Peter Dasent

Peter Desent
Born
New Zealand
GenresPop, new wave, jazz
OccupationsComposer, musician, songwriter
InstrumentsPiano, keyboards
Member ofThe Umbrellas
Formerly ofThe Spats, The Crocodiles

Peter Dasent is a New Zealand born composer, pianist and songwriter who has lived and worked in Sydney, Australia since 1981, he has worked on numerous television and film scores .

Music career

In NZ, Dasent played keyboards in the bands Spats, and The Crocodiles. He leads the chamber-jazz group the Umbrellas, is writing a book on the music of Nino Rota and currently works in music composition for film and television, most notably in the children's television series Play School.

Some of his more famous works were with film maker Peter Jackson in three of his early productions : Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992) and Heavenly Creatures (1994).

He also composed the music of three other movies : Channelling Baby (2000), Cubbyhouse (2001), and Voodoo Lagoon (2006), plus some music for TV series and documentaries.

Peter was part of a trans-Tasman recording band, the Bend, which releasedthe children's DVD/book The Underwatermelon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes in 1999. The Bend (Fane Flaws, Peter Dasent and Tony Backhouse) released an album of Sam Hunt's poems set to music, We Disappear in 2021. He collaborates with Tony Backhouse as Blessed Relief; the pair released their album Design For Living in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ Shand, John (8 October 2003). "The Umbrellas, Starfish Club". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Peter Dasent: from Play School to Abbey Rd, 6 November 2015, retrieved 12 August 2017
  3. ↑ "Background | Sex, Drugs and Soft Toys – The Making of Meet the Feebles | Television | NZ On Screen". nzonscreen.com. NZ On Screen. Retrieved 12 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ↑ "Peter Dasent". IMDb. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Peter Dasent". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.