- Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including
For the Term of His Natural Life . The first available soundtrack of his music was "The Wild Duck " on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for "Annie's Coming Out" and "The Last of the Mohicans" on the1M1 Records label.Two of his contemporary classical compositions, "Binary" and "Deep Space" were released on the compact disc " [http://www.1m1.com.au/detail.asp?p=394 Music for Pianos, Percussion and Synthesizers] ". This was a concept album designed to explore the territory of synthesizers to the extent they could be utilised since their inception up to 1989. The four other Australian film composers who wrote works for this album were [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343378/ Guy Gross] (scored "
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert "), Philip Powers, Mark Isaacs and Chris Neal (scored the film version of "Emerald City (play) ", "Ground Zero" and episodes of "Farscape ").His theme for the ABC series "G.P." has arguably become his most familiar piece of music in the film industry and one of the most recognisable Australian themes ever.
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