简介： Award-winning composer Burkhard Dallwitz was born near Frankfurt, Germany in 1959 and at the age of eight began ten years of classical piano 更多>
Award-winning composer Burkhard Dallwitz was born near Frankfurt, Germany in 1959 and at the age of eight began ten years of classical piano training. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard was writing, arranging and performing for various musical groups.
In 1979 Burkhard fulfilled his dream of traveling to Australia. There he studied Music at Melbourne’s Latrobe University. He majored with Honours in Composition, and studied Advanced Composition under the tutelage of Professor Keith Humble. Since 1984, Burkhard has worked as a composer for feature films, television and commercials.
In 1996 he released his first CD of original instrumental works, Worlds Apart. He won two Screen Music Awards from the Australian Guild of Screen Composers in 1993 &1996, and was also nominated in1998 & 2000.
In 1999, Burkhard was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Score in a Motion Picture for The Truman Show. His score also won The Chicago Film Critics’ Award and the ASCAP Film and Television Award, and the soundtrack reached number two on the Billboard charts.
In 2001 he won the APRA award for Best Television Theme for the Sydney Olympics 2000. The world renowned 385 voice Tabernacle Choir performed and recorded his 2002 theme for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
In 2004 he won the APRA/AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Music For A Television Series for CrashBurn. Burkhard also received two nominations in the 2006 APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards for the Australian feature film The Caterpillar Wish and also for the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics theme.
He was kept busy for the greater part of 2007 writing the music for the highly acclaimed Underbelly television series, for which he was awarded the 2008 APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards for Best Music for a Television Series (Underbelly, Episode 5) and Best Television Theme (It’s a Jungle Out There).
In 2008 Burkhard wrote the Bejing 2008 Olympic Theme for Network Seven. Renowned Chinese percussion group ‘Red Poppy’ were flown out from China especially to record the theme music, which won the Best Opening Montage at the 2008 Monaco Golden Podium Awards.
He also scored the European feature film The Interrogation of Harry Wind, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa, Mephisto) and Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others, The Black Book), and wrote the music for the international mini-series False Witness, a Screentime Production for UKTV starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani, Rachel Blake and Richard Roxburgh.
He is currently scoring Underbelly 2: A Tale of Two Cities.
Burkhard has several soundtracks out on general release and lives with his family in Melbourne, Australia. He continues to work on local, European and U.S. film and television productions.
