Mary Finsterer (born 1962) is an Australian composer.
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Mary Finsterer was born in Canberra, Australia, and graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and studied with Brenton Broadstock, completing a Master of Music degree in 1995 at the University of Melbourne. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2003.[1] Finsterer is married to the photographer Dean Golja.[2]
Finsterer has taught music and composition at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the University of Montreal in Canada, the University of Wollongong, the Victorian College of the Arts, the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney and the Australian Film Television and Radio School where she became an Honorary Research Fellow in 2009. Her works have been performed internationally.[3]
Finsterer has composed for films and electro–acoustic events for the Music Biennale Zagreb, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble InterContemporain, and Ictus Ensemble for performance in Lille and Brussels.[1] She worked as an orchestrator on the 2007 film Die Hard 4.0. In 2011, she finished her first opera, Biographica, to a libretto by Timothy Daly.[2]
Selected works include:
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