As a natural consequence of the musical DNA of the organisation, every year we organise concerts in which film music comes to the foreground. Aside from the World Soundtrack Awards, two years ago a Hollywood Nightmares concert took place with a symphonic selection of the best scores for horror films. Due to the corona crisis, no extra concert was held in 2020. However, the 20th World Soundtrack Awards were held as an online edition. The 21st edition of the World Soundtrack Awards will be held on 23 October 2021. But before the WSAcademy hands out its awards, there is the annual theme concert on 21 October 2021.
Since 1985, the impact of music on film has been an important component of the festival programme. It enables us to step outside the realm of traditional film screening and to seek for the cross-pollination between image and music through film music concerts. This crops up during the Gala & Concert of the World Soundtrack Awards and yearly in a thematic film music concert that revolves around the work of one composer, country of subject. Thereby, topicality is not shunned.
In recent years, renowned film composers such as Ennio Morricone, Georges Delerue, Jean-Claude Petit, Nicola Piovani, Peer Raben, Stanley Myers, Carl Davis, Bruce Broughton and Michael Nyman came to Ghent to present their work. Look back at all the recent film music concerts since 1985 in the overview below.
In 2015 we focused, analogous to that year’s subject, on ‘Great British Film Music’. In 2016, original scores written for television series were highlighted in ‘Scoring for Television’. In 2017 we celebrated the 100th birthday of jazz with the ‘Symphonic Jazz in Film’ concert. In 2018, we traveled to outer space with ‘'2001 and Beyond: A Symphonic Odyssey', and in the last edition, we gave attention to the horror film with ‘Hollywood Nightmares: Scary Symphonic Scores’.
Film Music Concerts (1985-2020)
A Tribute to Nino Rota (1985)
A Night to Remember: Ennio Morricone (1987)
A Night of Great Film Music: Frédéric Devreese, Georges Delerue, Bruce Broughton, David Newman and Jean-Claude Petit (1988) in collaboration with Sundance
Film Music in Europe: Frédéric Devreese, Dirk Brossé, Nicola Piovani, Peer Raben, Stanley Myers and Lukas Karitinos (1989)
Toots Thielemans (1988)
Michael Nyman in Concert (world première concert) (1991)
Music from Films by Derek Jarman: Simon Fisher Turner (1992)
A Tribute to Bernard Hermann + Classical Music in Film (1993)
A Tribute to Georges Delerue + Classical Music in Film (1994)
Pietro Mascagni in Concert (1995)
The Birth of a Score: Dirk Brossé, Frédéric Devreese, Leonard Rosenman and Jean-Claude Petit (1997)
The Birth of a Score II: Michael Kamen, Edward Shearmur, Loek Dikker, Dirk Brossé and Elmer Bernstein (1998)
Film Music at the Opera: Stephen Warbeck, Jean-Claude Petit, Elliot Goldenthal and Frédéric Devreese (1999)
Ennio Morricone Live in Ghent (2000)
Hans Zimmer Live in Concert (2000)
Gabriel Yared and Elmer Bernstein Live in Ghent (2001)
Falling: The Concert featuring Praga Khan and Guests (2001)
Fenton-Delerue: A Film Music Celebration (2002)
As Time Goes By: Roby Lakatos (2002)
Jizo And Other Concert Works By Film Composers, by New Art Trio (2002)
Patrick Doyle meets Hooverphonic (2003)
Raymond van het Groenewoud filmmusic concert (2003)
Brussels Philharmonic will bring the best symphonic scores from iconic horror films such as 'Dracula', 'Bride of Frankenstein' and 'Psycho' back to life under the guidance of Dirk Brossé.
Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' is exactly fifty years old in 2018 and that is worth celebrating. Under the title '2001 and Beyond: A Symphonic Odyssey' Film Fest Gent will be conducting a concert on October 18th of…
The Symphonic Jazz Concert is sold out. You can still buy tickets for the World Soundtrack Awards (18 Oct)
Held on October 19th, the Symphonic Jazz Concert will celebrate the 100th birthday of jazz with the best symphonic jazz soundtracks of…
The GREAT BRITISH FILM MUSIC concert will provide an anthology of the work of both classical and contemporary film composers, whom have made a remarkable contribution to the image and success of British cinema. Nearly every roaring name of British film music will…
In conjunction with a major exhibition at the Caermersklooster Provincial Cultural Centre, the 41st edition of Film Fest Gent is shining the spotlight on the world of Federico Fellini with various events. On Thursday 23 October, The Bijloke Music Centre is…
This extraordinary show, created to tie in with their new album, Furu, will have its world premiere on 22 October 2014 at Film Fest Gent in collaboration with Vooruit. Dance! Dance! Dance! has become an impressive mood board for their…
On Thursday 17 October Film Fest Gent will organise a concert entitled ‘Scoring For Scorsese: music by Bernard Herrmann, Howard Shore, Elmer Bernstein, Philip Glass and others’ at De Bijloke Music Centre Ghent. The programme includes symphonic music from ‘Taxi…
