Hirschfelder, David 1960-

PERSONAL

Born in 1960, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Addresses:

Agent—The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, 4111 W. Alameda Ave., Suite 509, Burbank, CA 91505. Publicist—Chasen & Company, 8899 Beverly Blvd., Suite 408, Los Angeles, CA 90048.

Career:

Composer. Pyramid (jazz music group), performer and composer, 1980; also former member of the Little River Band and keyboardist, songwriter, and arranger for John Farnham.

Awards, Honors:

Film Award, best original film score, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1993, for Strictly Ballroom; Australian Film Institute Award, best original music score, 1996, Golden Globe Award nomination, best original score—motion picture, Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, Academy Award nomination, best music—original dramatic score, 1997, Australian Performing Rights Association Award, best film score, 1998, all for Shine; Australian Film Institute Award nomination, best original music score, 1998, Film Critics Circle of Australia, best music score, 1999, both for The Interview; Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination, best original score, Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, British Film and Television Arts Awards, Australian Performing Rights Association Award, best film score, Academy Award nomination, best music—original dramatic score, Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Music Award, best original soundtrack album, 1999, all for Elizabeth; Film Award, New Zealand Film and Television Awards, best original music, 1999, ARIA Music Award nomination, best original soundtrack album, 2000, both for What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?; Australian Film Institute Award nomination, best original music score, 2000, Australian Performing Rights Association Award, best film score, ARIA Music Award nomination, best original soundtrack album, 2001, all for Better Than Sex; International Achievement Award, Screen Music Awards—Australia, 2002; Screen Music Award nomination, best feature film score, 2004, for The Wannabes.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Music director, Shine, Fine Line Features, 1995.

Orchestrator, Sliding Doors, Miramax, 1998.

Song performer, The Truman Show, Paramount, 1998.

Conductor, music producer, and orchestrator, Elizabeth (also known as Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen), Gramercy Pictures, 1998.

Score conductor, Aquamarine, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2006.

Film Appearances:

Himself (pianist), Whispering Jack: In Concert, Pro-Image Studios Ltd., 1987.

Television Work; Movies:

Conductor, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, 2004.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Narrator, Hirschfelder & Hobson: Inside This Room, 2002.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, Spicks and Specks, ABC (Australia), 2005.

RECORDINGS

Albums (With Little River Band):

Appeared on The Net, Playing to Win, and No Reins.

Albums (Soundtrack):

Performer, producer, and re-orchestrator, Jesus Christ Superstar, 1992.

Also recorded Elizabeth, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, and Better Than Sex.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

Strictly Ballroom, Miramax, 1992.

Dallas Doll, Artistic License, 1994.

The Life of Harry Dare, AFI Distribution Ltd., 1995.

Tunnel Vision, Hen's Tooth Video, 1995.

Shine, Fine Line Features, 1995.

Dating the Enemy, 1996.

Sliding Doors, Miramax, 1998.

The Interview, Sullivan Entertainment, 1998.

Elizabeth (also known as Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen), Gramercy Pictures, 1998.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, REP Distribution, 1999.

Hanging Up (also known as Aufgelegt!), Columbia, 2000.

The Weight of Water (also known as Le poids de l'eau), Lions Gate Films, 2000.

Better Than Sex, Samuel Goldwyn, 2000.

The Wannabes, Hoyts Distribution, 2003.

Standing Room Only (short), 2004.

Peaches, American World Pictures, 2004.

Aquamarine, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2006.

Irresistible, Palace, 2006.

Pancho and Lefty (short), 2006.

Salute (documentary), 2007.

The Children of Huang Shi, Sony Pictures Classics, 2007.

Film Songs:

The Truman Show, Paramount, 1998.

Television Scores; Series:

Skirts, 1990.

Television Scores; Miniseries:

Shadows of the Heart, Ten Network, 1990.

Ratbag Hero, Seven Network, 1991.

Bootleg, BBC, 2002.

Television Scores; Movies:

BlackJack: Sweet Science, Ten Network, 2004.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, 2004.

Kidnapped, BBC and PBS, 2005.

BlackJack: In the Money, 2005.

BlackJack: Ace Point Game, 2005.

BlackJack: Dead Memory, 2006.

BlackJack: At the Gates, 2006.

BlackJack: Ghosts, 2007.

Television Scores; Specials:

Suzi's Story, HBO, 1988.

A Kid Called Troy, HBO, 1994.

Hirschfelder & Hobson: Inside This Room, 2002.