Anthony Pateras

Anthony Pateras (b.1979) is an Australian musician and composer based in Melbourne. He is a specialist in prepared piano, works extensively with live electronics and writes music for ensembles, orchestras and films.

Biography

Described as a [http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/19/news/wk-green19 "remarkable new voice" by the LA Times] after his solo performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2006, Pateras performs frequently throughout Europe and Australasia, some recent highlights including the Sydney Opera House with the [http://aco.com.au Australian Chamber Orchestra] , the Ballhaus Naunystrasse (Berlin) opening for [http://thenecks.com The Necks] , his long-running electronics/voice duo with [http://robinfox.com.au Robin Fox] at [http://www.musiqueaction.com/ Musique Action] 2007 (Nancy), and festival engagements in Venice, Prague and Marseille with his free music trio [http://anthonypateras.com/blog/projects/paterasbaxterbrown/ Pateras/Baxter/Brown] , which Italy’s [http://sands-zine.com Sands-Zine] has hailed as “absolutely one of the best radical improvisation ensembles currently in circulation”.

His composed works have received performances from the [http://laphil.org Los Angeles Philharmonic] , [http://www.slagwerkgroepdenhaag.nl/ned/frameset.html Percussion Group The Hague] , [http://www.mso.com.au Melbourne Symphony Orchestra] , [http://www.clockedout.org/people.html Vanessa Tomlinson] , [http://fluxquartet.com Flux String Quartet] and [http://slavepianos.org Slave Pianos] . He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as James McMillan, Brett Dean and Markus Stenz, and released his second portrait disc "Chromatophore" on John Zorn’s [http://tzadik.com Tzadik] label in 2008. His own conducting appearances have included engagements at the [http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/ Melbourne International Arts Festival] (2005/6) and at [http://www.gaudeamus.nl/ Gaudeamus] on 2004.

Pateras has appeared alongside some of the most intrepid improvisers working today, including Paul Lovens, Tony Buck, Jérome Nôetinger, Clayton Thomas, Thomas Lehn, Natasha Anderson, Johannes Bauer and Anthony Burr. He performed with percussion virtuoso [http://www.pedrocarneiro.com/ Pedro Carniero] at London’s [http://www.ica.org.uk/ ICA] in 2007, and has recently commenced ongoing projects with visual artist [http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com/works/biography?artist=39&c=m Marco Fusinato] (Poletopra) and grind drummer [http://www.myspace.com/agentsofabhorrence Max Kohane] (formerly known as Maxximal Patterrorist, now known as PIVIXKI).

He was the recipient of the 2007 Ian Potter Fellowship, and in 2009, concerts of his entire percussion oeuvre will be staged at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Brisbane Powerhouse.

Pateras’ prepared piano work was also featured on the soundtrack to the film Wolf Creek, his own film music having played at [http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/artist/id/124752.html Cannes] , Sundance, Telluride, Palm Springs and Sao Paulo amongst others; his soundtrack for Eron Sheean’s Bing winning the best music award at the 2003 Dresden Film Festival.

Pateras was the artistic director of the 2008 Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music, described by [http://rt.airstrip.com.au/article/85/9056 RealTime as “a significant achievement in contemporary music programming”] , and has participated in group sound exhibitions at West Space Melbourne, San Francisco MOMA and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Other releases in 2008 include a track with Oren Ambarchi on Southern Lord, his third album with electronic artist Robin Fox on Editions Mego and both studio and live albums from Pateras/Baxter/Brown on [http://emp.pl/records emd.pl records] and [http://cave12.org Cave 12] respectively.

In 2008 he was awarded a PhD from Monash University.

DISCOGRAPHY

- Anthony Pateras: Chromatophore, 2008 (Tzadik)
- Pateras/Baxter/Brown: Interference, 2008 (emd.pl/records)
- Anthony Pateras: Chasms, 2007 (Sirr.Ecords)
- Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox: Flux Compendium, 2006 (eMego)
- Pateras/Baxter/Brown: Gauticle, 2006 (Synaesthesia)
- Beta Erko: I’m OK You’re OK , 2005 (Quecksilber)
- Piano 10″ Vinyl (split with Erik Griswold), 2004 (Room40: ltd edition)
- Pateras/Baxter/Brown: Ataxia, 2004 (Syanesthesia)
- Anthony Pateras: Mutant Theatre, 2004 (Tzadik)
- Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox: Coagulate, 2003 (Synaesthesia)
- Anthony Pateras: Malfunction Studies, 2002 (Self Release: ltd edition)

EXTERNAL LINKS

[http://anthonypateras.com Official Anthony Pateras site]
[http://www.myspace.com/anthonypateras Anthony Pateras on MySpace]