Noticias
British film music composer Harry Gregson-Williams will be homored by BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.). At this year's BMI London Awards, Gregson-Williams will become a BMI Icon.
The Emmy Award for best television main title theme music has been won by composer Carlos Rafael Rivera. He wrote the theme music for the Netflix series "Godless".
Last Saturday Dutch conductor, composer and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw received two awards on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
On Sunday 18 November Argentinian composer Lalo Schifrin will receive a honorary Oscar. This was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
German film music composer Peter Gotthardt will receive the Ehrenpreis des Deutschen Filmmusikpreises (Honorary Prize of the "German Film Music Prize").
On 21 November Austrian composer Thomas Larcher will receive the Ernst Krenek Prize. The prize — worth €10000 — will be given to him in the city hall of the Austrian capital of Vienna.
Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös has won the 2018 Goethe Medal, a German state award. The medal will be given to the composer on 28 August in Weimar, Germany.
Two film music composers, Philippe Sarde and Marco Valerio Antonini, have recently been awarded.
The university of Salzburg, Austria, has honored Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis with a doctorate. He will receive the title on June 6.
German-born Jewish composer Samuel Adler, who fled to America with his parents in 1938, has been awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz.
The ASCAP (American Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers) has awarded John Powell, who has scored more than 60 films — including Solo: A Star Wars Story — , the ASCAP Henry Mancini
The second annual award for Best New Opera has been given to composer David Hertzberg for his opera “The Wake World.” This was announced by the MCANA (Music Critics Association of North America).
The young composers Bára Gísladóttir and Mathias Monrad Møller have won the 2018 Léonie Sonning Talent Prize.
The Greek-French film music composer Alexandre Desplat has won his second Oscar for Best Original Score. He receives the prestigious award for his music for “The Shape of Water”.
German film music composer and jazz musician Klaus Doldinger wil by honored with a live achievement award by the GEMA (the German "Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights"
The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation has announced three winners of its prize for young composers.