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16 Facts About Anthony Pateras

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Anthony Peter Pateras was born on 1979 and is an Australian-born composer, pianist and electronic musician.

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Anthony Pateras has released several solo albums and collaborated with other artists.

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Anthony Peter Pateras was born in 1979 and grew up in Melbourne.

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Anthony Pateras started tertiary education at La Trobe University, studying composition with Graeme Leak, Neil Kelly and John McCaughey.

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Anthony Pateras was a sound composer for a play, Carboni, written by John Romeril and performed at the Carlton Courthouse in June 1999.

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From 2001 till 2006 Anthony Pateras scored short films; two of which were accepted in the Cinefondation section at the Cannes Film Festival: Ben Hackworth's Martin Four and Pia Borg's Footnote.

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Anthony Pateras curated the Articulating Space concert series from 2001, which transformed into the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music, in 2008.

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Anthony Pateras composed the tracks, provided piano, prepared piano and vocals, and conducted the session musicians as well as co-producing the work.

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Anthony Pateras composed and conducted a performance, Percussion Portrait, at the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2009.

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Anthony Pateras performed it live-in-the-studio for Andrew Ford's The Music Show on Radio National.

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Anthony Pateras was a Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2018.

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Anthony Pateras met Robin Fox at La Trobe University in the late 1990s, where Fox was archiving recordings.

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Anthony Pateras spends most of his time inside the piano, hitting, scraping, and rubbing its strings.

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In 2013 Anthony Pateras, who was then-based in Berlin, collaborated with Natasha Anderson, Sabina Maselli and Erkki Veltheim on a large-scale audio-visual work, Another Other, for the contemporary opera company, Chamber Made.

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Anthony Pateras collaborated again with Patton to establish the tetema project.

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Anthony Pateras has been nominated for Art Music Awards three times.