Simon Walker

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Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's Coming Out and The Last of the Mohicans on the 1M1 Records label.

Two of his contemporary classical compositions, Binary and Deep Space were released on the compact disc Music for Pianos, Percussion and Synthesizers. This was a concept album designed to explore the territory of synthesizers to the extent they could be utilised since their inception up to 1989. The four other Australian film composers who wrote works for this album were Guy Gross (scored The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), Philip Powers, Mark Isaacs and Chris Neal (scored the film version of Emerald City (play), Ground Zero and episodes of Farscape).

His theme for the ABC series G.P. has arguably become his most familiar piece of music in the film industry and one of the most recognisable Australian themes ever.