Antony Michael Partos (born 1 August 1968) is an Australian film and TV composer. He specialises in creating scores that blend both acoustic and electronic elements with a mix of world musical instruments. His feature film credits include '' Animal Kingdom'' (AFI Award for Best Feature Score) '' The Rover'', '' Disgrace'', '' The Home Song Stories'' (AFI Award for best feature score) and ''
Unfinished Sky
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'' (AFI Award for best feature score).
His scores for TV dramas include '' The Slap'' (AGSC Award for Best TV Theme), '' Mabo'' (AGSC Award for Best Telemovie Score), ''
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'' (AGSC Award for best music in a TV Series and best song for a TV drama), '' Redfern Now'' (AACTA Award for best music score in television and best song for a TV drama).
Other projects include the United States feature film, ''
99 Homes
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'', the award-winning score for the feature film Tanna (AACTA and Film Critics Circle Award), the feature documentary '' Sherpa'' (winner of the AGSC as well as AACTA award for best music for a documentary) alongside the drama series '' Love Child'', '' Janet King'' and '' Jack Irish''.
In 2015 Partos was the Vice-President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC).
Early life
Antony Partos studied Piano, Horn and Composition at The Sydney Conservatorium High School from 1980 to 1986. In 1987 he was accepted into the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television, majoring in sound in 1991. In 1994 he formed the music production house, Supersonic, with composers Andrew Lancaster and Paul Healy, at Minton House in Sydney's Kings Cross. In 2010 Supersonic closed, and he and Lancaster formed the music production house,
Sonar Music
Sonar Music was founded in 2010 by award winning composers Antony Partos, Andrew Lancaster, Matteo Zingales, David McCormack, Michael Lira, Jono Ma and music producer Wes Chew.
It is a music production house that provides original music compositi ...
Antony Michael Partos' parents are Andrew Partos (born 1930) and Robin Partos (1938–2006) and his sister was Vanessa Partos (1970–1989). Partos' partner is Rebecca Gregg, they have two children.
Awards and nominations
AFI / AACTA Awards
Wins
Nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The
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music of Australia
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Matteo Zingales
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2021
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