Melbourne, Australia (1997-2007)

BMus (Hons) The University of Melbourne (2000)
Piano Studies with Glenn Riddle (1997-1998)
Orchestration & Arranging with Peter Myers & Johanna Selleck (1999)
Composition with Peter Myers & Johanna Selleck (1999)
Conducting with John Hopkins (2000)
Music Analysis with Linda Kouvaras (2000)
Composition with Stuart Greenbaum (2000)
Composition Workshop with Detlev Glanert [Germany] (2000)
Composition with Mark Pollard (2001)
Australian National Academy of Music Composition Program with Karen Tanaka [Japan], Simon Bainbridge [UK], and The Zurich Ensemble for New Music [Switzerland] (2001)
Composition Workshop with Barrie Webb (2001)
Composition with Brenton Broadstock (2002)
MMus The University of Melbourne (2002)
Composition with Brenton Broadstock (2003)
Composition with Julian Yu (2003)
ACOF [Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum] Composition Workshop with Brenton Broadstock, Andrew Schultz, and
the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (2003)
Composition with Brenton Broadstock (2004)
ACOF [Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum] Composition Workshop with Brenton Broadstock, Andrew Schultz, and
the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (2004)
Composition Lessons in the USA with Don Freund (Bloomington, IN), Michael Harrison (New York, NY), Kyle Gann (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) and David B. Doty (San Francisco, CA)
PhD The University of Melbourne (2007)

Australian Postgraduate Award (2001-2002)
Second stage of judging prior to the semi-finals of Masterprize 2 (Royal College of Music, London, UK)
Finalist in the 2001 Hultgren Solo Cello Biennial (Birmingham, USA)
Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Trust grant (2002)
The University of Melbourne Graduate Research Assistance (2002)
Finalist in the 2002 Icebreaker Composers' Competition (Surrey, UK)
Michelle Morrow Memorial Award for Composition (2002)
Zavod Jazz/Classical Fusion Award (2002)
Highly commended in the 2002 SCALA Festival of Original Music Song Competition
Second Prize in the 2002 Open Space Electro-acoustic Competition (Victoria , British Columbia, Canada)
Australian Postgraduate Award (2003-2004)
Australia Council for the Arts Skills & Arts Development grant (2003)
Winner of The Victorian Youth Orchestra 2003 Composition Competition
Judges' Prize and the Audience Prize of the 2003 Oare String Orchestra Third International ‘Music for Strings' Composing Competition (Faversham, UK)
Third prize in the Lys Music Orchestra Ensemble de cuivres 2003 Deuxième concours International de Composition Musicale (Comines, Belgium)
Finalist in the Orchestre à cordes 2003 Deuxième concours International de Composition Musicale (Comines, Belgium)
Winner of the 2004 ISU Contemporary Music Festival/Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition (Indiana, USA)
APRA Award for Orchestral Composition – 2004 3MBS FM National Composer Awards
Finalist in the 2004 Rarescale/RCM Alto Flute Composition Competition (London, UK)
The University of Melbourne Graduate Research Assistance (2004)
Melbourne Research Scholarship (2005)
Tweddle Research Scholarship (2005)
Third Prize in the 2005 American University Saxophone Symposium Composition Contest (Washington, DC, USA)
The University of Melbourne Graduate Research Assistance (2005)
Melbourne Abroad Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship (2005)
Third Prize in the 2005 Second Sun River Student New Composition Competition (Chengdu, China)
Betty Amsden Award – 2005 3MBS FM National Composer Awards
Finalist in the 2005 Segunda Convocatoria de Composición de Matiz Rangel Editores (Bogotá, Colombia)
Honorable mention in the Fauxharmonic Orchestra 2006 Orchestral Composition Contest (Hamden, CT, USA)
Finalist in the 2006 SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition ( Boston, MA, USA)
Honorable mention in the Forecast Music 2006 Call for Scores (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Finalist in the 2007 Music07/Eighth Blackbird Composers Competition (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
2008 Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Prize

PhD The University of Melbourne (2007)

Three Microtonal Compositions: The Utilization of Tuning Systems in Modern Composition

Introduction:

Microtonality
Pitch Audibility and Discrimination
Three Microtonal Compositions
Folio of Compositions
Methodology
Interval Nomenclature and Notation System

BMus (Hons) The University of Melbourne (2000)

Music in Australia Field Work Project

Stinky Taylor: Live at the Rose of Australia

The Jew's Harp: At the Dawn of the New Millennium

Investigative Project: Chilean Music in Australia

The University of Melbourne