Success for ZHdK alumnus at the Sound and Film Music Festival
ZHdK alumnus Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi wins the Crystal Pine Award for Best Original Score in a Feature Film at the International Sound and Film Music Festival.
Androne-Nakanishi, who completed his Master's degree in Composition for Film, Theater and Media with André Bellmont in 2022, earned the award with the music for Toma Enache's film "Enescu, Skinned Alive." He studied in Bucharest at the National University of Music, at the Birmingham Conservatoire, at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and in Zurich. He has won numerous national and international composition competitions, including the Grand Prize of the George Enescu Competition (2014), the Golden Eye Trophy of the Zurich Film Festival (2018) and the First Prize of the International Choral Composition Competition in Japan (2020).
Launched in 2012, the International Sound & Film Music Festival (ISFMF) took place in the Croatian city of Samobor in 2024 and "makes audiovisual professions in the fields of music composition, sound design and sound mixing visible". It is founded and managed by Ozren K. Glaser, Tena Glaser and Željko Glaser and the managing director Marijana Knezoci.