She won her first Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Award, in 1996, for her work on Hotel Sorrento (1995) and Brilliant Lies (1996).
[1][2] She travelled to Los Angeles to complete a master's degree in scoring for motion pictures and television at University of Southern California.
[4] Tyson-Chew gained widespread recognition for screen music composition on her first feature film, Hotel Sorrento (1995), which was directed by Richard Franklin.
She won her first Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Award, in 1996, in the category Best Music for a Children's Television Series for the two films.
[7] For her work on Under the Lighthouse Dancing, Twisted Tales (1996–1997) and Fern Gully 2, she won Best Original Music in a TV Series or Film at the AGSC Awards of 1997.
[5] At the 1999 ceremony she won the Best Original Music in a TV Series or Serial, shared with Garry McDonald and Lawrence Stone, for their work on The Lost World (1999).
[12] At the APRA Music Awards of 2020 in December she was acknowledged for her Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen, which recognised her long-term career as a composer in diverse forms including film, TV dramas, children's programmes and documentaries.