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2025 WSA FILM MUSIC DAYS PROGRAMME

2025 WSA FILM MUSIC DAYS PROGRAMME

Programme of the 2025 WSA Film Music Days announcedFilm Fest Gent announces the programme of the 2025 WSA Film Music Days, from 14 until 16 October 2025. Across three days of concerts, talks, panels and workshops, composers and industry professionals gather in Ghent to reflect on the art, craft and future of music for screen....
Debbie Wiseman, Craig Armstrong and 25 years of World Soundtrack Awards: three albums to be released

Debbie Wiseman, Craig Armstrong and 25 years of World Soundtrack Awards: three albums to be released

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards, we are releasing three albums: a new Debbie Wiseman tribute featuring her finest music for film and television, an expanded reissue of Craig Armstrong: Music for Film (the very first official WSA album), and a vinyl box set spanning 25 years of WSA highlights. The music is...
Jerskin Fendrix returning guest at the 25th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert

Jerskin Fendrix returning guest at the 25th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert

Last year’s Film Composer and Discovery of the Year winner Jerskin Fendrix will join the 25th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert on 15 October. Music from his acclaimed score for Poor Things will be performed live by Brussels Philharmonic under the baton of maestro Dirk Brossé.Each year at the World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent and...
COMPOSERS DIVERSITY COLLECTIVE to receive the 2025 WSA Industry Award

COMPOSERS DIVERSITY COLLECTIVE to receive the 2025 WSA Industry Award

15 October 2025, 25th edition World Soundtrack Awards14 – 16 October 2025, WSA Film Music Days during Film Fest Gent The 2025 WSA Industry Award by Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Academy will be presented to the Composers Diversity Collective, in recognition of the organisation’s mission to create a safer, more inclusive and representative...
'SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE' COMPOSER A. R. RAHMAN GUEST OF HONOR AT WSA2025

‘SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE’ COMPOSER A. R. RAHMAN GUEST OF HONOR AT WSA2025

Film Fest Gent welcomes ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ composer A. R. Rahman as Guest of Honour at 25th World Soundtrack AwardsTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent is thrilled to welcome ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ composer A. R. Rahman as esteemed Guest of Honour. Widely regarded as India’s greatest living composer, A.R. Rahman’s...
Philip Glass to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 25th World Soundtrack Awards

Philip Glass to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 25th World Soundtrack Awards

American composer Philip Glass will be celebrated with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the film music concert Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond which will close Film Fest Gent’s Film Music Days 2025 and the 25th World Soundtrack Awards. While initially renowned for his work for opera and his symphonies, Glass has made an equally impressive...
MUSIC IN MOTION: THE ART OF FILM SCORING / THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

MUSIC IN MOTION: THE ART OF FILM SCORING / THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The successful initiative Meet the Future, a collaboration between the Greek Programme and the Agora of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival that was launched in 2019, aiming at bringing forth the up-and-coming Greek professionals from different sectors of the film industry, is back in action for yet another year within the framework of the 65th...
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,...
SoundTrack_Zurich Programme is now online!

SoundTrack_Zurich Programme is now online!

Four high profile composers at SoundTrack_Zurich 05 HOWARD SHORE, STEVEN PRICE, DELPHINE MALAUSSÉNA and ŁUKASZ ROSTKOWSKI Featuring almost 70 speakers and 30 case studies, workshops, talks, networking activities, concerts, and film screenings, the 5th edition of SoundTrack_Zurich (STZ) offers a wide range of events aiming to empower the intersection between the music and the film,...
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...
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL : MUSIC FOR FILM

ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL : MUSIC FOR FILM

Brussels Philharmonic Conducted by Dirk Brossé / Presented by Film Fest Gent Film Fest Gent proudly presents Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film, the film festival’s 2024 album with all-new studio recordings of selected scores by Elliot Goldenthal, performed by Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé.American composer Elliot Goldenthal has...
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...
FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2019 - PANELS & WORKSHOPS

FILM MUSIC PRAGUE 2019 – PANELS & WORKSHOPS

As previously announced, the 8th edition of Film Music Prague Festival, is about to start in a few days (1-4.2.2019), offering, as every year, an impressive line-up of concerts, side events  and special guests! Kinetophone is since 2017 a proud partner and supporter of Film Music Prague Festival and it’s a great honor this year  for Eleni Mitsiaki, Kinetophone’s founder and editor-in chief to be a...
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...