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Canberra’s Leah composes Roman song

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Leah Curtis, photograph by Stephanie Neal
One such is Canberra-born composer Leah Curtis, who has been nominated for Best Original Song Composed for the Screen at the Australian Screen Music Awards coming up later in November.

Presented by the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) in conjunction with the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), the annual Screen Music Awards, to be held at Melbourne’s BMW Edge on November 19, honour excellence and innovation in the field of screen composition.

Curtis, who now  lives and works in Los Angeles  as a full-time composer, spent her formative years with youth music groups in Canberra before going on to further study at the University of NSW and Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney.

Her nominated song for the Screen Music Awards is the featured track from the film “Exitus Roma,” an Ancient Roman historical drama directed by Fawaz Al-Matrouk and is based on a classical Latin poem by the Emperor Hadrian.

The score and song feature vocalist Lisbeth Scott (featured in “Narnia – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Munich” and “Avatar”), instrumentalist Chris Bleth, Australian violinist Savannah Jo Lack and trebles fromSt Paul’s Cathedral Choristers.

She has also been nominated for two Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMAs) for Best Original Song (Visual Media – Independent, Documentary or Short) and Best World Song. This award ceremony will be held at The Fonda Theater, LA, on November 15.

As well, Curtis also was awarded third place out of 80 films selected at the Park City Film Music Festival in Utah this year for Best Impact of Music in Film.

She  has been recognised by the Park City Film Music Festival, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, U.S. Department of State, Australian American Fulbright Commission, Aspen Music Festival, BMI/University of California Los  Angeles, American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, and Queen Elizabeth II Trust, among others, for her accomplishments and artistry as a composer and scholar.

You can hear her nominated score at http://www.leahcurtis.com

 

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