Michael Yezerski is a multi-award winning composer, music producer and songwriter. He is widely recognised for his scores to the acclaimed Australian films The Black Balloon (Crystal Bear Berlinale, AFI Best Picture) and The Waiting City, the concert pieceThe Red Tree (with Richard Tognetti) and the Academy Award® winning short, The Lost Thing. Michael's music has earned him five APRA-AGSC Australian Screen Music Awards (from ten nominations), Gold Medals at the Park City Film Music Festival, the APRA Professional Development Award, Best Classical Artist at MusicOz as well as nominations from the AFI, if Awards, MusicOz and two nominations from The Film Critics of Australia Awards. The Red Treewas nominated for Best Composition by an Australian Composer at the 2008 Australian Classical Music Awards (AMC). He has been called a "rising star" of Australian music and was included in the Sydney Morning Herald's list of "People to Watch". Michael studied musical composition under world renowned composers Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards at the University of Sydney graduating with first class honours. Michael then graduated with distinction in audio technology from the Australian Institute of Music and completed film music studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He has written for some of Australia's finest musicians including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Gondwana Voices, Synergy Percussion, Richard Tognetti, Josh Pyke (their song "When We Get There" was a radio fav in 2008), and David Campell. His regular collaborators include Richard Tognetti and the artist Shaun Tan.