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FOUR SCREEN MUSIC ORGANISATIONS CURATE WSA PUBLIC CHOICE AND GAME MUSIC AWARDS LONGLISTS
Voting for the 2026 WSA Public Choice Award and the WSA Game Music Award is now officially open. Starting in 2026, the longlists for these World Soundtrack Awards will be curated by four organisations from the screen music industry. This year: the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA), the Composers Diversity Collective (CDC), the UK & European Guild of...
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TREVOR JONES TO RECEIVE WSA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
World-renowned composer Trevor Jones will be celebrated with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 26th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert. The concert is the closing event of Film Fest Gent’s WSA Film Music Days 2026.With a distinguished career as a composer, Trevor Jones has composed unforgettable scores for over 100 films and television projects, including The...
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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....
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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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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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...
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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...
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...
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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:...
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