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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award. Over the past years we have celebrated talented composers from the five Nordic Countries and listened to their wonderful music. We look forward to continue this tradition in 2023 and to honor excellence in composing. Therefore, we are asking composers working in the Nordic countries and being a member of the national Nordic collecting society to submit their best Film & TV Scores. The composition must be for a narrative feature, documentary or TV-series released between July 21st, 2021 and July 21st, 2022. Submission deadline is October 1st. Your submission must include: -Full name & contact info of the composer -membership number of the national collecting society -Link to screener with English subtitles -Link to IMDB . SAVE THE DATES Nordic Film Music Days 2023 Saturday February 11th and Sunday February 12th We cant wait to welcome you to the next edition of Nordic Film Music Days at Nordische Botschaften in Berlin. Saturday February 11th | noon til 4 pm | AUDITORIUM AND ONLINE Seminars and talks Saturday February 11th | 7:00 -7:30 pm | EXHIBITION AREA AND ONLINE nomination videos introduced and shown in exhibition area and streamed online Saturday February 11th | 7:30 -8 pm | EXHIBITION AREA AND ONLINE Award show where the winner of HARPA 2023 will be announced and live concert honoring the winning score. Sunday February 12th | 9 am – 9 pm | AUDITORIUM AND ONLINE Screening of the films with the nominated scores. Registration will open december 2022 |
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HARPA Nordic Film Music Days & Composers Award 2022
Saturday February 12 & Sunday February 13
revisit the full program, the seminars and the award show here
Finnish Sanna Salmenkallio winner of the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award 2022 for her score for Virpi Suutari's documentary, AALTO.
the international jury stated:
Sanna Salmenkallio’s score for Virpi Suutari’s ‘Aalto’ is very well written and very intimate. It is humanizing the furnitures and architecture that is shown in Aalto; making us feel the objects and buildings and creating a strong sense of connecting with both the man and his art. This is what Aalto’s rounded and singular forms sounds like!’
The jury also stated their delightment about how the five projects showcased the richness of Nordic talent:
Each of the five Nordic scores submitted for this year’s HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award are top shelf material. They all witness a great sensibility towards the stories and pictures they are accompanying – and they are doing it in such clever ways.
Sanna Salmenkallio’s score for Virpi Suutari’s ‘Aalto’ is very well written and very intimate. It is humanizing the furnitures and architecture that is shown in Aalto; making us feel the objects and buildings and creating a strong sense of connecting with both the man and his art. This is what Aalto’s rounded and singular forms sounds like!’
The jury also stated their delightment about how the five projects showcased the richness of Nordic talent:
Each of the five Nordic scores submitted for this year’s HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award are top shelf material. They all witness a great sensibility towards the stories and pictures they are accompanying – and they are doing it in such clever ways.
Nordic Film Music Days 365
Throughout the year we present
online seminars, where we are continuously putting the spotlight on
Nordic films and media music, the craft and the artists.
We call it Nordic Film Music Days 365
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Throughout the year we present
online seminars, where we are continuously putting the spotlight on
Nordic films and media music, the craft and the artists.
We call it Nordic Film Music Days 365
follow us here or sign up for our newsletter
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Seminar #6 | dramaturgi of emotions
Wednesday May 18 5-7 pm, Koda (Copenhagen) or ZOOM Niels Pagh Andersen has helped to draw the international success of Danish documentary film. In his book , 'Order in Chaos' (2021), he presents his personal perspective on the art of editing documentaries. Based on the book and with regard to the very special conversation that can arise between the editor and the composer, we have asked Niels Pagh Andersen to put together a course especially for composers and editors. The event is created as a collaboration with FAF and Danish Film and Media Composers. |
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Seminar #5 | Texture and melody: Trend Sounds in Contemporary Film Music
Thursday March 17 3-4 pm on ZOOM This webinar explores certain trend sounds in contemporary film music, specifically the coexistence of textural scores and melody? Where has the film music landscape changed and when can we still see the classical idioms and work practices? And how does technology feature in this evolution? The panelists are composers Marcus Paus and Christine Hals. Paus is an awardwinning Norwegian composer of both film and concert hall, and was nominated for the Harpa award for his score to TORDEN [MORTAL] (2020). Hals is a vocalist and composer who has experience from both the Norwegian and US film industry, having worked on the original FROZEN (2013) and recently scored her first major motion picture KAMPEN OM NARVIK [THE BATTLE OF NARVIK] (2022). The conversation will be moderated by Thor Joachim Haga, editor of the film music site celluloidtunes.no and Nordic co-ordinator for the International Film Music Critics Association. Seminar #5 is carried out in cooperation with Komponistforeningen (NO) |
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I have been focusing on scoring documentaries since 1997 and have worked with many filmmakers in all kinds of scenarios. The most common thing they tell me: I don’t know anything about music. But that is not true!
In this short seminar Miriam Cutler will give a talk about her personal experiences of working as a composer and will introduce her toolbox of how to collaborate and network as an independent and finding a mutual language. A special focus will be on Music Story Arc. www.miriamcutler.com |
Seminar #4 | Nordic Film Music Days and Danish Film and Media Composers in cooperation with the American Embassy in Denmark | What are the composers talking about ?
December 2nd 2021 17-18:30 ZOOM Emmy nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler is passionate about scoring documentaries, among them Emmy winning, Sundance, and Oscar nominated films: TIL KINGDOM COME, FLANNERY, RBG, DARK MONEY, LOVE GILDA, A PLASTIC OCEAN, FINDING KUKAN, ETHEL, LOST IN LA MANCHA, THIN, POSTER GIRL, KINGS POINT, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB, AMERICAN PROMISE, VITO, DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART, SCOUTS HONOR, LICENSE TO KILL, ONE LAST HUG. Miriam Co-Produced and scored ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT and DARK MONEY. She has served often as Lab Advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab, on documentary juries including Sundance, Independent Spirit Awards, IDA Awards. She has been a guest instructor at California Institute for the Arts, USC, Loyola Marymount, Columbia College Chicago, UCLA, International Documentary Association, and more. She has co-produced two Grammy-nominated live jazz albums on PolyGram/Verve for Joe Williams, and albums for Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, and Marlena Shaw plus her own music. Miriam is an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Executive Branch member, TV Academy Executive Music Branch committee member, a founding member of the Alliance For Women Film Composers, TV Academy Music Branch Executive Committee, and a long time board member of The Society of Composers and lyricists. |
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Seminar #3 | Nordic Film Music Days and Skap | Culture in the Nordics - post corona
Wednesday November 17th 2021 14:30-16 ZOOM A panel conversation about initiatives and solutions to kick start the culture in the Nordic again - both in the short term but also long term. A special focus will be on music and the film industry. We have invited Linda Zachrison to present and discuss the suggestions for film, music and culture from the newly launched Swedish report, Från kris till kraft - Återstart för kulturen and to give us a Nordic perspective we have invited the Joakim Brostrøm Elias, who is behind pan Nordic report from April, Covid 19 pandemiens effecter på kultursektoren I de Nordiske lande. Welcome to a seminar on hope and pointing towards the future. Moderator Einer Idsøe Eidsvåg, Music Norway |
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Seminar #2 | Nordic Film Music Days and Oslo Pix | MASTERCLASS with Max Richter | Friday June 4th 3-4 pm CET
In a collaboration with Oslo Pix 2021 Nordic Film Music Days offers you a chance to meet the awardwinning British composer, Max Richter. In a conversation with Kate Havnevik we will hear about the documentary MAX RICHTERS SLEEP (part of Oslo Pix 2021) followed by a talk about Richters work and process as a composer. ABOUT MAX RICHTER Richter is one of the most important composers of the 21st Century. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works. Richter has written award-winning music for more than 50 film and TV projects including Mary Queen of Scots, Hostiles, HBO’s My Brilliant Friend and The Leftovers, Tom Hardy’s Taboo, and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. In 2015 Max Richter premiered SLEEP, a landmark 8.5 hour musical recording played overnight to sleeping audiences. In 2019 Nathalie Johns premiered a documentary describing the project, MAX RICHTERS SLEEP. Due to area restrictions access to SLEEP is not possible from certain territories. Nordic Film Music Days is working on a solution making it possible for members of our network to watch the film. |
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The masterclass is carried out as a conversation between Kate Havnevik from NOPA and Max Richter.
This seminar is supported by NOPA and Music Norway and arranged as a cooperation between Oslo Pix and Nordic Film Music Days. |
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Seminar # 1 | Nordic Film Music Days and the GMS on Music Supervision, on Tuesday May 25h at 10.00-12.00 CET.
Nordic Film Music Days and the The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors are inviting you to a talk about the development of the profession of music supervisor in the Nordics and a discussion on how the film composer network and music supervisors could work together to improve music budgets in the Nordic film industry.
Nordic Film Music Days and the The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors are inviting you to a talk about the development of the profession of music supervisor in the Nordics and a discussion on how the film composer network and music supervisors could work together to improve music budgets in the Nordic film industry.
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INTRODUCTION: What is music supervision?
In partnership with the UK & European Guild Of Music Supervisors, the introduction to music supervision will look into the role of music supervision in film and audiovisual projects and how music supervisors and composers can cooperate. Rupert Hollier, Creative Director of Atlantic Screen Music, and supervision agency, Redfive will give is a short introduction to the topic. Rupert is co-founder and senior board member of The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors. With his supervision agency Redfive, Rupert Hollier has supervised films such as The wife, McQueen, Greed, Worth, and The Silencing. |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Developing Music Supervision in the Nordics
A panel of music supervisors, one from each of the Nordic countries will map the markets from a music supervisors point of view. How will the development of the profession of a music supervisor be in the interest of composers? What can music supervisors and composers do together to raise the importance of music in film productions and budgets? |
SEMINAR #1
was monday November 16nd 5:30 pm - 7:00 PM
PR & SELF PROMOTION with Thomas Mikusz & Chandler Poling of White Bear PR.
In collaboration with Nomex.
Watch seminar here
SEMINAR #2
Tuesday December 8th . 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CET – Central European Time)
CONTRACTs, COPYRIGHTs & BUYOUTs
with Adrian Strain & Cristina Perpiñá-Robert Navarro from CISAC
Watch lecture here
SEMINAR #3
Was tuesday January 12, and was a talk with composers
Rebekka Karijord & Jon Ekstrand,
and Katrine Amsler & Flemming Nordkrog.
Looking at the various forms that collaboration can take,
and discussing any tips for composers who are considering pairing up on a creative project.
was monday November 16nd 5:30 pm - 7:00 PM
PR & SELF PROMOTION with Thomas Mikusz & Chandler Poling of White Bear PR.
In collaboration with Nomex.
Watch seminar here
SEMINAR #2
Tuesday December 8th . 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CET – Central European Time)
CONTRACTs, COPYRIGHTs & BUYOUTs
with Adrian Strain & Cristina Perpiñá-Robert Navarro from CISAC
Watch lecture here
SEMINAR #3
Was tuesday January 12, and was a talk with composers
Rebekka Karijord & Jon Ekstrand,
and Katrine Amsler & Flemming Nordkrog.
Looking at the various forms that collaboration can take,
and discussing any tips for composers who are considering pairing up on a creative project.
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