Burkhard Dallwitz

Burkhard von Dallwitz (born 1959) is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical groups.

Training

In 1979 Burkhard fulfilled his dream of travelling to Australia. There he studied music at Melbourne’s Latrobe University. He majored with Honours in Composition, and studied Advanced Composition under the tutelage of Professor Keith Humble. Since 1984, Burkhard has worked as a composer for feature films, television and commercials.

In 1996 he released his first CD recording of original instrumental works called Worlds Apart.

Awards

He won two Screen Music Awards from the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (1993 & 1996), and was also nominated in 1998 & 2000.

In 1999, Burkhard and Philip Glass were awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Score in a Motion Picture for The Truman Show. The score also won The Chicago Film Critics’ Award and the ASCAP Film and Television Award, and the soundtrack reached number two on the Billboard chart.

In 2001 he won the APRA award for Best Television Theme for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The world renowned 385 voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed and recorded his 2002 theme for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. In 2004 he won the APRA-AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) Screen Music Award 'Best Music for a Television Series' for CrashBurn. Burkhard has several soundtrack albums out in general release.

Personal life

Burkhard lives in Elsternwick with his wife Rebecca, son Felix and daughter Carlotta. He works on Australian, European and U.S. film and television productions.

Underbelly theme and Olympics theme

Most recently Burkhard has worked on the Nine Network Australia television series Underbelly and the UK.TV mini-series False Witness where he wrote the theme and the original musical score. He also composed the theme for the Seven Network's coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympics (in addition to the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 compositions) and more recently the soundtrack for the 2011 movie The Way Back.

Awards and nominations

APRA-AGSC Awards

The annual Screen Music Awards are presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for television and film scores and soundtracks.^[1]

Year	Nominee/work	Award	Result
2004	"Episode 13" – CrashBurn	Best Music for a Television Series or Serial^[2]	Won
2004	CrashBurn	Best Television Theme^[3]	Nominated
2006	The Caterpillar Wish	Feature Film Score of the Year^[4]	Nominated
	The Caterpillar Wish	Best Soundtrack Album^[4]	Nominated
	Torino 2006 Winter Olympics	Best Television Theme^[4]	Nominated
2008	"Episode 5" - Underbelly	Best Music for a Television Series or Serial^[5]	Won
	Underbelly	Best Television Theme^[5]	Won
	"It’s a Jungle Out There" – Underbelly	Best Original Song Composed for the Screen^[6]	Nominated
2009	False Witness	Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie^[7]	Nominated
2009	"Episode 9 - Judas Kiss" – Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities	Best Music for a Television Series or Serial^[7]	Nominated

References

↑ "Screen Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 28 April 2010.
↑ "2004 Winners - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 7 September 2010.
↑ "2004 Nominations - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 7 September 2010.
1 2 3 "2006 Nominations - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 7 September 2010.
1 2 "2008 Winners - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 2 May 2010.
↑ "2008 Nominations - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 2 May 2010.
1 2 "Nominations - Screen Music Awards". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). Retrieved 2 May 2010.

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

1947–1975	Life with Father – Max Steiner (1947) The Red Shoes – Brian Easdale (1948) The Inspector General – Johnny Green (1949) Sunset Boulevard – Franz Waxman (1950) September Affair – Victor Young (1951) High Noon – Dimitri Tiomkin (1952) On the Beach – Ernest Gold (1959) The Alamo – Dimitri Tiomkin (1960) The Guns of Navarone – Dimitri Tiomkin (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird – Elmer Bernstein (1962) (1963) The Fall of the Roman Empire – Dimitri Tiomkin (1964) Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre (1965) Hawaii – Elmer Bernstein (1966) Camelot – Frederick Loewe (1967) The Shoes of the Fisherman – Alex North (1968) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (1969) Love Story – Francis Lai (1970) Shaft – Isaac Hayes (1971) The Godfather – Nino Rota (1972) Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Neil Diamond (1973) The Little Prince – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe (1974) Jaws – John Williams (1975)

1975–2000	A Star is Born – Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams (1976) Star Wars – John Williams (1977) Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (1978) Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere (1980) (1981) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Williams (1982) Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder (1983) A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre (1984) Out of Africa – John Barry (1985) The Mission – Ennio Morricone (1986) The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su (1987) Gorillas in the Mist – Maurice Jarre (1988) The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken (1989) The Sheltering Sky – Richard Horowitz, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken (1991) Aladdin – Alan Menken (1992) Heaven & Earth – Kitarō (1993) The Lion King – Hans Zimmer (1994) A Walk in the Clouds – Maurice Jarre (1995) The English Patient – Gabriel Yared (1996) Titanic – James Horner (1997) The Truman Show – Burkhard Dallwitz, Philip Glass (1998) 1900 – Ennio Morricone (1999) Gladiator – Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000)

2001–present	Moulin Rouge! – Craig Armstrong (2001) Frida – Elliot Goldenthal (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore (2003) The Aviator – Howard Shore (2004) Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams (2005) The Painted Veil – Alexandre Desplat (2006) Atonement – Dario Marianelli (2007) Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (2008) Up – Michael Giacchino (2009) The Social Network – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (2010) The Artist – Ludovic Bource (2011) Life of Pi – Mychael Danna (2012) All Is Lost – Alex Ebert (2013) The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson (2014) The Hateful Eight – Ennio Morricone (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 56816502 ISNI: 0000 0001 1950 2148 GND: 1011758385 SUDOC: 127393609 BNF: cb14090617z (data)

External links

Burkhard Dallwitz at the Internet Movie Database

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