Film Music Reporter

Alan Silvestri has been chosen as this year’s guest of honor at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards. The composer’s music will be performed at the 15th anniversary edition of the event, conducted by Dirk Brossé and accompanied by film fragments on the big screen, during the 42nd Ghent Film Festival on October 24, 2015. Silvestri’s credits include numerous collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis including the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Romancing the Stone, Cast Away, The Polar Express, Contact, Flight and Forrest Gump, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. He also scored such films as Marvel’s The Avengers & Captain America: The First Avenger, the animated feature The Croods, the Night at the Museum trilogy, James Cameron’s The Abyss and The Mummy Returns. The composer’s upcoming projects include Zemeckis’ The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was also announced today that the work of last year’s Discovery Award winner Daniel Pemberton will also featured on the concert’s program. The composer has written the music for such films as Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, the comedy Cuban Fury and Guy Ritchie’s upcoming The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For updates on the event and to buy tickets, visit the World Soundtrack Awards’ official website.