Amanda Brown Elected as the New President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers
November 2025
At the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers held in Brisbane recently, the membership of the AGSC elected AMANDA BROWN (NSW), JAZZ DARCY (QLD) and CORNEL WILZCEK (VICTORIA) to the board of the AGSC.
AMANDA BROWN was then elected the new president of the Guild following DALE CORNELIUS finishing his term as president.
“As per our constitution it is time for me to step down from the AGSC board as president and allow another member to take the reins” noted Dale at the AGM held in Brisbane on Tuesday.
“We couldn’t have a better person stepping up to lead the organisation as it goes from strength to strength”.
AMANDA BROWN is a screen music composer, musician and songwriter from Sydney, Australia. She has been composing music for stage and screen since 2000 and before that enjoyed a career as a multi-instrumentalist in several bands, playing violin, guitar, mandolin and oboe. She was a member of beloved Australian group The Go-Betweens, with whom she recorded two albums and toured the world.
Amanda’s screen music credits include feature films Here Out West, Babyteeth and Son Of A Lion. Feature documentaries include Songs Inside, Brazen Hussies and The Family. Amanda has scored drama series Deadloch, Prosper (with Antonio Gambale), RFDS, The Secrets She Keeps, One Night and On The Ropes.
In 2024 Amanda won the AACTA Award for Best Music in Television (Deadloch) and the APRA/AGSC Award for Best Original Song for Carry You (RFDS) composed with Damien Lane and Radical Son. In 2020 she won AACTAs in both Best Music in Film (Babyteeth) and Documentary categories (Brazen Hussies). She has won the APRA/AGSC Award for Best Music Television Series twice (Deadloch and The Secrets She Keeps) and in 2019 Amanda won the Soundtrack Stars Critics Award at Venice International Film Festival for Babyteeth.
Amanda is a writer director of AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) and a Screen Music Ambassador for APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association). In 2021 she became a member (music branch) of The Academy Of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.
“I am honoured to be elected President of the Guild by my fellow composers and look forward to working to support screen composers from around the country.”
Also elected to the board were JAZZ DARCY from Queensland and CORNEL WILZCEK from Victoria who has been elected Vice President of the Guild.
The new board is AMANDSA BROWN (NSW – President), CORNEL WILZCEK (Victoria – Vice President), JAZZ DARCY (Queensland), STUART SMITH (Victoria – Treasurer), KINGSTON ANDERSON (NSW – Secretary), JOSH HOGAN (Western Australia), BRONTË HORDER (NSW), FIONA LOADER (NSW), NATALIE JEFFREYS (Victoria) and NOEL BURGESS (NSW).
