Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist & electroacoustic musician, active since the late 90s.

His work has been recognised with the Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship (2020), residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts (2026), La Becque (2019), Akademie Schloss Solitude (2018) & Montalvo Arts Center (2010), and fellowships from Creative Victoria (2018) & the Ian Potter Foundation (2008). He was a joint recipient of the ZKM Giga-Hertz Produktionspreise (2017) and is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2014).

Performers of his music include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC, Toronto & Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Brett Dean, International Contemporary Ensemble, Thomas Gould & Golden Fur. Pateras' commissions include INA-GRM & Radio France (Paris), Südwestrundfunk (Baden-Baden), Australian Chamber Orchestra (Sydney), ONCEIM (Paris), ensemble]h[iatus (La Creuse), Muzzix (Lille), Lampo (Chicago), Sonoscopia (Porto), Kitchen Orchestra (Stavanger), Astra Chamber Music Society (Melbourne), Centro Musica (Modena), Insub Meta Orchestra (Geneva) & Silvia Tarozzi/Deborah Walker (Emilia-Romagna).

Anthony has written many orchestral percussion works. His early solos Hypnagogics & Mutant Theatre are widely performed, and numerous ensemble pieces commissioned and/or performed by Sinfonieorchester Basel, Eklekto, Synergy, Speak, Percussion Group The Hague, Vanessa Tomlinson, Diego Espinosa & Third Coast Percussion/Timothy Munro. His most recent is the percussion/prepared piano quintet Chronotope, written for and performed with Drumming Grupo de Percussão (Lisbon, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2023).

His music has been presented in 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), Concertgebouw Brugges, 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 & Sacrum Profanum (Kraków), 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), Mózg (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.

Anthony has creatively collaborated with Sunn O))) & Stephen O’Malley, The Necks & Chris Abrahams, Christos Tsiolkas, Anthony Burr, Natasha Anderson, Fennesz, Sylvère Lotringer, Bruce Russell (Dead C), Jérôme Noetinger, Asi Föcker, Marco Fusinato, Erkki Veltheim, Studio LABOUR, eRikM, Rohan Drape, Sabina Maselli and Mike Patton (as tētēma).

Since 2012, he's written an ongoing series exploring different relationships between a soloist & electronics. Interpreters so far include Lina Andonovska (flute), Jess Aszodi (voice), Erkki Veltheim (violin), Sam Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jon Heilbron (contrabass), Rebecca Lane (piccolo), Callum G'Froerer (double-bell trumpet), Clara La Licata (voice), Rachel Kelly (tuba) and Johnny Chang (viola).

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 for 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, where the music received an honorable mention.

Pateras has released 45+ albums on labels such as Tzadik, Editions Mego, Shelter Press, Another Timbre, Ipecac, Futura Resistenza, Hallow Ground, Superpang, Second Sleep, Penultimate Press and his own Immediata text/music project, including two 5CD box sets of his concert music.

Pateras finished his Bachelor of Music at LaTrobe (1999), then completing a Masters & PhD at Monash (2002, 2008). He’s since given masterclasses at Kunsthochschule Kassel, Conservatorio Giuseppi Verdi (Turin), Royal Conservatorium of The Hague, CalArts (Los Angeles), Northwestern (Chicago), UCSD (San Diego), ZHDK (Zürich) and taught across Australia at the Victorian College of the Arts, WAAPA and Sydney Conservatorium. In 2010, he was composer-in-residence at The Australian National Academy of Music.

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

His Thymolphthalein quintet, commissioned for the SWR2 New Jazz Meeting, was active between 2009-13, while the North of North trio with Scott Tinkler & Erkki Veltheim, worked from 2015 until 2018. Piano-grindcore duo PIVIXKI with drummer Max Kohane toured 2008-12 (reuniting briefly in 2024), and since 2021, he plays in Sulla Lingua, an electro-acoustic rock trio with Stefano Pilia & Riccardo La Foresta.

Co-founding & curating the Articulating Space concert series & festival (Naarm/Melbourne, 2001-2006), and the Melbourne International Biennale Of Exploratory Music (2008), both were extensively recorded & broadcast nationwide by the ABC.

Pateras currently lives and works in Djaara/Castlemaine.