The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the most famous orchestras in the world and the best orchestra for film music. At least, that’s what everyone always says. Until […]
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Category: Concert
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Live in concert – 2025-12-19, London
The first film, Into the Spider-Verse, had previously been shown with a live orchestra, but unfortunately I missed that one. This time, I had the chance to attend Across the […]
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“De Avond van de Filmmuziek: Christmas Edition” – 2025-12-20, Amsterdam
With the De Avond van de Filmmuziek (The Night of Film Music) concerts being so successful, including three sold-out arena shows in November, the organisation wanted to try something new: […]
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“De Avond van de Filmmuziek” – 2025-11-22, Amsterdam
I have attended “De Avond van de Filmmuziek” (The Night of Film Music) concerts , the largest concert celebrating film music in the Netherlands, many times. As you can read […]
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Gustavo Santaolalla – 2025-10-27, Amsterdam
Ronroco Tour During my interview last May, I asked Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla what we could expect from his concert in Amsterdam in October. He responded with “Very different from […]
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Agents Only Live Twice – 2025-08-16, Copenhagen
When you look on YouTube for live performances of film music, there is a reasonable chance you will find music performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Danish: DR Symfoniorkestret), […]
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The Magic of the Movies – 2025-07-04, Cologne
When I started Soundtrack World in 2017, I traveled to numerous locations in Europe to attend film music concerts. After a few years I stopped going for various reasons, including […]
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John Williams / James Newton Howard / Hans Zimmer – 2025-06-28, Ede
One of the film music concerts I always look forward to in the Netherlands are the ones by Het Nederlands Filmorkest (The Dutch Film Orchestra). As an orchestra fully dedicated […]
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Bear McCreary: Themes & Variations – 2025-04-26, Utrecht
As a film music fan, I have always had a list of composers I want to see perform live. Over the years, I have been privileged to be able to […]
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Joe Hisaishi in Concert – 2025-03-29, Rotterdam
Whenever I see an announcement that Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi is coming to Europe, I always check if it is a concert I want to attend. The reason why I […]
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