Philip Powers was born on 1963 and is a record producer - and author - specialising in film scores and classical music.
10 Facts About Philip Powers
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Philip Powers's recordings have been nominated for five ARIA Awards.
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Philip Powers has produced 34 CDs for the 1M1 Records label including The Lighthorsemen and The Coolangatta Gold.
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Philip Powers has produced or executive produced more than 50 CDs for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on Sydney Symphony Live and other labels.
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Philip Powers was supervising producer of Sir Charles Mackerras, a double CD featuring famous Czech repertoire and Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
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Philip Powers supervised the musical and choreographed sequences in Academy Award-winning director Bruce Petty's The Movers and was the recording producer of the AFI 1984 Best Film Winner Annie's Coming Out which was nominated for Best Original Music Score, losing to Bruce Smeaton and Garth Porter for Streethero.
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Philip Powers produced his first CDs of film scores for the Southern Cross label in 1988, working with Simon Walker on The Wild Duck and Brian May on Frog Dreaming as well as Tony Bremner on The Everlasting Secret Family.
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Philip Powers wrote and produced the scores for a number of plays, documentaries, shorts and animated films.
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Philip Powers has written classical music for orchestra, synthesizers and piano as well as a trio for violin, cello and percussion.
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In 2017, Powers produced two concerts for Foxtel for the SSO, directed a film of the performance of "In Paradisum" by the Sydney Youth Orchestra of a work by George Palmer, and produced four new recordings.