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Blair Joscelyne has been working as full time composer for the last ten years, primarily for screen. He began his music study buy crawling over organ pedals as a baby and as a four year old, decided that Mary Had A Little Lamb sounded better when the notes were played in reverse order. He went on to achieve an Honours degree in Composition and Music Technology and additionally studied at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Berklee College of music.

Blair was a composer in residence at The MacDonald College school of performing arts for five years up until 2010, and during this time he taught and mentored hundreds of students. He also worked for a number of years in a volunteer capacity teaching music to disadvantaged teenagers through You Off The Streets.

His music has been used in films, TV, games, and national & international advertising campaigns for companies such as Smirnoff, VISA, Jetstar, AT&T, Toyota, Renault, BMW, Ford, Wrigleys, Touchstone, Lexus, Subaru, Cadillac, RAM, Discovery Channel and Cascade.

Blairs compositions feature simple, obscure, and often home made instruments and his love of do it yourself modifications is evident in his studio which has a huge stash of circuit bent toys, home built synthesisers and oddball instruments collected from his travels overseas.

Blair currently works full time as a Composer with Nylon Studios. He writes a monthly feature on home recording for Australian Guitar Magazine and is a contributing writer for Audio Technology Magazine.

Blair is also the host, and creator of a hit YouTube show called 'Mighty Car Mods' which is the most watched online car modification show in the world.

Ramesh Sathiah had an early introduction to the world of electronic music. By the time he left High School, he was already composing music with the latest computers, and recording in multi-track studios. He subsequently completed a Bachelor or Music at Southern Cross University where he was awarded the Mike Perjanic scholarship for composition.

Ramesh spent his early twenties working in various studios throughout Sydney, and was a key member of ARIA nominated Warner Music act Renegade Funktrain. It was around this time that he got his start as a screen composer, working for Twilight Productions, where he worked on Beyond 2000, Wildlife, and many other Discovery Channel documentaries.

In 1996, Ramesh started working for Song Zu Sydney, and within three years at the age of twenty-five, was made Creative Director of the Singapore operation. In this time his work took him across the world, working on worldwide and regional campaigns for companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Coca-Cola, and Singapore Airlines.

After Ramesh returned to Sydney he continued to work at Song Zu and is now one of the Partners and Creative Directors. He is always busy working on many record projects including his own band leisure masters who are released through Central Station Records. He also works as a producer for a diverse bunch of Australian artists.

Gerard Fitzgerald is a classically trained composer and received an Associate Diploma in Performing Arts (mastering in jazz piano) from Adelaide University under Pianist and Head of Jazz studies at the Elder Conservatorium, Bruce Hancock.

He performed live extensively in the early nineties with many Australian artists before joining Song Zu in 1993. He moved to the Song Zu Singapore in 1997 and became Creative Director in July of 2001

In August 2003 he became partner of the Song Zu Group.

During this time Gerard has composed, orchestrated and conducted numerous works for international advertising campaigns including Singapore Airlines, Mercedes F1, Sony, and the music for the stage production of "Pan".

His awards include London International, New York Festival, Award Awards, ATV Awards and CCAs. Film credits include Marco Polo and The Adventures of Zheng He, each of which he won an Asian Television Award for Best Original Music with "Zheng He" earning an AGSC nomination for best music in a documentary in 2008. 2009 he scored the feature length documentary "Legacy of China" as well as a short film showcased at the Cannes Film Festival called "The Visitor".

Michael Yezerski is a multi-award winning composer, music producer and songwriter. He is widely recognised for his scores to the acclaimed Australian films The Black Balloon (starring Toni Collette, Crystal Bear Berlinale, AFI Best Picture) and The Waiting City (starring Joel Edgerton), the concert piece The Red Tree (with Richard Tognetti) and the Academy Award® winning short, The Lost Thing.

Michael's music has earned him five APRA-AGSC Australian Screen Music Awards (from ten nominations), Gold Medals at the Park City Film Music Festival, the APRA Professional Development Award, Best Classical Artist at MusicOz as well as nominations from the AFI, if Awards, MusicOz and two nominations from The Film Critics of Australia Awards. The Red Tree was nominated for Best Composition by an Australian Composer at the 2008 Australian Classical Music Awards (AMC). He has been called a "rising star" of Australian music and was included in the Sydney Morning Herald's list of "People to Watch".

Michael studied musical composition under world renowned composers Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards at the University of Sydney graduating with first class honours. Michael then graduated with distinction in audio technology from the Australian Institute of Music and completed film music studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

He has written for some of Australia's finest musicians including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Gondwana Voices, Synergy Percussion, Richard Tognetti, Josh Pyke (their song "When We Get There" was an indie radio favourite in 2008), and star crooner David Campell. His regular collaborators include the violinist Richard Tognetti and the artist Shaun Tan.

Elliott Wheeler is a Sydney based composer and producer, and is the director of Turning Studios. Classically trained, he studied composition and brass studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and Philosophy at Sydney University. Since then, he has worked continuously as a screen composer, providing hundreds of scores for film, documentary, drama, theatre, and advertising. In 2009, he started his own company, Turning Studios, with producer Emma Hoy, continuing to focus on film and tv projects, as well as independent music releases.

In the last year, Elliott's work has been recognised with awards at Cannes, LIAA, AWARD and the Screen Music Awards. He has also collaborated with the music industry's best as Music Director of a re-record of Nick Cave's Ship Song for the Sydney Opera House and is currently working on a number of new projects that will be released before the end of the year.

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