Thorpe. In 2008 he arranged and conducted "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow" for Leo Sayer. Screen composer William Motzing had over 30 Australian film and TV soundtracks to his name, including Newsfront, (which opened the London Film Festival and was the first Australian film to screen at the New York Film Festival), Young Einstein (for which he won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for best original music score and the APRA Music Award), The Return of Captain Invincible, starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee and The Quiet American (2002). He was nominated for five AFI awards. Classical Motzing conducted major symphony orchestras including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Opera, and the Australian Ballet and Sydney Symphony Orchestras at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. In Europe he conducted the BBC Radio Orchestra, the Irish Radio/Television Concert Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Budapest Opera orchestra and the Babelsberg Film Studio orchestra in Berlin. Throughout his life he continued to study conducting with Ernest Matteo, Nicholas Flagello, Ionel Perlea and Olga von Geczy; composition with Ludmila Ulehla and John Mayer at the Birmingham Conservatoire and arranging with Rayburn Wright. He was a lifelong proponent of the Schillinger System. His students included Jon Rose (violin, historian, composition) and Nigel Westlake (composer, performer, conductor). Health William Motzing was misdiagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2008. In 2013, his neurologist re-diagnosed his condition as Shy–Drager syndrome (SDS). SDS is a rare, aggressive disease that halts all the major organs of the body, for which there is no known cure. He continued to teach theory, arranging, modern jazz history, improvisation and ensembles at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as he had done since 1971. After retiring in 2011, he returned to New York to live with the family of his son, William John Motzing Jr., while he battled symptoms of SDS including paralysis throughout the body. He died peacefully from complications of the disease on January 30, 2014. Feature films Composer Dead Easy (1970) Just Out of Reach (1979) Newsfront (1978) Cathy's Child (1979) Undercover (1983) The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) One Night Stand (1984) Stanley (1984) Silver City (1984) The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) Young Einstein (1988) Cappuccino (1989) Echoes of Paradise (1989) A Case of Honor (1991) Television Composer Prisoner (1979) The Oracle (1979) Mother and Son (1984) The Girl from Moonooloo (1984) Time's Raging (1985) The Cowra Breakout (1985) Soldiers (1985) Vietnam (1987)