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BRETT APLIN

Brett Aplin is an ARIA nominated, AFI/AACTA and APRA Screen Music Award winning screen composer who won the 2000 Annual Pete Carpenter Fellowship (BMI Foundation, NYC), traveling to Los Angeles to work with Emmy and Grammy award-winning television composer Mike Post where he composed music for Law and Order: SVU and generally couldn’t believe his luck.

Since then, he has co-composed 34 hours of internationally broadcast television drama, scored 47 documentary films or features, and composed or co-composed almost 50 hours of children’s television that have screened in over 170 countries worldwide.

He has worked with some of the very best screen practitioners writing across a variety of genres, his music having been broadcast locally on ABC1, SBS, Network Ten, Channel 7, STAN and internationally on Netflix, Disney+, STARZ, Acorn TV, BBC, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The History Channel, ZDF, and Discovery among others.

A few career highlights include co-composing the feature documentary James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D (Nat Geo), the worldwide hit children’s TV series Mako Mermaids (Netflix), the ‘60s detective series Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (AcornTV, Channel 7), and the fabulous 8-part crime / horror series The Gloaming (ABC / Disney, STARZ, STAN). Picking up two consecutive ARIA Award nominations for No Mercy, No Remorse (2022) and Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey was up there too…

A FEW FEATURED PROJECTS...

Music exquisitely composed to picture has a transformative quality that can elevate story, enthrall and captivate, confound and bewitch.

It can boldly lead the viewer to new and challenging territory, or comfort them with familiarity.

It's exciting, and why I love what I do...

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)

The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2

Best Music for Children’s Programming

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Soundtrack Album

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things

Best Television Theme

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

Mako Mermaids – Series 3

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)

James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D

Best Original Music Score for Documentary

AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Mako Mermaids – Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Tiger Dynasty

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)

A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia

Best Sound for a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)

Lucy Wants to Kill Herself

Best Music for a Short Film

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)

Rare Chicken Rescue

Best Sound in a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)

Secrets of the Forbidden City

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)

The Floating Brothel

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)

Mako Mermaids – Series 3

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2016)

James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3D

Best Original Music Score for Documentary

AACTA AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Mako Mermaids – Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2014)

Tiger Dynasty

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2012)

A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in Australia

Best Sound for a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Nominee (2010)

Lucy Wants to Kill Herself

Best Music for a Short Film

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Winner (2009)

Rare Chicken Rescue

Best Sound in a Documentary

AFI AWARD
Winner (2008)

Secrets of the Forbidden City

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2008)

The Floating Brothel

Best Music in a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2007)

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2023)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Original Soundtrack

ARIA AWARD
Nominee (2022)

The Bureau of Magical Things – Season 2

Best Music for Children’s Programming

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Soundtrack Album

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

No Mercy, No Remorse (Original Score)

Best Music for a Documentary

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2022)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries – series 2

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2021)

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things

Best Television Theme

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

The Bureau of Magical Things - Series 1

Best Music for Children’s Television

APRA Screen Music AWARD
Nominee (2019)

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