Apulia Soundtrack Awards – 3rd edition – Detailed program

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PULIA SOUNDTRACK AWARDS AND FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CAROVIGNO CASTLE JULY 4,5,6 FEATURING MUSIC ICONS’ COMPOSER PINO DINAGGIO & SONGWRITER DIANE WARREN

 

Apulia Soundtrack Award nominees for Composer of The Year (Intl) include Daniel Pemberton, Michael Giacchino, Anthony Willis and Laura Karpman (Carovigno – Apulia, Italy May 2, 2024) The Apulia Soundtrack Awards & Festival returns for a third edition to celebrate legends, premier composers, and award the finest creators of music for film on July 4 – 6 at the Dentice Castle in Frasso. The Apulia Soundtrack awards will be presented to Composer of the year (Italy) and Composer of the year (International) on July 6, the nominees are listed below. The festival will recognize legendary songwriter Diane Warren and Maestro Pino Donaggio will receive the Apulia Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honorees include Sean Callery (24) and John Michel Bernard (The Science of Sleep).

 

A special Diane Warren tribute concert will feature many of the hit songs of the Grammy, Golden Globe winning and 15 time Oscar nominated songwriter. The songs with be performed by Valeria Altobelli. Warren’s iconic songs include “Unbreak My Heart” (Tony Braxton), “Nothin’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (Starship), “Till it Happens To You” (Lady Gaga), “Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” (Aerosmith) and “Io Si” (Laura Pausini). Other artists Warren has collaborated with include Cher, Céline Dion, Beyoncé, DeBarge and Whitney Houston. During the evening dedicated to Diane Warren, Valeria Altobelli will perform some of her songs, after her collaboration that she saw them together in the making of the song “I’m standing with you”.

 

For the Italian panorama, a special lifetime achievement award will be presented to Maestro Pino Donaggio for his countless success from films including Brian De Palma’s “Blow up”, “Dressed to Kill”, “Body Double”. After his greatest success “Io che non vivo”, he worked first for Elvis Presley and then for Dario Argento, Nicholas Roeg, Joe Dante, Terrence Hill, Roberto Benigni. Michele Placido, Pupi Avati and many others.

 

Valeria Altobelli, renowned singer, actress and television presenter, will present her latest original song “Isolation”.

 

Another tribute will be given to Sean Callery, composer of the series “24”, “Jessica Jones”, “Homeland” for his incredible career in cinema and television.

 

The film composer Jean Michel Bernard returns (“The Science of Sleep” directed by Michel Gondry, musician of Ray Charles), a special album is in the works, a tribute to film masters including Lalo Schifrin and Jerry Goldsmith.

 

Together, Sean Callery and Jean Michel Bernard will perform a piano duet (or duel) that debuted at the Steinway showroom in Los Angeles.

 

Gabriel Marini and David Imbault, both film composers (Implanted), return for an encore performance of “Songs for Cinema.”

 

Apulia Soundtrack Awards will be hosted by Radio Ciccio Riccio’s presenter Marcello Biscosi.

 

During the festival, two Lifetime Achivement Awards, two Honorary Awards and a « Major Contribution to the Art of Film Music and Sound” award will also be awarded. The ten finalists will also be chosen for the “Best Emerging Composer”.

 

This year the Masterclass will be supervised by Andy Hill and long time international publisher and producer Denis Furne and partner with his company EMF of the Apulia Soundtrack Awards since 2023.

 

Last year, Justin Hurwitz won the international composer award for “Babylon” (directed by Damian Chazelle) and Fabio Massimo Capogrosso won the Italian award for “Esterno Notte” (directed by Marco Bellocchio), and a special award was given to Simon Franglen for his outstanding work for “Avatar, the Way of Water” (Directed by James Cameron).