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Y u r i Worontschak
stage | screen | composer | writer
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Y u r i is a multi award winning composer who has worked on
over twenty feature films
hundreds of television programmes
and eight musicals
Musical Theater:
Illuminati Lizards from Outer Space (with Paul Western-Pittard) had an Off Broadway run in 2019 and opened the NYMF festival.
Margaret Fulton: I Sang for My Supper (with Doug McLeod) is currently touring Australia and has had over a hundred performances.
He has written the Book, Lyrics and Music for
Cruising Broadway
Special K and Main Man Yuri is a 90s RAVE featuring the legendary Ukrainian Australian rap duo.
Surfers (with Ian McFadyen) is part 1 of a Trilogy (Bondi part 2 and and Malibu part 3)
Bondi (with Brendan Luno) had a ticketed public read at Bondi Pavilion (Sydney 2019)
Over 300 hundred songs have been written.
Screen Composition:
Film: Love the Beast (Eric Bana), Take Away (Rose Byrne), You and Your Stupid Mate (Nathan Philips),
The Mao Game (Kirsty Alley and Piper Laurie), Little Oberon (Sigrid Thornton) and Halifax f.p.(Essie Davis).
Animation: Dogstar (Disney), The Flaming Thongs, Lil’ Larrikins, Animalia (Emmy Award) and Never Mind the he Gumwalds (Disney).
Television: Utopia, Mad as Hell, Newstopia and Your Generation (Shaun Micallef), The Art of Australia (BBC/ABC)
Big Girls Blouse (Kath and Kim), the AFI Awards (Hugh Jackman), Agony Uncles and Aunts,
Sit Down Shut Up, Hamish and Andy, Letters and Numbers, Big Bite (Chris Lillie), Fast Forward (Magda Szubanski), Full Frontal and Comedy Company.
Production:
As a score supervisor and music producer Yuri has worked on many international movies and events including: It Runs in the Family (Michael and Kirk Douglas), Empire Falls (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Newman), Shiner (Michael Caine), the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony and the Sydney Para-Olympics Closing Ceremony, Neighbours, One Night the Moon (Paul Kelly), Human Touch (Katie Noonan), Nijinski (Derek Jacobi, Paul Cox), The Fine Art of Love (Jaqueline Bisset) and Unfolding Florence (Gillian Armstrong). Yuri was synth supervisor for Jerry Goldsmith on "Warlock".
As record producer Yuri won multiple platinum albums (production and engineering) on Anthony Warlow’s first two breakout orchestral albums “Centre Stage” and “On the Boards”. He has produced music for Peter Andre (“Give a Little Sign”), Peter Cousens (“Love Changes Everything”), Jamie O'Neil, Russell Crowe,Jason Donovan and Diana Krall. He headed a record label "Divine Comedy" for Sony Music releasing a number of records. kinesound.com
Yuri was musical director and composer for: the Centenary of Federation Concert (Deborah Byrne, Deborah Cheetham and Todd McKenny), Circus Oz, Outer Sink (Nigel Triffit and Lost Trios Ringbarkus), Bond-arama, Tiny Tim’s Australian tour, every network televised Comedy Gala (Bea Arthur, Terry Jones, Jason Byrne and Lenny Henry etc.) and Micallef Tonight (Jose Feliciano, Percy Sledge and Delta Goodrem)
As a musician Yuri was a member of the Christie Allen Band, one half of legendary 90's rap duo Special K and Main Man Yuri and founding member of super group Way Back Five, which featured Michael Hutchence of INXS, Kate Ceberano and James Reyne.
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Credits
Composition & Score
Mad as Hell
Utopia
Back Roads
Whovians
John Conway Tonight
I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
The Weekly
Dogstar Xmas Movie (feature)
Brain Eisteddfod
The Yearly
Hard Quiz
Saturday Night Crack Up
The Art of Australia
Comedy Festival Galas (1990 -2016 inc)
Great Debate
Celebrity Splash
Slide Show
Hamish and Andy
Footy Show AFL
Footy Show NRL
Beat the Star
Shaun's NYE Rave
Micallef Tonight
Big Bite
The White Room
Brownlow Medal
Rove Live
Comedy Slapdown Fox
Surprise Gotchya
Magda's Funny Bits
The Master
50 Years 50 Stars
What a Year
Comic Relief
Let Loose Live
World's Craziest Videos
Comedy Festival Great Debate
Backyard Blitz
Pyramid
Millionaire
Bread
National Kareoke Championship
Wilde about Golf
Welcher and Welcher
Fast Forward: One More Round
Shock Jock
Fast Forward: Ten Year Bash
Sit Down Shut Up
Unreal TV
The Russel Gilbert Show
Russell Gilbert Live
The Bit Part
1 v 100
Before The Game
Good News World
Talkin' Bout Your Generation
Dirk Breaka Nickelodeon
SkitHouse 10
Totally Full Frontal
Totally Full Frontal
Full Frontal 7
Fast Forward 7
Right in the Middle of your Forehead
Oz Dot Comedy
The Adventures of Lano & Woodley
Comic Relief
The Eric Bana Show
Eric
Get a Life Foxtel
Shaun Micallef's World Around Him 7
Shark Bay
Big Girl's Blouse
Jimeoin
Lift Off
Wedlocked
Comedy Company
Smile a Ton
Dr. Feelgood
Great Aussie Sex Appeal Test
38 and a Bit Years of Television
The Making of Nothing 7
Four Quarters 7
Standing on the Road 7
The Norman Gunston Show 7
Funniest People 7
Bingles 10
Lift Off Series 1 & 2
Big Time
Acropolis Now
Hey, Hey It's Saturday
Best of the Edinburgh Fringe
Tonite Live
The Midday Show
Score Supervision
Kalaupappa Heaven Baziz
Somebodies
Unfolding Florence
Empire Falls
The Grooming
The Extra
The Remarkable Mr Kaye
Human Touch
It Runs in the family
Last Orders
Shiner
Jungle Book 2
One Night The Moon
Psycho Beach Party
Father Damien
Bowl Me Over
Noah's Ark
Siam Sunset
Lust And Revenge
Mushrooms
Lucky Break aka Paperback Romance
Cassidy
Seven Deadly Sins
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Georgia
Screen
A Woman's Tale
Mull aka Mullaway
Mortgage
Jilted
Dear Cardholder
Production
The Art of War SBS
Jessica
ROVE 1Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony
Sydney Olympics Closing Ceremony
Paralympics Closing Ceremony ABC
One Night The Moon ABC
Road to Ithaca SBS
Faces of War ABC
Janus ABC
Bligh
The Eleventh Hour
Live It Up
Phoenix & Operation PHOENIX
The Royal Commission into the Economy
Neighbours
Halifax: Hard Corps
BAFTA Awards BBC
Awards
AGSC Award Best Soundtrack
"One Night the Moon"
Special Logie for Comedy for
"The Micallef Program"
AFI Award Best Music for
"One Night the Moon"
AFI Award for Best Soundtrack for
"The Lead Dress"
ARIA Platinum Album for Production of
"Center Stage" by Anthony Warlow
ARIA Gold Album for "On The Boards"
by Anthony Warlow
Ampex Gold Reel Awards for Production
and Engineering
APRA Music Award for Composition
AMEB Young Composer's Award
Logie Award for The Micallef Program
Logie Award for Full Frontal (4)
Logie Awards for Fast Forward (3)
Logie Awards for
Dogstar
2011 THE HUGO TELEVISION AWARDS,
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA
Silver Plaque for Animated Series
2009 LOGIE AWARDS, AUSTRALIA
Finalist, Most Outstanding Children’s Program
2008 ASIA TELEVISION AWARDS, SINGAPORE
Winner – Best Animation
2008 AFI AWARDS, AUSTRALIA
Finalist – Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a
Television Drama (Gary Files)
Finalist – Best Screenplay in Television ( Philip Dalkin)
2008 WRITERS GUILD OF AUSTRALIA
(AWGIE AWARDS
AWGIE Winner – Best Children’s Television Script
(Doug MacLeod)
2008 THE HUGO TELEVISION AWARDS,
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA
Certificate of Merit for Animated Series
2007 APOLLO AWARDS, SINGAPORE
Winner Best Animated Opening Sequence
2007 CARTOONS ON THE BAY, ITALY
Official Selection – International Showcase.
2006 WRITERS GUILD OF AUSTRALIA
(AWGIE AWARDS), AUSTRALIA
AWGIE Winner – Best Children’s Television Script
(Doug MacLeod)
2006 AUSTRALIAN EFFECTS and
ANIMATION FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIA
Finalist – Best Television Animation
