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Dr Kirsty Beilharz is an internationally recognised composer and time-based and interactive media artist. Her ensemble, orchestral and electronic compositions have been performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal, Canada), Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg, Germany), by the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Seymour Group and AustraLYSIS. She has won International prizes and commissions, her work has been recognised by the Gaudeamus World Music Days Amsterdam, Paris Composers' Rostrum (Australian representative in 1999), Hannover Biennale, and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Forum in Montreal.

Beilharz was selected for the IRCAM Electronic Music Course, was awarded the Matsumae International Science Research Fellowship (AI Lab Tokyo), the Churchill Fellowship, and an Asialink Arts Residency. She was a finalist in Young Australian of the Year and has received the Sir Charles Mackerras Prize of the British Council, the Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition. She has also received in the World Bass Clarinet Convention and the Angoulême Colloque International du Basson composition prizes.

Kirsty Beilharz is Professor of Music, Sound and Interaction Design at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Australia in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB). She was the Digital Media program director at the University of Sydney Design Lab from 2001-2008. Her research integrates music and generative processes applied to sound, real-time audiovisual interaction and information sonification. Her interaction design research focuses on gesture and motion tracking to produce musical hyper-instruments that augment conventional acoustic capabilities and audiovisual installations. Beilharz's research, funded by Australian Research Council, works with sensors, gesture-controllers, video-tracking and data to develop interactive and responsive sonification (auditory display) and multimedia environments. This research is applied in time-based and interactive electronic media installations that have been exhibited at the Paris Cité International des Arts, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney Powerhouse Museum, in the U.K., Taiwan and at Sydney Esquisse Art Festival.

In 2010, Beilharz is the Co-Chair of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME) that will be hosted by University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

Kirsty Beilharz — current to September 2009