Philip Glass Gets World Soundtrack Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Congratulations to composer Philip Glass, the recipient of the 2025 World Soundtrack Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition for his scores to films like The Hours, Kundun, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Koyaanisqatsi, and more. He will be celebrated at the awards ceremony and a film music concert in Ghent in October. Glass was presented the award in New York City by Dirk Brossé, who will lead the Brussels Philharmonic in performing the composer's work in the October 16 concert at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke. The event will close Film Fest Gent's Film Music Days 2025.

Philip Glass's ravishing, Oscar- and Grammy-nominated score to The Hours was a key element in this acclaimed triptych of dramatic tales starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. "The inter-cutting of personal stories over a wide span of time, " says NPR, "is held together by a single music approach." Of Glass's score to Kundun, filmmaker Martin Scorsese's 1997 biography of the Dalai Lama, the Village Voice said: "A mere phrase can insinuate a range of feeling, from poignancy to majesty." The New Yorker, writing of director Paul Schrader's highly stylized vision of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, found "its textures made more shimmering by the Philip Glass score," featuring Kronos Quartet.