WSA Variety Report
Ghent fest honors ‘A Single Man’ composer
Weekly Variety report on World Soundtrack Awards. By Steve Chagollan.
At the recently wrapped 37th Ghent Film Festival, the 10th annual World Soundtrack Awards on Oct. 23 provided a focus for the composing realm’s shared travails (both old and new) and marked something of a coming-out party for composer Abel Korzeniowski.
With his work on “A Single Man” landing him the fest’s Discovery Award for emerging talent, Korzeniowski gleaned insights from maestros he admires.“(Ghent) is important for a young composer so that we don’t feel like we’re operating in a vacuum,” he says. “You can see that all of these masters went through the same struggles.”
Korzeniowski was also nominated for score of the year and won the audience award — meaning he claimed as many WSA kudos this year as one of his heroes, Alexandre Desplat.
November 2010
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