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Film Fest Gent proudly presents Debbie Wiseman: Music for Film and Television, featuring all-new studio recordings of selected suites and pieces from 2025 World Soundtrack Awards guest of honour Debbie Wiseman’s film and television scores, performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé.

Appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to music, Debbie Wiseman is one of Britain’s most treasured composers. Four of her albums reached number 1 in the UK Classical Chart and she has been Classic FM’s Composer in Residence since 2015. She collaborated with Sir Stephen Fry on several occasions, including the album The Mythos Suite, a combination of audiobook and soundtrack based on Stephen Fry’s retelling of the Greek myths in Mythos. She was commissioned to compose music for both the Diamond and Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II, create a five-movement suite and celebratory album for the Queen’s 90th and 95th Birthday Celebration respectively, and write two Alleluias for the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. 

This new Film Fest Gent album focuses specifically on her career in film and television. With 200-plus credits to her name, Debbie Wiseman has written iconic themes and scores such as Wilde (nominated for the 1998 Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score), Father Brown and Wolf Hall (winner of the 2016 International Music+Sound Award for Best Original Composition: Television Programme Score). Other highlights recorded for the album include a suite from Lewis Gilbert’s Haunted, powerhouse pieces from Jean-Paul Salomé’s Arsène Lupin and first-time re-recordings from her wonderful scores for Edie and the Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal biopic To Olivia. 

The album also contains two previously unreleased pieces: “Accession 2023”, written for BBC’s coverage The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla and a suite from Andrew Davies’s television adaptation of He Knew He Was Right. The cherry on top is Debbie Wiseman’s piano solo performance of “Viv and Maurice” from Brian Gilbert’s Tom & Viv. 

Debbie Wiseman: Music for Film and Television is released by Silva Screen Records, which has a long-standing association with the composer. Previous Film Fest Gent recordings feature the work of Craig Armstrong, Angelo Badalamenti, Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard, Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Elliot Goldenthal, Cliff Martinez, Mark Isham, Laurence Rosenthal, Alan Silvestri, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeru Umebayashi and Gabriel Yared.