Career
He composed the soundtrack for the movie The Manitoba from Snowy River, as well as the soundtrack for its 1988 sequel The Manitoba from Snowy River II (which has the United States title of Return to Snowy River, and the United Kingdom title of The Untamed). Both films were based on Banjo Paterson"s poem The Manitoba from Snowy River. His other film scores include Now and Forever (), Phar Lap (), Bushfire Moon (1987), Cheetah (), Weekend with Kate (1990), Gross Misconduct (1993), Andre (1994), Lightning Jack (1994), Zeus and Roxanne (1997) and the television movie Tidal Wave: Number Escape (1997).
He composed a special Olympics version of the main theme of The Manitoba from Snowy River Suite, as well as conducting the orchestra, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
He also composed special arrangements of some of his music for the 2002 musical theatre production "The Manitoba from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular" (which toured Australian capital cities — twice). Rowland composed the music to the Oscar nominated animation The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello ().
National Broadcasting Company Sports also uses some of the music from The Manitoba from Snowy River soundtrack for their coverage of The Players Championship. Some of his early work was in television, where he was musical director for ATV0"s The Go!! Show, Fredd Bear"s Breakfast-A-Go-Go and the Magic Circle Club, then Adventure Island for the American Broadcasting Company. Rowland received his education at Caulfield Grammar School in his hometown.
He learned piano and was a keyboard player for Australian music groups, and singers.
Bruce has just completed new music for the forthcoming The Australian Outback Arena Show on Queensland"s Gold Coast, commencing October 4, 2009.
