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Award-winning Australian film composer Nerida Tyson-Chew brings a distinct warmth and creative ingenuity to her work. Known for her collaborative approach and versatility across a range of musical disciplines, her portfolio spans feature films, television dramas, children's productions as well as numerous documentaries and wildlife films.
As a composer/orchestrator/conductor/musician and music producer, Nerida’s passion is being a sonic storyteller of feelings for film, expressing through music the unseen and unsaid, supporting the drama, the edit and subliminally underscoring dialogue.
Nerida enjoys being a part of screen music history as one of the first female composers scoring on productions in the US, and joined the elite league of female composers to score a motion picture for a major Hollywood studio when she was hired by Sony Pictures in 2003. Nerida has been recognised with numerous awards and nominations over her 25+ year career. Her Australian Screen Composer Awards include Feature Film Score of the Year, Best Music for a TV Series, Best Music for a Children's Series and Best Music for a Telemovie and Mini-Series.Â
Recently Nerida scored the internationally acclaimed Canadian-Australian underwater animated adventure series 'The Deep' based on Tom Taylor's Aurealis Award-winning graphic novel series, for A Stark Production, Technicolor and DHX Media. Her latest feature film, the uplifting family movie 'H is for Happiness', is currently being released after being launched at the 2020 Berlinale. Nerida's portfolio spreads across hundreds of hours of music and is in circulation in over 200 countries.
Nerida has a B.Mus. (Comp.) Hons. (University of Sydney, Australia), and a Masters of Music in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA). Awarded several music scholarships including the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award, both the BMI and the ASCAP Film-Scoring Workshops (US) and a music scoring internship with the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, Nerida is a Harry Warren Scholar.
Nerida is privileged to share that she was much-loved Shirley Walker's first Composer Assistant.
Sony Pictures' 'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid' (US); Gaumont's 'L'apprenti Père Noël' (Santa's Apprentice) (France-Australia); DHX/Technicolor/A Stark Production's animated adventure series 'The Deep' (Canada-Australia); the Fox-Walden Media/ Hallmark Channel film 'Return to Nim's Island' (US); Australian prime-time action series 'Rescue - Special Ops'; animation series 'Tracey McBean' (ABC), the documentary series 'Life@' (ABC); The National Geographic Channel series 'Taboo' and Warner Bros.' 'Batman: The Animated Series' (US).
2022 Doctor of Arts, Film and Television (honoris causa), AFTRS
2020 APRA AMCOS Honour: Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen
2020 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas
2020 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards : Nominated, AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film for 'H is for Happiness'
2019 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas
2018 Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television : Nominated, Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Music in Animation for 'The Deep'
2018 Australian Screen Music Awards : Won, Best Music for Children's Television for 'The Deep'
2018 The Inaugural Australian Women In Music Awards (AWMA) : Won, Award for Musical Excellence, Award for outstanding excellence and expertise as a musician, composer, orchestrator, conductor and music producer.
2017 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas
2017 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Music for Children's Television for 'The Deep'
2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards : Nominated, AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in Television for 'The Deep'
2012 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Feature Film Score of the Year for 'Santa's Apprentice'
2010 Australian Screen Music Awards : Won, Best Music for a Documentary for 'Trishna and Krishna: The Quest for Separate Lives'
2010 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for 'Rescue : Special Ops'
2009 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Television Theme for 'The Stamp of Australia'
2007 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Music for a Documentary for 'Life at 1'
2007 Australian Screen Music Awards : Won, Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for 'Two Twisted'
2007 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Television Theme for 'Two Twisted'
2007 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for 'Life at 1'
2006 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Music for Children's Television for 'Tracey McBean'
2005 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Music for Children's Television for 'Tracey McBean'
2005 Australian Screen Music Awards : Nominated, Best Soundtrack Album for 'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid'
2003 Australian Screen Music Awards : Won, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for 'Evil Never Dies'
2001 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Nominated, Best Soundtrack Album for 'Silhouettes of the Desert'
2000 Australasian Performing Rights Association Awards : Nominated, Best TV Theme for 'The Adventures of Sam'
1999 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Nominated, Best Original Music in a Children's TV or Animation Series for 'The Adventures of Sam'
1999 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Won, Best Original Music for a TV Series or Serial for 'The Lost World'
1997 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Nominated, Best Original Song Composed for the Screen for 'Brilliant Lies'
1997 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Nominated, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for 'Halifax f.p. - Sweet Dreams'
1997 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Won, Best Original Music for a TV Series or Serial for 'Twisted Tales'
1996 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Won, Best Music for a Children's TV Series for 'Crocadoo'
1996 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Nominated, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for 'The Last Bullet'
1995 Australasian Performing Rights Association Awards : Nominated, Best Film Score for 'Hotel Sorrento'
1995 Australian Film Institute Awards : Nominated, AFI Award for Best Original Music Score for 'Hotel Sorrento'
1995 Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards : Won, Best Original Music for a Feature Film for 'Hotel Sorrento'
1995 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards : Won, FCCA Award for Best Music Score for 'Hotel Sorrento'
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