Alon Ilsar is a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, producer,

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, instrument designer and electronic percussionist. Based in

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for the greater portion of his musical career, Alon is most well known for performing in Company B's award winning musical,

Keating! ''Keating!'' is a sung-through musical which portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Keating was Prime Minister between 1991 and 1996; the musical follows him from his ascent to the leadership through t ...

which toured Australia from November 2006 until August 2008. During ''Keating!'s'' successful season, Alon was awarded an

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grant to fund his choose-your-own adventure style musical game piece, ''The Colors Interactive Comeback Show'' which was performed at the

Adelaide Fringe Festival The Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, ...

, the

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and the

Sydney Comedy Festival The Sydney Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in Sydney. Launched in 2005 as The Cracker Sydney Comedy Festival at a number of inner city venues, the Festival has grown quickly and now attracts 111,000 patrons every year at venue ...

He has also received an Australia Council for the Arts grant to design and build a new electronic percussion instrument called the 'Air Sticks'. In 2010, he performed with '' Meow Meow'' at the

Edinburgh Fringe Festival The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...

and joined Aronas, brainchild of Australian Jazz Bell Award winner, Aron Ottignon for their European tour. His theatre credits also extend to his performance as the drummer and sound designer in

Sam Atwell Samuel Atwell (born 6 April 1979) is an Australian actor, producer, writer and director. Born in Nambour, Queensland, he and his family lived in Indonesia for 6 years before returning to Queensland where he grew up in Brisbane. He has always h ...

's play ''Bondi Dreaming'', the touring production Barrel of Monkeys (Strut'n'Fret), touring with Circus Monoxide as musical director, drummer and keys player, improvising drums in

Spontaneous Broadway Spontaneous Broadway is an advanced long-form improvised performance, based on audience suggestions. The audience typically submits titles of songs that have never been written, and the performers choose suggestions to create songs, the audience vot ...

, and composing and sound designing for Emergence. Other diverse projects he has been involved in include The Colors Tribute Band, Gauche, Trigger Happy, Foley, Horse Feathers, The Renovators, The BZNZZ, Pugsley Buzzard, Darth Vegas, Gl;tch Jukebox, The Rescue Ships, Brian Campeau, Dave Sattout, Killsong, the Belvoirs, Donne, The Ben Romalis Trio, and

The Tango Saloon The Tango Saloon is an Australian experimental tango band from Sydney, Australia. Their self-titled debut, a "tango-flavored album with a twist of spaghetti western", was released in 2006 by Ipecac Recordings, the American record label run by Mik ...

. He is currently performing in the new

musical Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...

''Misanthropology'' written and directed by

Eddie Perfect Eddie Perfect (born 17 December 1977) is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, comedian, writer and actor. Widely known for his role as Mick Holland in Network Ten, Channel Ten's TV series ''Offspring (TV series), Offspring'' in which he pe ...

and Meow Meow's Feline Intimate.

Discography

*The Colors Tribute Album Vol. 1 - Various Artists 2009 *The Musical - Keating! 2008 *Transylvania - The Tango Saloon 2008 *Trigger Happy - Comatone + Foley 2007 *Keating! - Company B Original Cast Recording 2007 *Quiet Music For Quiet People - Inga Liljestrom 2006 *Re-fashioned 007 (The James Bond Themes Go Under Cover) - Various Artists 2006 *Siesta Cinema - Gauche 2006 *Gl;tch Jukebox - Gl;tch Jukebox 2006 *Super Shiny Sydney - Various Artists 2006 *Trampled: The Elefant Traks Remix Album - Various Artists 2006 *Southern Winter, Northern Summer (Feral Media Sampler) - Various Artists 2005 *Repainted - Gauche 2005 *The Tango Saloon - The Tango Saloon 2005 *Ideophone - Foley 2005 *Paints Lane - Gauche 2005 *Darth Vegas - Darth Vegas 2003 *Sigh - Gauche 2003 *Parallel Universe - The Church 2002 *Chit - Yuklidt 1999

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Alon Ilsar

Trigger Happy

Foley

Gauche

The Colors

Darth Vegas
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