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19/10/2013
13th World Soundtrack Awards & Concert
The Ghent Film Festival is delighted to welcome the French composer Alexandre Desplat to the traditional film music concert during the second part of the World Soundtrack Academy award ceremony which will bring the 40th film festival to a festive end. This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to the Italian composer Riz Ortolani.
17/10/2013
Scoring for Scorsese
Music by Bernard Herrmann, Howard Shore, Elmer Bernstein, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel and others
Martin Scorsese is a director who attaches enormous importance to music in his films and exhibits great diversity in his choice of composers, his use of existing classical pieces or excerpts from pop and rock songs and the works of classical American songwriters. Hardly surprising, since film and music are the two great passions of the director of Mean Streets and Raging Bull.
11/10/2013
exhibition Martin Scorsese
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the Ghent Film Festival in October 2013 will honour one of the greatest American directors ever, with a spectacular retrospective exhibition of the work of Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Shutter Island, The Departed and Hugo), to be held at the Caermersklooster - Provincial Cultural Centre in Ghent.
08/10/2013
40th Ghent Film festival
To give prominence to its 40th anniversary, the 2013 Ghent Film Festival will focus on American independent cinema, one of the most dynamic in the world.
25/10/2012
World Music Days - Fables Festival
The Philharmonic's guests are the Russian violinist Andrey Baranov, first laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2012, and the Japanese conductor Yuki Kakuichi, winner of the Grand Prix in Besançon in 2011. The concert opens with the second symphony of a young Belgian composer.
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