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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...
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...
SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS CARTER BURWELL - MUSIC FOR FILM

SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS CARTER BURWELL – MUSIC FOR FILM

The first ever overview of Carter Burwell’s film music work, selected and approved by the artist. Performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brosse. Supported by the Film Fest Gent’s World Soundtrack Awards, Carter Burwell – Music For Film is the fifth release from the series and fourth on Silva Screen Records. Each year an...
InMics Composers Lab - Intensive International Training Programme for Young Screen Composers

InMics Composers Lab – Intensive International Training Programme for Young Screen Composers

                            This month, the first academic year of the International Master in Composition for Screen (InMICS) will officially commence. This brand-new international master’s degree is dedicated to  students wishing to work as composers for audiovisual media and will also include a challenging training programme:...
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...
Jóhann Jóhannsson and Rupert Gregson-Williams main winners at World Soundtrack Awards | David Shire receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Jóhann Jóhannsson and Rupert Gregson-Williams main winners at World Soundtrack Awards | David Shire receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Tonight, the 17th World Soundtrack Awards have been awarded in Ghent. Jóhann Jóhannsson and Rupert Gregson-Williams won Best Film Composer of the Year and Best Television Composer of the Year respectively, while David Shire received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his entire career. Guest of honour during the concert that follows the awards ceremony, is...
World Soundtrack Academy announces first wave of nominees for the 17th WSAwards

World Soundtrack Academy announces first wave of nominees for the 17th WSAwards

GHENT, 22 AUGUST 2017. This first wave of the 2017 World Soundtrack Award Nominees includes multiple Academy Award® winners and nominees, a past Discovery of the Year nominee, and the best of contemporary film and television music.  The nominees for Best Film Composer are 2017 Academy Award® winner Justin Hurwitz, Academy Award® nominees Mica Levi, Nicholas Britell, Dustin O’Halloran...
SUPPORT THE UNIQUE 'TERENCE BLANCHARD: MUSIC FOR FILM’ COMPILATION ALBUM

SUPPORT THE UNIQUE ‘TERENCE BLANCHARD: MUSIC FOR FILM’ COMPILATION ALBUM

Be a part and support a unique album! Terence Blanchard’s film scores in 1 compilation! The team behind the World Soundtrack Awards, Brussels Philharmonic and Terence Blanchard, the guest of honour at WSA Gala & Concert, are teaming up to create a unique compilation album with some of his most extraordinary film scores, and you can decide...
CITY LIGHTS FILM MUSIC RADIOSHOW Season 8 - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO in Films

CITY LIGHTS FILM MUSIC RADIOSHOW Season 8 – RYUICHI SAKAMOTO in Films

Kinetophone and City Lights Film Music Radioshow present RYUICHI SAKAMOTO in FILMS ! An 2h tribute to the great Japanese composer through his most memorable soundtrack works! Also a warming up just a week before the presentation of his Lifetime Achievement Award during World Soundtrack Awards Tune in 9-11 pm (EET +3.00) tonight Innersound Radio  Produced and...
SILVA SCREEN RECORDS AND FILM FEST GENT PRESENT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - MUSIC FOR FILM

SILVA SCREEN RECORDS AND FILM FEST GENT PRESENT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO – MUSIC FOR FILM

                            The first ever overview of Sakamoto’s film work approved by the artist                           Performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brosse Supported by the Film Fest Gent’s...
16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF NOMINEES

16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF NOMINEES

The World Soundtrack Academy released a second wave of nominees for Discovery of the Year, the SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer and Public Choice Award. Last month the nominees for Best Film Composer, Best TV Composer and Best Original Song were revealed. The WSAwards aims at supporting film music, sound design, composers and...
16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF NOMINEES

16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF NOMINEES

This first wave of World Soundtrack Award Nominees include multiple Academy Award® winners and nominees, a past Discovery of the Year winner, and the best of contemporary television music. The nominees announced include Academy Award®-winners Ennio Morricone, John Williams, and Sam Smith; Academy Award®-nominees Carter Burwell and Thomas Newman; and recent Discovery of the Year...
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO TO BE HONORED AT WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO TO BE HONORED AT WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS

Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto receives World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award and Film Fest Gent launches crowdfunding campaign for a unique compilation album focusing on Sakamoto’s film scores. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Ryuichi Sakamoto at the 16th World Soundtrack Awards in Gent, following the festival’s spotlight on Japanese cinema. A selection of...
16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS – Composed for Television

16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS – Composed for Television

FILM FEST GENT CELEBRATES TELEVISION MUSIC,  INTRODUCING NEW AWARD BEST SCORE FOR TELEVISION SERIES/MINISERIES FOR THE 16th WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Brussels Philharmonic and The Flemish Radio Choir conducted by Dirk Brossé 19 October 2016 – World Soundtrack Awards Gala 20 October 2016 – WSA Concert   @ Capitole Ghent Held on October 19th, the World Soundtrack...
FILM FEST GENT AND BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC PRESENT ALAN SILVESTRI

FILM FEST GENT AND BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC PRESENT ALAN SILVESTRI

Supported by the Gent’s World Soundtrack Awards, this is the second release from the series and first on Silva Screen Records. Each year a major film music composer is invited to present their work during the annual World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert closing event. As part of the celebrations Film Fest Gent and partner...
The WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS 2015: Ceremony, Concerts and Seminar

The WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS 2015: Ceremony, Concerts and Seminar

Held on October 24th, the World Soundtrack Awards will celebrate its 15th anniversary with one of the most brilliant film composers of his generation, known for his scores of ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump’. Brussels Philharmonic and The Flemish Radio Choir will perform the compelling scores by Alan Silvestri, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Patrick...