Jennifer Fowler

Jennifer Fowler (born 14 April 1939) is a British composer of Australian birth. She was born in Bunbury, Australia, and graduated with degrees in music from the University of Western Australia in 1960 and 1967. She spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht in 1968. In 1969 she settled in London and works as a free-lance composer. Fowler married computer programmer Bruce Paterson and has two sons.^[1][2]

Honors and awards

• 1970 Prize from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin
• 1971 Joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain
• 1975 1st prize in the International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim, Germany
• 2003 Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music
• 2006 2nd prize in the Christopher Bodman Memorial Competition, UK
• 2009 International Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize
• 2009 Winner of the Marin Goleminov First International Composition Contest in Bulgaria^[3]

Works

Selected works include:

• Lament for Dunblane, for chorus
• Magnificat, for chorus
• Nunc Dimittis, for chorus
• Blow Flute
• Towards Release, duo for violin and marimba
• Piece for an Opera House, for piano duo
• Cycling for solo piano
• Streaming Up for 4 bassoons and piano
• Echoes from an Antique Land
• Plainsong for Strings for string orchestra

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• The Flute Ascendant (1992) Vox
• Sydney Dreaming, ABC Classics

References