Anthony Craig "Ack" Kinmonth is a film and television composer from Brisbane, Australia. He was the first Australian composer to write a featured song for the American children's television series, Sesame Street: "Five Kangaroos".[1][2] It aired during the show's 44th season as performed by Australian R&B singer, Jessica Mauboy.[1]Australasian Performing Right Association reporter described it as a "catchy Australian tune" in March 2014.[1] Kinmonth wrote a second song for the program, "Farm Animal Song (1-10 Hoedown)", which aired during its 45th season and was performed by Kinmonth and voice over artist, Kate Murphy.[3]
Kinmonth was the composer for the TV miniseries, Texas Rising: The Lost Soldier (2015). He also served as the music editor and composer of additional music for Vikings: Athelstan’s Journal. Both miniseries were distributed by the History Channel.[4] In 2022, Kinmonth scored Hugo Weaving's Ky's Story, made in collaboration with LiveLab and Autism Queensland.[5][6] His work for Scarygirl received an Aria Music Awards nomination in 2024.[7] In that same year, Kinmonth composed music for The Sloth Lane, starring Leslie Jones, which premiered at the Annecy Festival.[8][9]
Kinmonth was the recipient of two bronze medals at the 2014 Brisbane Advertising and Design Club (BADC) Awards for his compositional work on a documentary series about HIV awareness for the HIV Foundation Queensland.[24][25]
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