Philip Powers

Philip Powers (born 1963) is a record producer. His recordings have been nominated for four ARIA Awards. He has produced 34 CDs for the 1M1 Records label including "The Lighthorsemen" and The Coolangatta Gold and he has also produced or been executive producer of a dozen CDs for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the Sydney Symphony Live label. A number of these have been with conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy as well as two CDs with conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti. Another CD featured 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 University of New South Wales after acting in the position of Music Officer for several months in 1984, he was appointed 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, also working with Gillian Armstrong and Jane Campion on "Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces" and "After Hours". He supervised the musical and choreographed sequences in Academy Award-winning director Bruce Petty's "The Movers" and was the Recording Producer of the AFI 1984 Best Film Winner Annie's Coming Out which was also nominated for Best Original Music Score, losing to Bruce Smeaton and Garth Porter for "Streethero". 18 years later he released the Original Soundtrack Recording on his 1M1 Records label.

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