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-1- Graeme John KOEHNE Curriculum Vitae ADDRESS 83 Gover Street North Adelaide SA 5006 Australia TELEPHONE MOBILE 61 438 819 004 WORK 61 8 8313 5425 EMAIL [email protected] WEBSITE graemekoehne.com FACSIMILE 61 8 8267 2750 DATE OF BIRTH 3 August 1956 NATIONALITY Australian PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide, South Australia MARITAL STATUS Married Melinda Louise Parent; One Child, Willem Lukas Christiaan, Born 13.08.2007 EDUCATION TERTIARY EDUCATION Postgraduate 1984 - 2003 2003 Admitted to the Higher Degree of Doctor of Music 1986 Admitted to the Degree of Master of Music 1985 - 1987 Awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund of New York Yale University Attended postgraduate conducting, orchestration and composition classes in the School of Music; two years of private composition lessons with Dr Virgil Thomson, Chelsea Hotel, New York City Composition Teachers 1975 - 1986 Dr Virgil Thomson Dr Richard Meale Dr Tristram Cary Dr Louis Andriessen Dr Jacob Druckman Dr Martin Bresnick The University of Adelaide 1974 - 1977 1978 Admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours (Composition) SECONDARY EDUCATION 1973 Matriculation Certificate 1972 Leaving Certificate 1971 Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Campbelltown High School 1969 - 1973 -2- AWARDS, PRIZES, AND NOMINATIONS 2014 1992 Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia Love Burns voted Best New Theatre Work in (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The Advertiser Critics Awards. 2010 1991 Disgrace, starring John Malkovich, directed by Unchained Melody nominated in the Best New Steve Jacobs, nominated for Best Original Film Orchestral Work Category of the APRA Awards. Score, AFI Awards. 1990 2009 Rain Forest nominated in the Most Performed Tivoli Dances awarded Orchestral Work of the Australasian Serious Work Category of the Year at the Classical Music Awards. APRA Awards. 2005 1984 Inflight Entertainment nominated for a Sounds Harkness Fellowship of The Commonwealth Fund Australian Award. of New York. 2004 1983 Awarded The Sir Bernard Heinze Medal by the Rain Forest for large orchestra ranked overall University of Melbourne for Distinguished third position in the Paris International Contribution to Music. Rostrum of Composers. 2003 1982 Awarded The Centenary Medal by the Australian First Prize in the ABC Peter Stuyvesant Government for services to music. Young Composers Awards for Rain Forest (1982 Adelaide Festival). 2000 Certificate for Creative Excellence 1981 (for a NSW TAFE Video presentation on Scholarship to attend the Gulbenkian Foundation Powerhouse for Orchestra) 34th United States International Dance Course for Choreographers International and Composers. Film and Video Festival. 1981 1999/2000 The John Bishop Memorial Commission for the On the Beach (opera project) selected as 1982 Adelaide Festival. finalist in the VAC/Rio-Tinto Explorations 1980 Project. ABC Orchestral School for Young Composers 1999 Scholarship. Mass for the Middle-Aged voted Best New Work 1979 in the Advertiser Critics Awards. ABC Orchestral School for Young Composers 1999 Scholarship. The Selfish Giant (ballet) nominated in 1976 the Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition Category of the APRA Awards. The Alex Burnard Scholarship for Composition. 1996 1975 To His Servant Bach nominated in the Most The H Brewster-Jones Prize for Composition. Performed Contemporary Classical Composition 1975 Category of the APRA Awards. Australia Council Perth Composers’ Seminar 1995 Scholarship. Powerhouse CD nominated for an ARIA Award 1974 (Classical Category). The Dr Ruby Davy Prize for Composition. 1994 1971 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for the Creative Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship. Arts. Graeme John KOEHNE Curriculum Vitae -3- EMPLOYMENT 2014 - Present 1985 (May - July) Director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music Part-time Lecturer The University of Adelaide The University of New England 2005 - 2015 1983 Professor, Head of Composition Temporary Lecturer in Composition The University of Adelaide The University of New England 1993 - 2004 1978 - 1985 Senior Lecturer in Music, Head of Composition Tutor in Piano and Composition The University of Adelaide The University of New England 1987 - 1992 1977 Lecturer in Music, Head of Composition Part-time Tutor in Music (Instrumental) The University of Adelaide Kingston College of Advanced Education 1985 - 1987 Harkness Fellow and Research Affiliate Yale University GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS 2015 - 2016 2002 - 2005 Appointed Chair of the UNESCO Adelaide City of Appointed Chair of the Emerging Artists Panel of Music Advisory Committee. Arts SA. 2006 - 2008 1999 - 2001 Reappointed Chair of the Music Board and Appointed Composer-in-Residence for the State Councillor of the Australia Council Government of South Australia. for a further two years. 1997 - 2002 2004 - 2005 Appointed South Australian Arts Ambassador. Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Federal Government’s National Review of School 1996 Music Education. Appointed Chair of the Music Fund of the Australia Council. 2004 - 2005 Appointed Critical Friend to the Federal 1994 - 1996 Government’s Department of Communications, Appointed member of the Music Committee of the Information Technology and the Arts Review of Australia Council. the Australian National Academy of Music and the 1991 - 1993 Australian Youth Orchestra. Appointed member of the Performing Arts Advisory 2002 - 2005 Committee of the Department for the Arts and Appointed Councillor of the Australia Council Cultural Heritage (State Government of South for the Arts. Australia). 2002 - 2005 1989 - 1992 Appointed Chair of the Music Board of the Appointed a member of the Composer Commissions Australia Council for the Arts. Panel of the Australia Council. Graeme John KOEHNE Curriculum Vitae -4- COMPOSER RESIDENCIES & MUSICAL DIRECTORSHIPS (selection only) 2011 - 2012 1989 Composer/Workshop MD for the Tasmanian Symphony Tutor for the Australian Composers Forum part of Orchestra/Terrapin Puppet Theatre production Come Out Youth Arts Festival. Shadow Dreams. 1986 2011 Chorus Leader for Laborintus II by Luciano Featured Composer at the Canberra International Berio. New York Philharmonic’s Horizons Series, Festival of Music. Luciano Berio conductor, Avery Fisher Hall, New York. 2010 Featured Composer at the Port Fairy Music 1985 Festival. Composer-in-Residence, 36th National Music Camp. 2006 1985 Composer-in-Residence 57th National Music Camp. Musical Director for the Yale Drama School Production of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle. 2003 Featured Composer, Musica Viva Australia. 1984 Composer-in-Residence, 35th National Music Camp. 2003 Composer Mentor for Youth Music Australia/ 1982 Theatre of Image Young Composers’ Project. Musical Director for the Sydney Dance Company production Limited Edition, Sydney Opera House 2002 Summer Arts Festival. Composer-in-Residence, 53rd National Music Camp. 1979 - 1982 Conductor, University of New England Choir. 1999 - 2001 Composer-in-Residence, State Government of 1978 - 1985 South Australia. Conductor, University of New England new music group Wave Forum. 1997 - 1998 Artistic Director of the Adelaide Chamber 1975 - 1978 Orchestra. Choir Director and Organist Zion Lutheran Church. 1992 - 1996 Artistic Director of the National Composers’ Forum on the String Quartet. 1989 Composer-in-Residence Mt Buller Chamber Music School. Graeme John KOEHNE Curriculum Vitae -5- GUEST LECTURESHIPS & PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (selection only) 2016 1996 Inaugural speaker at the launch of the Featured composer and guest lecturer on tour Sia Furler Institute for Contemporary Music & Media. with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to Japan and Taiwan. (Osaka, Amagasaki, Tokyo, Taipei) 2012 Guest speaker on composing for ballet at the 1996 Dancing with Attitude Symposium for the Friends Guest speaker, The Composer and the Librettist, of the Australian Ballet. forum of the Music and Words Conference of the Australia Council, Adelaide Festival. 2011 Guest speaker, Musica Viva Festival at 1996 the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Guest speaker and Session Chairman, Music Unlimited: Music and the New Technology 2011 Conference of the Australia Council. Guest lecturer at the Canberra International Festival of Music. 1994 Guest speaker, The Composer in Australia Forum, 2006 Adelaide Festival. Guest lecturer, Music Unit of The University of New South Wales. 1993 Guest speaker and workshop leader, Greenmill 2005 Dance Project, VCA Melbourne. Guest speaker, Man the Maker for the Bright Futures Conference, Bright Futures Cluster 1992 of Schools. Guest speaker, Composition Teaching in Australia forum of the National Composer’s Conference, 2004 Australian Music Centre. Guest lecturer, Department of Music of The University of Melbourne. 1992 Guest speaker, Music Theatre Forum, Adelaide Festival. 2004 Guest speaker, Beethoven Panel Discussion and 1985 Contemporary Music Forums, Adelaide Festival. Guest lecturer, Yale University School of Music Composer’s Seminars. 2003 Frequent speeches and interviews as Musica 1982 - 1983 Viva’s Featured Composer. Adjudicator for the ASME Young Composers Awards. 2003 1982 Graduation address, Humanities and Music Guest speaker, Meet the Artist Forum, Graduation Ceremony, The University of Adelaide. Adelaide Festival. 2003 1982 Guest speaker, 15th Biennial World Conference Produced and presented Portrait of a Composer: for Gifted and Talented Children. Richard Meale for ABC FM. 2002 - 2006 1984 Guest speaker and MC at numerous official Guest lecturer, Newcastle Conservatorium
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