Amanda Brown is a screen music composer, musician and songwriter from Sydney, Australia. She has been composing music for stage and screen since 2000 and before that enjoyed a career as a multi-instrumentalist in several bands, playing violin, guitar, mandolin and oboe. She was a member of beloved Australian group The Go-Betweens, with whom she recorded two albums and toured the world.

 

Amanda’s screen music credits include feature films Here Out West, Babyteeth and Son Of A Lion.  Feature documentaries include Songs Inside, Brazen Hussies and The Family. Amanda has scored drama series Deadloch, Prosper (with Antonio Gambale), RFDS, The Secrets She Keeps, One Night and On The Ropes. 

In 2024 Amanda won the AACTA Award for Best Music in Television (Deadloch) and the APRA/AGSC Award for Best Original Song for Carry You (RFDS) composed with Damien Lane and Radical Son. In 2020 she won AACTAs in both Best Music in Film (Babyteeth) and Documentary categories (Brazen Hussies). She has won the APRA/AGSC Award for Best Music Television Series twice (Deadloch and The Secrets She Keeps) and in 2019 Amanda won the Soundtrack Stars Critics Award at Venice International Film Festival for Babyteeth.

Amanda is a writer director of AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) and a Screen Music Ambassador for APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association). In 2021 she became a member (music branch) of The Academy Of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.

Amanda acknowledges the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional owners of the land on which she creates and lives. Sovereignty over this land was never ceded.