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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...
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...
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...
SOUNDTRACK COLOGNE 15 ANNOUNCES COMPOSER LINE-UP FOR MUSIC IN FILM DAY

SOUNDTRACK COLOGNE 15 ANNOUNCES COMPOSER LINE-UP FOR MUSIC IN FILM DAY

With Jed Kurzel (“Alien: Covenant”), Tamar-kali (“Mudbound”) and Joseph Trapanese (“TRON: Uprising”), SoundTrack_Cologne completes the line-up for the theme day “Music in Film” on August 24th, 2018. SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award winner 2018, Craig Armstrong (“Moulin Rouge!”), was already confirmed as a speaker before. Joseph Trapanese is best known for his electronic score work for blockbuster films like Oblivion, TRON: Uprising, Straight Outta Compton and the Raid series (with Linkin...
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...
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 –...
MICHAEL NYMAN THE 4TH WINNER OF THE WOJCIECH KILAR AWARD

MICHAEL NYMAN THE 4TH WINNER OF THE WOJCIECH KILAR AWARD

The Jury of the Kilar Award granted the award to the British artist for his ability to create musical metaphors, helping the spectator to read between the lines. Attention to ethics and traditions of composing art, the originality of the musical language, creative versatility, technical mastery, legibility and autonomy of soundtracks – are the main...
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...
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...
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...