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TTHE HARPA AWARDS 2016


Best film score
- This award goes to the composer of the best film music / music score.


The Nominated are:

- ATLI ÖRVARSSON for the film RAMS / HRUTAR / STURE BÖCKE ( ICELAND)

- JONAS STRUCK for the film THE IDEALIST (DENMARK)
- KNUT AVENSTROUP HAUGEN for the film THE BIG CHEESERACE /
  SOLAN & LUDVIG HERFRA TIL FLÅKLYPA (NORWAY)
- PESSI LEVANTO for the film THE MIDWIFE/KÄTILÖ (FINLAND)
- LISA HOLMQVIST for the film FLOCKEN (SWEDEN)


Honor award
- This award goes to an outstanding talent or one who deserves recognition for remarkable oeuvre.

The nominees are:

- JOHANN JOHANNSON (ICELAND)
- GINGE ANVIK (NORWAY)
- FRANS BAK (DENMARK)
- LAURI PORRA (FINLAND)
- ADAM NORDÉN (SWEDEN)

The nominees has been selected by the organizations from the Nordic countries of NFCN: 
BFM (Danish organization for film and media composers) 
SKAP (Swedish Performing Rights Society)
ELVIS (The Finnish Society of Composers and Lyricist) 
ISAC (The Icelandic Society of Authors & Composers) and NOPA (Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists)



JURY
An external jury, will choose and announce the winners at the ceremony at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, on the 15th of February at 8 pm.

In the jury:
- THOMAS ROBSAHM (NO) IMDb
- KONRAD SOMMERMEYER (DE) Web
- CHRISTINE AUF DER HAAR (CH) Web

ALL NOMINEES 2016

​Previous Guests and Speakers




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Jonnaemilia Kärkkäinen - Host

Jonnaemilia is a Finnish songwriter (HMC Publishing, Warner Music Finland). She has written singles for several top artists over the last few years.

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Aleksi Bardy - Speaker

Aleksi Bardy is a Finnish screenwriter and CEO at Helsinki Filmi. Bardy is also the Professor of Film and Television Producing at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Photo: Anton Sucksdorff

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Richard Bellis - Speaker, Harpa Award jury member

Emmy Award winning composer (Stephen King’s It); Author of The Emerging Film Composer: An Introduction to the People, Problems and Psychology of the Film Music Business; Host/Mentor of the ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis; ASCAP Board of Directors; Creator of The Richard Bellis Video Series.

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Pétur Ben - Harpa Award Nominee, Iceland

The Harpa nominee film Metalhead won the Edda academy of Film and TV for best original score in 2014.

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Kåre Bjerkø - Harpa Award Nominee, Denmark

Kåre Bjerkø's music to Skytten (The shooter) is one of the Harpa Award Nominees. 

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Matti Bye - Harpa Award Nominee, Sweden

Matti Bye's music to Faro is one of the Harpa Award Nominees.

Photo: Dawid Laskowski

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Patrick Doyle - Speaker, Harpa Award jury member

Patrick Doyle is a Scottish film composer. Doyle is known for his work composing for films such Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Eragon, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor and Pixar animation film Brave. Doyle has been nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards and is the recipient of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for "outstanding achievements and contributions to the world of film and television music".

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Bernard Grimaldi, Harpa Award President of the jury

Award winning French film composer, President in French Union of Film Music Composers UCMF, Founding President of Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe FFACE, board member of European Composers and Songwriters Alliance ECSA. 

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Susanna Helke - Speaker

Susanna Helke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Professor based in Helsinki, Finland.
Her films have been featured in the most important international documentary film festivals, including e.g. the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFA, Toronto Hotdocs and Visions du Réel and Montreal International Documentary Festival RIDM. She has been nominated for the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary. She has received the Best Scandinavian Documentary Award for three of her films, and has received the Best Documentary Film Award in the Finnish Academy Awards. 

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Ossi A. Kallioinen - Speaker


Identity as musician (Graduated as Master of Music in Sibelius-Academy 1990). Doctoral Candidate in a School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

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Tuomas Kantelinen - Speaker

Kantelinen is a Finnish composer. He won the Harpa Award last year for his work to the film The Purge  (Director: Antti Jokinen). 

Photo: Jouni Harala

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Johanna Karppinen - Speaker

CEO at Finnish Film & Audiovisual Export / Favex ry.

Photo: Olli Nurminen

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Samuli Kosminen - Harpa Award Nominee, Finland

Samuli Kosminen's music to American Vagabond is one of the Harpa Award Nominees.


Photo: Dorit Salutskij

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Nina Laurio - Speaker

Producer at Solar Films Inc.

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Tore Leifer - Moderator

Danish radio host (national radio DR), journalist and writer. 
Educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and Copenhagen University in conducting, solfège, musicology and film studies. Member of the Danish national jury for the Harpa Award.

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Pessi Levanto - Speaker


Pessi Levanto is a versatile composer, arranger and pianist. He has scored ten full-length feature films, about twenty-five short films and documentaries plus four TV-series. He has released seven records of his own and played in and done arrangements for dozens of others. 

Photo: Milka Alanen

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Markus Nordenstreng - Moderator

Markus Nordenstreng is a Finnish singer-songwriter, musician, freelance journalist and the founding member of Helsinki-based roots rock band The Latebirds.

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Christian Schaanning - Speaker (on behalf of Magnus Beite)

Christian Schaanning is a Sound Designer based in Oslo and Los Angeles. His design has been heard in Norwegian films such as Ragnarok, the Cold Prey trilogy and the Cannes 2006 hit The Bothersome Man. In the US he has contributed to films such as High School Musical 3, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and lately The Penguins of the Madagascar coming out in the fall 2014. Schaanning has in all his films recorded new sounds to design with, and worked closely with the composer to strive for a wholly unique and expressive sonic story-telling experience.

Photo: Sten Hellevig


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Atli Örvarsson - Speaker


Atli Örvarsson is an Icelandic composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's    biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Angels and Demons, Babylon A.D., Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Man of Steel.




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