Bruce Rowland
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Bruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. He composed the soundtrack for the 1982 movie "The Man from Snowy River", as well as the soundtrack for its 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II" (which has the United States title of "Return to Snowy River", and the United Kingdom title of "The Untamed"). Both films were based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River.[1]
He also composed a special Olympics version of the main theme of The Man from Snowy River Suite, as well as conducting the orchestra, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [1]
Bruce Rowland also composed special arrangements of some of his music for the 2002 musical theatre production "The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular" (which toured Australian capital cities — twice). The Original Cast Album of the show won the ARIA Award for Best Cast / Show Album). [2] In 2003, Bruce Rowland won the ARIA Award for his score for the musical [3]
NBC Sports also uses some of the music from The Man from Snowy River soundtrack for their coverage of The Players Championship.
Some of Rowland's early work was in television, where he was musical director for ATV0's The Go!! Show, Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go and the Magic Circle Club, then Adventure Island for the ABC.
Bruce Rowland was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He learned piano and was a keyboard player for Australian music groups, and singers.
[edit] Awards
Awards won by Bruce Rowland [3]
1982
- Won the AFI Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River
1983
- Won the AFI Award for Best Score for Phar Lap
- Won the Penguin Award for Best Score for All the Rivers Run
1984
- Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River
1985
- Won the AFI Award for Best Score for Rebel
- Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River
- Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for Phar Lap
1989
- Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Man from Snowy River (Return to Snowy River)
2003
- Won the ARIA Award for his score for The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
2005
- Won the Australasian Performing Rights Association Award for Best Score for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
- Awarded the International Achievement Award
[edit] References
- ^ a b Bruce Rowland official website
- ^ "And the winners are..." — The Sydney Morning Herald (published 2002-10-16) (accessdate 2007-09-14)
- ^ a b Bruce Rowland Awards — Bruce Rowland's official website
