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BASIL HOGIOS Composer and Sound Designer
Basil is an award-winning composer and sound designer who has worked in literary and musical theatre, dance and devised performance, film, and installation. He has collaborated with some of Australia’s theatre greats on mainstage shows for Sydney Theatre Co, Melbourne Theatre Co, Company B, Bell Shakespeare, and Griffin. He received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score, for the critically acclaimed Three Furies, (Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide Arts Festivals), directed by Jim Sharman and written by Stephen Sewell. He also composed and conducted live music for Dream Masons, a devised outdoor theatrical spectacle which opened Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island.
For the screen, he composed the score for the feature film Romulus My Father, for which he was nominated for and AFI and FCCA Award. A graduate of the AFTRS Screen Composing course, his orchestral score for the devised movement film SUB- was nominated for an APRA/AGSC award for Best Score for a Short Film, and won the prestigious Directors Choice Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival.
With his background as an architect, he lectures and hosts workshops exploring the links between architectural space, sound, and performance (Prague Quadrennial, UNSW).
He is currently collaborating with renowned installation artist Kate Murphy on various projects, where he is exploring the relationship between music/sound, image, and architectural space.
FILM
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Romulus, My Father (Feature Film)
A Love Story (short Film)
Ralph (short Film)
Trampoline (short film)
S u b – (music film fable, Sydney Film Festival 2006)
Aliya (short)
Debut (short)
Too Little Justice (short)
Mr Cheng (documentary)
Instructional Guide to Dating (short animation)
Together (dance short)
Turnaround (film)
Fertile (short)
Ribbed for His Pleasure (short) |
TV
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Keeping Up Appearances (Documentary, SBS Television)
Elizabeth Jolley – IOU Documentary (ABC Television)
Hammer Bay (TV Pilot MTV)
My Greatest Day Ever (Disney Channel)
Insecurities (short documentary) |
THEATRE
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Saturn’s Return (Sydney Theatre Company Wharf 2 Loud)
As You Like It (Bell Shakespeare)
Holding the Man (Griffin Theatre Co/Company B/Melb Theatre Co)
Love Song (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Don’s Party (Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Company)
Three Furies (scenes from the life of Francis Bacon) - (Sydney,
Perth ,Adelaide and Auckland Festivals)
Dream Masons (10 Days on the Island – outdoor theatre spectacle)
The Tempest (Bell shakespeare)
Self Esteem (Sydney Theatre Company Wharf 2 Loud)
Request Program (Sydney Theatre Company Wharf 2 Loud)
Unspoken (Performing Lines National Tour)
Ray’s Tempest (sound design) (Company B)
Mr Bailey’s Minder (Griffin Theatre) |
COMMERCIAL |
Vicks Vapordrops (music, Publicis Mojo)
Wedgwood "Timeless" (music, Tropfest Ad and TV)
Animal Liberation (music and sound, TVC, Love Communications)
Paddlepop (music and sound, TVC, Deepend)
Cohen and Sabine (internet ad, client)
Crumpler (music and sound, internet ad, 12:20)
Night Tennis – Sony Ericson Internet Viral, client
Victoria Tourism (TVC, Publicis Mojo)
Contiki 9min Corporate Film (Spin Communications)
Kid’s Helpline (TVC, client) |
AWARDS
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AFI Nomination – Best Score Romulus My Father (2007)
FCCA Nomination – Best Score Romulus My Father (2007)
Apra/Agsc Screen Music Awards 2006: Nomination for Best Music in a Short Film, for “SUB-“, 2008 Nomination for Best Music in an advertisement for "Wedgwood"
Sydney Theatre Awards:
‘Three Furies” winner of Best Score
‘Unspoken’ winner of Best Independent Production
‘Edmond’ (nominated for Best Independent Production)
Brooklyn Film Music Festival – Director’s Choice Gold Award for “Sub” |

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