Work

Work

Conducting Vattenfall’s Fossil Free Symphony on the west coast of Sweden. Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational power company owned by the Swedish state, working for fossil free electricity.

Return to Paradise Season 2 (TV Series). BBC Studios Australia / ABC / Red Planet Pictures. Maria and Damian join the composition team of Antony Partos and Jackson Milas at Sonar Music.

The Glass Menagerie at Ensemble Theatre. Co-composed with Damian de Boos-Smith.

Master Class at Ensemble Theatre, 2024. Co-composer, music director and performing in the role of the Accompanist Manny. Music and Sound Design by Maria and Damian de Boos-Smith. An operatic play about Maria Callas, directed by Liesel Badorrek.

Hustle, punkness and a deliciously dysfunctional family at the heart of SBS’s new crime drama Swift Street, created by Tig Terera, produced by Lois Randall and Ivy Mak at Magpie Pictures. Series music by Maria Alfonsine and Damian de Boos-Smith.

OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024
Swift Street is one of eight series selected worldwide in the Canneseries Official Selection in the Short Form Competition. The series will have its world premiere screening in Cannes in April 2024 and is out on SBS Australia / SBS On Demand shortly after.

Note from the artistic direction: “An explosive mix between a thriller, a comedy and an intimate portrait, Swift Street blows everything away with its dazzling energy.”

Music Directing and Performing in cabaret show SEND FOR NELLIE about the legendary jazz and blues singer Nellie Small, at the Merrigong Theatre in Wollongong. Starring Elenoa Rokobaro and Eleanor Stankiewicz, with band. Directed by Liesel Badorrek. Written by Alana Valentine with co-curation by Kween G. Produced by Sue Donnelly & Stuart Davis.

A contemporisation of the classic NCIS Title Theme for NCIS: SYDNEY, with Damian de Boos-Smith. Series created by Morgan O’Neill. Series music by Roger Mason. CBS / Paramount+ / Network 10.

Sydney Theatre Company's production of ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’
Music and Sound Design by Maria Alfonsine

Violin - Ben Adler
Double Bass - Lauren White
Cello and Drums - Damian de Boos-Smith
Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone - Maria Alfonsine

Play by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell
and Gordon Farrell
Directed by Paige Rattray
Starring Sigrid Thornton, Charles Wu, Gareth Davis, and Maria Alfonsine.
Photos by Prudence Upton

Roslyn Packer Theatre, 2022. Recorded and Mixed at MADBS Composing Palace.

Australian feature film Akoni, directed by Genna Chanelle Hayes.

ABS TV Series Wakefield. Trailer music by Maria Alfonsine. Series music by Caitlin Yeo and Maria Alfonsine, featuring Damian de Boos-Smith and Rucha Lange. Produced by Jungle Entertainment, ABC and BBC Studios. Sold to Showtime USA.

Alphabetical Sydney: All Aboard! Family musical by Hilary Bell, Greta Gertler Gold and Antonia Pesenti. At Riverside Theatres 2022 and Sydney Opera House 2023. Musical director and performer. Photos by Robert catto.

Documentary by Mihaal Danziger. Score by Maria Alfonsine and Damian de Boos-Smith.

Conducting Beatles Orchestrated at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Metropolis Touring, 2021.

Advertisement for Plenty, composed by Maria Alfonsine & Damian de Boos-Smith. Vocals performed by Victor Valdes. For Rumbles Studios.

Songs and lead vocals by Keppie Coutts. Book by Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell. Arranged, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by MADBS Composing Palace. Published by Penguin.

Award-winning animated short film composed by Maria Alfonsine & Damian de Boos-Smith.

Advertisement for Gulf Western Oil, composed by Maria Alfonsine & Damian de Boos-Smith.
For Scoundrel, dir Tim Bullock.

Advertisement for Yuma, composed by Maria Alfonsine & Damian de Boos-Smith

Movement performance piece BABELISM: LOVE & MEMORY explores how love has impacted your self worth and what memory you retain from past experiences that affect your 'now' state of being. Devised with Sarah Vickery and Mathias Olofsson. Metanoia Theatre 2016.

Veov Drive, short film by Vittoria Merlino-Dentice. Music and lyrics by Maria Alfonsine.

Song written for ABC TV Series Pulse, dir Ana Kokkinos. Vocals performed by Arthur Washington.

Advertisement for Stockland, composed by Maria Alfonsine.

Take Two: A Comedy of Errors, adapted by Hilary Bell, dir. Stefo Nantsou, actors Lindy Sardelic, Gabriel Fancourt, Mansoor Noor, Bilal Hafda, Libby Asciak, set design Imogen Ross. National Theatre of Parramatta, Riverside Theatres 2019.

Comedy music video for ABC Fresh Blood, lyrics by Fiona Gillman, music by Maria Alfonsine.

Advertisement for Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Snack Masters (Reality TV Series). For Triangle Screen Music / Hyperactive Music.

Advertisement for Amazon “Trombone Free Delivery”. Composed with Damian de Boos-Smith. For The Monkeys.

Mens Rea

by Raghav Handa

Mens Rea, dance performance piece by Raghav Handa. Click on the photo for more info and to listen.

Swinging Safari

by Stephan Elliott

Music Editor on Stephan Elliott ‘Swinging Safari”. Score by Guy Gross.

Without Consent

by Diane Busuttil

The great end-credits song by Maria Alfonsine is also a bittersweet gem in the film’s crown” UK Film Review

The Hypochondriac at Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Songs by Phillip Johnston, sound design and incidental music by Maria Alfonsine.

CHIKAS (Web Series). High achieving Aussie Asian Queer Sydneysiders Jazz and Alex eject themselves from the corporate jungle to pursue their creative freedom. However, when they come out tho their very traditional families as ‘dirty creatives’, they find themselves bearing the weight of a Chinese mother’s guilt. Created by Genevieve Craig, 2018.

"The musical score underpinning the performance, by Maria Alfonsine, is more than apt and in its own way contributes to the humour of the exercise.”

— Kevin Jackson's Theatre Diary