Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer and musician. Active since 1999, his practice spans modern classical, abstract electronica, experimental rock, piano improvisation and film soundtrack. The Los Angeles Times has described him as “a remarkable new voice.”

His work has been presented in prestigious venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA), Martin-Gropuis-Bau (Berlin), Centre Pompidou (Paris), BBC Maida Vale (London), Berliner Festspiele, Foundaçao Serralves (Porto), Haus der Musik (Innsbruck), Zitadelle Spandau (Berlin), National Gallery of Lithuania (Vilnius), Henie Onstad (Oslo), CIVICAN (Pamplona), Haus Konstruktiv (Zürich), Logan Center for the Arts (Chicago), Tempo Reale (Florence), Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto), Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), Teatro Fondamenta Nuove (Venice) and Hamer Hall (Melbourne).

Among hundreds of concerts worldwide, Anthony has performed at festivals including Wien Modern (Vienna), Unsound (Krakow), Sacrum Profanum (Krakow), London Contemporary Music Festival, Akousma (Paris), Klangspuren (Schwaz), Archipel (Geneva), Jazz Festival Willisau, Bernaola Zikola (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Sterischer Herbst (Graz), Skanu Mežs (Riga), Simultan (Timișoara), Mozg (Bydgoszcz), To Listen To (Turin), 2TageStrom (Zürich), Next Music (Bratislava), All Ears (Oslo), Music Unlimited (Wels), FIMAV (Victoriaville) and the Melbourne, Sydney, Perth & Adelaide Festivals.

Pateras has released 45+ albums on labels such as John Zorn’s Tzadik, Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego, Shelter Press, Another Timbre, Ipecac, Futura Resistenza, Hallow Ground, Superpang, Penultimate Press and his own Immediata, including two 5CD box sets of his concert music.

Anthony has creatively collaborated with Mike Patton, The Necks, Sunn O))), Christos Tsiolkas, Fennesz, Sylvère Lotringer, Bruce Russell, Jérôme Noetinger, Marco Fusinato, Erkki Veltheim, Studio LABOUR, eRikM, Anthony Burr, Rohan Drape and Natasha Anderson.

He’s been commissioned by INA-GRM, Radio France, Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden, ONCEIM, Australian Chamber Orchestra, ensemble]h[iatus, Ensemble Dedalus, Third Coast Percussion, the Astra Chamber Music Society and Silvia Tarozzi/Deborah Walker.

His music's been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC, Toronto, Basel & Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Brett Dean and the International Contemporary Ensemble. He’s written numerous orchestral percussion pieces, presented by Drumming Grupo de Percussão, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, Vanessa Tomlinson, Diego Espinosa, Eklekto, Synergy and Speak.

His body of work has been recognised with the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship, residencies at Cité des Arts, La Becque, Akademie Schloss Solitude & Montalvo Arts Center, and fellowships from Creative Victoria & the Ian Potter Foundation. He was a joint recipient of the ZKM Giga-Hertz Produktionspreise (w/ Valerio Tricoli) and is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow.

Films Pateras has scored have screened at Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Telluride, Edinburgh, Melbourne film festivals, and Anthology Film Archives in New York. His most recent soundtrack was Reise der Schatten, an animated feature by artist Yves Netzhammer, which premiered in the 2024 Tiger Competition at Rotterdam, further screening at Annecy, Ottowa, Solothurn and Lisbon.

Anthony’s earliest collaborations were a decade long electro-acoustic duo with Robin Fox (1999-2009), and the improvisational trio Pateras/Baxter/Brown with Sean Baxter and David Brown (2002-20). In 2004, he mixed, produced and performed on the cult abstract hip-hop record I’m OK You’re OK by Beta Erko.

His Thymolphthalein quintet, commissioned for the SWR2 New Jazz Meeting, performed intensively between 2009-13, while the North of North trio with Scott Tinkler and Erkki Veltheim, worked solidly from 2015-18.

Piano-grindcore duo PIVIXKI with drummer Max Kohane toured extensively 2008-12 (reuniting briefly in 2024), and since 2021, he plays in Sulla Lingua, an electro-acoustic rock group with Italians Stefano Pilia and Riccardo La Foresta.

From 2001-2008, he was active as an experimental music curator in Naarm/Melbourne, as artistic director of the Articulating Space concert series and the Melbourne International Biennale of Exploratory Music. He currently organises DIY events and micro-festivals in Djaara/Castlemaine, where he is now based.