Concerts

SoundTrack_Cologne 22 Award Ceremony and Concert

11 July 2025 · 19:00 · WDR Funkhaus

The SoundTrack_Cologne awards ceremony is once again open to the public this year. Five prizes will be awarded during the event, including the Career Achievement Award to the US composer Michael Abels (‘Nope’, “Us”, ‘Get Out’. The WDR Funkhausorchester will perform works by Abels and other SoundTrack_Cologne guests, including music from ‘Transformers Rise of the Beasts’, ‘Die Schule der magischen Tiere 3’, 'Islands' and ‘Katla'.

In cooperation with WDR Funkhausorchester.

Silent Film Concert · Buddenbrooks

10 July 2025 · 19:00 · Roter Saal • COMEDIA

The film Buddenbrooks (1923) by Gerhard Lamprecht, freshly restored by the Deutsche Kinemathek on the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, will be presented live for the first time at SoundTrack_Cologne with its new music by Marco Brosolo. This first film adaptation of Thomas Mann's famous novel about the decline of a merchant's family is given a new emotional depth by Brosolo's composition. With Marco Brosolo (drums, synths, electronics), Kristina Lösche-Löwensen (theremin, synths and piano) Johannes Marx (piano, synths, electronics).

In cooperation with Deutsche Kinemathek

Game Music Composer Concert with Paul Wolinski

09 July 2025 · 19:00 · 674FM

As a panelist at this year's SoundTrack Cologne 22, the composer Paul Wolinski will provide insights into his unique technical and artistic working methods during the Composing for Video Games congress day and later that night he will also perform live and audiovisually with and against his machines and his code, with and against his Wreckage Systems.