Peter Farnan is a composer, sound designer, musical director and guitarist from

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

, Australia. He is one of the founding members of the band Boom Crash Opera and the 1980s pop rock band

Serious Young Insects Serious Young Insects were a short lived Australian pop rock band formed in 1980. The group released one studio album and three singles. History Serious Young Insects formed in 1980 with Peter Farnan on vocals and guitar, Michael Vallance on v ...

. He currently produces music under the moniker 'Pesky Bones'. Peter has collaborated with artists including Paul Kelly,

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, Charles Jenkins and Tim Rogers.

Theatre and film credits

Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre compa ...

– Scoring for ''Rockabye'', ''Moonlight and Magnolias'', ''All My Sons'', ''The Clean House'', ''Ray’s Tempest'', ''Take Me Out'', ''Three Days Of Rain'', ''Cheech'', ''Boy Gets Girl'' and ''Hitchcock Blonde'' (the latter two receiving nominations for

Green Room Awards The Green Room Awards are peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, drama, fringe theatre, musical theatre and opera in Melbourne. The awards were started in 1982 when Blair Edgar and Steven Tandy formed the Green Room Awards A ...

). *

Malthouse Theatre Malthouse Theatre is the resident theatre company of The Malthouse building in Southbank, part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. In the 1980s it was known as the Playbox Theatre Company and was housed in the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne's CBD. ...

– ''

Woyzeck ''Woyzeck'' () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Fr ...

'' (sound designer/ musical director/ additional composition), ''

Tartuffe ''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; french: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical thea ...

'' (composer/sound designer) and ''Sleeping Beauty'' (musical director), for which he received a nomination for a

Helpmann Award The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical th ...

. *''The Boy Castaways'' *'' The Sapphires'' – musical director and occasional performer

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farnan, Peter Australian musicians Living people Musicians from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people)