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Neil Campbell Sutherland is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based screen music composer and musician. His work on '' Getaway'' (1994–present), ''
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'' (2003–2016), ''
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'' (2004–present), ''
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'' (2004–present) and ''
Bondi Vet ''Bondi Vet'' is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialis ...
'' (2009–2016) has resulted in 14 consecutive Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas Awards at the
Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwri ...
(APRA)
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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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Biography

Neil Campbell Sutherland was born in New Zealand. He started music lessons from the age of 6 and during the 1970s trained in classical piano. Sutherland formed a rock band, while a teenager, which toured New Zealand. He relocated to Australia at age 21. In 1989 Sutherland joined a TV music company, working as a screen composer. Two years later he formed his own company, Musication, in Sydney and continued creating and arranging music for TV and film. From 1989 to 1994 he was a co-composer for TV science, information series, '' Beyond 2000''. From 1990 to 1993 Sutherland provided music for teen-orientated soap opera, '' E Street''. He composed original music for life-style, travel series, '' Getaway'' from 1994. An early feature film he worked on was '' Rainbow's End'' (1995). Sutherland and Chris Harriott scored the first season of rural, family drama, ''
McLeod's Daughters ''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting eight seasons. It stars Lisa Chappell and ...
'' (2001).MythBusters ''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television series created by Peter Rees (producer), Peter Rees and produced by Beyond International in Australia. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast in ...
'' since 2003 (after the pilot episodes). The show was created by Australian-born producer, Peter Rees, for
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, which had produced Sutherland's earlier series, ''Beyond 2000''. In 2004 he provided music for a mini-documentary series, ''National Treasures'', of at least 11 episodes of four or five minutes each, including "Bradman's Bat", "''Endeavour'' Journal" and "''The Sentimental Bloke'' Film" for
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, which were televised by
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(ABC) and presented by Warren Brown. Additional episodes in the ''National Treasures'' series, also scored by Sutherland, but hosted by Chris Taylor, were available online in 2009. Also in 2004 Sutherland began his association with TV observational documentary series, '' Border Security: Australia's Front Line'' and celebrity competition, ''
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''. At the APRA Music Awards of 2005 Sutherland won two categories, Best Television Theme for '' Colour of War: The Anzacs'' (2004) and Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia. In 2008 he provided the theme for the Australian revival of the sports entertainment show, ''
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''. At the
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he won Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas and was nominated for Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia. He scored the factual, medical series, ''
Bondi Vet ''Bondi Vet'' is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialis ...
'', from 2009, and the factual, police observational series, '' RBT'' from 2010. He composed music for both seasons of reality TV series, ''
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'' (2010–2011). Sutherland won his 14th consecutive Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas Award at the
APRA Music Awards of 2021 The APRA Music Awards of 2021 are the 39th annual series, known as APRA Awards. The awards are given in a series of categories in three divisions and in separate ceremonies throughout the year: the APRA Music Awards, Art Music Awards and Scree ...
for his body of work including ''Border Security'', ''MythBusters'', ''Dancing with the Stars'', ''Getaway'' and ''Bondi Vet''.


Awards and nominations


APRA Music Awards

The
APRA Music Awards The APRA Music Awards in Australia celebrate excellence in contemporary music, honoring songwriters and publishers who have achieved artistic excellence and outstanding success in their fields. Several award ceremonies are run in Australia b ...
are presented annually from 1982 by the
Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwri ...
(APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters." After 2002 they also include the associated Screen Music Awards handed out by APRA,
Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...
(AMCOS) and
Australian Guild of Screen Composers The Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) is a not for profit organisation, which was established in 1981, "to represent the interests of Australian screen composers by developing and promoting employment opportunities, undertaking educationa ...
(AGSC), which "acknowledges excellence and innovation in the field of screen composition." ! , - , rowspan="2",
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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