AWARDS
Every year we discover the most brilliant and talented film composers from around the world and travel with them to the best film music festivals in the world, where they meet and learn the business as insiders directly from today's most successful composers and film music professionals!
The Winner will get the VIP guest's package to attend the most celebrated Film Music event in the world, the amazing Krakow Film Music Festival, along with all its special events and concerts. He will also be one of the 18 participants of an outstanding 5-day Film Music workshop.
previous guests: Alexandre Desplat, Brian Tyler, Howard Shore, Elliot Goldenthal, Patrick Doyle, Ramin Djawadi, Harry Gregson-Williams, Shigeru Umebayashi, Alberto Iglesias.
Each year there are several major film music events & programs (live and online) from which we select one based on dates, guests and events to air our award winner. Usually our number one option is the world-renowned and established event of the World Soundtrack Awards (WSA) in Ghent, Belgium. The Screen Composer Academy (SCA) in Athens, Greece, and the successful Film Scoring Summer Program (FSSP) in Varna, Bulgaria are among the outstanding training programs we select to award the winning composers. At these instructive film music events, the winners also benefit from highly instructive discussion panels, master classes and workshops, as well as one-on-one personal interviews with the famous guests... which can lead to new doors and horizons opening!
Following the attendance of their awards, the two Grand Winners are welcomed to the OTICONS Talent Agency family! They will be able to seek consultation and help with their professional activities as film and media composers! Through the years many of our Winners ended up on the agency's represented roster of composers!
Four of the TOP10 Finalists will be awarded by Orchestral Tools with 4 virtual instrument libraries. Specifically "Pēteris Vasks Strings" will be awarded to the Best Assignment 1, "Benjamin Wallfisch Strings" to the Best Assignment 2, "SALU" to the Best Assignment 3 and "Berlin Series Mains Collection" to the Best Assignment 4. Awards will be decided by the Orchestral Tools team.
Our Top10 Finalists will be part of Composers & Film Music Professionals Roundtables with members of our Jury. During the sessions our finalists will have the chance to hear first-hand from these seasoned pros, essential insights about the business and how to take their career to the next stage!
The submitted compositions of the TOP·20 Finalists will be carefully reviewed by the Oticons sync team, as potential tracks to be part of the unique music library that the Oticons brand-name represents. The composers with the most fitting compositions to the library's concept and especially those of the highest quality, will be able to receive the opportunity of making their music available for Synchronization Licensing!
The submitted compositions of the TOP·10 Winners - plus some Bonus Tracks from the rest of the TOP20 finalists - will be curated by the Oticons Faculty team and in collaboration with the composers, in order to be digitally released as a Soundtrack Album to all streaming services around the world! Such soundtrack albums in that past have been proven to be a great publicity for the composers that made the cut!
