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- Sven Libaek was born on September 20, 1938 in Norway. He is a composer and actor, known for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Saving Silverman (2001) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
- He composes film and TV soundtrack music and, as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records, influenced the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s.
- He is a Norwegian-Australian composer, record producer and musician.
- He has taught piano at Shore School, acts as composer-in-residence at Port Hacking High School and frequently lectures at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney.
- Libaek first came to Australia in 1960 as a member of the band the Windjammers, which toured the United States and Australia. Shortly after the group broke up, Libaek and his wife returned to Australia to live.
- He worked with Maurice Jarre as musical co-ordinator and orchestrator for the Peter Weir film The Year of Living Dangerously and also hosted his own TV show on ABC-TV, All About Music, in 1974.
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