GIA Publications - Artist

Australian composer/arranger Joe Twist is one of the most in demand music creators in Australia and abroad, straddling film music and concert music arenas. Twist has a wealth of experience in choral music as both a singer and composer, receiving numerous commissions and performances of his music from choirs in Australia and around the world, including The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Chanticleer, Voces8, The Idea of North, The Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, L.A. Choral Lab, Sydney Chamber Choir, The Australian Voices, Gondwana Voices, Adelaide Chamber Singers, and many others. In 2024 Twist’s landmark LGBTQIA+ rights oratorio Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan received rave reviews following its Opera Australia season in the Sydney Opera House.

Twist has received wide acclaim for his music for film and television including the successful animated series Bluey on Disney Junior, as well as arrangements and orchestrations for many major motion pictures produced in Hollywood. He has created music for many renowned international artists and ensembles such as Moby and The Wiggles.