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Contact: liam.v.mulligan@gmail.com

For as long as she can remember, Naomi has been moved by the all-encompassing power of music. Her desire now as a composer, is to create music which will affect audiences similarly. Naomi graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music Composition. Naomi has written many chamber works for ensembles such as Sydney Conservatorium’s Modern Music Ensemble and Geist String Quartet. In 2018 she was selected to write for Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra under the tutelage of Matthew Hindson AM and wrote Salt to the Senses - inspired by her travels through South America. In 2019 Naomi was the recipient of the Penrith Symphony Orchestra's Young Composer Prize, writing Scarlet Sculptures. In 2019 Naomi also received 2nd place in the Australian Flute Festival's Composition Competition with her piece Breath for bass flute and piano. In 2020 Naomi received Highly Commended in the Flute Society of NSW’s composition competition for her work Cerulean Plunge for flute and piano. In 2021 the KPO commissioned Naomi to write Deep Calls to Deep, her third orchestral work which was premiered in March 2021 and again performed by KPO at their 50th anniversary concert in December 2022. In 2022 Naomi was selected to participate in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program for which she wrote Dawn ‘til Dusk in Kosciuszko which is being premiered by MSO in January 2023. In 2022 Naomi was also the winner of the under 30 emerging composer prize in Matt Withers’ Australian Music Composition Competition for which she has written a work for guitar duo to be premiered later in 2023. 

Naomi’s inspiration is deeply connected to her emotional sensitivities, with compositions often finding their genesis in various experiential sensations such as Australian landscapes, scuba diving, home and family. Her work ranges from intensely passionate and colourful moments to gentle fragments echoing the ethereal. 

Naomi’s belief that all people possess an innate potential for musical appreciation shapes her desire to create music that reaches and impacts all who listen.

A young conservatorium-trained composer and AFTRS filmmaker looking to make a difference!

California flutist Alan Berquist performs and teaches in the SF Bay Area. He is an Adjunct Professor of Flute at California State University, Stanislaus and Diablo Valley College. Degrees from Florida State University (DM, BM), University of Wisconsin-Madison (MM), and Carnegie Mellon University (Performance Certificate). His primary teachers include Eva Amsler, Alberto Almarza, and Stephanie Jutt.

Composer based in Sydney.  This is a Work log or blog of my music I guess. 

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You can reach me at knott7161@gmail.com with any questions, comments, and concerns that you may have.

I am an emerging composer and sound designer living and working on Gadigal land, trained at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. My current practice centres around the creation of electro-acoustic soundscapes and installation-based work, however I also compose for chamber ensembles, choir, electroacoustic and electronic ensembles, and I do sound design and composition for theatre productions.

As a composer, my work is typically rooted in a sense of place. I am drawn to the ambient sounds of natural phenomena and the built environment, drawing inspiration from the sound-making systems that are inherent to these settings. I strip back the sounds of the everyday world that surrounds us, recontextualising them as textural, evolving and evocative soundscapes.

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