Guy Gross - Film and Television Composer

Guy Gross is one of Australia's leading film and television composers. From his British Academy Award (BAFTA) nominated score to the international hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" to the US hit SCI-FI series Farscape, his film scores cover a huge variety of styles. Testament to this diversity, Guy has received numerous peer awards from the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) and The Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) including awards for; Best Music for a Documentary, Children's Series, Short film, Animation, Promotional Video, Advertisement, TV Theme and twice for Best Music for a TV Series.

Over his 25 year career, Guy has composed music for many hundreds of hours of television, including dramatic mini series, children's animation, documentaries, commercials and a number of Australian feature films. His film music has underscored the acting performances of Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Phil Collins and Guy Pearce and his scores have been performed in concert by the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.

Guy began film scoring film while studying classical composition at the Conservatorium in Sydney, Australia. Using corporate movies and documentaries as a training ground, he continued free-lance work after completing his music studies to become one of Australia’s busiest film composers.

In 1999, Guy shared the award for Best Music at the Tropicana Film Festivals (Tropfest) for his score to that year’s winning short film Uno Amore. That year, Guy also composed the score to the horror feature film Cut starring Molly Ringwald and Kylie Minogue for Mushroom Pictures and in 2000 began scoring the hit Sci-Fi series Farscape produced by Hensons. Farscape has been a monumental project for Guy keeping him busy for over three years culminating in a big budget television Mini Series “Farscape - Peacekeeper Wars” which enabled him to enlist the services of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and personally conduct the 140 strong orchestra and choir to create one of his largest film scores to-date. The project has spun off four currently available Soundtrack Albums.

In 2001, following in his father’s footsteps, Guy directed his first animated TV series called Old Tom (52 x 1/4 hours) for ABC television in which he wrote a number of the stories and scored the entire series. He has since written, scored, produced, and directed the animated television special “Blinky Bill’s White Christmas” which featured his song “Christmas in Australia” performed by Christine Anu and released on the “Myer’s Spirit of Christmas” CD in 2005. Christine was invited to perform Guy’s song at that year’s “Carols in the Domain” which was broadcast live on the Seven Network to over two million people.

Guy is also a director and partner of Trackdown Digital, one of Australia’s leading film music and audio service providers. They specialize in recording, editing, producing and mixing music for film and television and includes Australia’s largest purpose built Orchestral Scoring Stage located at Fox Studios (Trackdown Scoring Stage - TSS) capable of comfortably recording a 100 piece orchestra plus choir.

Guy is a board member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) and hosts an an on-going series of informal functions for composers at his home called “On the Couch” which have welcomed guests such as Michael Nyman, Hal David and Randy Edelman.

In 2006, after a year at the creative helm of his family’s Animation Studio, and following the sale of this company, Guy has returned to his first love, film scoring which he does from his composing suite at Fox Studios in Sydney.

Guy’s music is published by Fintage Music internationally and Mushroom Music in Australia.

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