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Jed Kurzel
Australian singer-songwriter (born )
Musical artist
Jed Danyel Kurzel (born ) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and film composer. He is a founding member of The Mess Hall (from ), a blues rock duo. His older brother Justin Kurzel is a film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Main article: The Mess Hall
Kurzel was born in c and, with his older brother Justin Kurzel (born c), grew up in Gawler, South Australia.[1][2] Their father, Zdzislaw Kurzel (–), was from Poland and had migrated to Australia in , where he became a taxi driver.[3][4][5] In the s, Kurzel moved to Sydney, where Justin was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).[2]
In Kurzel on lead vocals and guitar, Anthony Johnsen on drums and a bass guitarist formed a blues-rock group, the Mess Hall in Sydney – the bass guitarist soon left but was not replaced, they continued as a duo.[6] Kurzel recalled "When the clubs asked us where our bass player was, we used to lie and say he was sick."[6] Their debut album The Mess Hall was released in June In early Johnsen was replaced by Cec Condon on drums and vocals.[7] Their third album Devils Elbow (October ) won the Australian Music Prize.[8]
In Kurzel composed the film score for the short subject, Sammy Blue, at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, with Kim Farrant directing.[9][10] He worked for Farrant again: providing the score for Naked on the Inside (), a feature film documentary on body image.[10] In he composed music for Castor & Pollux, a short film, directed by Ben Briand.[11]
In Kurzel provided the music score for the directorial debut feature film by Justin, Snowtown.[12] At the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards of Kurzel won Feature Film Score of the Year.[13] It was nominated for Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score.[14] The related soundtrack album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album in that same year.[15][16]
Kurzel also wrote the scores for Son of a Gun, Slow West and the documentary All This Mayhem.
In , he worked again with his brother on Macbeth, followed by Assassin's Creed in He replaced Harry Gregson-Williams as the composer of Alien: Covenant.[17]
Filmography
Film
Documentaries
Shorts
Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) |
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Sammy Blue | Kim Farrant | AFTRS | |
The Rose of Ba Ziz | Aden Young | ||
Castor & Pollux | Ben Briand | Benah | |
Dook Stole Christmas | Jennifer Kent | Smoking Gun Productions |
Awards and nominations
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
They commenced in
External links
References
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"Cannes After Snowtown and Macbeth, Kurzel brothers to make sports comedy". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 25 March
- ^"Item details for: A, ". National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 25 March [permanent dead link]
- ^Winterford, Brett (1 May ).
"The Mess Hall – Gig Reviews". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media.
Biography of mahatma gandhi Since then, he has composed the music of seven other films —including the terribly brilliant psychological thriller The Babadook —and admits that he has learnt the job gradually. All All. The Pope's Exorcist. He was born on January 1, , in Gawler, South Australia, and grew up in a creative household alongside his brother, filmmaker Justin Kurzel.Retrieved 25 March
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Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 1 February Retrieved 25 March
- ^ ab"Naked on the Inside"(PDF). Compétition Longs Métrages Documentaires (in French). International Festival of Films de Femmes de Créteil.
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- ^"TIFF52 – Screenings" (in Greek). Thessaloniki International Film Festival. 8 November Archived from the original on 4 April Retrieved 25 March
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Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC). Archived from the original on 24 March Retrieved 25 March
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