 Sven
Libaek
President
Sven Libaek has been a member of MAGA for more than 30 years. He
joined the committee in 1996 and was elected president in 2000.
He is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, and first
performed as a pianist with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted
by the late Arthur Fiedler. He moved to Australia in 1960, and spent
his first four years in this country as A&R Manager for Coronet,
(later CBS), Records. At CBS Sven produced over 200 singles and
albums, including Bombora, a big hit for the group The Atlantics.
He is well known as a composer of many film and television scores,
including Nature Walkabout, Boney, ABC's Big Country and Ron and
Valery Taylor's under water series Inner Space. His Australia Suite
for symphony orchestra and jazz group had its world premiere in
Sydney Town Hall in the late sixties, with Sven at the piano and
featuring the "cream" of Australian jazz greats, including
Don Burrows, Johnny Sangster, Errol Buddle, George Golla and Ed
Gaston. As an arranger and orchestrator he has worked with many
top singers both in Australia and overseas, and the Sven Libaek
Orchestra has, over a period of years, released more than 30 albums
featuring Sven's arrangements.
Sven moved to Los Angeles in 1977, and remained there until 1994.
During his years in America he was one of the principal composer/arrangers
for Hanna Barbera, as well as working for top US artists, including
Neil Diamond and Lionel Richie. Sven is currently the resident conductor
of the Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra.
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