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ALVERNIA STUDIOS BINDS KRAKÓW AND KATOWICE TOGETHER

On September 28, during the grand International Gala of Film Music, crowning the 7th Film Music Festival, a unique award was officially launched. The best film-music composers worldwide will be awarded the statuettes named after Wojciech Kilar [Polish: statuetka im. Wojciecha Kilara]. The award is the joint initiative of the mayors of Kraków and Katowice, as well as ALVERNIA STUDIOS.

 

The Wojciech Kilar Award will be granted to exceptional and unique film music composers in recognition of their lifelong artistic achievement. It will promote authors who, very much like Wojciech Kilar, dedicated a lot of attention and focus to the process of creating film music, who were inspired by folk tunes, thus creating references to national musical traditions and putting national identity above the post-modern race to globalize everything, including music.

 

055930598c_widePhoto by Wojciech Wandzel / Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe (source www.fmf.fm)

 

The main prize will consist of the co-funded recording session with any orchestra and choir from Katowice or Kraków, its recording and post-production at ALVERNIA STUDIOS.

 

The  Honorary Chapter of the Award consists of the great luminaries of the world of film and music: Krzysztof Penderecki, Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polański and Krzysztof Zanussi.

The reason behind why this Award was established is, first and foremost, to commemorate the great composer and to promote the ethos of artistic creation, but also the cultural and filmmaking cooperation between two important cities. Last but not least, the authors of this award wish to build a strong image of Kraków and Katowice in the international film and recording industry, by emphasizing the role of composers in the interdisciplinary world of film.

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