David Hirschfelder

David Hirschfelder (born 18 November 1960) is an Australian musician, film score composer and performer. As a musician he has been a member of Little River Band and John Farnham Band. He has composed film scores for many films, including Strictly Ballroom, Australia, The Railway Man, The Water Diviner and The Dressmaker. He was nominated for Academy Awards for his scores for Shine and Elizabeth.

Career Musician As a keyboardist, Hirschfelder has been a member of various groups including the jazz fusion band Pyramid, rock band Peter Cupples Band (1980), pop rockers Little River Band (1983–1986), Blowout, Dragon (1987, 1989), adult contemporary singer John Farnham's backing band (1986–1992),

In 1980 Hirschfelder joined the Peter Cupples Band, Cupples had just left his soul-pop group, Stylus, and formed the rock group with Hirschfelder on keyboards, Virgil Donati on drums, Ross Ingliss on guitar and Robert Little on bass guitar.

Film composer Hirschfelder's first score work was for the TV series, Skirts and Shadows of the Heart (both in 1990); Ratbag Hero followed in 1991. 1996 Dating the Enemy Megan Simpson Huberman 1998 Sliding Doors Peter Howitt also orchestrator 1998 The Interview Craig Monahan 1998 Elizabeth Shekhar Kapur also conductor and orchestrator; nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score 1999 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? Ian Mune 2000 Hanging Up Diane Keaton 2000 Better Than Sex Jonathan Teplitzky 2000 The Weight of Water Kathryn Bigelow also conductor 2002 Bootleg Ian Gilmour TV mini-series 2003 The Wannabes Nick Giannopoulos 2004 Standing Room Only Deborra-Lee Furness Short film 2004 Peaches Craig Monahan 2004 BlackJack Peter Andrikidis, Ian Watson & Kate Woods TV series, all episodes except pilot 2004 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Lloyd Kramer TV film; also conductor 2006 Aquamarine Elizabeth Allen also conductor 2006 Irresistible Ann Turner 2007 Shake Hands with the Devil Roger Spottiswoode Won Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song at the 28th Genie Awards 2008 The Children of Huang Shi Roger Spottiswoode 2008 Salute Matt Norman documentary 2008 Australia Baz Luhrmann also harmonica musician 2009 The Blue Mansion Glen Goei 2010 I Love You Too Daina Reid 2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Zack Snyder Animated film 2011 Sanctum Alister Grierson 2012 Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness Lekha Singh, Roger Spottiswoode documentary 2013 The Railway Man Jonathan Teplitzky, based on a true story by Eric Lomax historical drama 2014 Healing Craig Monahan drama 2014 The Water Diviner Russell Crowe historical drama 2015 The Dressmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse drama 2016 A Street Cat Named Bob Roger Spottiswoode drama 2017 A Few Less Men Mark Lamprell comedy 2017 Dance Academy: The Movie Jeffrey Walker drama 2018 In Like Flynn Russell Mulcahy drama 2019 Ride Like a Girl Rachel Griffiths drama 2024 Sleeping Dogs Adam Cooper crime, mystery, thriller

Discography Charting albums + List of albums, with Australian chart positions Title Album details Peak chartpositions AUS Inside This Room (with David Hobson) Released: August 1999 Format: CD Label: Mushroom (MUSH33241.2) 70

Awards and nominations Academy Awards 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score nomination for Shine

Elizabeth The Interview 2000 What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? 2001 Better Than Sex

APRA Awards The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually. 1998 Shine Best Film Score 1999 Elizabeth Best Film Score 2008 Children of the Silk Road Best Film Score