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, A Sunburnt Christmas (with Damien Lane), Babyteeth and Son Of A Lion.  Feature documentaries include Step Into Paradise (with Nick Wales), Brazen Hussies and The Family. Amanda has scored drama series Deadloch, Prosper (with Antonio Gambale), RFDS Series 1-2, The Secrets She Keeps S1-2, One Night and On The Ropes. 

In 2024 Amanda won the AACTA Award for Best Music in Television (Deadloch) and 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 board member and screen composer ambassador for APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and is currently on the executive councils of  CIAM (International Council of Music Creators) and APMA (Asia Pacific Music 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.