Curriculum Vitae

 
 

Born in Australia, 1982

Education:

- Bachelor of Arts (University of Sydney) 2005
- Graduate Diploma in Opera and Vocal Performance (Royal Northern College of Music, UK) 2008
- PhD (Music Composition) (University of Sydney) 2024

Awards/Recognition for Composition:

  • Best Temporary Design, 2023 World Architecture Awards, for Eucalyptusdom, an award shared with Richard Leplastrier AO, SJB Architects, Vania Contreras, and Nick Schlieper

  • Work of the Year (Dramatic) at the 2022 Art Music Awards for Jane’s score to poem for a dried up river

  • Best Interdisciplinary Collaboration at the 2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Awards for To the Heart: A Calling (2020), made in collaboration with video artist Julia Davis

  • Best Installation Design, 2022 Australian Interior Design Awards, for Eucalyptusdom, an award shared with Richard Leplastrier AO, SJB Architects, Vania Contreras, and Nick Schlieper

Awards/Recognition for Performance:

  • New York Times Best Classical Performances of 2023 for Dylan Mattingly’s Stranger Love, premiered with Contemporaneous and the LA Phil

  • Performance of the Year, 2011 Art Music Awards, for The Origin Cycle, performed with Ensemble Offspring at the Australian Museum

  • Nominated for Best Classical Album at the ARIA Awards for Wild Swans (2005) with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and North + South (2013) with Acacia Quartet and harpist Genevieve Lang

Selected List of Compositions:

  • Flowermuscle (4’) originally composed for solo voice, piano, and electronics; arranged for vocal sextet, commissioned by The Song Company (2024)

  • Spectre: Three Attempts to Summon Her (7’) for bass flute and electronics, commissioned by Ensemble Offspring and Kim Williams AO, for Flautist Lamorna Nightingale (2023)

  • Colloque (6’) for soprano and chamber ensemble, composed for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows, conducted by Roger Benedict (2023) 

  • I am a tree, I am a mouth (33’) for two voices and processed gongs (2022)

  • Falling Through the Disappearing Light sound design, for choreographer Maria Nurmela (2021), produced in Turku, Finland

  • Siluetas (5’) for orchestra, composed for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (2021)

  • Eucalyptus Wind Rose, an immersive sound installation commissioned by the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, for Eucalyptusdom (2021), awarded Best Installation Design at the Australian Interior Design Awards

  • Equinox (12’) for two sopranos and electronics, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, for MCA Live (2021)

  • Kakagi (6’) for soprano and electronics, commissioned by Sarah Brailey (2021)

  • Fainomenon, sound design for dance installation, ‘Bodybuilding’ Festival, Turku, Finland (2021)

  • Fugue (23’) for soprano, double-bass and electronics, created for Sydney Dance Company’s PPY20 Revealed (2020); this work was a finalist in the Australian Art Music Awards for Best Electroacoustic/Sound Art work of 2021.

  • To the Heart: A Calling (12’40’’), created in collaboration with visual artist Julia Davis (2020), awarded Best Interdisciplinary Collaboration at the Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Awards

  • Three Mouths by Ben Quilty (10’); sound art work for online platforms, commissioned by the Australian Music Centre (2020)

  • against the very very blackness of space (6’) for three female voices and percussion; commissioned by Trio Triumphatrix, New York, NY, USA (2020)

  • poem for a dried up river (30’) for two sopranos, chamber ensemble, and electronics (2019)

  • Transformation (8'30''); world premiere Ensemble Offspring for Vivid Festival, Sydney, Australia (2017)

  • Testimony II: Saltair (7'); world premiere Australia Piano Quartet & Jess Irwin, CRH, Sydney (2017)

Partial Discography:

  • Flowermuscle (out late 2024)

  • I am a tree, I am a mouth (2022)

  • Oranges Under the Full Moon (2019)

  • Coming Down for Air (2019)

  • Chiaroscuro, with Zubin Kanga (2015)

  • The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Brandenburg Celebrates (2015)

  • Nature, with Nicole Panizza (2014)

  • Swoon: The Ultimate Collection (2014)

  • North + South (2012)

  • There was a man lived in the moon, with Teddy Tahu Rhodes (2015)

  • Voices of the Pearl: Volume 1 (2014)

  • Learning to Howl (2013)

  • Songs of the Shadowland, with Ironwood (2010)

  • Wild Swans, with Ola Rudner and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (2005)

  • The Voice: Teddy Tahu Rhodes (2004)

  • Allegri: Miserere, with Cantillation (2002)

  • Song of the Angel (2002)