Film Music Festival

24-26 May 2012

“Our goal is to show that film music is an independent work, an entity of its own,” says Magdalena Sroka, the Director of the Krakow Festival Office. These words render perfectly well the idea of this event dedicated in its entirety to the music composed to accompany that image. Krakow hosts not only music by eminent artists – Tan Dun, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Eric Serra, and Howard Shore – but also the composers themselves as well as directors and eminent critics. It is thanks to them that music can not only be heard, but also seen on Europe's largest screen. The festival has its magic moments: one can go to the Krakow opera house for the famous songs from films and musicals performed by Max Raabe accompanied by Palast Orchester, or listen to Tom Tykwer describing his project under the name Cloud Atlas. Yet it is the final concerts that the festival goers especially favour: here, the monumental orchestra and choirs present Oscar-strewn soundtracks to mega-productions of the silver screen, for example to the successive parts of Peter Jackson's trilogy The Lord of the Rings, presented simultaneously with the moving image.
The Film Music Festival is a true Eldorado for music lovers and cinema buffs alike, as the event is composed of concerts, film screenings, meetings with artists, directors and composers, musical workshops, and exhibitions.

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