NERIDA TYSON-CHEW
Works include: Cactus; Dying Breed; A view from Greenhaven; Anaconda; The Hunt for the Blood Orchid; Visitors; Paradise Found; The Chrocodile Hunter: Collision Course; When Strangers Appear; Young Blades; The Magic Pudding; Mr. Accident; Rescue Special Ops; Two Twisted; Snobs; Evil Never Dies; From Korea with Love; Tracey McBean; Australians at War; The Lost World; One Way Ticket; The Adventures of Sam; Twisted Tales; The Last Bullet; Halifax f.p
NERIDA TYSON-CHEW is an award-winning Australian film composer. Her ability to write scores across a variety of genres, as well as a reputation for being highly collaborative with Directors, has kept her in demand. Having studied with renowned Hollywood composers including Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, David Raksin and Bruce Broughton, Nerida is a well-trained classical musician with a thorough understanding of contemporary musical styles and idioms, and easily moves between simple melodies to fully realized, multi-layered orchestral and non-acoustic lines of great complexity.
Most recently Nerida scored the horror film DYING BREED (2008), a score that incorporates layers of electronic music sound design, metamorphosed musical instruments and mutated percussion, combined with modern orchestral techniques. Her score prior, for CACTUS (2007), is also an interesting soundscape departure for a classical musician. Throughout 2007 & 2008, Nerida scored the confronting National Geographic Channel series Taboo (29 x 50 mins), creating original scores of a contemporary style with indigenous ethnicity. In complete contrast, she also scored the playful game show/documentary children's series HOT SPELL.
The TV series BRYAN BROWN'S TWO TWISTED, drew on Nerida's skills to score drama with sensitivity, as well as creating music of suspense, horror, and comedy. Recognised by her peers for her excellence, TWO TWISTED was awarded Best Music For a TV Series at the 2007 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards as well as achieving a nomination for Best TV Theme. Every episode had live musicians performing the music contrary to the current trend of electronic-based 'sampler' scores.
The ethnically-charged action music score Nerida composed & produced for the Sony Pictures adventure/horror ANACONDAS - THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID received a nomination for Best Soundtrack Album in the 2005 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards. The score, over 78 minutes of music, was written for an 80-piece orchestra and featured renowned ethnomusicologist musicians Riley Lee & Michael Atherton. At the other stylistic extreme are Nerida's fun blues influenced scores for 2 musicians - Hammond organ and upright bass - for the Southern Star hit animation series TRACEY MCBEAN (Series 1, 2 & 3). Her music for this series received nominations for Best Children's Music at the 2005 & 2006 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards.
Tyson-Chew's first feature film score for Richard Franklin's HOTEL SORRENTO, released in 1995, earned her an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Original Score and was awarded Best Music from the Film Critic's Circle of Australia. She also received the award for Best Original Score for a Feature Film from the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Tyson-Chew's other film credits include MR ACCIDENT, UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSE DANCING, BRILLIANT LIES, VISITORS, ANACONDAS, KICK and the Banff Film Festival awarding-winning wildlife film SILHOUETTES OF THE DESERT. Award-winning scores for TWISTED TALES, HALIFAX FP, EVIL NEVER DIES and THE LOST WORLD are among her television work.
Early in her career, Nerida worked as a composer and orchestrator for the acclaimed Warner Brothers Television series BATMAN - THE ANIMATED SERIES, and for 20th Century Fox, scoring FERN GULLY 2 - THE MAGICAL RESCUE. Her first professional position was Associate Soundtrack Producer for the building of Landmark Entertainment Group's SANRIO PUROLAND THEME PARK IN TAMA, Tokyo. She also worked as an assistant to composer Shirley Walker (TURBULENCE, MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN, FINAL DESTINATION) and for saxophonist David Boruff (whose performances include the themes to LA LAW & ST. ELMO'S FIRE, albums for Anita Baker, Chicago, Whitney Houston, Richard Marx, Madonna, Patti LaBelle and many others.)
Nerida often assists other composers and recording artists, highlights being her associations with Van Dyke Parks and Daniel Johns on Silverchair's album Diorama. She has experience recording in London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Prague, as well as in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.
After studies at the selective Conservatorium High School, Tyson-Chew attended the University of Sydney where she graduated with Honours, Bachelor of Music in Composition. She holds a Master's Degree in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television as a Harry Warren Scholar from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
True to her background, training and experience, Nerida always is the conductor of her scores and enjoys with a passion being Music Producer for the screen.
CREDITS
Santa's Apprentice
Directed by Luc Vinciguerra
Avrill Start Entertainment
Composer
The Making of Cactus (short)
Directed by Morgan Healy
Chaotic Pictures
Composer
Cactus
Directed by Jasmine Yuen Carrucan
Open Space Films
Composer
Dying Breed
Directed by Jody Dwyer
Ambience Entertainment
Composer
The View From Greenhaven
Directed by Kenn MacRae & Simon MacRae
Screentime Pty Ltd
Conductor/Orchestrator
Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid
Directed by Dwight Little
Spectrum Films
Composer
Visitors
Directed by Richard Franklin
Bayside Pictures
Composer
Paradise Found
Directed by Mario Andreacchio
Adelaide Motion Picture Company
Orchestrator
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Directed by John Stainton
MGM
Orchestrator
When Strangers Appear
Directed by Scott Reynolds
Beyond Films
Orchestrator
Young Blades
Directed by Mario Andreacchio
Adelaide Motion Picture Company
Conductor/Orchestrator
The Magic Pudding
Directed by Karl Zwicky
Icon Entertainment International
Orchestrator
Mr. Accident
Directed by Yahoo Serious
Goldwyn Films
Composer
Sheer Will
Directed by Dick Marks
Composer
Silhouettes Of The Desert (Documentary)
Directed by David Curl
Wildlife Films
Composer
Kick
Directed by Lynda Heys
Carmelina Pictures
Composer
FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue (video)
Directed by Phil Robinson & Dave Marshall
Wild Brain Productions
Composer
Under The Lighthouse Dancing
Directed by Graeme Rattigan
Composer
Still Twisted (video)
Directed by Ian Gilmore
Composer
Brilliant Lies
Directed by Richard Franklin
Beyond Films
Composer
Hotel Sorrento
Directed by Richard Franklin
Beyond Films
Composer
Andre
Directed by George Miller
Paramount Pictures
Additional Orchestration
Lightning Jack
Directed by Simon Wincer
Village Roadshow Pictures
Orchestrator