biography
Music and sound are an integral part of Bruce Wheatley's life.
Encouraged as a child in his love of music and the piano in particular, from an early age he has performed, accompanied, written and recorded.
Post school employment diverted him for a short time into engineering and learning how to repair aircraft engines, but in 1984 he was accepted into the highly regarded Television Production Course at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney and began to pursue his second passion of audio production.
25 years at the ABC, interrupted by another brief diversion into engineering, involved operating in the ABC Sydney studios, including the transition from Gore Hill to the new facility at Ultimo, as well as time on the road with a news and regional journalism crew. He enjoyed working with some of the ABC's best journalists and camera operators, including Louie Eroglu, and covering important news, sport, celebrity and regional stories. Now freelance, he has worked across all major television networks. He travelled to India for the television production of the Commonwealth Games, New Delhi in 2010 and travelled around Australia with British Sky Sports for the 2010/11 Ashes Cricket Series.
His programme credits include:
PlaySchool, ABC News, 7.30 Report, Lateline, Blah Blah Blah, Live and Sweaty, Club Buggery, The Fat, Enough Rope, SBS News, Insight, My Kitchen Rules, Hi-5, Studio 22, Evenings with James O'Loghlin, Backberner, Good News Week, Sydney New Years Eve, A Current Affair, The One, Can Of Worms, Fox-NRL, The Living Room.
Bruce is married to Wendy, a self-employed architect, and they have two sons, both of whom share Bruce's love of music. They live in the quiet and bushy, lower Blue Mountains near Sydney and enjoy walking their crazy Mini Schnauzer, Oskar whenever they get the chance.
Encouraged as a child in his love of music and the piano in particular, from an early age he has performed, accompanied, written and recorded.
Post school employment diverted him for a short time into engineering and learning how to repair aircraft engines, but in 1984 he was accepted into the highly regarded Television Production Course at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney and began to pursue his second passion of audio production.
25 years at the ABC, interrupted by another brief diversion into engineering, involved operating in the ABC Sydney studios, including the transition from Gore Hill to the new facility at Ultimo, as well as time on the road with a news and regional journalism crew. He enjoyed working with some of the ABC's best journalists and camera operators, including Louie Eroglu, and covering important news, sport, celebrity and regional stories. Now freelance, he has worked across all major television networks. He travelled to India for the television production of the Commonwealth Games, New Delhi in 2010 and travelled around Australia with British Sky Sports for the 2010/11 Ashes Cricket Series.
His programme credits include:
PlaySchool, ABC News, 7.30 Report, Lateline, Blah Blah Blah, Live and Sweaty, Club Buggery, The Fat, Enough Rope, SBS News, Insight, My Kitchen Rules, Hi-5, Studio 22, Evenings with James O'Loghlin, Backberner, Good News Week, Sydney New Years Eve, A Current Affair, The One, Can Of Worms, Fox-NRL, The Living Room.
Bruce is married to Wendy, a self-employed architect, and they have two sons, both of whom share Bruce's love of music. They live in the quiet and bushy, lower Blue Mountains near Sydney and enjoy walking their crazy Mini Schnauzer, Oskar whenever they get the chance.
