I’m an Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and multimedia artist. I work across notated and graphic composition, free improvisation, sound-art, and interdisciplinary art.
Composing
My work grows out of an interest in how different ways of making can speak to one another, and in finding creative approaches that feel genuinely collaborative, playful, and grounded in the people and places around me. This takes shape in my compositions as stylistically broad, often texturally driven works that blend traditional and alternative notation types to embrace more complex visual, semantic, and ethical dimensions into the process.
Performing
Improvisation is very important to me, both in my scores and as a parallel creative practice. My recent improvisatory work engages with electronic & electroacoustic methods, bioacoustics/field recording, multi-instrumental studies, and collaborations with artists from other disciplines to enrich my artistic interests and skills.
Australian art holds an important place for me, and my musicianship is especially shaped by studies in First Nations art, culture, and sociology. I’ve engaged in mentorships and creative projects with elders and friends from Ballardong Noongar, Whadjuk Noongar, Djab Wurrung/Gunditj Mara, Ngarrindjeri, and Wägilak Yolŋu heritages. My primary work has centred on cultivating a unique approach to my instrument, the trombone, informed by and performed in partnership with traditional Yidaki/Didgeridoo. Through this, I seek to access an honest, balanced, non-extractive, and non-assimilatory way of engaging with Australian musicians, so that I may culturally participate fully while also contributing my own voice to each collaboration.
Background
I studied composition at the University of Western Australia under the supervision of James Ledger, and completed my Honours at the University of Melbourne under Elliott Gyger.
I’m also an alumnus of creative development programs with the Australian Youth Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and Australian Art Orchestra. Other composition mentors I’ve studied with include Lachlan Skipworth, Melody Eötvös, Miriama Young, Stuart Greenbaum, and Olivia Davies.
Some awards I’ve received include a Schenberg Music Fellowship (2025), the MRC Marshall McGuire Emerging Composer Commission (2025), a WASO Bendat Scholarship (2021), and the Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize (2021).
Interdisciplinary Practice
I’ve been an artist in residence with Saruya (Japan), the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, and Bundanon, and exhibited work with Curtin Gallery (WA), FORM Gallery (WA), The Blue Room Theatre (WA), The WA Maritime Museum, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (WA), and Sarah Scouts Presents Gallery (VIC). My projects span installation works, film scores, and collaborations with dancers, visual artists, projection artists, and architects.
Alongside my creative work, I contribute as an arts coordinator. I’ve curated concerts and events with a variety of community and emerging arts programs, including WWIM, Resonant Fields, and the University of Western Australia.
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