Nigel Westlake

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Nigel’s career, spanning over 4 decades, began as a clarinettist. He began composing from 1980 for theatre, circus, TV and film and was appointed composer in residence for ABC Radio National in 1984. His film credits include Ali’s Wedding, Paper Planes, Miss Potter, Babe, Babe II, Children of the Revolution and the IMAX films Antarctica, Solarmax, The Edge and Imagine among numerous others. 
 His television credits include numerous documentaries, telemovies, news themes and station idents. He is commissioned to write for orchestras, ensembles and soloists and has received 2 ARIA Awards, 15 APRA awards across both classical and screen categories & the Gold Medal for “Best Original Music” at the New York International Radio Festival. He is also a two time winner of the presitigious Paul Lowin Orchestral prize. In 2020 he was awarded the Albert H Maggs Composition Award by the University of Melbourne for his 3rd String quartet “Sacred Sky”. He has conducted all the major symphony orchestras in Australia in performances and recordings of his own works, and in 2016 made his US conducting debut at the Lincoln Centre with the New York Philharmonic and his European debut with the RTE Symphony at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in 2018. He holds an honorary doctorate awarded in 2013 by the University of NSW and was the recipient of the HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship at the Australian National University in 2004.