Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski is an Australian composer known for his scores for feature films such as The Waiting City, The Black Balloon, Newcastle, and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir, the National Museum of Canberra, Synergy Percussion and The Physical TV Company.
Filmography as composer
Film
Title | Year | Note |
Ah Hu's Retreat | 2001 | Documentary short film |
A Matter of Life | 2001 | Short film |
The Other Son | 2001 | Short film |
No Surrender | 2002 | Short film |
Broken Beat | 2005 | Short film |
Burma's Open Road: An Insight Into Myanymar | 2007 | Documentary |
Skin | 2007 | Short film |
La même nuit | 2007 | Short film |
Cross Life | 2007 | |
Thursday's Fictions | 2007 | |
Reincarnating Thursday's Fictions | 2008 | Documentary |
Night Train | 2008 | Short film |
Sisters | 2008 | Documentary short film |
The Last Mahout | 2008 | Documentary |
The Black Balloon | 2008 | |
Newcastle | 2008 | |
Storm Surfers, Dangerous Banks | 2008 | Documentary |
Echo | 2009 | Short film |
The Waiting City | 2009 | |
Seamstress | 2010 | Short film |
Stay Awake | 2010 | Short film |
Providence Park | 2010 | Short film |
The Lost Thing | 2010 | Short film |
Pop | 2010 | Short film |
Little Hands | 2011 | Short film |
The Gold Pen | 2011 | Short film |
The Outback | 2012 | |
Boo! | 2012 | Short film; theme music composer |
Storm Surfers 3D | 2012 | Documentary |
Mental | 2012 | |
Inhuman Resources | 2012 | |
A Man Walks Into a Bar | 2013 | Short film |
Drift | 2013 | |
The Last Impresario | 2013 | Documentary |
Baby Baby | 2014 | Short film |
Flyboy | 2014 | Short film |
2014 | additional music | |
The Little Death | 2014 | |
Only the Dead | 2015 | Documentary |
Talk to Someone | 2015 | Short film |
The Devil's Candy | 2015 | |
Shiny | 2016 | Short film |
The Ravens | 2016 | Short film |
We Don't Belong Here | 2017 | |
The Beehive | 2017 | Short film |
Blindspotting |
Television
Title | Year | Note |
Undercover Angels: Sex, Spies, and Surveillance | 2005 | Documentary |
The Sun's Search for the Moon | 2007 | Mini-series |
Lani's Story | 2010 | Documentary |
Storm Surfers: New Zealand | 2010 | Television film |
A Place to Call Home | 2013–present | |
Carlotta | 2014 | Television film |
Winter | 2015 | - |
House of Hancock | 2015 | Miniseries |
Catching Milat | 2015 | Miniseries |
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' | 2015 | Television film |
Wanted | 2016–present | |
Hyde & Seek | 2016–present | |
The Secret Daughter | 2016–present | |
Confess | 2017 | 1 episode: "They're All Confessions" |
Awards and nominations
APRA Awards
The annual APRA Awards include the Screen Music Awards which are presented by Australasian Performing Right Association and Australian Guild of Screen Composers. The APRA Awards also include the Classical Music Awards which are distributed by APRA and the Australian Music Centre.- 2008 Screen Music Awards, Best Original Song Composed for the Screen win for "When We Get There" on The Black Balloon composed by Josh Pyke and Michael Yezerski.
- 2008 Screen Music Awards, Best Original Song Composed for the Screen nomination for "The Greatest Act in History" on The Black Balloon, composed by Yezerski.
- 2008 Screen Music Awards, Best Soundtrack Album win for The Black Balloon composed by Yezerski.
- 2009 Classical Music Awards, Best Composition by an Australian Composer nomination for The Red Tree composed by Yezerski and Richard Tognetti.