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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), ''
MythBusters
''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television program, developed by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast internation ...
'' (2003–2016), ''
Border Security
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'' (2004–present), ''
Dancing with the Stars
''Dancing with the Stars'' is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series ''Strictly Come Dancing'', which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the form ...
'' (2004–present) and ''
Bondi Vet'' (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 songwr ...
(APRA)
Awards
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An aw ...
from
2008
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to
2021
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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
''Beyond Tomorrow'' is an Australian television series produced by Beyond Television Productions. It began airing in 1981 as ''Towards 2000'', then in 1985 was renamed ''Beyond 2000'', a name the show kept until its cancellation in 1999. It the ...
''.
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 List of McLeod's Daughters episodes, eight seas ...
'' (2001).
[MythBusters
''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television program, developed by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast internation ...]
'' since 2003 (after the pilot episodes).
The show was created by Australian-born producer,
Peter Rees, for
Beyond Television Productions, 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
Screen Australia
Screen Australia is the Australian Federal Government's key funding body for the Australian screen production industry, created under the ''Screen Australia Act 2008''. From 1 July 2008 Screen Australia took over the functions of its predecess ...
, which were televised by
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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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, ''
Dancing with the Stars
''Dancing with the Stars'' is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series ''Strictly Come Dancing'', which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the form ...
''.
At the
APRA Music Awards of 2005
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2005 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on ...
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, ''
Gladiators
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''. At the
APRA Music Awards of 2008 he won Most Performed Screen Composer – Overseas and was nominated for Most Performed Screen Composer – Australia.
He scored the factual, medical series, ''
Bondi Vet'', from 2009,
and the factual, police observational series, ''
RBT'' from 2010.
He composed music for both seasons of reality TV series, ''
Keeping up with the Joneses
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* Frederick Keeping (1867 ...
'' (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 Screen ...
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 are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performan ...
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 songwr ...
(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 songwri ...
(AMCOS) and
Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), which "acknowledges excellence and innovation in the field of screen composition."
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2009
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2010
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Australian musicians
21st-century Australian musicians
20th-century composers
21st-century composers
APRA Award winners
Australian film score composers
Living people