Sounds Australia has announced the launch of a new initiative to connect Australian screen composers with the Los Angeles media and entertainment industry.

The Screen Composer Trade Mission, which commences next week from 11–15 November, will take 11 Australian screens composers to LA to engage with teams from Netflix, Amazon, Riot Games, Film Independent, Ignition Creative, FOX Sports and more. The program aims to foster long-term creative partnerships and international engagement with Australian music.

This year’s selected composers are Adrian Leung, Angela Little, Antony Partos, Ash Gibson Greig, Ayda Akbar, Brett Rosenberg, Caitlin Yeo, Chiara Costanza, Lance Gurisik, Richard Pike and Vincent Goodyer.

Antony Partos is one of Australia’s leading screen composers who has scored shows including The Slap, Rake and Redfern Now, and feature films including Poker Face, Gold, Jasper Jones and I Am Mother. He is also one of Australia’s most awarded screen composers, with 20 AGSC Awards, seven AFI Awards and six AACTA Awards to his name. In 2017, the film Tanna, for which he contributed the score, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the 2017 Oscars.

Caitlin Yeo is another titan of screen composition. Her music has scored projects including the...