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WORLD SOUNDTRACK ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2ND WAVE OF NOMINEES

WORLD SOUNDTRACK ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 2ND WAVE OF NOMINEES

The World Soundtrack Academy announces a new wave of nominees for the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards 2021: Nainita Desai and Natalie Holt are piling up the nominations and Gavin Brivik and Amelia Warner, no strangers to the WSA, return to the competition this year as possible winners of the Discovery of the Year and Public...
THE PASSION ORATORIO: A LIVE CONCERT EVENT RELEASED TO DVD - Music by John Debney

THE PASSION ORATORIO: A LIVE CONCERT EVENT RELEASED TO DVD – Music by John Debney

Featuring original music from John Debney, the Oscar-nominated composer for the film To coincide with the 15th anniversary of “The Passion of the Christ” movie, “The Passion Oratorio: A Live Concert Event” releases to DVD and On-demand April 15  Debney Productions and Costa Communications, in cooperation with Icon Productions, announce the DVD / On-demand release of THE...
INTERVIEW WITH HAUSCHKA (VOLKER BERTELMANN)

INTERVIEW WITH HAUSCHKA (VOLKER BERTELMANN)

  On the occassion of the upcoming concert this Monday of renowned pianist and Oscar-nominated film composer HAUSCHKA at SNFCC Cosmos concert series, Kinetophone’s founder and editor in chief Eleni Mitsiaki has a full length discussion with the composer. Listen to Volker Bertelmann (aka HAUSCHKA) talking about the upcoming concert, his scoring approach on the upcoming BBC limited...
KINETOPHONE LIVE:  HAUSCHKA in Athens at SNFCC Cosmos Concert Series

KINETOPHONE LIVE: HAUSCHKA in Athens at SNFCC Cosmos Concert Series

EVENTS AT THE SNFCC Hauschka Monday / January 21 / 2019, 20.30 SNFCC Cosmos concert series present the renowned pianist and Oscar-nominated film composer Hauschka, who will present a retrospective of his work  Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) is a composer, songwriter and experimental musician who uses prepared piano as his primary instrument. The prepared piano refers to the technique of resting pieces...
12th FMF KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL - PROGRAM REVEALED!

12th FMF KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL – PROGRAM REVEALED!

Alexandre Desplat, Craig Armstrong, Bruno Coulais, Antonio Sánchez, Don Davis, Krzysztof Zanussi, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Bartosz Chajdecki and Marcin Masecki are just some of the guests of the forthcoming Krakow Film Music Festival. The programme of the 12th FMF is a cornucopia of diversity! We recall the considerable impact Wojciech Kilar made on the history of...
18th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Announces 2nd Wave of Nominees

18th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Announces 2nd Wave of Nominees

GHENT, 12 September 2018. After revealing the nominees for Best Film Composer, TV Composer and Song, the World Soundtrack Academy announces a second wave of nominees for Best Original Score for a Belgian production, Discovery of the Year, SABAM Award for best Young International Composer and the Public Choice Award. Remarkable is that the nominees for...
EMMY AWARD WINNER JEFF BEAL AND BIS RECORDS PRESENT THE RELEASE OF THE HOUSE OF CARDS SYMPHONY

EMMY AWARD WINNER JEFF BEAL AND BIS RECORDS PRESENT THE RELEASE OF THE HOUSE OF CARDS SYMPHONY

JEFF BEAL House of Cards Symphony, House of Cards Fantasy for flute and orchestra, Six Sixteen for guitar and chamber orchestra, Canticle for string orchestra, Concerto for flute and orchestra – Sharon Bezaly, flute, Jason Vieaux, guitar, Jeff Beal, conductor, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra – BIS 2299 SACD – 2 SACDs – Total time 132:23 BIS Records is proud to...
HOLLYWOOD DREAMS FILM MUSIC CONCERT  TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 9th IN BADEN, NEAR VIENNA

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS FILM MUSIC CONCERT TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 9th IN BADEN, NEAR VIENNA

Hollywood Music Workshop celebrates its 10th Anniversary with iconic film music from Warner Bros. from Casablanca to Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and more An enchanting and magical evening with iconic melodies from the Hollywood dream factory Thursday, August 9th, 2018; 7:30 PM Casino Baden Hollywood Music Workshop directors Dimitrie Leivici and Lilo Belloto announced today that...
DUSTIN O'HALLORAN AND HAUSCHKA BRING THEIR 'CINEMATIC COLLABORATION' TO VIDEODROOM (WSA 2018, GENT)

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN AND HAUSCHKA BRING THEIR ‘CINEMATIC COLLABORATION’ TO VIDEODROOM (WSA 2018, GENT)

Longtime friends and first-time collaborators Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka complete the line-up for VIDEODROOM. They will improvise on the themes of Lion, the 2016 Garth Davis drama they scored together. This Oscar-nominated score will serve as the starting point of the concert. Hauschka and O’Halloran will musically challenge each other, each at their own piano. ‘Cinematic...
FILM FEST GENT AND VOORUIT LAUNCH NEW  FESTIVAL VIDEODROOM

FILM FEST GENT AND VOORUIT LAUNCH NEW FESTIVAL VIDEODROOM

On 10 October, Vooruit and Film Fest Gent will launch the first edition of VIDEODROOM. During the upcoming Film Fest Gent (9-19 Oct 2018) and at cultural arts centre Vooruit, artists and audiences will explore a new universe at the intersection between music, films and visuals. Film scores will be reworked and well-known films and...
DRONE MASS IN MEMORIAM: JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON

DRONE MASS IN MEMORIAM: JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON

Drone Mass In memoriam: Jóhann Jóhannsson  Monday June 18, 20.30, Stavros Niarchos Hall, GNO The famous Drone Mass, a 60-minute contemporary oratorio which fuses the sounds of string quartet, electronics and vocals, comes to SNFestival 2018. It’s a musical composition of the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (twice a candidate for the Academy Award for Best...
WORLD OF WARCRAFT at FMF KRAKOW 2018

WORLD OF WARCRAFT at FMF KRAKOW 2018

Eímear Noone, the Irish composer and conductor, one of the authors of music for the celebrated World of Warcraft and conductor most of the Blizzard franchises, will be our special guest at the Video Games Music Gala of the 11th Krakow Film Music Festival. Noone will conduct pieces from her most famous soundtrack. Under her baton, she will...
THE WITCHER 3 AT THE VIDEO GAMES MUSIC GALA in FMF KRAKOW 2018

THE WITCHER 3 AT THE VIDEO GAMES MUSIC GALA in FMF KRAKOW 2018

Good news for all fans of games and adventures of the famous Geralt of Rivia. CD PROJEKT RED received the title of FMF Ambassador 2018, and the Video Games Music Gala will feature a suite from The Witcher 3. A special version of the suite was premiered during this year’s FIMUCITÉ Festival in Tenerife. Marcin Przybyłowicz, composer and...
11th KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 - PROGRAMME AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

11th KRAKOW FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018 – PROGRAMME AND SPECIAL GUESTS!

Compositions by Krzysztof Penderecki, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Nyman, Jeff Beal, Clint Mansell, Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz, Radzimir Dębski and Sandro di Stefano, film shows of Casino Royale and Beauty and the Beast with music performed live, a club concert of songs from Pedro Almodóvar’s movies and funk&folk variations from Iceland, Video Game Music Gala with the recent titles such as Assassin’s Creed orSilent Hill –...
HOLLYWOOD MEETS CLASSICS: JOHN POWELL IN PRAGUE

HOLLYWOOD MEETS CLASSICS: JOHN POWELL IN PRAGUE

    Hollywood composer John Powell presents a special concert for 100th Anniversary of the End of First World War. Program includes Powell’s “A Prussian Requiem” as well as his popular movie scores like United 93, The Bourne Supremacy and many more. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and choir will perform the concert under...
CLINT MANSELL SYMPHONIC CONCERT IN FILM MUSIC PRAGUE & OTHER CONCERTS  DURING FESTIVAL

CLINT MANSELL SYMPHONIC CONCERT IN FILM MUSIC PRAGUE & OTHER CONCERTS DURING FESTIVAL

21st of April 2018, 19.00 –  Forum Karlin, Prague  Film Music Prague 2018 presents a very special night gala,  the world premiere of a fully symphonic Clint Mansell’s music concert, with the composer in attendance. This British composer scored following movies: Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Moon, Noah or Black Swan.  The concert will be the world premiere of fully symphonic music of Clint...
BENJAMIN WALLFISCH TO HEADLINE AND CONDUCT CONCERT DURING FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2018

BENJAMIN WALLFISCH TO HEADLINE AND CONDUCT CONCERT DURING FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2018

FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2018 IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE HEADLINER BENJAMIN WALLFISCH FOR THE OPENING NIGHT CONCERT Happening April 19th, 2018 at the Forum Karlin Prague. Film Music Prague 2018 festival, to be held from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd of April 2018, has just announced Golden Globe and Emmy nominated composer  Benjamin Wallfisch as the main guest and...