Resident Composer
ANTHONY PATERAS (b.1979) is a multidisciplinary musician from Melbourne, Australia. He performs on piano or analogue electronics, and composes works for ensembles, orchestras and soloists.
He works internationally, his main projects being an electro-acoustic duo with Robin Fox, the prepared instrumental trio Pateras/Baxter/Brown, piano/drums duo PIVIXKI, and Poletopra with visual artist Marco Fusinato. He is also a member of the Francis Plagne Band.
Pateras’ string octet Chromatophore has received performances from the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Walt Disney Concert Hall), Dutch Radio Kammerorkest (Beurs Van Berlage) and the ANAM Ensemble (Federation Square). Additionally he has performed his own works with Speak Percussion (Melbourne Recital Centre 2008), the Australian Chamber Orchestra (Australian Tour 2007), Percussion Group The Hague (Holland tour 2007), the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Metropolis Festival 2007), and has received further performances from Vanessa Tomlinson, Eugene Ughetti, Flux String Quartet and Ear Massage Percussion Quartet amongst others.
He has collaborated with musicians The Necks, Paul Lovens, Jérôme Noetinger, Thomas Lehn, Natasha Anderson and Anthony Burr, conductors Brett Dean, Markus Stenz and James McMillan, and filmmakers Pia Borg, Ben Hackworth and Eron Sheean, winning Best Soundtrack for Sheean’s Bing at the 2003 Dresden Film Festival.
In 2004 he received an honourable mention at the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, and a recommendation at the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In 2007 he was awarded an Ian Potter Composer Fellowship. In 2009, a retrospective of his works for percussion was staged at the Queensland Music Festival, and he was also the featured composer of the NewJazz Meeting at SWR in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 2010 he is the first Australian musician to be invited for a residency at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.
Pateras has guested on albums by Oren Ambarchi (Southern Lord) and Christian Fennesz (Touch), his prepared piano work also featuring on the soundtrack for Wolf Creek (Rubber). His sound works have exhibited in group shows at San Francisco MOMA (Variable Resistance), Centre Pompidou (écoute), and the Melbourne International Arts Festival (21:100:100).
He holds a Bachelor of Music from LaTrobe University, a PhD from Monash University, and has lectured in composition at the Victorian College of the Arts and WAAPA in Perth. Anthony’s music is currently released through Tzadik (New York) and Editions Mego (Vienna).
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