Alyssa Aska
Alyssa is fascinated with the architecture of music, both spatially and temporally. She composes works which explore extremes in time and space, using rigid proportions to generate forms in acoustic works and exploring the unpredictable duration and lack of control in gamified works. This is closely tied to her compositional style, which is concerned with a delicate balance between elements of functional form and elements of pure aesthetic purpose.
Michael Askill
Michael Askill is a percussionist, composer, musical director, musical ambassador and educator, an icon of Australian music, known and admired for his enduring contribution to the Australian contemporary music landscape and his original blending of Asian and Western sounds. He has composed for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 2006 Asian Games and the 2011 CHOGM.
Jonas Baes
Composer, ethnomusicologist, cultural activist studied at the Staatliche Hochchule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, and gained his degree at the University of the Philippines. His music compositions for traditional Asian instruments and vocal technique, explores the aesthetization of philosophies and social theories, and constantly searches for the involvement the participation of the audience.
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer-performer, sound artist, editor and curator with an interest in working across disciplines, particularly with speech and language. Antonia’s performances incorporate slippage and forced failure, improvisation, and the live space. She collaborates extensively with artists from different fields. Her style of work has raised important questions about audience expectation, the social and professional structures of respective disciplines, and artistic value.
Martin Rane Bauck
Martin Rane Bauck (b. 1988 in Oslo, Norway) is a composer. Sometimes he writes for the ensemble Aksiom, which he co-created in 2010.
Richard Belcastro
Richard Belcastro (b. 1976) is an active composer and musical activist in the Philadelphia area. His music has been called “an eclectic blend of melodic and rhythmic elements of Jazz and Rock and Roll with a uniquely contemporary harmonic vocabulary” (The NY Concert Review). His music is composed for a variety of instrumental combinations ranging from the very traditional to the distinctly odd as well as ventures into electro-acoustic music and purely electronic explorations.
Anne Boyd
Anne Boyd is one of Australia’s most distinguished and best-loved composers, and music educator. Much of her rich and varied output is spiritual and meditative in nature and draws heavily on East-Asian musical traditions, especially those of Japan and Indonesia. She became the first Australian and the first woman to be appointed Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.
Gianni Bozzola
Primarily self-taught as a composer, Bozzola started his compositional experience at thirteen, writing for violin, guitar, piano and small ensembles. Along with classical music, he soon developed a passion for jazz and rock music, which became new sources of inspiration.
Moving away from classical music, during his twenties he has been the author and guitar player in the jazz-rock band called The Exit Project, as well as in other jazz, fusion and progressiverock projects. After these experiences in his late twenties he “returned” to contemporary music, taking my jazz music experiences with him.
Bozzola began to participate at international prizes as well as masterclasses (Master-class Inaudita, with Filidei and Robin 2014; the 47th International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt 2014), gaining his first awards (finalist at 3rd Arturo Dùo Vidal International Chamber Music Competition, Santander, Spain 2014; artistic mention at “10° Concorso nazionale di composizione pianistica 2012 indetto dall’associazione De Musica”, Italy 2012), publishings (Antologia pianistica De Musica, 2013) and commissions (Festival Opera Barga 2014).
Tessa Brinckman
New Zealand flutist Tessa Brinckman has premiered over a hundred (and commissioned more than twenty) new works, within many classical music ensembles and concert series in the United States, South Africa, France and New Zealand. Her own work as a composer is evolving to create animation and installations. Ms. Brinckman has served on the music faculties of various Oregon universities and colleges, and now teaches workshops and masterclasses in the USA and abroad.
Gaby Bultmann
Gaby Bultmann studied recorder, singing, baroque violin, and harpsichord in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Milan. She has been performing all over Europe with currently four own ensembles for both traditional and contemporary music as solo and with various ensembles. Gaby also has been working on interdisciplinary projects, own music theater productions, and composition commissions.
Jason Cady
Jason Cady composes opera, instrumental and electronic music; and performs on pedal steel guitar and modular synthesizer. His video opera—I Screwed Up the Future—was described by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times as a “charming fantasy…drably comic and spacey.” Opera News described his most recent opera as “delightfully weird.” Cady has an MA from Wesleyan University. He was born in 1974 in Flint, Michigan and has lived in New York City since 2001.
Winnie Cheung
A prolific composer, Winnie Cheung’s works for diverse instruments share a dilated sense of time and space, and reflect an East Asian philosophical and aesthetic influence. Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Indonesia and France, and have received numerous awards, including the prestigious Brian M. Israel Prize from the Society for New Music.
Tanapon Chiwinpiti
Tanapon is a Thai-born audio and visual artist, sound designer, pianist, improviser and composer. He studied composition at Mahidol University and computer music/culture design at Kunitachi College of Music. He is focusing on work for electronic music, spatial music, multimedia, sound engineer and design approach to the mistake sensations, environment matters, neo-futuristic imaginary, playing of space and time matters, psychological human perception.
Chong Kee Yong
Chong Kee Yong is Malaysia’s leading composer with a rare talent of fashioning a truly individual sound from modern experimental techniques.
His style is highly experimental and innovative, yet deeply spiritual and lyrical in its own way. His musical language is enriched by his own Chinese and multicultural Malaysian heritage.
Chong’s distinctive style has won him an unending series of awards and commissions.
CHUNG Il-Ryun
CHUNG Il-Ryun, born 1964 in Frankfurt am Main. From 1989-1995 he studied composition at the Berlin University of Arts with Prof. Jolyon Brettingham-Smith. In the year 2001 he co-founded the multinational ensemble IIIZ+ and in 2009 he co-founded the AsianArt Ensemble with instruments from China, Japan, Korea, and Europe. In 2011 the AsianArt Ensemble was awarded with the “German Record Critics Award” for their first CD. In 2016 he was composer in residence of the National Orchestra of Korea. Since February 2014 he leads the composition/actual music department of the Akademie fuer Tonkunst in Darmstadt.
Ian Cleworth
Ian is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Taikoz. In 2005 he became full-time with the group after having spent 20 years as Principal Percussionist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and 16 years with the percussion group Synergy. Ian has collaborated with, and composed works for various artists such as John Bell, Eitetsu Hayashi, Kazue Sawai, and Meryl Tankard. In 2007 Ian received the APRA-AMC Classical Music Award for Long-term Contribution for the Advancement Of Australian Music, and in 2016, the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for his contribution towards promoting friendship and goodwill between Australia and Japan.
Gene Coleman
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2013 Berlin Prize for Music, he has created over 70 works for various instrumentation and media. Since 2001 his work has focused on the global transformation of culture and music’s relationship with other media, such as architecture, video and dance. With musicians from the Tokyo experimental and traditional music scenes he created the group “Ensemble N_JP” in 2001.
Barry Conyngham
Barry Conyngham was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied with Peter Sculthorpe in Australia and with Toru Takemitsu in Japan. Combining a distinguished academic career with his life as a composer, he has spent time at many prestigious institutions around the world. In 2016 he was appointed Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, where he is Dean of Fine Arts and Music. In 1997 he became a Member of the Order of Australia.
Sarah de Jong
She trained at the Melbourne State College and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Since 1978 Sarah has played an important role in Australia creating music for theatre, dance, radio and film. She has produced many music theatre works and film scores, and won awards such as Australian Film Institute awards for Best Film and the Prix Italia.
Judy Dunaway
Judy Dunaway (born 1964, in Mississippi) is a conceptual sound artist, avant-garde composer, free improvisor and creator of sound installations who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 she has created over thirty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation.
Fabrizio de Rossi Re
Mr. De Rossi Re graduated in composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Mauro Bortolotti. De Rossi Re is the author of a vast composition production characterized by the continuous research of an unpredictable sound path which meets and melts stylistically multifaceted experiences, always balancing a direct and open communication and the linguistic heritage of the historical avant-gardes. His music has been performed at many festivals in the Americas, Asia and Europe by numerous prestigious ensembles. He has been member of the artistic committee of Nuova Consonanza in Rome since 1987. As a jazz pianist, he often participates in experimental improvisation projects with many other soloists. He also has composed numerous scores for films and theatre productions.
Ross Edward
One of Australia’s best known and most performed composers, Ross Edwards has created a distinctive sound world aligned with principles of deep ecology while seeking to reconnect music with elemental forces and restore its traditional association with ritual and dance. His music is deeply connected to its roots in Australia, whose cultural diversity it celebrates, and from whose natural environment it draws inspiration. As a composer living and working on the Pacific Rim he is conscious of the exciting potential of this vast region.
Michaela Eremiasova
Michaela Eremiášová (composer, educator, songwriter, producer), is a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize among various other awards.
Her education includes a PhD in composition from the Eastman School of Music and a Diploma in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music among other education.
She has become increasingly recognized for her work in concert music and music for visual media. Her music has been featured in over 200 national and international film festivals.
Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans is an internationally renowned composer and saxophonist with a passion for improvisation and new music. She has played with and written for some of the most important groups in Australian jazz since the early 1980s, toured extensively in Australia, Europe, Canada and Asia, and been featured on over 40 albums. As a PhD holder whose interest remains in Asian music, she has composed many pieces for koto.
Jim Franklin
Jim Franklin is a master performer of the shakuhachi as well as a composer. He was trained in European classical music and computer music. He commenced learning shakuhach under Riley Lee, Furuya Teruo and Yokoyama Katsuya. He received the title “Shihan” (Master) in 1996. He also completed his PhD at Sydney University. He has been active in teaching and performing shakuhachi in Europe and Australia.
Jack Gable
Jack Gabel presently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has written numerous concert hall works for many different combinations of instruments and voices, with and without electroacoustic accompaniments and/or enhancements. He also creates mixed-media works alone and with collaborators, using musique concrete and poetry, frequently his own, some of which has been published apart from its use in contemporary performance pieces and more traditional settings for singers.
Today, Gabel’s work is infused with widely varied ethnic and ancient colors and motives, most notably those of the ancient, native cultures of North America.
Gerardo Gozzi
Gerardo Gozzi is a performer, conductor, and composer. His music has been performed in prestigious venues in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Israel and China; and it has been performed by ensembles as Talea Ensemble (NYC), Exaudi (London), Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), Divertimento Ensemble (Milan), Ensemble Fractales (Brussels), Composers Ensemble (London). Gerardo holds a PhD in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music, where he researched on the three-dimensional perception of the sound “aura” in the mental projection of the listener.
Erik Griswold
Erik Griswold is a composer and pianist working in contemporary classical, improvised, and experimental forms. Particular interests include prepared piano, percussion, environmental music, and music of Sichuan province. Originally from San Diego, and now residing in Brisbane, he composes for adventurous musicians, performs as a soloist, and collaborates with musicians, artists, dancers, and poets.
Stefan Hakenberg
Born in1960 in Germany. His work includes a wide variety of musical media. The integration of players of non-western classical background has particularly shaped Hakenberg’s creative thought. Full of innovations his work is an ongoing reflection on the musical styles of today. He is a founder of the Alaskan contemporary music organization “CrossSound,” which won a 2002 ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
Toshio Hosokawa
Toshio Hosokawa, Japan’s pre-eminent living composer, creates his distinctive musical language from the fascinating relationship between Western avant-garde art and traditional Japanese culture. His music is strongly connected to the aesthetic and spiritual roots of the Japanese arts, as well as to those of Japanese court music. He gives musical expression to notions of beauty rooted in transience.
Mark Isaacs
Mark Isaacs is an internationally-acclaimed composer, pianist and conductor in classical music and jazz, as well as being a film composer and songwriter. He has composed over 100 works. He has received many awards including an Australia Council Fellowship, the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award and the Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition. He is also a trained and accredited telephone crisis supporter at Lifeline Australia, the nationwide suicide prevention service.
Hiroko Ito
Hiroko ito is a Japanese artist who has now been living in Paris. She graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. In 1983, Hiroko went to Paris and studied accordion with Joe Rossi for next 10 years. She created the band “Melting Pot” In 2000. It’s a fusion of nationalities and they perform regularly in France and Japan and have toured South America, Canada, and Hong Kong.
Vera Ivanova
Vera Ivanova teaches at Chapman University (Associate Professor of Music, Music Theory and Composition Department). She graduated from Moscow Conservatory (BM and MM), Guildhall School in London (MM), and Eastman School (Ph.D.) with degrees in music composition. Her compositions have been performed worldwide and received many national and international awards.
Daryl Jamieson
Japan-based Canadian composer, working with both western and Japanese instruments. His artistic practice is rooted in his practical and theoretical studies of Nō theatre, and the New York School lineage of composition. He is interested in intercultural art, collaborative creation, and rooting art in the political and social environment in which we live. He founded the intercultural music theatre company atelier jakuin 2013 in order to provide a platform for presenting his own works and those of like-minded composers. He is an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. He is published by Da Vinci Editions in Osaka, and the Canadian Music Centre.
Jung Sun Kang
Jung Sun Kang is a composer, harpsichordist, and pianist. Her music has been commissioned by From New Music Players, Brave New Works, Shakespeare and Company, and Trio Aporia, among others. She has received awards from the British Harpsichord Society and Warren Benson Forum on Creativity, as well as a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship from Tanglewood Music Center. Jung Sun received a BM from Ewha University in South Korea, and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, where she taught and also served as a pianist of the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble and OSSIA New Music. She also holds an Artist Diploma degree from McGill University, where she received Schulich Scholarship.
Elizabeth A. Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly is an American/British composer based in Nottingham, UK. Her music embraces broad influence running the gamut from ‘majestic Wagnerian lines aggressively punctuated’ (Boston Musical Intelligencer) to ‘rasping jazzy exploration’ (The Guardian). Her compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Her music has been commissioned and performed by diverse ensembles. Dr. Kelly is Assistant Professor in Music Composition at the University of Nottingham in the UK.
Chappell Kingsland
The music of Chappell Kingsland thrives at the intersection of musical worlds. He is a multifaceted artist. As a composer, his music draws equal inspiration from the European/American tradition and from diverse musical sources ranging from Asia, East Europe to West Africa. He earned his MD at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. His compositions have won many awards.
Erwin Koch-Raphael
Erwin Koch-Raphael worked as organ player between 1961-68 , then a period of study in Berlin, gaining a degree in sound engineering in 1976. At the same time, he studied composition with Isang Yun, later took classes with Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni. In 1982 he took a post as teacher of composition and music theory at the Institute for Music Education, Bremen (professor since 1996). Several composition awards for his instrumental works (all genres).
Takashi Koto
Takashi Koto received his PhD in Music from Harvard University. He has written extensively on musical matters and translated articles and books into Japanese. He has composed many chamber and orchestral works, including his series of koto and shakuhachi pieces premiered in Massachusetts.
Mayako Kubo
Grown up in Kobe, Mayako Kubo graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in piano from the Osaka College of Music. She went to Vienna, Austria, in 1972 to study composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Erich Urbanner and Friedrich Cerha as well as music history and philosophy. She completed her composition studies at the University of Arts in Vienna with a Master of Arts degree. In 1980, she continued her studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Hannover and Stuttgart. Her son Florian was born in 1982. Three years later, Kubo settled in Berlin and studied musical sciences with Carl Dahlhaus. She is founding member of the society for contemporary music „ZeitMusik“. Between 1990 and 1994 she worked in Marino, a small city close to Rome, Italy. Since then she has been back in Berlin.
Takeo Kudo
Takeo Kudo is an Emeritus Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. During his teaching career, he also served as Associate Chair and Chairman of the Music Department, and briefly as an interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Kudo served in the U.S. Air Force – first as a member of the U.S. Air Force Academy Band and, later, as a full-time arranger for The U.S. Air Force Band in Washington, D.C. His preoccupation with the shakuhachi (since 1971) led to studies in Japan with the internationally-known and “Living National Treasure” Yamaguchi Goto, and instrument maker Yoneda Chikamitsu. Since 1972, most of his works have in some way interacted with Asian cultures, and received performances throughout the U.S. mainland, in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, South America, Canada, and his native Hawaii. His orchestral works have been performed by the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Penninsula Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Stanford University Orchestra, University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, Hawai’i Youth Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Washington State University Orchestra, University of Hawai’i Orchestra, University of Minnesota String Orchestra, Orquestra Experimental de Repertorio (Sao Paulo), as well as festival orchestras at conferences.
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/music/about-us/faculty/elmer-takeo-kudo/
Daria Dobrochna Kwiatkowska
Born in Poland, educated in Poland, Holland and the USA, Daria Dobrochna Kwiatkowska is a composer of multiple backgrounds and international influences. Although settled in England (currently teaching at the University of Birmingham), she considers herself on a constant journey – both artistically and personally. Inspiration for her music comes from nature, exotic cultures, puppet theatres, enigmatic (and often dark) fairy-tales, and friends who play fascinating instruments.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/music/kwiatkowska-daria.aspx
Young Ja Lee
Born in Wonju, Korea, Young Ja Lee is one of the most prominent Korean composers of her time. Lee’s music is performed worldwide. Lee won many awards in her career: First Prize at the “Korean National Music Competition” in Composition (1956), “Korean Composition Award” (1986), “Korean Musician Award (1994), Presidential Award (1995), and Grand Prize at the “Korean Composition Award” (1996, 2000, 2008). In 2012, she was decorated with the National Silver Crown Medal. Lee served as head of the composition department at Ewha Women’s University from 1961 to 1983. In 1981, Lee co-founded the first women composers’ association in Korea and served as its first president for 13 years. Currently, she is a member of The National Academy of Arts in Korea.
Tony Lewis
Tony Lewis is a percussionist, composer, recording producer, ethnomusicologist and music educator with over forty years of professional experience. Based in Sydney, he specialises in contemporary cross-cultural music forms, and music for dance and theatre. He performs with the acclaimed eclectic music trio Waratah and in a number of freelance contexts. Throughout his work, Lewis has been committed to the creation of new Australian music with diverse cultural origins. His most recent published work is Manus Diaboli for five recorders, commissioned and published (OMP26) by Orpheus Music and premiered in Armidale in January 2015. He has composed major works for the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (Munjong, Victorian Arts Centre 1990), the One Extra Company (Dancing Demons, Indonesian tour 1991), the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company (Satu Langit, Perth Festival 1994), Matthew Doyle and Dhamor Percussion (Wirid-jiribin, the Lyrebird, Festival of the Dreaming 1997), Sadari Theatre Company (Ching-kom Dari, Seoul 2001), Dharawal Dreaming (with Sandy Evans, Satsuki Odamura and Matthew Doyle for Jeonju-Sori Festival, Jeonju, South Korea 2006), Miss Tanaka (by Australian playwright John Romeril, composed with Matthew Doyle and Hiromichi Sakamoto, for Youki-Za Japanese marionette theatre company, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre 2012).
Liza Lim
Liza Lim is an Australian composer whose music focusses on collaborative and transcultural practices. Ideas of beauty, ecological connection and ritual transformation are ongoing concerns in her compositional work. Her four operas: The Oresteia (1993), Moon Spirit Feasting (2000), The Navigator (2007) and Tree of Codes (2016), and the major ensemble work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) explore themes of desire, memory, and the uncanny. Widely commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and ensembles, Lim is Sculthorpe Chair of Australian Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her music is published by Casa Ricordi Berlin.
David Liptak
David Liptak’s music has been described as “luminous and arresting,” “richly atmospheric,” and having “transparent textures, incisive rhythms, shimmering lightness.” His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. His composition awards include prizes in the 1986 Georges Enesco International Composition Competition and the 1978 Minnesota Orchestra 75th Anniversary Composers Competition, and he was a finalist in the 1982 St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition. He is President of the American Composers Alliance, and his music is published by several publishers. A dedicated teacher of composition students for the past three decades, Liptak is Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he has taught since 1986.
David Loeb
David Loeb studied with Peter Pindar Stearns at the Mannes College of Music in New York. He currently teaches at Mannes and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. For thirty five years he has composed extensively for traditional Japanese instruments and for early-music instruments. For twenty years he and Kohei Nishikawa have collaborated, and three of his works have appeared on CDs with Nishikawa as soloist. Among his many awards are prizes from the Viola da Gamba Societies of the UK, US and Japan, and from the Andres Segovia Centennial Competition in Spain. David Loeb’s thesis on Japanese koto music was published by Columbia University Press.
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.
Chico Mello
Composer Chico Mello was born in 1957 in Curitiba (Brazil), where he studied medicine and music. He continued his music studies in São Paulo as well as at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel and Witold Szalonek. Chico Mello has received grants from both the SWR Freiburg’s Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung and the Berlin Senate, and was also a grant recipient at the Cité international des arts in Paris. The composer works on experimental and improvised music as well as music theatre and Brazilian pop music, and has participated in several intercultural projects at renowned festivals. He is co-curator of the Escuta festival in Rio de Janeiro and directs the Department for New Music at the Oficina de Música de Curitiba.
Christopher J. Miller
Miller studied composition at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University (SFU), and at Wesleyan University, where he completed his MA in 2001. He has composed numerous works for gamelan, including a three-and-a-half hour performance/installation as his MA thesis project, an installation for virtual gamelan, and pieces for gamelan and other Asian instruments such as koto and dan bau. As a faculty member in the Department of Music at Cornell University, Miller directs the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and the Cornell Steel Band, and teaches course on music in Indonesia, and in and of East Asia. He is a member of the Southeast Asia Program, for which he organized the fourth Cornell Modern Indonesian Project conference, Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music, in 2018.
Misato Mochizuki
Born in 1969 in Tokyo, Misato Mochizuki is amongst those composers who are equally active in Europe, North America and in Japan. After receiving a Masters degree in composition at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, she was awarded first prize for composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris in 1995, and then integrated the “Composition and Computer Music” program at IRCAM (1996-1997).
Her catalogue of works (published by Breitkopf & Härtel) consists of about 60 works today, including 16 symphonic compositions and 15 pieces for ensemble.
Since 2007 she has been professor of artistic disciplines at the Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, and has been invited to give composition courses in Darmstadt, in Royaumont, in Takefu, at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Columbia University and so on. Within the framework of her activities, she continually reflects on the role of the composer in today’s society and on the necessity to open oneself to it.
Robert Morris
Robert Morris is presently chair of the composition department of the Eastman School of Music, where he is Professor of Composition and affiliate member of the theory and musicology departments. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hanson Institute for American Music, the American Music Center and the American Council of Learned Societies. Morris has written music for a wide variety of musical forms and media. He has composed over 140 works including computer and improvisational music. Some of his output from the 1970’s is influenced by non-Western music and uses structural principles from Arabic, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese and early Western musics. In addition to his music, Morris has written many articles and reviews that have appeared in scholarly music journals contributing to theories of musical analysis and aesthetics, compositional design, electronic and computer music, and Indian music. He is also co-editor of Perspectives of New Music.
Maria Christine Muyco
Christine obtained her PhD at the University of the Philippines. Her research includes the music and dance tradition of the indegenous people in the Philippibne. She is founder of Balay Patawili, Inc., a nongovernment organization that has produced/presented festivals, workshops, and performances of indegenous culture. As a composer who leads the country, she has a high recognition internationally.
Hyo-shin Na
In Korea Hyo-shin Na has twice been awarded the Korean National Composers Prize, and her music has been played worldwide. She has written for western instruments, traditional Korean instruments as well as other Asian instruments.Her writings for combinations of western and eastern instruments is unusual in its refusal to compromise the integrity of differing sounds and ideas; she prefers to let them interact, coexist and conflict in the music.
Hiroko Nagai
Hiroko Nagai holds a PhD in anthropology. Based in the Philippines, she has worked with professional musicians, theatre artists, film makers and dancers. Trained in western classical music, jazz, rock and influenced by the contemporary opera and theater movements in Japan, she now uses koto and computer for her composition and improvisation. Her film scores received several awards including the Best Achievement in Sound and Aural Orchestration from Young Critic Circle, Philippines in 2017, the Best Music at ToFarm Film Festival in 2018, and the Outstanding Musical Score from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences in 2019. She teaches the koto at College of Music, the University of the Philippines, and serves as the musical director of the TUGMA Koto Ensemble.
Makoto Nomura
Kyoto based composer/improviser. His composition includes Japanese traditional instruments, Javanese gamelan, western orchestra, rock band, children’s toy, body percussions, daily found objects, environmental sounds, and whatever. He has collaborated not only with professional musicians but also children, amateurs, animals, dancers, visual artists, counselor, etc. His work has been performed in more than 20 countries.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a passionate shakuhachi performer and composer working as a soloist and in collaboration with a diverse range of musicians and other artforms. In recent years she has been writing eco-poetry, incorporating spoken and sung word within her recitals. In 2018 she was invited to present her new music at the World Shakuhachi Festival in London, performing and giving workshops on vocalising while blowing shakuhachi.
Junko Oba
Junko Oba holds a B.A. from International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Wesleyan University, where she trained as an ethnomusicologist and sound recording archivist. Her research interests include traditional and contemporary Japanese music cultures; performative identity politics in Asian diasporas, especially in Brazilian expatriate communities in Japan; national and nationalized identity performances in the trans- and post-national world; music and collective memory construction; and organology and music instruments building.
As a musician, she trained to perform piano, koto, and jiuta shamisen.
Eunjoo Oh
Composer / musicologist Eunjoo Oh was born in Seoul in 1959 and has been on the faculty of Dongju College in Busan, Korea since 1989. She is a prolific composer and has done in-depth studies on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, having published more than then articles about his work.
Masahiko Okura
Born in Tokyo in 1966. Okura began his performing career when he joined Dub Sonic Warrior in 1994. From the beginning he explored free improvisation with a variety of players. In ’97 he formed (and became the leader of) the band gnu, which released 5 albums by 2010. Okura was a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s ONJO from 2005 to 2009. Since 2006, along with Taku Sugimoto and Taku Unami, he has organized the Chamber Music Concert series as a forum for introducing compositional works. In 2010 he launched the black metal band Totas Causas de Malignitat with Taku Unami, Ko Ishikawa, Masahiro Uemura, Yui, and Junko.
Shawn Onsgard
Through composition and performance Onsgard seeks an epistemology in music practice, which might inform new and meaningful life experiences. He is currently developing an improvisatory solo piano repertoire that explores the emotional affects of imbalanced harmonic structures inspired by Alexander Scriabin and Vijay Iyer. When not at the piano, Onsgard composes for all sound-producing things from ice cream trucks, to hundred meter piano wires, to snoring grandparents, and everything in between to access knowledge about politics, metaphor, narrative, and perception of space through sound.
Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne grew up playing the piano under the instruction of Elizabeth Brock. Later developing an interest in composition, he went on to study with his principle teachers Edward Applebaum, Claude Baker, Donald Crockett, Don Freund, Arthur Gottschalk and Steven Hartke, earning degrees from Indiana University, Rice University and the University of Southern California. As a composer interested in the possibilities of both Western and non-Western music, he has written works inspired by African polyphony, Indonesian gamelan, Japanese court music, ancient Persian music and Kentucky country fiddle playing. He has received commissions from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the New York Youth Symphony, Korean gayageum soloist Ji-Young Yi, the Walala percussion duo, and the Intermezzo Chamber Music Series (Salt Lake City), among others. His music has received awards from BMI, and he has received a Distinguished Alumni award from Park Tudor School. In recent years he has been active as a conductor, and directs the University of Hawaii Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Rosalind Page
Composer Dr Rosalind Page has created works for theatre, dance, chamber ensembles, orchestra and electronica, with performances in Europe, UK, USA, China and Japan. In 2004, Fracture: a noh play for cello and orchestra, an interpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Kurosawa’s RAN, received a Highly Commended Award in the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize and in 2006 her setting of Lorca’s Sonetos del Amor Oscuro won the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize. Rosalind has been an invited composer by ISCM at VICC, Sweden, CAMAC, France, Herhusid, Iceland, Konstepidemin in Göteborg, Sweden and The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada.
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/page-rosalind
Juliet Palmer
Juliet Palmer’s music has come to life under a highway off-ramp, in a swimming pool, in the plastic flotsam of a remote beach and in concert halls across North America, Europe and Oceania. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Juliet makes her home in Toronto where she is artistic director of Urbanvessel, a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Juliet was composer-in-residence at the New Zealand School of Music and Orchestra Wellington(2011/12), and an OAC Artist-in-Residence at Sunnybrook Research Institute (2018). She is the winner of the Detroit Symphony’s Elaine 2018Lebenbom Award, a Chalmers Arts Fellow (2018-19), and finalist for the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize (2019).
Juliet holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University and an M.Mus in performance, composition and time-based art from Auckland University.
Linsey Pollak
Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Canada and Asia since 1996.
He has worked as a musical instrument maker for 45 years and has designed many new wind instruments as well as specialising in woodwind instruments from Eastern Europe (having studied Macedonian bagpipes in Macedonia).
Marjorie M. Rusche
Marjorie M. Rusche is an internationally performed award winning contemporary classical composer who combines romantic, modernist, and vernacular influences in her music. Dr. Rusche composes for opera, music theater, dance, orchestra, chorus, and a variety of vocal and instrumental soloists and chamber ensembles. She currently teaches or has taught music composition, orchestration, opera history, music theory and piano at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, Indiana University South Bend and Colombia College Chicago. She earned her D.M. in Music Composition from the Jacobs School of Music Indiana University-Bloomington, and her M.A. in Music Composition/Theory from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.
Pasinee Sakulsararat
Pasinee started her musical education since she was 4 years old and achieved her Diploma in Recital in Solo Piano (ATCL), Trinity College London in 2007. She started studying at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University in 2001 with trumpet as a major instrument and achieved her bachelor degree with second-class honors with composition as her major topic. She got a Master of Music degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012 and achieved her Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University in 2017.
James Nyoraku Schlefer
James Nyoraku Schlefer is a leading performer and teacher of shakuhachi in New York City. He received the Dai-Shi-Han or Grand Master’s Certificate in 2001, and in 2007, he received a second shi-han license, this one from Yoshio Kurahashi and the Mujuan Dojo in Kyoto. In Japan he has worked with Aoki Reibo, Yokoyama Katsuya, Yoshinobu Taniguchi, and Mitsuhashi Kifu. His primary teacher in New York was Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin. Schlefer holds a Master’s degree in Western flute & musicology from Queens College (CUNY) and currently teaches music history courses at the City University of New York. He has four solo recordings, Wind Heart (which traveled 120,000,000 miles aboard the Space Station MIR) Solstice Spirit (1998,) Flare Up (2002,) and In The Moment (2008.) His music has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Nyoraku is a member of the Japanese music group Ensemble East, which performs traditional and modern chamber music for Japanese instruments, including the shamisen and the koto. He is currently the curator of Japanese music programming for Arts at Tenri, a monthly chamber music series in New York City.
Annette Schlunz
German composer, now resident in both France and Germany, of mostly stage, chamber, vocal, and multimedia works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Ms. Schlünz studied with Udo Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden from 1983–87 and with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1988–91. Later encounters with Iannis Xenakis at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart were also important.
Among her honours are the Hanns-Eisler-Preis (1990), the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (1998) and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1999, for the recording of MOCCOLI). She has also received scholarships to the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (1990, 1992), the studio for electronic music of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (1994, 2002), the Deutsche Akademie at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1999), the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2000), the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Dilsberg (2000), and the Künstlerinnenhof Die Höge (2003), as well as a residency at GRAME in Lyon (2005).
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Martin Schreiner
Martin Schreiner is a composer with a broad range of musical experience and interests. His catalog has more than 80 compositions. He began writing for traditional Japanese instruments in 1994–particularly the shakuhachi and koto. Some of his most recent works combine Japanese and western instruments and include three concertinos for koto and symphony orchestra.
His music has won awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, NERT International Chamber Music Composition Competition, a Bryant Fellowship from Harvard University, and a certificate from the 21st Century Music Project Competition of the International Center for Japanese Culture in Yokohama, Japan. Martin’s music has been performed across the United States, in Europe and Japan.
He has received commissions for music from the Cape Ann Symphony, Melrose Symphony and Quincy Symphony Orchestras of Massachusetts among other groups and soloists.
Andrew Schultz
Composer Andrew Schultz was born in Australia and lives in Sydney. He studied at the Universities of Queensland, Pennsylvania and King’s College London and has received numerous awards, prizes and fellowships. His music covers a broad range of chamber, orchestral and vocal works and has been performed and broadcast widely by leading musicians internationally.
He has held many commissions including from all the major Australian orchestras. Andrew has written a number of large scale works including three operas (Black River, Going Into Shadows and The Children’s Bach) which have been presented live and on film around the world. Other major works include three symphonies, Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Maali, Endling and Song of Songs. Andrew has held residencies and academic posts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, USA and the UK. He is Emeritus Professor of Music at UNSW and the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Au.
Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Sculthorpe was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1929. He was educated at Launceston Church Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and Wadham College, Oxford.
Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 works and, apart from juvenilia, a good part of it is regularly performed and recorded throughout the world. The composer wrote in most musical forms, and almost all his works are influenced by the social climate and physical characteristics of Australia. Furthermore, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island music and the gamelan music of Indonesia were significant influences upon his musical language.
Masahiro Sugaya
Masahiro Sugaya has been composing and producing music since the 1980’s in an exceptionally wide range of fields and practices. From arrangements for musical acts like the acoustic guitar duo Gontiti to acousmatic diffusion at spaces like Paris’s Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM), Sugaya’s reach is almost exhaustive in its breadth, but it was in the 80’s bubble-era kankyō ongaku scene that he first found his musical voice.
Kristofer Svensson
Kristofer Svensson is a Swedish kecapi musician and composer.
Svensson studied the shakuhachi with Gunnar Jinmei Linder in Stockholm, the qín with Yung-Hak Chi in Hong Kong, and Sundanese karawitan (with a special emphasis on the kacapi) with, amongst others, Ade Suparman and Dody Satya Ekagustiman, in West Java. Svensson studied composition with Fujieda Mamoru in Fukuoka, Japan supported by a JASSO Scholarship from the Japanese government (2015).
Svensson obtained their Bachelor’s degree in Music Composition from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and a Master’s degree in Music Composition from the University of Hong Kong with the thesis “The Use of Just Intonation in my Recent Compositions”. In 2020, Svensson’s debut solo kecapi album ‘Andra Segel’ was released on the kuyin label.
Tomas Svoboda
Born in Paris of Czech parents, Tomas Svoboda composed his first opus at age 9 and was admitted to the Prague Conservatory in 1954 as its youngest student. In 1957, his SYMPHONY No. 1 (of Nature) , Op. 20 (completed at age 16), was premiered by the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Premieres and radio broadcasts of 7 other orchestral works by 1963 brought national recognition to Svoboda, clearly establishing him as Czechoslovakia’s most important young composer.
In 1964, the Svoboda family departed Czechoslovakia and settled in the United States, where Svoboda enrolled at the Univ. of Southern California in 1966, graduating 2 years later with honors.
Today, 1,300+ known performances of his music have taken place throughout the world, including 500+ orchestral performances with such major orchestras as the Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, San Francisco, Toronto, Monte-Carlo, Sapporo & Nagoya (Japan), plus the national orchestras of Guatemala and Costa Rica.
http://www.tomassvoboda.com
Caroline Szeto
Caroline Szeto is a Sydney-based composer. She began her musical training on the piano and has received diplomas in piano performance from the Trinity College of Music, London and the Australian Music Examinations Board.
Szeto has received several prizes and awards including a Composer Fellowship from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize and the Donald Peart Memorial Prize.
Much of Szeto’s other music is performed by leading ensembles and soloists, and some works are commissioned for festivals: Prelude and Monkey’s Cry for 1999 Australian Women’s Music Festival, Impulse for ENERGEX Brisbane Festival 2000, Dawn Day Dusk for National Festival of Women’s Music 2001 and Stringing for 2009 International Festival of the Federation of Australasian Mandolin Ensembles (FAME).
Yuji Takahashi
Yuji Takahashi is a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist. Since 1990, the composer has created works for voice and traditional Japanese instruments. Takahashi has recorded his own work in addition to compositions by John Cage, Earle Brown, Roger Reynolds, and Toru Takemitsu.Takahashi was a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic. He has given solo recitals at the Athens Festival, Stockholm Festival, Oxford Bach Festival, Domaine Musical in Paris, Signaal series in Amsterdam, Twice Series in Los Angeles, Princeton Chamber Concerts, and Evenings for New Music and New Images of Sound in New York.
Takahashi studied composition with Shibata Minao and Ogura Roh at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He taught piano at Indiana University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Rita Ueda
Rita Ueda is a composer, sound designer, and music teacher in Vancouver, Canada. Her recent works include forty years of snowfall will not heal an ancient forest for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Escape from the Evil Alien Surfblasters for 8 hand piano ensemble, and Still Shaking from the Latte, a piano solo for Misuzu Kitazumi-Burns, a member of the LA Piano Unit.
Her as the snowflakes return to the sky for string orchestra was awarded 2nd prize in the 2010/11 International Gustav Mahler Composition Competition, and it will be performed next season by the Vienna Radio Symphony and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
Rita was born in Hakodate, Japan, to a family of musicians, poets, dancers and engineers. She moved to Vancouver, Canada with her family in 1971. Rita studied composition and sound design at Simon Fraser University and the California Institute of the Arts. Her teachers include Rudolf Komoros, Rodney Sharman, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick and Stephen L. Mosko.
Chaz Underriner
Chaz Underriner (b. 1987 in Texas, USA) is a composer, intermedia artist and performer based in DeLand, Florida where he is an Assistant Professor of Digital Arts at Stetson University. Chaz’s work explores the representation of reality in art, especially landscape, through the juxtaposition of video projections, audio recordings and live performers.
Chaz’s work has been programmed both nationally and internationally at festivals and venues such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht), the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composer’s Intensive, the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland), the International Computer Music Conference, and the Impuls Festival (Austria).
As an engineer, composer, and performer, Chaz’s work has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, Slubmusic, New World Records, Fleur du Son, Task Records, Sedimental Records, and Delos.
Carl Vine
Carl Vine AO is one of Australia’s best known and often performed composers, with a catalogue now including eight symphonies, twelve concertos, music for film, television, dance and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern ‘classical’ music he has undertaken tasks as diverse as arranging the Australian National Anthem and writing music for the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games (Atlanta, 1996).
Born in Perth, he studied piano with Stephen Dornan and composition with John Exton at the University of Western Australia. Moving to Sydney in 1975, he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a wide range of ensembles, theatre and dance companies over the following decades. From 2000 until 2019 Carl was Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world’s largest chamber music entrepreneur. His recent compositions include Piano Sonata No 4, “The Enchanted Loom” (Symphony no 8) for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, “Implacable Gifts“, a concerto for two pianos for the West Australian and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and “Five Hallucinations” a trombone concerto for the Chicago and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.
Zachary Wadsworth
Zachary Wadsworth is an American-Canadian composer of “fresh, deeply felt and strikingly original” music (Washington Post).
After winning an international competition chaired by James MacMillan, Wadsworth’s Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind was performed by the choir of Westminster Abbey in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Wadsworth (b. 1983) earned graduate degrees from Cornell University (DMA) and Yale University (MM), and is an honours graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM). His principal composition teachers have included Steven Stucky, Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, Ezra Laderman, and David Liptak. He has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the University of Calgary, and he is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Williams College. He also maintains an active performing life as a tenor and pianist.
Michael Whiticker
Michael Whiticker studied composition in Sydney and Berlin, beginning his Bachelor of Music in 1979 and completing his Doctorate in 1998. He has had a major career in the arts internationally and in Australia with residencies and commissions with most major Australian performing groups. International commissions have come from Germany, Canada, Sweden, Korea and Holland.
He has served on numerous music committees, has been a board member of a range of organizations including the Australian Music Centre and represented Australian music on a range of panels here and overseas including Australian delegate to the 1992 Asian Music Festival in New Zealand.
Today he lives in the Glasshouse Mountains on the Sunshine Coast, and works as a freelance composer, music technologist, video maker, performer, workshop facilitator, director and arts event manager.
Scott Wilson
For the past three decades Scott Wilson’s music and sound art has explored the intersection of a variety of different and sometimes contradictory practices. Combining aspects of instrumental/vocal composition, field recording, immersive multichannel electroacoustic sound and visuals, cross-cultural collaboration, live coding and improvisation in works that are each a bespoke solution to a unique artistic problem, his output holds few firm allegiances to schools, styles or genres, and regularly transgresses the boundaries of the ‘acceptable’ to be found in even the most supposedly experimental fields of artistic practice. A particular interest in collaboration has led to a rich range of output, including cross-cultural and interdisciplinary works. These and other pieces including hyperreal soundscapes using sound from the natural world, a collaborative musical palimpsest on classic Qawwali recordings, and music created by sonifying the particle collisions of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been presented around the world. Also active as an educator and mentor for young artists, he is the co-director of Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST) and teaches at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.
Justin Yang
Born and raised in the South Bay area of Southern California, near the diner used in Pulp Fiction, the Hawthorne Grill. He has taken degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University, Stanford University and is currently pursuing a Phd at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has studied with some of the great artists of our time including George Crumb, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, and Brian Ferneyhough. For the last 20 years, Yang has obsessively explored sound in as many ways as possible – as a composer, improviser, instrument builder, theorist and developer of music technology. His works include pieces for three orchestras, four tubas, two kotos and bass koto, and solo bass flute. Yang is currently working on developing paradigms for real-time composition using computer animation in notational and interactive constructs.
Kaori Yonekura
Born in 1973 in Tokyo. Graduated from composition in the department of music in Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, she is now in the Master course in the same university. She has learned composition with KITAMURA Akira and MATSUSHITA Isao. In 1994 she was awarded the first prize of ACL Young composition at Taipei competition of the Asia Composers League, in 1995 was selected in Japan Music Competition, and in 1996 was rewarded with Ataka prize in the university.
Julian Yu
Born in Beijing in 1957, Julian Yu settled in Australia in 1985. He studied composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, later joining the teaching staff there, and from 1980 to 1982 studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Joji Yuasa and Schin-ichiro Ikebe. In 1988 Julian Yu was a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood where he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen.
Julian Yu has won many awards for composition, including the 1988 Koussevitzky Tanglewood Composition Prize; the inaugural and consecutive Paul Lowin Orchestral Prizes of 1991 and 1994; the 1992 Vienna Modern Masters Composition Award; awards in the International New Music Composers’ Competitions of 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990; the 35th Premio Musicale Citta di Trieste, Italy 1988; the 56th Japan Music Concours 1987; the international Irino Prize Competition, Japan 1989; the International ‘Piano 2000’ Composition Competition, Japan; the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award 1988 and 2015; the Jacobena Angliss Music Award 1989; the Adolf Spivakovsky Composition Prize 1993; the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship (USA) 1988; and an Australia Council Composer Fellowship in 1995.