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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]

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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

External links

• Official website
• Hugh Robertson (17 September 2021). "Anne Cawrse is making room for her work". Limelight. Retrieved 30 April 2022.

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