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During the 33rd Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent
award-winning composer and musician Craig Armstrong will perform a
unique film concert at the Flemish Opera house.
For the first time ever the music Armstrong composed for Romeo and
Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Ray will be played by a symphonic orchestra assisted by a choir and
Armstrong himself.
Only five years ago Craig Armstrong was honoured by the World
Soundtrack Academy as the first Discovery of the Year. In the meantime
Craig’s work in film has resulted in numerous awards. Most recently he
received a Grammy for Taylor Hackford’s biopic Ray. For Baz Luhrmann’s
Romeo and Juliet he won a Bafta and for Moulin Rouge of the same
director he was awarded a prestigious Golden Globe, a Bafta and an
American Film Institute Award.
The music Craig composed for those films will be played live at the
film concert the Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent is
organising on October 19th at the Flemish Opera house in Ghent. The set
list contains music from Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Love
Actually, Cruel Intentions, Ray, The Bone Collector and The Quiet
American.
Moreover, the music of Oliver Stone’s much-awaited film World Trade
Centre will be performed live, a world première. A unique opportunity
to feel the atmosphere of the new Stone film. As director Baz Luhrman
(Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge) puts it: “Craig’s original
compositions evoke story and are like soundtracks to films not yet
made.”
Craig Armstrong, the concert: Thursday Oct 19th, 8pm at the Flemish Opera House in Ghent. |
