Bruce Rowland is one of Australia's most successful and highly-acclaimed composers. He is well-known internationally, and has an extensive and impressive list of films and awards to his credit and he lives right here in Coldstream.
He won AFI Awards for best score for The Man from Snowy River in 1982, for Phar Lap in 1983 and for Rebel in 1985.
He also won a Penguin Award for All the Rivers Run in 1983, an ARIA award in 2002 for his score to The Man from Snowy River Arena Spectacular, and wrote and conducted the music for the opening of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Bruce has written scores for over 40 films in Australia and the U.S.A., and his latest film, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, was nominated for a 2006 British Academy Award and an Oscar.
Bruce was a member of CIG (Coldstream Improvement Group) and on the group working to get rid of the smell produced by Coldstream Compost and ANL.
Check out these sites for more on Bruce and his music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Rowland
http://www.brucerowland.com/html/credits.htm
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