mama Says Black Girl Magic Theme I'm Back featuring Toni Scruggs |
| GERMAINE FRANCO |
Music from Disney's Coco The World Es Mi Familia Un poco loco Proud Corazón |
| QUIRINO MENDOZA Y CORTÉS |
Cielito Lindo featuring singers from the Neighborhood Music School and Mariachi del Oeste from Hamilton Academy of Music and Performing Arts |
Melissa Romain, Co-Chair
Dr. Annette L. Ermshar, Co-Chair
Chip W. Baik
Kiki Ramos Gindler
Martha Groves
Jenny S. Kim
Ron Myrick
Sonia Randazzo
Lisa Richardson
Maredith Palmer Torres
Tracy Van Fleet
Michael Abels
Doug Aitken
Nilo Alcala
Jeff and Joan Beal
Edie Lehmann Boddicker
Alan Chapman
Billy Childs
Saunder Choi
Danny Elfman
Reena Esmail
Frank Gehry
Philip Glass
Osvaldo Golijov
Shawn Kirchner
Morten Lauridsen
Anne Akiko Meyers
James Muhammad
Heitor Pereira
John Powell
Lalo Schifrin
Peter Sellars
Derrick Skye
Georgia Stitt and Jason Robert Brown
Pinar Toprak
Dale Trumbore
Rufus Wainwright
Eric Whitacre and Laurence Servaes
Christopher and Elyse Willis
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The Official River Cruise Line of the Los Angeles Master Chorale
Wine sponsored by Falcor Winery Napa Valley
Kiki Ramos Gindler and David Gindler
Thomas and Judith Beckmen
AmaWaterways
Miles Benickes
Capital Group
Alyce de Roulet Williamson
Jennifer Diener and Eric Small
Robert and Denise Hanisee
Jenny S. Kim and Chip W. Baik
The McAniff Family
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Courtland Palmer
Dr. Clifford and Joyce Penner
Sonia Randazzo
Susan and George Reardon
Melissa and Alex Romain
Tom Strickler
Kristan and Philip A. Swan
Laney Techentin
Abbott Brown
Jerrie Paula Ortega-Brown
Bryant & Judith Danner
Ann Graham Ehringer
Dr. Annette Ermshar and Dan Monahan
Jerry and Terri Kohl
James R. Mulally
Ron Myrick
Cheryl Petersen and Roger Lustberg
Casper Partovi and Jacki Petitto
Lisa Richardson
Patrick Fitzgerald
Kraft-Engel Management
Jeff Jernigan
Christine Marie Ofiesh
John Powell
Ricki and Marvin Ring in honor of Dr. Annette Ermshar
Jason Subotky and Anne Akiko Meyers
