Programme WSA & Great Greek Composers by FilmFestGent

Sa 23 Oct 21 8 pm Opera Ghent

Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé

21st World Soundtrack Awards ceremony & concert

Programme

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Welcome! Welcome to the 21st edition of the World Soundtrack Awards. After we had to celebrate the 20th anniversary edition en sourdine last year, we are so glad to see you again this year. The new location, Opera Ghent, will certainly provide the festive character that was missing last year. We are delighted that we can receive worldrenowned composers within these glorious ssurroundings, not least our guest of honour, Max Richter, who delivers both innovative and pioneering work in the field of film music and modern classical music. He is also someone who inspires, encourages and influences many. Before we get acquainted with his fascinating compositions, we will of course present the World Soundtrack Awards. For many, a stepping stone to an even higher Hollywood tribute. With a Lifetime Achievement Award, Eleni Karaindrou is the recipient of our highest distinction this year, the Lifetime Achievement Award. She rose to fame as the go-to composer of her Greek compatriot Theo Angelopoulos. She will also perform as a pianist this evening together with Brussels Philharmonic under the direction of maestro Dirk Brossé. The concert part of the evening is completed with three compositions by Bryce Dessner, Discovery of the Year 2020. Film Fest Ghent hopes, as tradition has it, to welcome the new Discovery of the Year again next year.

In the meantime, I once again welcome you and offer my congratulations to all winners of a World Soundtrack Award. I want to thank everyone from orchestra to conductor to every volunteer - who made this closing event of the 48th edition of Film Fest Ghent possible. Wim De Witte Programme Director

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23 OCT

Programme World Soundtrack Awards, Opera Ghent, 8 pm

Composition Contest

Eleni Karaindrou

An excerpt from Nanook of the North (1922) by Dougal Kemp Matthew Lucado-Donner Prokhor Protasov

Dance from Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) Farewell Theme from The Beekeeper (1986)

Bryce Dessner

Weeping Meadow from The Weeping Meadow (2004)

Ratzinger Election from The Two Popes (2019) Pope Francis from The Two Popes (2019)

Adagio (Father’s Theme) from Landscape in the Mist (1998)

Eternity Theme from Eternity and a Day (1988)

Imagining Buffalo from The Revenant (2015) Ten Men Fight from Cyrano (2021) He Will Be Here from Cyrano (2021) Max Richter - Part I Opening Titles & The Departure from The Leftovers Finale from Mary Queen of Scots (2018) On the Nature of Daylight Never Goodbye from Hostiles (2017) BREAK

Max Richter - Part II Your Reflection from My Brilliant Friend (2018) Our Reflection from My Brilliant Friend (2018) Kurt and Elisabeth from Never Look Away (2018) Portraits from Never Look Away (2018) Miss Sloane Solo from Miss Sloane (2016) The Haunted Ocean from Waltz with Bashir (2008)

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PROGRAMME

Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé

Max Richter

MAX RICHTER

Max Richter stands as one of the most monumental figures on the contemporary music scene, with groundbreaking work as a composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works. Richter rose to prominence as a composer for film and TV in 2008 with his original score for the much-lauded animated war documentary Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman. Since then, he has written scores for over thirty features, including high-profile projects such as James Gray’s sci-fi opus Ad Astra (starring Brad Pitt), the Oscarnominated Werk ohne Autor by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and the Saoirse Ronan-Margot Robbie vehicle Mary Queen of Scots. Richter also composed the original scores for Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour), Disconnect (Henry Alex Rubin), political thriller Miss Sloane (John Madden), revisionist western Hostiles (Scott Cooper), White Boy Rick (Yann Demange), among others. 4 | WORLD S OUNDTRACK AWARD S 2021

TV aficionados will certainly have heard his music in the cult hit series The Leftovers, but also in Nosedive, the Black Mirror episode starring Bryce Dallas Howard, and BBC series Taboo for which Richter received an Emmy nomination. Richter’s track On the Nature of Daylight, featured on the 2004 album The Blue Notebooks, is one of the most widely known and used musical pieces in cinema and TV series. It has been used in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, Disconnect, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, and in episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, HBO’s Luck and Castle Rock. On the Nature of Daylight even earned its own short film starring Elisabeth Moss. Max Richter draws from an eclectic mix of music genres and styles, ranging from nineties minimalism, to nineteenth century classical music, and from contemporary electronics to heavy metal and krautrock. His musical signature has been described as neoclassical, post-minimalist, avant-garde or modernist. It only goes to show how Max Richter’s sound defies any label and how he has shaped the field of contemporary composition.

In her career she has worked with legendary directors such as Chris Marker, Jules Dassin and Margarethe von Trotta. Her music has featured in popular films, notably the blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, proving that her scores have a cultural impact beyond the films they were written for. Her latest film score will be heard in Terrence Malick’s new feature film, currently titled The Way of the Wind.

Undoubtedly, Eleni Karaindrou is most famous for her close collaboration with Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. Until his death in 2012, they worked together for more than two decades on eight feature films. When Karaindrou received the prize for best film score for Roza at the 1982 Thessaloniki Film Festival, filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos was the president of the jury. He immediately asked her to work with him. She has often compared their creative relationship with the one between Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, who equally inspired each other. Hailed by Time Magazine as “Greece’s most eloquent living composer”, Karaindrou describes herself as “instinctive”, and deems her relation to the camera much more important than her relation to the screenplay. She brings together classical and traditional elements, often combining the Greek santouri with oboes, violas, cellos and accordions. Karaindrou is drawn to a mix of modern classical music and folk music, each time creating an emotional climate close to melancholy or nostalgia, not by chance two words of Greek origin. On her return to Greece after her studies she founded the Laboratory for Traditional Instruments at the ORA Cultural Centre. She has been an active campaigner on behalf of her country’s musical traditions for over four decades.

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ELENI KARAINDROU

Born in the Greek mountain village of Tichio, Eleni Karaindrou is a globally renowned film, television and theatre composer. At the age of seven, she discovered films from her bedroom window, as her Athens home was beside an openair cinema. She studied piano and music theory in Greece before moving to Paris during the Greek military junta. There she studied ethnomusicology and developed her love for traditional instruments. Over the years she has assembled an impressive oeuvre of film and television scores, in addition to her more than fifty compositions for theatre productions.

Eleni Karaindrou

Bryce Dessner

B RYC E D ES S N E R

Bryce Dessner was born in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After early training on the flute, he switched to classical guitar in his teens. He comments: “As a teenager I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, ‘You know, you can’t really do both things’. My intuition told me they were wrong”. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Yale University, and now lives in Paris. As a founding member and guitarist of The National, he has written most of the band’s songs in collaboration with lead singer Matt Berninger. Dessner is in his natural element when collaborating across art forms. He has written orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions for the likes of Los Angeles Philharmonic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall and New York City Ballet. His orchestrations can be heard on the new albums by Paul Simon and Bon Iver, among others.

In recent years, Dessner has emerged as one of the hottest prospects in composing for screen. He provided additional score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant with Alva Noto and 2016 World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ryuichi Sakamoto. The original score was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Grammy. Further film score credits include the soundtrack for Death of Marsha P. Johnson and The Kitchen starring Elisabeth Moss and Melissa McCarthy. In the unique livestream of the 20th anniversary edition of the WSAwards in October 2020, Bryce Dessner won the Discovery of the Year Award for his score for Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes. As has always been the custom, music by the winner of last year’s WSAward for Discovery of the Year will be performed by Brussels Philharmonic at the World Soundtrack Awards. Two pieces from Dessner’s score for Cyrano, the soon to be released musical drama by Joe Wright based on Cyrano the Bergerac, will be played live in world premiere at the World Soundtrack Awards.

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Nominees Best Original Song Call me Cruella (Cruella) The title track for Disney’s Cruella is a collaboration between songwriters Nicholas Britell, Florence Welch, Steph Jones, Jordan Powers and Taura Stinson.

Hear My Voice (The Trial Of The Chicago 7) This Oscar-nominated song is written by UK composer Daniel Pemberton — who is also nominated for Film Composer of the Year — and US-UK singer-songwriter Celeste Waite, who performs the track. Húsavík (My Hometown) (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga) This collaboration between US songwriter Savan Kotecha, Swedish composer Rickard Göransson and Fat Max Gsus is performed by star Will Ferrell and Molly Sanden (although Rachel McAdams appears to be singing on screen). Loyal Brave True (Mulan) Composers Jamie Hartman, Harry Gregson-Williams and Rosi Golan team up with Billy Crabtree for this composition, performed by Christina Aguilera. Rain Song (Minari) US composer Emile Mosseri was nominated for an Oscar for his score for Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari. He is also in the running for Film Composer of the Year.

Discovery of the Year 2021 Gavin Brivik (US) - Wild Indian US composer Brivik won the Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer in 2017. He is nominated here for his work on the thriller Wild Indian, which premiered at Sundance in January.

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NOMINEES

Fight For You (Judas And The Black Messiah) This collaboration between US songwriters H.E.R (Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson), Dernst Emile II and Tiara Thomas won the Oscar for best original song this year.

Nainita Desai (UK) - The Reason I Jump Desai, who has been composing for documentary films for several years, is nominated in this category for her experimental score for autism doc The Reason I Jump. She also receives nods in the Film Composer of the Year and Public Choice categories. Florencia Di Concilio (Uruguay) - Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary Montevideo-born Di Concilio is nominated for her score on Rémi Chayé’s animated film, which won best feature at this year’s Annecy film festival. Natalie Holt (UK) - Infidel UK composer Holt is nominated here for her score on Infidel, and in the TV Composer of the Year category for Disney+’s Loki. She had a Primetime Emmy nod for TV series Victoria, and recently composed the score for Phyllida Lloyd’s feature Herself.

NOMINEES

Anthony Willis (US) - Promising Young Woman Willis also received a BAFTA nod for Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller. His credits include additional music for features including Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Public Choice Award Susan DiBona (US) & Salvatore Sangiovanni (Italy) - I Liviatani Cattive Attitudini Collaborators DiBona and Sangiovanni are in the running for their score to Italian comedy I Liviatani - Cattive Attitudini (Bad Habits Die Hard). Ralf Wengenmayr (Germany) & Marvin Miller (Germany) - Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13 Wengenmayr and Miller were also nominated for best score at the German Film Awards for this family adventure. Nainita Desai (UK) - The Reason I Jump The first documentary composer to be nominated for Film Composer of the Year, Desai is also in the running for Discovery of the Year for her experimental score. Benji Merrison (UK) - SAS: Red Notice UK composer Merrison has worked on TV shows such as Tin Star and Victoria; his nod here is for his first feature, Netflix actioner SAS: Red Notice. 8 | WORLD S OUNDTRACK AWARD S 2021

Amelia Warner (UK) - Wild Mountain Thyme UK actor-musician Warner composed the score for Haifaa Al Mansour’s Mary Shelley, for which she was nominated for Discovery of the Year. Her nod here is for John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy Wild Mountain Thyme.

Television Composer of the Year 2021

Nicholas Britell (US) - The Underground Railroad Britell — a Discovery of the Year 2017 — was Oscar-nominated for Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, the latter combining with Vice to win him Film Composer of the Year 2019. He is nominated here for his scoring work on Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad, after winning last year for Succession. Ludwig Göransson (Sweden) - The Mandalorian (season two) Göransson’s collaborative relationship with director Ryan Coogler has resulted in scores for features Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther, for which the Swedish composer won both an Oscar and a Grammy. After scoring Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, Göransson is nominated here for his work on season two of Disney+’s Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian. Natalie Holt (UK) - Loki (season one) National Film and Television School-trained UK composer Holt has provided music for films including Pin Cushion and Journey’s End (which she coscored with Hildur Guðnadóttir) and TV shows such as Wallander and Deadwater Fell. She is nominated here for her score for Disney+’s Loki. Carlos Rafael Rivera (US) - Hacks (season one); The Queen’s Gambit Rivera’s score for Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit secured him a Primetime Emmy nomination. It now joins his work on the first season of HBO Max drama Hacks to see him in the running for Television Composer of the Year.

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NOMINEES

Christophe Beck (Canada) - WandaVision Prolific Canadian composer Beck has created scores for films including Free Guy and TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer. He is nominated here for Disney+’s WandaVision score, which also has a Primetime Emmy nomination.

Film Composer of the Year 2021 Nainita Desai (UK) - American Murder: The Family Next Door, Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests, The Reason I Jump Documentary composer Desai (who scored the Oscar-nominated For Sama) is recognised for her work on a trio of non-fiction films, including Jerry Rothwell’s Sundance audience award winner The Reason I Jump. Desai is also nominated in the Discovery of the Year and Public Choice categories.

NOMINEES

James Newton Howard (US) - News of the World, Raya and the Last Dragon Having previously won the category in 2008 — when he was recognised for Charlie Wilson’s War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend — Howard is this year nominated for his scores on two very different films: Paul Greengrass’s western News Of The World and Don Hall’s Disney animation Raya And The Last Dragon.

Emile Mosseri (US) - Kajillionaire, Minari US composer Mosseri received an Oscar nomination for Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, which is also recognised here alongside his work on Miranda July’s heist comedy Kajillionaire.

Daniel Pemberton (UK) - Enola Holmes, Rising Phoenix, The Trial Of The Chicago 7 Winner of the Discovery of the Year 2014 Award, Pemberton’s score for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7 was nominated for an Oscar. It joins an impressive recent body of work, which has secured him a third Film Composer of the Year nomination.

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste (US) - Soul Nominated last year in the best TV Composer category for their work on HBO’s Watchmen, Reznor and Ross now join Batiste in a nomination for their Oscar-winning soundtrack for Pixar’s Soul.

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Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer Matthew Lucado-Donner California-born Matthew Lucado-Donner originally wanted to be a singer, but turned his attention to composing after losing his singing voice to vocal nodules. Now pursuing a professional career in composition, he is particularly inspired by his long-standing passion for jazz. His recent work includes the newly released 11-episode Starflow cooking series, featuring 3-star Michelin chef, Björn Frantzén. In the spring of 2019 he scored the short film We Have To Go, directed by Johan Bodell, which has seen wide success in the film festival circuit. In late 2018, Donner’s first feature film, The Cabin, was released by High Octane Pictures and is now streaming on Amazon Video. Dougal Kemp Born in London in 1995, Dougal Kemp started learning music at the age of six and never stopped. He obtained his Film Music Masters degree in Lyon, France, before winning the First Prize in the Animation Category and becoming a finalist in the Scenario Category of the Original SoundTrack Challenge in Clermont-Ferrand in 2019. In order to deepen his personal musical language and learn how to adapt it to film in the best way, Kemp joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL) in 2019. He scored a number of shorts, like the 3D Animation In The Woods, which was awarded a bronze medal at the Queen Palm International Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the Court Mais Bon Festival in 2018. Prokhor Protasov After studying choral conducting and composition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia-born Prokhor Protasov served as conductor-in-residence of the Vyatka Symphony Orchestra (2015-18). During that period, he arranged performances of two of his major compositions, a concerto for violin, piano, and orchestra and a ballet, Town in a Snuffbox. In 2015, he composed a song that has become the anthem for his native city Kirov. He was also awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study orchestral conducting at New York’s Bard College Conservatory of Music, and studied under renowned composer Christos Hatzis at the University of Toronto. His works have been performed in the Hermitage Theatre, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

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About the Composition Contest Young international film music talents get the chance to participate in our yearly Film Music Composition Contest and to win the Sabam Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer, worth €2,500. Participants are invited to show their skills as a composer for screen by writing a symphonic score for a selected film or TV excerpt. The jury choses three finalists, whose compositions will be performed by Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Dirk Brossé, at the annual World Soundtrack Awards ceremony and concert. This year, the participants were tasked with composing a symphonic score for the 1922 American silent film Nanook of the North by Robert J. Flaherty. Writer, director, cinematographer and producer Robert J. Flaherty has been called “the father of the documentary” for creating the cinematic milestone that is Nanook of the North. This documentary - that would now qualify as a docudrama, since Flaherty has always admitted that a lot of the scenes were staged - follows the struggles of an Inuk hunter named

Nanook and his family surviving in the harsh living conditions of the Canadian Arctic. Flaherty captured some unique footage that had rarely been seen before at the time, such as the construction of an igloo, the hunting of a seal and the harpooning of a walrus. Nanook of the North succeeds in depicting the raw beauty of the battle of man versus nature and became the first feature-length documentary to achieve commercial success, which has inspired many next generations of filmmakers. All compositions were judged by a professional jury presided by Dirk Brossé (Film Fest Ghent’s music director, conductor) and consisting of Michelino Bisceglia (composer), Patrick Duynslaegher (journalist, consultant at Film Fest Ghent), Michel Herr (composer), Christina Vandekerckhove (director, Rabot) and Annabel Verbeke (director, Four Seasons in a Day).

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MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR

Dirk Brossé is a multi-faceted composer and a respected conductor on the international music scene. Since 2010, Brossé has been music director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and music director of Film Fest Ghent. Dirk Brossé has composed some 400 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music, symphonic works, musicals and film scores. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade’s End was nominated for an Emmy Award. His score for Knielen op een bed violen was nominated for the Golden Calf Award. Maestro Brossé has conducted all the leading Belgian orchestras. He has conducted over 120 orchestras all over the world such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Camerata St Petersburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon and Philharmonic Orchestra of Shanghai.

Dirk Brossé has made over 100 CD recordings and has collaborated with world-class artists such as José Van Dam, Barbara Hendricks, Julia Migenes, Julian Lloyd Webber, Salvatore Accardo, Alison Balsom, Hans Zimmer, Emma Thompson, Randy Crawford, Lisa Gerrard and Marcel Khalifé. Dirk Brossé has been awarded the title Cultural Ambassador of Flanders, the Flemish Parliament’s Gold Medal for Merit, the Achille Van Acker Prize, the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award and the Global Thinkers Forum Award for Excellence in Cultural Creativity. In 2013 he was elevated to Belgium’s hereditary nobility, with the personal title of Knight. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and since 2018 a Fellow at the University of Brussels (VUB).

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C ONDUCTOR

Dirk Brossé

O R C H ESTR A & C O N C E RTMASTE R

The Brussels Philharmonic was founded in 1935 by the Belgian public broadcaster (NIR/INR). It performs both great classics as well as new compositions. Brussels Philharmonic has made a name for itself internationally with regular appearances in the major European capitals. International representation by IMG Touring brings further tours and concerts on new stages both in Europe and beyond (e.g. Japan, USA). Another speciality for which the Brussels Philharmonic has gained critical acclaim is film music. Among other accolades, it won the Oscar for the score of The Artist (2011). In Belgium, the orchestra is a regular partner of Film Fest Ghent and of Motormusic, and participates each year in concerts with iconic films. The vast discography of Brussels Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon, Palazzetto Bru Zane, Klara, Film Fest Ghent, Brussels Philharmonic Recordings) has received numerous awards, including an ECHO Klassik, Cecilia Prize, Choc de Classica de l’année and Diapason d’Or de l’année. The Brussels Philharmonic is an institution of the Flemish Community.

Henry Raudales CONCERTMASTER, SOLOIST

Belgian violinist Henry Raudales was born in Guatemala into a musical family. Aged seven he played his first public concert with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Henry studied conducting and violin at the conservatory of Guatemala, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. In 1985 he won the 3rd prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. He is a founding member of the chamber orchestra Enkabara and the concertmaster of Brussels Philharmonic. Since 2001 he has been the concertmaster of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, with whom he has recorded over 80 CDs, both as soloist as well as conductor. His most recent recordings include a critically acclaimed album-set of Mendelssohn’s Complete String Symphonies and the Violin Concerto in D minor, as well as albums of the orchestral music of Paul Graener, works by Walter Braunfels and the Concerto Gregoriano for violin by Ottorino Respighi. He plays a Guadagnini violin from 1787.

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Brussels Philharmonic

DINOS CHATZIIORDANOU Accordion

SOKRATIS SINOPOULOS Lyra

Dinos Chatziiordanou, born in 1973, is a Greek accordionist residing in Athens. Shortly after having his first piano lessons at the age of six, he started studying standard and free bass accordion. While being a student at the Hellenic Conservatory, he also followed courses in harmony and counterpoint, being awarded a Harmony Diploma. He has attended masterclasses with renowned accordionists Richard Galliano, Viacheslav Semionov and Yuri Shishkin. From folk/world/pop to classical music, both on stage and at the studio, his performances include collaborations with prominent Greek and international artists in venues around the globe, such as composer Eleni Karaindrou, with whom he has collaborated since 2008.

Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos is a contemporary master of the lyra, a bowed instrument that dates back to the Byzantine era. His playing is delicate and nuanced yet highly expressive, and his proficiency on the instrument has been widely acclaimed. He is equally comfortable crossing genre boundaries into jazz and classical, as he is to staying true to folk traditions of Greece and Eastern Mediterranean. Born in Athens in 1974, he studied Byzantine music and classical guitar as a child, and began playing the lyra in 1988. He became highly prolific, contributing to recordings by countless musicians including Eleni Karaindrou, Charles Lloyd and Jean Guihen Queyras. Sokratis Sinopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Music Science and Art in the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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WSA O LSOOI LSO TS I STS

Soloists

WSA O LSOOI LSO TS I STS

JO MAHIEU Guitar

KAREL STEYLAERTS Cello

Jo Mahieu is a guitarist, composer and arranger from Ostend. He studied at the conservatory of Brussels and Ghent with Karl Van Deun, Peter Hertmans, Bill Frisell and many others. He has performed with names such as Arno, BJ Scott, Yasmine, Stan Van Samang and Tom Helsen and toured all over the world. He teaches guitar and music theory at PXL music.

Karel Steylaerts studied cello at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the class of Carlo Schmitz and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne with Maria Kliegel. In 1990, he was a laureate of the Tenuto Competition. He was a member of the Tröndlin Piano Forte Trio, with whom he released several critically acclaimed recordings. In 2006, together with violinist Shirly Laub and violist Tony Nys, Steylaerts founded TrioFenix, with whom he is regularly invited to perform at many (inter)national festivals. Their recordings of Beethoven’s works were highly praised. Sinds 2008, Steylaerts is the cello principal at Brussels Philharmonic. He is a guest professor at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles.

ANASTASIA GOLDBERG Piano Anastasia Goldberg graduated from the Ural State Conservatorium in Ekaterinburg and completed her Master degree at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She contributed to the world premiere of M. Tabachnik’s Piano Concerto (2007) and the world premiere of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in F (Beethoven Festival 2010). Several CD recordings with works by Mozart and Beethoven, released by Goldberg Productions, were critically acclaimed. Goldberg is a piano professor at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen. She performs frequently in The Netherlands, France, Germany and Russia, and is often invited to festivals as a performer, a jury member or a piano teacher.

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Musicians Henry Raudales, CONCERTMASTER

VIOLA Mihai Cocea (1) Griet François (2) Philippe Allard Marina Barskaya Phung Ha Hélène Koerver Agnieszka Kosakowska Stephan Uelpenich Patricia Van Reusel

CELLO Karel Steylaerts (1) Barbara Gerarts Julius Himmler Sophie Jomard Sylvain Ruffier Emmanuel Tondus DOUBLE BASS Jan Buysschaert (1) Daniele Giampaolo Benjamin Heymans Simon Luce FLUTE Van den Eynde (1) Jill Jeschek (2) Nil Tena Puyo (2) OBOE Joris Van den Hauwe (1) Maarten Wijnen Lode Cartrysse (2) CLARINET Anne Boeykens (1) Midori Mori (2) Severine Sierens BASSOON Marceau Lefèvre (1) Alexander Kuksa Jonas Coomans (2) FRENCH HORN Hans van der Zanden (1) Jan Harshagen (1) Mieke Ailliet (2) Claudia Rigoni

TRUMPET Ward Hoornaert (1) Rik Ghesquière Luc Sirjacques TROMBONE Quirijn van den Bijlaard (1) Tim Van Medegael (2) David Rampelberg TUBA Dieter Verschuren (2) TIMPANI Gert D’haese (1) PERCUSSION Titus Franken (2) Bart Rosseel Stijn Schoofs Bart Swimberghe Miguel Sánchez Cobo PIANO Anastasia Goldberg (2) GUITAR Jo Mahieu (2) BASS GUITAR Thomas Fiorini (2) MANDOLINE/MANDOLA Pieter Van Tichelen (2)

GLOSSARY (1) principal (2) soloist

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WMS U A SSI C O ILAONI S T S

FIRST VIOLIN Bart Lemmens (1) Sylvie Bagara Olivia Bergeot Eva Bobrowska Annelies Broeckhoven Stefan Claeys Cristina Constantinescu Justine Rigutto Elizaveta Rybentseva Anton Skakun Alissa Vaitsner Gillis Veldeman SECOND VIOLIN Samuel Nemtanu (1) Vania Batchvarova Aline Janeczek Eléonore Malaboeuf Sayoko Mundy Naoko Ogura Eline Pauwels Julien Poli Stefanie Van Backlé Bram Van Eenoo

Credits PRODUCED BY Film Fest Ghent IN COLLABORATION WITH Brussels Philharmonic COMPOSERS Great Greek Composers Manos Hadjidakis Eleni Karaindrou Evanthia Reboutsika Nikos Kypourgos Mikis Theodorakis Vangelis World Soundtrack Awards Bryce Dessner Eleni Karaindrou Dougal Kemp Matthew Lucado-Donner Prokhor Protasov Max Richter ORCHESTRA Brussels Philharmonic CONDUCTOR & MUSIC DIRECTOR FILM FEST GHENT Dirk Brossé HOSTS Clara De Decker (Great Greek Composers) Tommy Pearson (World Soundtrack Awards) PROGRAMMING Dirk Brossé, Music Director Wim De Witte, Programme Director Thomas Van Parys, Music Projects Coordinator Patrick Duynslaegher, Consultant COMPOSITION CONTEST JURY Dirk Brossé, Chairman & Music Director FFG Michelino Bisceglia, Composer Patrick Duynslaegher, Journalist & Consultant FFG Michel Herr, Composer Christina Vandekerckhove, Director Annabel Verbeke, Director

FILM FEST GHENT Marijke Vandebuerie, Managing Director Wim De Witte, Programme Director Thomas Van Parys, Music Projects Coordinator Katrien Destuyver, Concert Producer Mathijs Poppe, Video Editor Kim Verthé, Press & Communication Sophie Joos, Guest Service Lien Puttemans, Ticketing Géraldine Labeeu, Sponsorship & Protocol Michiel Philippaerts, Programmer Nathalie Decock, Management Assistant BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC Gunther Broucke, General Manager Judith Van Eeckhout, Artistic Administrator Brussels Philharmonic Jim Seynaeve, Head of Production Carla Deveux, Head of Stage Management Thomas Geurts, Stage Management Pieterjan Hermans, Librarian WSA VOTING CONTROL PROCEDURE PricewaterhouseCoopers Belgium OPERA GHENT Jan Vandenhouwe, Artistic Director Ann-Sophie Menschaert, Peter Roosendans, Barbara Snoeck, Cathy Van den Cloot, Steven Verachtert

STYLING WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Studio BigFish PROGRAMME BOOKLET Marijke Vandebuerie, Publisher Wim De Witte, Editor-in-Chief Kim Verthé, Editor Silke Bomberna, Coordinator TEXTS BOOKLET Raf Butstraen Silke Bomberna Sven Hollebeke Thomas Van Parys DESIGN & PREPRESS BLOUDRUK - Femke Vanbelle SPECIAL THANKS Bryce Dessner, Eleni Karaindrou, Nikos Kypourgos, Evanthia Reboutsika, Max Richter; Victoria Bastable, George Christopoulos, Pieter Corten, Rebecca DrakeBrockman, Patrick Evans, Sina Rahimi Fetrati, Dirk Kokx, Asteris Koutoulas, Robert Messinger, Eleni Mitsiaki, Margaret Murray, Nic Raine, Bradley M. Rainey, Vasi Vangelos; Raf Butstraen, Jana Dejonghe, Amira El-Belasi and the entire Film Fest Ghent team; Our partners and all contributors for their enthusiasm and expertise; All members of the World Soundtrack Academy

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Welcome! I am very happy to welcome you to this concert dedicated to Greek film music at Opera Ghent. Rarely has the thematic focus of our film festival been so close to the focus of our film music concert as on this 48th edition of Film Fest Ghent. Thanks to the unique retrospective of Greek master Theo Angelopoulos’ oeuvre and the presence of his composer Eleni Karaindrou, we transition seamlessly from Greek film to Greek film music this evening. It is an honour to have Eleni here and I want to congratulate her in advance on the Lifetime Achievement Award that she will receive tomorrow from the World Soundtrack Academy. We are also delighted to have Evanthia Reboutsika back in our midst after she was previously awarded Discovery of the Year here. As the icing on the cake, we will not only hear her compositions, but also see her at work as a soloist. As usual, maestro Dirk Brossé is in charge of Brussels Philharmonic, and his adaptation of Vangelis’ electronic music for Blade Runner into a symphonic piece is a tour de force.

“Maestro Brossé, it’s time to make Zorba dance.”

Of course, the shadow of the recently deceased Mikis Theodorakis hangs over this evening. As a great conciliator between Greece and Turkey, he would have appreciated that My Darling Istanbul by Nikos Kypourgos found its place on the programme. Together with Manos Hadjidakis, he made not only film music, but Greek music as a whole iconic and immortal by mixing traditional folk music with a contemporary Western and Eastern sound. Wim De Witte Programme Director

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Programme Great Greek Composers, Opera Ghent, 8:30 pm

Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé

Main Theme from Chariots of Fire (1981) 1492: Conquest of Paradise from 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) End Titles from Blade Runner (1982) Nikos Kypourgos Three pieces from Sweet Suite, based on themes by Manos Hadjidakis: Suite from 300 Spartans (1962) Suite from Lost Dreams (1961) Suite from Sweet Movie (1974) Evanthia Reboutsika My Family from My Father and Son (2005) My Father and Son from My Father and Son (2005) Prayer from The Unlost Homeland (2021) The Railway Station from A Touch of Spice (2003)

Nikos Kypourgos Suite (Aghia Sofia & Titles) from My Darling Istanbul (1999) Eleni Karaindrou Refugee’s Theme from The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) On the Road from The Weeping Meadow (2004) Waltz of Hope from Bomb, a Love Story (2018) By the Sea from Eternity and a Day (1998) The Voyage from Voyage to Cythera (1984) Concert Piece from Closed Roads (2013) Nostalgia from The 10 (2007) Mikis Theodorakis Zorba’s Dance from Zorba the Greek (1964)

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VANGELIS

MANOS HADJIDAKIS

They have the allure of a national anthem, the theme songs from Chariots of Fire and 1492: Conquest of Paradise, that have given Vangelis eternal film fame. As a musician and composer, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanasiou, born on March 23 1943 in Volos, is a child of the gods who needed neither education nor training to grow into a phenomenal electronic composer and synthesizer virtuoso. After a short stay in pop music, he came across documentary makers such as Fréderic Rossif and Jacques Cousteau, and later exchanged the terrestrial film world for the world of stars and planets. Carl Sagan (Cosmos) and Stephen Hawking became his friends. With sound waves supplied by NASA, he created the music of the spheres. For him, music arises from a primal force with which everything is connected. Boundaries never hold him back: he senses them and breaks them. Hence his anger when people describe his compositions as “New Age,” a term that gave rise to so much uninteresting music, he says, with good reason.

Thanks to Manos Hadjidakis, born in Xanthi on October 23 1925 and who died in Athens on June 15 1994, the evergreen Never on Sunday entered our collective repertoire. The title song from the film of the same name by Jules Dassin, sung by Melina Mercouri, earned him an Oscar and is just one of his 76 film scores. He also composed 300 songs and wrote music for dozens of plays. Largely selftaught, he succeeded in fusing traditional Greek folk music with a contemporary Eastern and Western sound like no other. This resulted in groundbreaking melodies. Many consider him their teacher, and his influence is felt to this day. Together with Mikis Theodorakis, he was one of the greatest Greek cultural and intellectual personalities of the last century. Poetry was his greatest source of inspiration. His voice is still missed. Fellow Greek composer Nikos Kypourgos made his own adaptation of Manos Hadjidakis’ themes for his album Sweet Suite. These are the pieces we will be hearing today. 22 O CTOBER 2021 | 5

COMPOSERS

Meet the Great Greek Composers

COMPOSERS

EVANTHIA REBOUTSIKA

NIKOS KYPOURGOS

For Evanthia Reboutsika, film music is a means of communication. With her compositions she wants to embrace the the audience and create connections with them. Reboutsika succeeds wonderfully in this, because her melodious and lyrical music appeals to both the head and the heart. Sentimentality is foreign to her. The mix of East and West gives her work a particularly attractive energy. Rarely has a WSA Discovery of the Year (2006) been such a revelation as with Reboutsika’s score for the Turkish film My Father and Son. Reboutsika, who was born in Kato Achaia on October 6 1958, was familiar with film music from an early age because her father owned a cinema. But she became an accomplished violinist and loved to improvise. From musician to composer was only a small step. Singer Yannis Kotsiras performed her songs, theatre makers called on her and after a few feature films, Reboutsika has mainly worked for documentary makers in recent years. Her filmography contains about thirty titles.

His name may not sound as familiar as some of his colleagues, but Nikos Kypourgos, born in Athens on April 21 1952, is one of the most prolific and one of the most versatile Greek composers. In his native city, he studied not only music at the conservatory but also law and political science at the university. His ethnomusical studies in Paris also influenced his compositions. Diversity is his asset. He is as well versed in composing an opera as in writing a children’s song. Experimental and traditional music merge effortlessly into a melodious whole. He tackles contemporary theatre or a classical Greek drama from Antiquity with equal enthusiasm. As an arranger he was the right-hand man of Manos Hadjidakis, and with Eleni Karaindrou he shares a preference for silence.

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ELENI KARAINDROU

MIKIS THEODORAKIS

Choosing theatre over film and finding silence to be the most beautiful music did not prevent the Greek Eleni Karaindrou from becoming a world-famous composer of film music. She owes this fame mainly to the collaboration with her compatriot, the iconic Theo Angelopoulos, for whom she wrote eight scores. His images and her music are almost indivisible. Curiously, Karaindrou wrote the score before she even saw a picture. Both attach great importance to the silence, the pause, to what happens during inertia. Melancholy was also part of their symbiosis. Eleni Karaindrou was born on November 25, 1941 in the Greek mountain village of Tichio and the sound of the wind and the silence of the snow have always stayed with her, and she incorporated them into her music. In Athens, in addition to the piano, she also discovered the beauty of Byzantine chants. Like Mikis Theodorakis, she gave traditional Greek music a contemporary character. You can also hear it in about fifty plays and ballet performances. Film buffs are looking forward to her score for Terrence Malik’s latest film The Way of the Wind.

Born on July 29 1925 on the Greek island of Chios, Mikis Theodorakis composed more than a thousand songs, wrote music for some sixty films and added cantatas, operas and oratorios. The Mauthausen songs, Canto General and Zorba the Greek make him immortal. His oeuvre reads like a musical history of Greece and his political commitment is inseparable from his critically acclaimed art. In 2007, he preceded his Greek colleague Eleni Karaindrou as the winner of the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award. When composing he started from Greek folklore and gave it a jazzy touch, either instrumentally or orchestrally. That cultural mix became his trademark. Mixing, bringing together and making connections are keywords in his oeuvre and in his political activism. He was driven by hope and strove for harmony, togetherness and peace. He did not find it in the world around him, but he detected it in the universe. That it is impossible for a person to fly there like a bird he found frustrating and unfair. Mikis Theodorakis passed away on 2 September 2021 at the age of 96. He will be dearly missed. 22 O CTOBER 2021 | 7

COMPOSERS

Meet the Great Greek Composers

Dirk Brossé MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR

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Henry Raudales CONCERTMASTER Belgian violinist Henry Raudales was born in Guatemala into a musical family. Aged seven he played his first public concert with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Henry studied conducting and violin at the conservatory of Guatemala, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. In 1985 he won the 3rd prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. He is a founding member of the chamber orchestra Enkabara and the concertmaster of Brussels Philharmonic. Since 2001 he has been the concertmaster of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, with whom he has recorded over 80 CDs, both as soloist as well as conductor. His most recent recordings include a critically acclaimed album-set of Mendelssohn’s Complete String Symphonies and the Violin Concerto in D minor, as well as albums of the orchestral music of Paul Graener, works by Walter Braunfels and the Concerto Gregoriano for violin by Ottorino Respighi. He plays a Guadagnini violin from 1787. 22 O CTOBER 2021 | 9

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The Brussels Philharmonic was founded in 1935 by the Belgian public broadcaster (NIR/INR). It performs great classics as well as new compositions. Brussels Philharmonic has made a name for itself internationally, with regular appearances in the major European capitals. International representation by IMG Touring brings further tours and concerts on new stages both in Europe and beyond (e.g. Japan, USA). Another speciality for which the Brussels Philharmonic has gained critical acclaim is film music. Among other accolades, it won the Oscar for Best Original Score for The Artist (2011). In Belgium, the orchestra is a regular partner of the Film Fest Ghent and of Motormusic, and participates each year in concerts with iconic films. The vast discography of Brussels Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon, Palazzetto Bru Zane, Klara, Film Fest Ghent, Brussels Philharmonic Recordings) has received numerous awards, including an ECHO Klassik, Cecilia Prize, Choc de Classica de l’année and Diapason d’Or de l’année. The Brussels Philharmonic is an institution of the Flemish Community.

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SOKRATIS SINOPOULOS Lyra Greek musician Sokratis Sinopoulos is a contemporary master of the lyra, a bowed instrument that dates back to the Byzantine era. His playing is delicate and nuanced yet highly expressive, and his proficiency on the instrument has been widely acclaimed. He is equally comfortable crossing genre boundaries into jazz and classical, as he is to staying true to folk traditions of Greece and Eastern Mediterranean. Born in Athens in 1974, he studied Byzantine music and classical guitar as a child, and began playing the lyra in 1988. He became highly prolific, contributing to recordings by countless musicians including Eleni Karaindrou, Charles Lloyd and Jean Guihen Queyras. Sokratis Sinopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Music Science and Art in the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dinos Chatziiordanou, born in 1973, is a Greek accordionist residing in Athens. Shortly after having his first piano lessons at the age of six, he started studying standard and free bass accordion. While being a student at the Hellenic Conservatory, he also followed courses in harmony and counterpoint, being awarded a Harmony Diploma. He has attended masterclasses with renowned accordionists Richard Galliano, Viacheslav Semionov and Yuri Shishkin. From folk/ world/pop to classical music, both on stage and at the studio, his performances include collaborations with prominent Greek and international artists in venues around the globe, such as composer Eleni Karaindrou, with whom he has collaborated since 2008.

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S O LO I STS

DINOS CHATZIIORDANOU Accordion

PIETER VAN TICHELEN Mandolin

OSAMA ABDULRASOL Qanun

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Osama Abdulrasol is a composer, producer, qanun player and visual artist. He was born in Babylon, Iraq. He studied eastern music - the qanun and the oud - in Iraq, and western music - classical guitar - in the UK. In 2013, the city of Ghent awarded him with the Cultuurprijs. He wrote music for films such as Black by Belgian filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, for symphonic orchestra, big band and theatre. He has arranged and produced music for and performed with different musicians from different backgrounds, such as Arabic, jazz, classical orchestra, string quartet, experimental, Indian and Turkish bands. He has performed almost everywhere in the world with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, Brussels Jazz Orchestra and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, among others.

JO MAHIEU Guitar

After graduating with high honours at the music academy of Brasschaat, Pieter Van Tichelen pursued studies in Musicology at the University of Leuven. In 2000 he graduated magna cum laude. Van Tichelen has enjoyed playing the mandolin with several of Belgium’s symphonic and opera orchestras. He also recorded several CDs as a session musician. For about 15 years he formed a permanent mandolin-guitar duo with guitarist Johan Dias. As an expert in musicology and mandolin history, Van Tichelen has uncovered several manuscripts with parts for mandolin. He was honoured twice with a guest professorship at the Antwerp Music Conservatory.

KAREL STEYLAERTS Cello Karel Steylaerts studied cello at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the class of Carlo Schmitz and at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne with Maria Kliegel. In 1990, he was a laureate of the Tenuto Competition. He was a member of the Tröndlin Piano Forte Trio, with whom he released several critically acclaimed recordings. In 2006, together with violinist Shirly Laub and violist Tony Nys, Steylaerts founded TrioFenix, with whom he is regularly invited to perform at many (inter)national festivals. Their recordings of Beethoven’s works were highly praised. Sinds 2008, Steylaerts is the cello principal at Brussels Philharmonic. He is a guest professor at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles.

Jo Mahieu is a guitarist, composer and arranger from Ostend. He studied at the conservatory of Brussels and Ghent with Karl Van Deun, Peter Hertmans, Bill Frisell and many others. He has performed with names such as Arno, Bj Scott, Yasmine, Stan Van Samang and Tom Helsen and toured all over the world. Mahieu is often asked for tv work, theater and music production. He teaches guitar and music theory at PXL music. 1 2 | G R E AT G R E E K C O M P O S E R S 2 0 2 1

Musicians Henry Raudales, CONCERTMASTER

VIOLA Mihai Cocea (1) Griet François (2) Philippe Allard Marina Barskaya Phung Ha Hélène Koerver Agnieszka Kosakowska Stephan Uelpenich Patricia Van Reusel

CELLO Karel Steylaerts (1) Barbara Gerarts Julius Himmler Sophie Jomard Sylvain Ruffier Emmanuel Tondus

TROMBONE Quirijn van den Bijlaard (1) Tim Van Medegael (2) David Rampelberg

DOUBLE BASS Jan Buysschaert (1) Daniele Giampaolo Benjamin Heymans Simon Luce

TIMPANI Gert D’haese (1)

FLUTE Van den Eynde (1) Jill Jeschek (2) Nil Tena Puyo (2) OBOE Joris Van den Hauwe (1) Maarten Wijnen Lode Cartrysse (2) Clarinet Anne Boeykens (1) Midori Mori (2) Severine Sierens Bassoon Marceau Lefèvre (1) Alexander Kuksa Jonas Coomans (2) FRENCH HORN Hans van der Zanden (1) Jan Harshagen (1) Mieke Ailliet (2) Claudia Rigoni

TUBA Dieter Verschuren (2)

PERCUSSION Titus Franken (2) Bart Rosseel Stijn Schoofs Bart Swimberghe Miguel Sánchez Cobo PIANO Anastasia Goldberg (2) GUITAR Jo Mahieu (2) BASS GUITAR Thomas Fiorini (2) MANDOLINE/MANDOLA Pieter Van Tichelen (2)

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TRUMPET Ward Hoornaert (1) Rik Ghesquière Luc Sirjacques

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Guest of honour at the 2007 World Soundtrack Awards, Mychael Danna has consistently been one of the most original and intelligent voices in film music of the past thirty years. He has become especially renowned for his collaborations with Atom Egoyan, Ang Lee and Mira Nair. This album includes highlights from his scores for Monsoon Wedding, Where the Truth Lies, Capote and Little Miss Sunshine among other films. Recorded especially for this new release are suites from Hearts in Atlantis, Moneyball and his Oscar-winning score for Life of Pi. Film Fest Ghent presents the expanded release Shigeru Umebayashi: Music for Film. The Japanese composer is celebrated for the rich variety of his oeuvre, and is famous for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai. The album includes highlights from Sorekara, 2046, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower and his world-famous “Yumeji’s Theme” from In the Mood for Love. Among the new recordings produced for this update are pieces from A Single Man, The Grandmaster and Sylvia Chang, Li Shaohong & Joan Chen’s 2021 anthology film Hero. This expanded reissue provides a comprehensive overview of Gabriel Yared’s work for film, including music from Camille Claudel, his Academy Award-winning score for The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley. On the 10th anniversary of the original album, we have updated this unique compilation with 50 minutes of additional music. These new tracks include suites from Troy, L’avion, Les saveurs du Palais and Tom à la ferme as well as the concert suites from classic scores such as Betty Blue and City of Angels. The album features Gabriel Yared himself on piano for selected pieces.

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ALBUMS

Every year Film Fest Ghent and Brussels Philharmonic dive into the studio to create an exclusive WSA Album. This yearly compilation album honours world-renowned film composers whose music deserves the spotlight. This year, we’ve released three exclusively expanded reissues of previously released albums dedicated to the work of Mychael Danna, Shigeru Umebayashi and Gabriel Yared. The music is performed by Brussels Philharmonic and Vlaams Radiokoor, conducted by Dirk Brossé, and recorded by Motormusic at Flagey’s legendary Studio 4 in Brussels.

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