Basil Hogios
Creative Director, Composer
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.
Recently he collaborated with Nigel Jamieson on Wrong Skin, a devised dance/drama piece for The Chooky Dancers, at the Adelaide and Darwin Festivals. He was the musical director and performed shows in Germany and Poland for Mrs Bang: a Series of Seductions which won Best Cabaret at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and was nominated for Green Room award. 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. Their collaboration continues with the film musical Andy X, which is currently in production. He also composed and conducted live music for Dream Masons, a devised outdoor theatrical spectacle which opened Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island to 12 000 people, featuring a 6 piece band and choir.
For the screen, he composed the score for the feature film Romulus My Father, for which he was nominated for and AFI 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. Basil has composed for many short films, television documentaries, and advertisements.
With his background as an architect, he lectures and hosts workshops exploring the links between architectural space, sound, and performance (Prague Quadrennial, UNSW). He completed work on the installation Damned Souls and Turning Wheels, in the 2010 Biennalle of Sydney, and is currently collaborating with renowned installation artist Kate Murphy on various projects, where he is exploring the relationship between music/sound, image, and architectural space.
