Regarded as one of Australia’s leading screen composers, Burkhard Dallwitz’s career spans four decades, working across film and television in Australia, Europe and the U.S.  Burkhard has received multiple international and local screen music awards and nominations from APRA/AGSC, AACTA and ARIA Awards, including winning the Golden Globe, Chicago Film Critics’ Award and ASCAP Award for The Truman Show, the APRA Award for Best Television Theme for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, many awards and nominations for the Underbelly franchise, the ABC mini-series The Secret River and Peter Weir’s feature film The Way Back.   

Other credits include Wolf Creek and The Gloaming for STAN, the Netflix series Pine Gap, the AACTA award-winning SBS series Sunshine, and the ARIA and AACTA nominated Feature Documentary, Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey. Recently, Burkhard contributed to the score to Magic Beach, a new feature film by Robert Connolly.  

As an APRA AMCOS ambassador since 2010 and an APRA board member since 2021, Burkhard is actively involved in both the music and screen industries advocating for the rights of music creators.