Anne Cawrse

Anne Cawrse (born January 23, 1981) is an Australian composer based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Life and career

Anne Cawrse was born in Gawler, 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 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.

In 2008, Musaic, commissioned by the Cybec Foundation for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, was a finalist in the Classical Music Awards presented by APRA(Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Australian Music Centre.

Works

Ballets/Dance

*"The Nightingale and the Rose" (Elder Symphony Orchestra)
*"FourTune" (Sonic Art Ensemble)

Chamber music

*"ROY G BIV" (Chamber Orchestra)
*"A Woman’s Song" (Soprano and String Quartet)
*"Lullabies and Crooked Dances" (Wind Trio)
*"CityScape" (Baroque Ensemble)
*"Imperfect Fourth" (Guitar Quintet)
*"Modern Times" (String Quartet)
*"The Bells"
*"Black Spring"

Orchestral

*"Skin Metal Wood" (2006)
*"Musaic" (2007)
*"Twelve Miles From Blue" (2002)

Vocal

*"Song of Amergin"
*"Rossetti Songs"

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s2338595.htm Download of A Womans Song for String Quartet and Soprano available from ABC Classic FM]