They are former John Farnham keyboard player David Hirschfelder, guitar virtuoso Jeff Lang and one time Boom Crash Opera member Richard Pleasance.
Hirschfelder is up for two nominations in the prestigious Feature Film Score of the Year category, for Healing and The Railway Man which starred Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth.
Lang and Pleasance are up against each other for Best Television Theme – Lang, a first time nominee, for The Gods of Wheat Street and Pleasance for Wentworth Series 2.
Other contemporary rock writers from other cities who also got gongs are Jack Moffitt of Preatures (another first time nominee), former Models keyboard player Roger Mason and David McCormack of Custard/The Polaroids.
The awards are held on Wednesday November 12 at the City Recital Hall in Sydney, and acknowledge the achievements of the quiet achievers who create sound for television programs, documentaries, mini-series, feature films, soundtracks and advertisements. They are staged jointly by APRA AMCOS and the AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers).
Melbourne’s high profile classical composer Cezary Skubiszewski leads the nominations with six mentions alongside Sydney’s Antony Partos. In the Best Music for a Television Series or Serial category Skubiszewsk is up alongside his son Jan Skubiszewski for Serangoon Road.
Other Melbourne composers up for gongs on the big night include Burkhard Dallwitz, Jonathan Dreyfus, Cameron Bruce, Dale Cornelius and Christopher de Groot.
Aside from Hirschfelder, up for Feature Film Score of the Year are Christopher Gordon for Adoration and Christopher de Groot for Sororal.
See apraamcos.com.au or agsc.org.au for full list.
