Will Larsen is a multi award winning composer, percussionist, drummer and music producer from Melbourne, Australia. He has played for José Carreras, Mikis Theodorakis, Bryn Terfel, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, The New York Ballet, Topol, Andrea Bocelli and k d lang. 
 
He has been a guest artist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, Orchestra Victoria, The Australian Ballet, and has performed throughout Australia, Europe, the UK and Asia.
 
His work on movie scores include “Hero Mars” by Californian director Skyler Cooper, "At World's End" for Danish director Tomas Villum Jensen, and "Mary and Max" by Academy Award winning director Adam Elliot and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.  
 
He has won an ARIA for Best Independent Release with The Killjoys. Will and Louise Woodward won Best Score at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for their music on “Juliana’s Story,” a film directed by Angelique Papadelias.  In 2014 his composition "A Festival Fanfare" was used to open Melbourne's White Night Festival.
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Will is half of contemporary classical duo Tess Said So, an ongoing
partnership with renowned pianist Rasa Daukus.  The two won both the Weekly Award and BankSA Award (Overall Outstanding Event) for Best Interactive, Film & Digital at the Adelaide Fringe Festival for their original live soundtrack production and performance to Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror.
 
Will also writes, produces and performs for Melbourne singer / songwriter, Aylin Eser. Aylin and Will write catchy, melodic indie-pop in the style of Harry Nilsson and given a modern twist.

Music from 90's Sydney band Glare which later morphed into apianLOW

We Will Always Love You - album out now

Since I Left You - 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition out June 4.

sound & vision

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Ampleya is the artistic collaboration between composer and pianist Rasa Daukus, mezzo-soprano AJ America and photographic artist Genevieve Swifte.

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Tess Said So is the creative partnership between musicians Will Larsen and Rasa Daukus. 

Will is an ARIA award winning percussionist, drummer and composer from Melbourne, Australia. He has worked for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, Orchestra Victoria, The Australian Ballet, and toured throughout Europe and Asia. He has played for José Carreras, Mikis Theodorakis, Bryn Terfel, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, The New York Ballet and k d lang. Will has also worked on several movie scores, including “Hero Mars” by Californian director Skyler Cooper, "At World's End" for Danish director Tomas Villum Jensen, and "Mary and Max" by Academy Award winning director Adam Elliot. In 2012, Will won Best Score at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for his music on “Juliana’s Story,” directed by Angelique Papadelias.

Rasa is a pianist and composer from Canberra, Australia, and is the Director of Music at the University of Canberra. Her current research focuses on multimedia applications of classical music in popular culture, drawing on postgraduate work in visual art, design and music technology. As a pianist she has specialised in contemporary classical ensemble repertoire, and credits her main teachers – Larry Sitsky and John Luxton in Australia, and Jeffrey Jacob in the USA – in helping shape her interpretive direction. Rasa has also worked on the Australian development, production and distribution of various strategic and international record labels including RCA/Ariola, Arista and Deconstruction Records while at BMG Music.


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