Basil is an award-winning composer and sound designer who has worked in literary and musical theatre, dance and devised performance, film and installation. He has collaborated with some of Australia’s theatre greats on mainstage shows for Sydney Theatre Co, Melbourne Theatre Co, Company B, Bell Shakespeare, and Griffin. He received the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Score for the critically acclaimed ‘Three Furies’, (Sydney, Auckland, Perth and Adelaide Arts Festivals), directed by Jim Sharman and written by Stephen Sewell. He also composed and conducted live music for ‘Dream Masons’, a devised outdoor theatrical spectacle which opened Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island. For the screen, he composed the score for the feature film ‘Romulus My Father’,for which he was nominated for an AFI and FCCA Award. A graduate of the AFTRS Screen Composing course, his orchestral score for the devised movement film ‘SUB’- was nominated for an APRA/AGSC award for Best Score for a Short Film and won the prestigious Directors Choice Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival.