The Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) is a not for profit organisation, which was established in 1981, "to represent the interests of Australian screen composers by developing and promoting employment opportunities, undertaking educational initiatives and increasing their profile amongst the industry."
It was established by
Bruce Smeaton
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and
Bruce Rowland. The Guild's head offices are in Sydney, with successive presidents from 1987 being Bob Young (1987–91),
Martin Armiger
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(1992–98),
Chris Neal
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(1999–2000),
Art Phillips (2001–08), Clive Harrison (2008–11),
Guy Gross
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(2012–17),
Caitlin Yeo (2018–20) and
Antony Partos
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(2020–present).
Since 1991 it has been sponsored by the
Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...
(APRA).
AGSC presented film and television composers with awards from 1996 to 2000.
Each year they released a compilation album, starting with ''The Australian Guild of Screen Composers 1996 Award Winners'' in 1997, via
Sony Music Australia
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.
Since 2002 the AGSC, in collaboration with APRA and the affiliated
Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), present
Screen Music Awards
The APRA Music Awards in Australia are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performan ...
at an annual ceremony as part of the
APRA Music Awards.
These honour, "compositions for documentaries, short films, mini-series, children's television and feature film scores" and other screen music scores.
AGSC Awards 1996–2000
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{{Music of Australia
Music organisations based in Australia
Music industry associations