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- Sven_Libaek abstract "Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant influence on the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records. Libaek was born in Norway in 1938, trained as both a pianist and an actor and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. He first achieved international recognition with a role in the Louis de Rochemont film Windjammer in which he both acted and performed as piano soloist with Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra. Libaek first came to Australia in 1960 as a member of the band The Windjammers, which toured the USA and Australia to promote the film. Shortly after the group broke up, Libaek and his wife returned to Australia to live.In 1963 Libaek was hired by the newly established CBS Records (Australia), which had been incorporated following the 1960 takeover of the Australian Record Company by Columbia Records USA. During his tenure as Musical Director and A&R Manager for CBS (as well as General Manager for April Music Publishing in Sydney) Libaek built up a strong roster of pop, folk and jazz performers and produced over two hundred singles and albums, as well as writing (or co-writing with his wife) many of the titles he produced. His CBS credits include producing all the CBS recordings by surf music band The Atlantics including their hit "Bombora", folk musicians Gary Shearston and Patsy Biscoe. He left CBS in 1968 to work as a freelance composer, arranger, conductor and established his own music production company.Libaek's Australian film and TV credits include Nickel Queen, The Set, To Ride A White Horse, Vincent Serventy's oft-repeated nature series Nature Walkabout, the drama series Boney, the Ron and Valerie Taylor underwater documentary series Inner Space, ABC-TV's magazine series A Big Country, The World Around Us, Joe Wilson and The Settlement, as well as dozens of feature documentaries and industrial films. He worked with Maurice Jarre as musical coordinator and orchestrator for the Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously and also hosted his own TV show on ABC-TV, All About Music in 1974.Libaek lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1977 to 1994 where he orchestrated more than 300 popular songs for US radio stations and artists including Lionel Richie and Neil Diamond, and he also worked for the Hanna-Barbera company, composing the scores for several animated TV specials.During his career, Libaek has had more than thirty albums of his music released. His has composed serious concert works for instruments including the piano, classical guitar, flute and clarinet and he is the Resident Conductor of Sydney's Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra For the Australian Centenary of Federation in 2001 he was commissioned by the Sutherland Shire Council to compose a special work for Symphony Orchestra, Choir and Brass Band, with words by his wife Lolita Rivera. The First Shire was performed at Cronulla Beach in front of 10,000 people in January 2001.While living in the USA, Sven was a frequent adjudicator for the Glendale Unified School District in California. In Australia he has served as adjudicator for the Ryde and Goulburn Eisteddfods and the Sutherland Shire instrumental competition for young people conducted by the Sutherland Shire Music Club. He has taught piano at Shore School, acts as Composer-in-Residence at Port Hacking High School and frequently lectures at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.Libaek has been a member of the Music Arrangers Guild of Australia for over thirty years, joined the national executive in 1996 and was elected president of the Guild in 2000Libaek's soundtrack music has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years following its use in the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; thanks to the influence of the film's Australian co-star Noah Taylor, director Wes Anderson selected five Libaek compositions (all originally written for Inner Space) as part of its score.".
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- Sven_Libaek wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sven Erik Libaek".
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- Sven_Libaek comment "Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant influence on the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records. Libaek was born in Norway in 1938, trained as both a pianist and an actor and is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York.".
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