I am an experienced teacher of Composition with a background of ten years’ teaching at the tertiary level. I hold Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Sydney and an MFA and a PhD from Princeton. I have written works spanning solo instrumental, chamber ensemble, choral and orchestral idioms that have been performed, recorded and broadcast in North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia and South Korea.
I have received fellowships and awards from, inter alia, Princeton University, the Hinrichsen Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council On the Arts. In addition, I have received the Ignaz Friedman Prize, was named the first recipient of the Schoenberg Award, and have received numerous awards from ASCAP.
On 18 July 2018 I was elected to a Fellowship by the Royal Society of NSW.
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