Itamar Erez was born 1965 in Israel and Itamar Erez has studied composition in Dusseldorf with Professor Manfred Trojhn, in London (Simon Bainbridge) and Jerusalem (Prof. Mark Kopytman). He wrote Conversations while studying in Germany. His composition ouput includes works for chamber ensembles, film and dance.

Mark Finsterer (b.1958) is a guitarist/composer residing in Melbourne. After finishing composition studies in Sydney in 1986 he studied with maestro Franco Donatoni. Since returning to Australia in 1990 he has composed music for Symeron and Voiceworks; music for installations by sculptor Lyn Plummer; and music incorporating electronic and improvisations in which he was also involved as a performer. These collaborations have included Melbourne based musicians Tom Fryer, Stuart Campbell, Tom O’Dwyer and Pete Humble, Steve Heather (Amsterdam), Eric Gradman (Berlin), Otto Lechner (Vienna) and Tom Lewis and Chris Young with whom he completes the trio DOGBOX.

Mary Finsterer

 

Ron Ford was born in 1959 in Kansas City. He studied composition and piano at the Duke University in North Carolina. In 1983 he moved to Amsterdam where he continued his studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, and the Royal conservatory in the Hague. He has written for widely varying ensemble such as the Conergebouw Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Okest, Schonberg ensemble, Percussiongroup the Hague, Ives ensemble. He is a devoted music-box fan.

Graeme Gerard’s formal studies were in composition and music technology. He is primarily involved with electronic and computer music and has written many electronic music works. He is the founding president of the Australian Computer Music Association and teaches composition, music technology, studio recording, electronic music and media sound at tertiary level.

Helen Gifford

 

Peter Graham was born in London. He joined the British army as a bandsman and later studied formally in Australia. He studied at IRCAM (Paris) and with the Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM), Radio France. Graham’s works have been performed in Australia and overseas including performances by Australia Felix and at the Almeida Festival.

Stuart Greenbaum (b.1966, Melbourne) studied with Brenton Broadstock and Barry Conyngham, and is currently Lecturer in Composition at the University of Melbourne. Recent performances include Nelson (Spitalfields Market Opera, UK), Four Essays on the Passing of Time - Symphony No.1 (Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, Russia), The Foundling (I Cantori di New York, USA) and Noyz in th' 'Hood (James Nightingale & Kerry Yong), winner of the Heinz Harant Prize for Best New Australian Composition at the Sydney Classical Saxophone Convention. He has recently finished a piece for the Melbourne Symphony, 90 Minutes Circling the Earth (Hymn to Freedom), which is featured on their web site - www.mso.com.au. Stuart's music is recorded on Vox Australis, Tall Poppies, The Classical Recording Company (UK), Move Records, FAC and Red House. He is published by Promethean Editions (NZ), Reed Music, Red House, and his music is also available through the Australian Music Centre.

Andrée Greenwell is a Sydney-based composer and performer and has worked extensively in Music Theatre and collaborative artforms. Her works include Sweet Death (Chamber Made Opera), Chanting after Hildegard (Dance Works) and Passion and Pornography of a Performance (Sydney Front).

Ingrid Guymer (b.1968) completed her Diploma of Arts in Music (cello) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1990. Her Seven Sketches for solo cello and Chainmail for cello are published by Max Eschig (Paris). Ken Murray has recorded her Diorama for guitar on the compact disk Between Earth and Air. Several of her cello compositions have been included in the cello syllabus for the Australian Music Examination Board.

Sheila Guymer is a composer and pianist with a special interest in experimental aesthetics and feminist philosophy, music for solo voice and performer-composer collaborations. She is researching contemporary women composers in Melbourne from a socio-musicological perspective.

Jae Eun Ha was born in Seoul in 1937, he initially studied and practised theology. He studied music at the University of Tennessee (BM and MH) and the Cleveland Institute of Music (DMA). He has taught at a number of the universities in the USA, and since 1979 has been teaching at Yonsei University, Seoul. Dr Ha is a recipient of several grants, including The National Endowment for the Arts (USA), Ministry of Education Research Grant (Korea), and Yonsei University Faculty Research Grant. Many of his English–Korean translations and articles on music have been published. His musical output includes six orchestral works, vocal, solo and choral, and numerous keyboard and chamber pieces.

David Harris is a composer based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a founding member of ACME, new Music Co. and lecturers in Compositions at the Flinders Street School of Music in Adelaide. A recipient of numerous grants and commissions he has been performed by prominent musicians including Geoffrey Morris, Vanessa Tomlinson and Australia Felix ensemble. He has received performances in Denmark, San Deigo, Connecticut (USA), Stuttgart, Darmstaadt (Germany), London, Zurich and throughout Australia.

Lawrence Harvey
After completing composition studies in Canberra, Lawrence worked in the Sound Preservation studios at the National Film and Sound Archives. He has toured and performed computer music in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Compositions to date include works for small ensembles and electronics, and sound design for theatre and dance productions.

Ross Hazeldine was born in 1961 in South Korea. As a composer he has written for a variety of ensembles including for improvisatory and chamber performance, and film. He gained his BA Music from La Trobe University (Australia), is active in music events coordination, and manages the publishing house Red House Editions. His piece Movements was a jury selection at ISCM World Music Days (Essen) in 1995 and many of his solo and duet works have been played in Europe and Australia

Tony Hawkins was born in Sydney in 1959. He studied music composition at La Trobe University (1986-89) and was granted performances of his works in the ASTRA Young composers competitions 1988-1989. In 1991 he studied composition with Eugene Kurtz in Paris, where he now lives.

Volker Heyn was born 1938 in Karlsruhe, he lived in Australia during the 1960s. He studied guitar in Sydney and music theory at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before returning to Germany and further music studies at the Staatl. Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. His fellowships include those from Kunststiftung Baden-Wurttemberg, the Heinrich Strobel Foundation (Sudwestfunk, Baden-Baden) and the Rolf Liebermann Opera Foundation. He has lectured at the International Summer Courses Darmstadt from 1984-86 and made a concert and lecture tour of Australia in 1987 and of Japan in 1993-94 with Kyoto-Koln Connexion.

Matthew Hindson (b.1968) works as a freelance composer and is also Director of Composition at the MLC School, Sydney. He studied composition at the University of Sydney and at the University of Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton Broadstock and Anne Boyd. Matthew’s compositions have been performed by many major Australian ensembles, as well as around the world. He has represented Australia at many international composition festivals and competitions, and has won many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally.

Anton Höger was born 1956 in Munich, he studied guitar with Betho Davezac and Oscar Caceres (Paris) and composition with Gerard Rheyne (Lyon). He was awarded first and second prize in the International Competition for Guitar and Chambermusic (Berlin, 1989) and has written music for Alvaro Pierri, Assad Guitar Duo and Kronos Quartet. He has written many works for guitar solo and ensemble, several having been published by Edition Lemoine (Paris) and Zimmermann (Frankfurt).

Stephen Holgate was born in England and has lived in Australia since 1974. He has a wide experience in composition and in the fields of music education and community music development. His works have been performed by the Sydney and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Bendigo Youth Orchestra and the Victorian Wind Quintet. Stephen’s compositions have been broadcast nationally on ABC Classic FM.

Mani Hong is a graduate of Ewha Women’s University (Korea). She has obtained a MA from Boston University and completed courses for a DMA from Eastman School of Music (USA). Awards include the McCurdy prize from Eastman (1988–1989), an Korean-American Scholarship from the Korean Government and the Directors’ Award from Boston University (1989–1991). Nami currently teaches at Ewha University and is involved in broadcasting contemporary music on MBC FM. Her works have been performed throughout the USA, at the Asian Contemporary Music Festival (Seoul), the Asia Pacific Music Festival (New Zealand) and at the New Music Festival of Taipei.

Keith Humble