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Luna Pan (credited on some productions as Luna Yue Pan) is an Australian composer for film, television, games and advertising, based in Sydney.[1][2] She received a Sports Emmy Award nomination at the 47th Sports Emmy Awards in 2026 as associate composer of the HBO Max documentary Surviving Ohio State,[3][4] composed the scores for Vee Shi's short film Jia (2023)[5] and feature Time and Tide, winner of the Documentary Australia Award at the 2026 Sydney Film Festival,[6][7] and wrote the soundtrack for the Sydney New Year's Eve 2024 midnight fireworks.[8][9] She won the Screen Composition category of the APRA AMCOS Professional Development Awards in 2023[10] and was nominated for Emerging Screen Composer of the Year at the 2024 APRA AMCOS / AGSC Screen Music Awards.[2][11]
Early life and education
[edit]Pan began classical piano at the age of five and studied piano and music theory for a decade.[12][1] She completed a Bachelor of Composition and Music Production at the Australian Institute of Music on a scholarship, graduating in 2018,[13] and holds a Master of Arts in Orchestration for Film, Games and Television from the University of Chichester.[1]
Career
[edit]Pan has written music for feature films, documentaries, television and advertising. APRA AMCOS, announcing her 2024 nomination, described her as having created music for television programmes including The Block, Bondi Rescue and Bluey.[2][11] She is a contributing composer to the production-music library Melodie, with placements including Bondi Rescue, Ambulance Australia, Love It or List It Australia and Everyday Gourmet.[12]
She composed the score for Isabel Darling's SBS documentary The Carnival, for which she received a gold award for best original score at the LIT Talent Awards.[1] She was associate composer, alongside composers Thomas Rouch and Cornel Wilczek, on Surviving Ohio State (HBO Max, 2025), directed by Eva Orner; the programme was nominated for Outstanding Music Direction at the 47th Sports Emmy Awards in 2026.[3][4]
In 2023 Pan was one of four composers selected for Credit Maker, a mentorship scheme run by Screen Australia with the Australian Cinematographers Society and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers to place women and gender-diverse practitioners in head-of-department roles on scripted television; she was placed on the animated series Lego Monkie Kid under supervising composer Mitchell Stewart.[14][15]
She scored Vee Shi's short film Jia (2023), which won the AWGIE Award for short film and was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2024 AACTA Awards.[5][16] Shi engaged her again for Time and Tide, his debut feature, which premiered at Visions du Réel and won the Documentary Australia Award at the 73rd Sydney Film Festival in 2026.[6][7][17] Shi has said the film was edited without a temporary score and that Pan's music was written to "elevate the emotions the film was already able to convey".[18]
In November 2024 the City of Sydney announced Pan as composer of the midnight fireworks soundtrack for Sydney New Year's Eve 2024, a twelve-minute work combining orchestral writing with electronic styles, and described it as "the best experience I've ever had as a composer".[19]
Her concert and orchestral music has been recorded by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Spain and at Smecky Music Studios in Prague.[12] Her orchestral works Evolution and The Masquerade were nominated at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2021 and 2022 respectively.[20][21] She is a represented (associate) artist of the Australian Music Centre, which lists her orchestral work First Light (2025).[1] She is a member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers and the Alliance for Women Film Composers,[22][23] and in 2021 interviewed composer Helena Czajka for the Guild's Composer to Composer interview series.[22]
Selected credits
[edit]| Year | Title | Format | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Carnival | Documentary (SBS) | Composer | Dir. Isabel Darling; LIT Talent Awards gold, best original score[1] |
| 2023 | Jia | Short film | Composer | Dir. Vee Shi; AWGIE Award, short film; AACTA nomination, Best Short Film[5][16] |
| 2024 | Sydney New Year's Eve 2024 Midnight Fireworks Soundtrack | Live event (City of Sydney) | Composer and producer | [8][9] |
| 2025 | Surviving Ohio State | Documentary (HBO Max) | Associate composer | Composers Thomas Rouch and Cornel Wilczek; Sports Emmy nomination, Outstanding Music Direction[3] |
| 2026 | Time and Tide | Documentary feature | Composer | Dir. Vee Shi; Documentary Australia Award, Sydney Film Festival[6][7] |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | APRA AMCOS Women in Music | Mentorship, TV composition | — | Won | [1][22] |
| 2021 | Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Instrumental/Orchestral | Evolution | Nominated | [20] |
| 2021 | GEMS (Spain) | Best Orchestration Award | — | Won | [24] |
| 2022 | Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Epic/Orchestral | The Masquerade | Nominated | [21] |
| 2022 | APRA AMCOS Professional Development Awards | Screen Composition | — | Finalist | [25] |
| 2023 | APRA AMCOS Professional Development Awards | Screen Composition | — | Won | [10] |
| 2024 | APRA AMCOS / AGSC Screen Music Awards | Emerging Screen Composer of the Year | — | Nominated | [2] |
| 2026 | Sydney Film Festival | Documentary Australia Award | Time and Tide | Won | [7] |
| 2026 | Sports Emmy Awards | Outstanding Music Direction | Surviving Ohio State (associate composer) | Nominated | [3][4] |
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Luna Pan : Represented Artist Profile". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "2024 Screen Music Awards nominees revealed". APRA AMCOS. 1 October 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "47th Annual Sports Emmy Awards Nominees" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 2026. p. 85. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
Surviving Ohio State ... Composers: Thomas Edward Rouch and Cornel Thomas Wilczek. Associate Composer: Luna Yue Pan
- 1 2 3 "Sports Emmys Nominations 2026 List". Deadline. March 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Jia". Screen Australia. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Time and Tide". Sydney Film Festival. 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Sydney Film Festival Winner 'Time and Tide' Boarded by Inwave Films". Variety. 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Sydney welcomes 2025 in spectacular style" (Press release). City of Sydney. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Luna Pan To Compose Sydney NYE2024 Midnight Fireworks Soundtrack As City Of Sydney Issued EOI For NYE2025-2027". Sydney Spectaculars. 2 December 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 "2023 APRA Professional Development Awards winners announced". APRA AMCOS. 15 June 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 "And the nominees are ... 2024 Screen Music Awards". FilmInk. October 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Melodie Makers – Luna Pan". Melodie. 11 June 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Luna Pan". Australian Institute of Music. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ Keast, Jackie (1 April 2025). "Screen Australia, ACS and AGSC to partner again on Credit Maker". IF Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ "Credit Maker 2025". Australian Guild of Screen Composers. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
The fourth successful applicant is Luna Pan, who was placed on Lego Monkie Kid with supervising composer, Mitchell Stewart.
- 1 2 "2024 AACTA Awards – Winners and Nominees". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ Slatter, Sean (20 July 2026). "Paris-based distributor Inwave Films boards Vee Shi's 'Time and Tide'". IF Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ Đăng, Tùng Bạch (July 2026). "Time and Tide: In Conversation with Director Vee Shi and Cinematographer-Producer Nicholson Ren". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ "The women empowering Sydney's New Year's Eve". City of Sydney. 17 December 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- 1 2 "2021 Music Genre Nominees". Hollywood Music in Media Awards. 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
Luna Pan – Sydney – Australia – Evolution – Instrumental/Orchestral
- 1 2 "2022 Music Genre Nominees". Hollywood Music in Media Awards. 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Composer to Composer Interview #5". Australian Guild of Screen Composers. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
- ↑ "Luna Pan". Alliance for Women Film Composers. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Award Winners". GEMS – Music Programs, Spain. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
Luna Pan – Best Orchestration Award 2021
- ↑ "2022 Professional Development Awards finalists announced". APRA AMCOS. 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Luna Pan at IMDb
- Luna Pan at the Australian Music Centre
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