Anne Cawrse

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Anne Cawrse (/kɔːrs/ "coarse"; born 23 January 1981)[1] is an Australian composer based in South Australia. She is currently on the composition staff at Elder Conservatorium of Music.[2]

After growing up in Freeling, South Australia, she moved to Adelaide to study composition at the Elder Conservatorium of Music where she completed her PhD in 2008.[3]

Starting in 2021, Cawrse became the curator of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra festival "She Speaks", a classical music festival with a focus on music written by female composers.[4]

In 2022, she was one of the recipients of the Prelude Composer Residencies, awarded by the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust.[5] The same year, Cawrse's album Advice to a Girl was released on ABC Classics.[6] It features works for strings, voice and guitar, performed by Sharon and Slava Grigoryan (cello, guitar), Bethany Hill (soprano), Aleksandr Tsiboulski (guitar) and the Australian String Quartet.

Awards

Cawrse's work A Room of Her Own (2020) for string quartet won the 2021 Albert H. Maggs Composition Award[7] and the 2021 APRA Art Music Award in the Work of the Year: Chamber category.[8] A Room of Her Own was commissioned, premiered and released by the Australian String Quartet.[9]

Her work On Earth as in Heaven, using texts by Michael Leunig and Sara Teasdale,[10] was a finalist in the 2018 APRA Art Music Awards in the Vocal/Choral Work of the Year category.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Full CV" (PDF). annecawrse.com. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Our People". Elder Conservatorium of Music. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Anne Cawrse : Represented Artist Profile". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  4. ^ "A classical music festival celebrating music not composed by 'dead white men'". CityMag. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. ^ Hugh Robertson (1 October 2021). "2022 Prelude Composer Residencies announced". Limelight. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Advice to a Girl: Music by Anne Cawrse". ABC Classic. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  7. ^ "2021 Albert H Maggs Award to Anne Cawrse". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  8. ^ "2021 Art Music Awards". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Anne Cawrse – A Room of Her Own". Australian String Quartet. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  10. ^ "On Earth as in Heaven : for SATB choir by Anne Cawrse". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Art Music Awards 2018". APRA AMCOS. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

External links

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