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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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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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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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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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