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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....
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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
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
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...
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‘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
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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