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William Gardiner is an Australian composer of music for acoustic and electronic instruments. 

Gardiner’s output includes works for symphony orchestra, chamber music, and early music ensembles, but also frequently involves electronic media and amplified instruments. He brings an ear honed in recording studios to his work, which has been performed at venues including the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Sydney Opera House, Yale University’s Morse Recital Hall, and REDCAT Los Angeles. In September 2015 the LA-based ensemble wild Up premiered ‘Chiaroscuro’, commissioned as part of the American Composers Forum National Composition Contest, in which Gardiner was selected as one of three winners from 479 entries. He is also a recipient of the Presser Foundation Graduate Award (2013), a winner of the Albany Symphony Orchestra's 'Composer to Center Stage' competition (2013), and was a 2014 fellow in composition at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at Massachusetts MoCA.
Gardiner’s work has been credited as “absolutely stunning…a bright beacon of things to come” (Adam Mills, Mess+Noise magazine) and “emotional without emotions, and utterly spellbinding” (Elizabeth Hambleton, New Classic LA). Anthony D’Amico (brainwashed.com) attributes “a coherent vision and a rare ability to incorporate outside influences seamlessly into it ... classical music needs more new blood like this.”

Born in 1987, William Gardiner is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Music in the United States, where he was mentored by David Lang, Martin Bresnick and Aaron Jay Kernis. He previously attended the University of Sydney, where he received degrees in Arts and Law.

Adam Stanović is an award-winning composer and performer specialising in contemporary electronic music. His works employ a fixed-medium (sometimes accompanied by instruments, electronics, film, and animation), with many exploring relations between pitch and noise. In recent years, Stanović’s compositions have received prizes, awards and mentions in just about all of the major competitions in the field. They have been heard in over 400 international performances to date, and released on 11 different record labels. Stanović regularly speaks on matters concerning electronic music. For more information, visit: www.adamstanovic.com

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