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DISCOVER THE WINNERS OF THE 24th WSA CEREMONY & CONCERT

DISCOVER THE WINNERS OF THE 24th WSA CEREMONY & CONCERT

Jerskin Fendrix, Natalie Holt and Brandon Boone among winners at 24th World Soundtrack Awards With his scores for Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, Jerskin Fendrix did what no one ever did before him: winning both the Discovery and Film Composer of the Year Award. In the category Television Composer of the Year, Natalie Holt won the prestigious...
LONDON SOUNDTRACK FESTIVAL 2025

LONDON SOUNDTRACK FESTIVAL 2025

The London Soundtrack Festival, a new festival dedicated to Film, Television, and Games Music, announced its 1st edition that will be celebrated on 19-26 March 2025. The programm includes many concerts, masterclasses, screenings, and events, with very special guests: Howard Shore (LSF Inspiration Award recipient), Anne Dudley, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Anna Meredith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Stephen Barton, Natalie Holt, Paul Farrer,...
Film Fest Gent announces second wave of 2024 World Soundtrack Awards nominees

Film Fest Gent announces second wave of 2024 World Soundtrack Awards nominees

WSA2024 Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Academy reveal the second wave of nominees for the 24th World Soundtrack Awards, the annual culmination of FFG and one of the most prestigious events for film music around the globe. The list includes up-and-coming talents such as classical composer Caroline Shaw and BAFTA nominee Tom Salta,...
15-17 OCTOBER 2024, WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS MUSIC DAYS

15-17 OCTOBER 2024, WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS MUSIC DAYS

Elliot Goldenthal, Nainita Desai and Martin Phipps headline WSA Film Music Days 2024 Film Fest Gent proudly presents the programme of the 2024 WSA Film Music Days, from 15 until 17 October. Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Elliot Goldenthal (Frida, Alien³, Batman Forever) will look back at the milestones of his career during a unique Composer’s...
SoundTrack_Cologne Announces Line-Up For 2024 Festival

SoundTrack_Cologne Announces Line-Up For 2024 Festival

SoundTrack_Cologne 21  SAVE THE DATE: July 02 – July 05, 2024  SoundTrack_Cologne has announced its highly anticipated line-up for this year’s festival, taking place from July 2nd to July 5th, 2024. The festival promises an array of insightful workshops, discussions, and special events featuring some of the most renowned names in the industry.   Lifetime Achievement...
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 series...
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...