| Anne Cawrse | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anne Rebecca Cawrse |
| Born | 23 January 1981 |
| Origin | South Australia, Australia |
| Genres | Classical Music |
| Occupations | Composer, Instrumental Teacher |
| Website | Represented Artist Profile |
Anne Cawrse (born 23 January 1981) is an Australian composer based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Contents |
Anne Cawrse was born in country South Australia, and spent her formative years living on a farm in Freeling, South Australia. She completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Music Composition and Arts at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, receiving and Honours degree in Music in 2003, and a PhD in 2008. Her thesis, ‘A Portfolio of Original Compositions- a personal exploration of modal processes’ was supervised by Prof. Graeme Koehne and Prof. Charles Bodman Rae.
She has developed strong relationships with many of Adelaide’s leading performers and ensembles, including the Zephyr Quartet, Eve Vocal Trio, Musica da Camera, Adelaide Chamber Singers, the Elder Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Alexander Tsiboulski, Greta Bradman and Leigh Harrold. Her works have also been performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Trio d’anche Suave, the Sonic Art Ensemble and the Elder New Music Ensemble.
In 2006 Cawrse’s collaboration with Australian Ballet dancer/choreographer Paul Knobloch FourTune was premiered at Sydney Theatre as part of the Australian Ballet’s bodytorque-Face The Music presentation.
Musaic, commissioned by the Cybec Foundation for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, was a finalist in the APRA Awards of 2008 (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Australian Music Centre in the category of Orchestral Work of the Year
Cawrse was awarded the 2010 Schueler Award for Composition, which will result in her new work for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra being premiered in October 2010.