Career
Born in the city of Saltillo, Mexico, Febre composed his first works for the piano at age 8 while studying piano at a private academy in Northern Mexico. In 1973, his family moved to Los Angeles where he continued his study of the piano under the tutelage of Robert Turner and Francoise Regnat. Febre 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 B-movie company Prime Minister Entertainment, where he discovered his true compositional passion: film scoring. Febre has enjoyed success with the movies Swimfan (2002), Tower of Terror (Disney) and a set of Scooby-Doo straight-to-video movies in 2001.
He earned an Annie Award nomination for his score for Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders. According to some critics, his score for Alien Trespass transcended the tepid reviews of the film itself.
Variety compared it to the classic sci-fi scores of noted composer Bernard Herrmann.
In 2001, Febre collaborated 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, Disney World Tokyo, and with Mark Snow on The X-Files (1998). Smallville
Febre is probably best known for his work on the hit television series Smallville.
With the departure of Mark Snow from Smallville, Febre became the credited composer in season seven.
His score reflected the maturation of the series" protagonist, Clark Kent: "as Clark grew emotionally and intellectually more complex, found a need to comment musically on his growth, and as he drew closer to his Superman persona, it became obvious that a "Superman" theme would be required."
Febre maintains a prominent presence in the Smallville fan community. He is a featured personality on fan sites where he blogs about his process for composing for the show, and several fan magazines have published interviews with him on the subject of score composition for Smallville.
In 2011, Smallville: Score From The Complete Series Volume 1 with Mark Snow, was released.