Michael Yezerski

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Michael Yezerski is an Australian composer known for his scores for feature films such as The Waiting City , The Black Balloon (for which he won an APRA Award [1] and a Screen Music Award), [2] Newcastle , and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir (such as an adaptation of Shaun Tan's book The Red Tree ), [3] the National Museum of Canberra, Synergy Percussion and The Physical TV Company.

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In an interview with Headliner Magazine , Yezerski discussed composing the score for 2019 horror film, The Vigil: "Why have there been so many horror films that have explored the various denominations of Christianity and demons and devils and everything associated with Christianity, but there has hardly ever been a film that explores the dark side of Jewish mysticism? I'm Jewish myself, so this is exactly the question that I've been asking. What I love about horror films, and dark, edgy films, in general – there's so much creative license to play with musical effects in non traditional ways. It's really fun as a composer."

Filmography as composer

Film

TitleYearNote(s)
Ah Hu's Retreat2001Documentary short film
A Matter of LifeShort film
The Other SonShort film
No Surrender2002Short film
Broken Beat2005Short film
Burma's Open Road: An Insight Into Myanymar2007Documentary
SkinShort film
La même nuitShort film
Cross Life
Thursday's Fictions
Reincarnating Thursday's Fictions2008Documentary
Night TrainShort film
SistersDocumentary short film
The Last MahoutDocumentary
The Black Balloon
Newcastle
Storm Surfers, Dangerous BanksDocumentary
Echo2009Short film
The Waiting City
Seamstress2010Short film
Stay AwakeShort film
Providence ParkShort film
The Lost Thing Short film
PopShort film
Little Hands 2011Short film
The Gold PenShort film
The Outback 2012
Boo!Short film; theme music composer
Storm Surfers 3DDocumentary
Mental
Inhuman Resources
A Man Walks Into a Bar2013Short film
Drift
The Last Impresario Documentary
Baby Baby2014Short film
FlyboyShort film
Transformers: Age of Extinction additional music
The Little Death
Only the Dead2015Documentary
Talk to SomeoneShort film
The Devil's Candy
Shiny2016Short film
The RavensShort film
We Don't Belong Here 2017
The BeehiveShort film
Blindspotting 2018
The Vigil 2019

Television

TitleYearNote(s)
Undercover Angels: Sex, Spies, and Surveillance2005Documentary
The Sun's Search for the Moon2007Mini-series
Lani's Story2010Documentary
Storm Surfers: New ZealandTelevision film
A Place to Call Home 2013–present
Carlotta2014Television film
Winter 2015
House of HancockMiniseries
Catching Milat Miniseries
Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door Miniseries
Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye Television film
Wanted 2016–present
Hyde & Seek
The Secret Daughter
Confess20171 episode: "They're All Confessions"
Blindspotting 2021–2023

Awards and nominations

APRA Music Awards

The APRA Music Awards are sets of annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance. They are presented by APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society), which commenced in 1982. [4] The APRA Awards include the Screen Music Awards, which were first presented in 2002 by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). [5] [6] The APRA Awards also include the Art Music Music Awards (formerly Classical Music Awards), which are distributed by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) since 2001. [7]

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2002 No Surrender (Michael Yezerski)Best Music for a Short FilmWon [8]
2006 Cape of Storms (Yezerski, Richard Tognetti, Afro Moses, Chris Nelius)Best Music for a DocumentaryNominated [9]
[10]
Thursday's Fictions (Yezerski)Best Music for a Mini-Series or TelemovieNominated
"Aria" (Yezerski) from Thursday's FictionBest Original Song Composed for the ScreenWon
Thursday's Fictions (Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumNominated
2008 "The Greatest Act in History" (Yezerski) from The Black Balloon Best Original Song Composed for the ScreenNominated [11]
[12]
"When We Get There" (Josh Pyke, Yezerski) from The Black BalloonBest Original Song Composed for the ScreenWon
The Black Balloon (Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumWon
2009 The Red Tree (Yezerski, Tognetti)Best Composition by an Australian ComposerNominated [13]
[14]
2010 The Waiting City (Yezerski)Best Feature Film ScoreNominated [15]
[16]
The Lost Thing (Yezerski)Best Music for a Short FilmWon
2011 SBS – "Films 2" (Yezerski)Best Music for an AdvertisementNominated [17]
[18]
[19]
The Lost Thing (Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumNominated
2012 Storms Surfers 3D (Tognetti, Yezerski)Feature Film Score of the YearNominated [20]
[21]
2013 Storms Surfers 3D (Tognetti, Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumNominated [22]
[23]
2016 Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door (Yezerski, Ashley Irwin)Best Music for a Mini-Series or TelemovieNominated [24]
[25]
[26]
[27]
[28]
Ravens (Yezerski, Helen Grimley)Best Music for a Short FilmNominated
Wanted "Series 1 Episode 6" (Yezerski)Best Music for a Television Series or SerialNominated
Only the Dead (Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumNominated
2019 Dead Lucky (Yezerski)Best Music for a Mini-Series or TelemovieWon [29]
[30]
[31]
Dead Lucky (Yezerski)Best Television ThemeNominated
2020 The Vigil (Yezerski)Feature Film Score of the YearNominated [32]
[33]
YezerskiMost Performed Screen Composer – OverseasNominated
2021 The Tax Collector (Yezerski)Feature Film Score of the YearNominated [34]
[35]
The Vigil (Yezerski)Best Soundtrack AlbumNominated
YezerskiMost Performed Screen Composer – OverseasNominated
2022 Blindspotting (Yezerski, Ambrose Akinmusire)Best Music for a Television Series or SerialNominated [36]
[37]
2023 Ivy + Bean (Yezerski)Best Music for Children's ProgrammingWon [38]
[39]
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities : Episode 5: "Pickman's Model" (Yezerski)Best Music for a Mini-Series or TelemovieNominated
Ivy + Bean (Yezerski)Best Television ThemeWon

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