Philip Powers

Who is Philip Powers?

Philip Powers is a record producer who has released 34 CDs on the 1M1 Records label including "The Lighthorsemen" and "The Coolangatta Gold". He has also produced or been executive producer of a dozen CDs for Sydney Symphony on the Sydney Symphony Live label. A number of these have been with conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy and 2 with conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti. The other CD was with Vladimir Ashkenazy as pianist playing rare Rachmaninov works. He was also Supervising Producer of Sir Charles Mackerras, a double CD featuring famous Czech repertoire and Richard Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.

After his graduation from NSW University he was acting in the position of Music Officer for several months in 1984, finally becoming Director of Music for Film Australia in 1986. Between 1983 and 1988 he was responsible for the music appearing in over 200 Film Australia productions, including Cane Toads, "The Movers" and Annie's Coming Out, also working with Gillian Armstrong and Jane Campion on "Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces" and "After Hours".

Powers co-produced his first CDs of film scores for the Southern Cross label in 1988, working with Simon Walker on The Wild Duck and Brian May on "Frog Dreaming".