Michael Bakrnčev Multi-award-winning Michael Bakrnčev is one of Australia's most highly driven and successful young composers. Michael was awarded a highly coveted Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), studying with acclaimed composers...
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Naomi Brown Photo: Travis Easton Naomi Brown is an Australian composer, specialising in writing classical and sacred music with a cinematic style, often in response to a text. Her concert...
Stefan Cassomenos Photo: Belinda Strodder Melbourne pianist and composer Stefan Cassomenos is one of Australia’s most vibrant and versatile musicians. He has been performing internationally since the age of 10,...
Richard Chew Photo: Pip Grummet Richard Chew studied at the University of Birmingham and the Royal College of Music, where he was awarded the President’s Rose Bowl by HM The...
Kym Dillon Kym Dillon is a composer; arranger; orchestrator, pianist and conductor, who is currently based in Melbourne and Geelong. Starting out her career as a jazz pianist, Kym’s interest...
Melody Eötvös Melody Eötvös (1984) was born in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Her work draws on both multi-media and traditional instrumental contexts, as well substantial extra-musical references to a...
Mary Finsterer Photo: Dean Golja IMAGE UNITED MARY FINSTERER is a composer whose practice extends from the concert stage to the screen. Credits include her award–winning opera, Biographica. Presented by Sydney...
Dr Kenji Fujimura Dr Kenji Fujimura is pianist, chamber musician, and a multi-award-winning composer. Self-taught, he explored and researched an extensive range of compositional styles and idioms from traditional Western...
Stuart Greenbaum Photo: Pia Johnson Having studied composition with Broadstock and Conyngham at the University of Melbourne, Stuart Greenbaum holds a position at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music as Professor...
Photo: Keith Saunders Gordon Kerry Gordon Kerry is a composer and writer based on north-eastern Victoria. In 2021 his work has been featured in an extensive tour by the Omega...
Cameron Lam Cameron Lam (b.1989) is a freelance composer, the Artistic Director of Australian hybrid-art production company, Kammerklang, and the Art Music Specialist at the Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA...
Kevin March Kevin March is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed nationally and internationally by Opéra de Montréal, Pacific Opera Victoria, Edmonton Opera, One Ounce Opera, PLEXUS, the...
Caerwen Martin Caerwen is a cellist and composer who works internationally as a new music specialist and improviser. Caerwen has worked at some of the world's major festivals and venues...
Liliana Matičevska Photo: Pia Johnson Lilijana Matičevska is a composer fascinated by the perception of time as we listen to music. Her works are often inspired by politics, history, her...
Katharine Parton Katharine is a prize-winning composer, researcher and conductor who works across choral and orchestral genres exploring the perspective of women and the experience of disability in her compositions....
Adrián Pertout Andrián Pertout was born in Santiago, Chile, 17 October, 1963, and lived in Gorizia, Northern Italy for several years before finally settling in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. In...
James Rushford Photo: Keelan O’Hehir James Rushford is an Australian composer-performer, whose work draws from concrète, improvised, avant-garde and collagist musical languages, staking out an idiosyncratic stylistic space that has...
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There are about two hundred active composers in Victoria. As their works appear in events on the Continuo website, we will add information about them here. Please feel free to contact us at hello@continuo.org.au if you notice a Victorian composer missing from this database.
You can also look up composers on the Australian Music Centre website.