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David Chisholm won 2007 and 2008 Green Room Awards for his respective scores for BalletLab's Brindabella and Axeman Lullaby as well as a Highly Commended in the 2009 Paul Lowin Prize for Song Cycle. He was a finalist in the 2007 Melbourne Prize for Music for The Beginning and the End of the Snow which also won him a 2005 French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award. Chisholm won the net art category at the 36th Concours Internationaux de Bourges and a Special Mention at X Media Forum, International Film Festival Moscow for SPAM: the musical, his collaboration with Boris Eldagsen.

In 1994 David Chisholm was named the National Young Achiever of the Year following his graduation from the Un iversity of Wollongong in 1992 with a distinction in musical composition. His teachers include Andrew Schultz, Andrew Ford, Nicola Le Fanu, Barry Conyngham and Brenton Broadstock. He maintains close composer to composer collegiate relationships with Patricia Alessandrini and Ian Shanahan.

David Chisholm's music has been performed and recorded in the USA by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), in Europe by Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the ISCM World New Music Days 2009, Danscenen, Copenhagen, and the 2005 Monaco Dance Forum. The 2008 Edinburgh Festival began a pan-European festival tour of SPAM: the musical.

Australian ensembles that have performed his music include Arcko Symphonic Project, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Ballet/Sonic Art Ensemble, Dead Horse Ensemble, and Vanilla Sex. Chisholm's music is regularly broadcast on 3MBSFM and ABC Classic FM, across Europe through syndication on Sveriges Radio and can be purchased online through iTunes and Amazon mp3.

His key collaborators include poets Yves Bonnefoy, Anzhelina Polonskaya and Elizabeth Campbell, cross-media artists Boris Eldagsen, Natascha Stellmach and Sharon Huebner, conductors Timothy Phillips and Eric Dudley, choreographer Phillip Adams, lighting designer Rachel Burke, choreovideographer Cazerine Barry, and designers Studio Periscope. Musical collaborators include sound artist and producer Myles Mumford, ensembles Silo String Quartet, singers Jessica Aszodi and Miriam Gordon-Stewart and musicians Tristram Williams, Geoff Viking Lierse, Richard Haynes, Alice Giles, Marshall McGuire, Pheobe Green, Eugene Ughetti, Aaron Barnden, Peter Dumsday and Jennifer Chou.

In addition to his activities as a composer, David Chisholm was chair of Melbourne Fringe from 2003 to 2005 and has acted in a variety of curatorial and policy development roles for bodies such as Music Council of Australia, Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Chamber Music Australia, Brisbane Festival and the Australian Opera.

He is a graduate of the Cranlana Programme Colloquia, and from 2003 to 2006 he taught genre theory at Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts. He has guest lectured in advanced orchestration in their School of Music and has presented a conference on his music at Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queens University, Belfast. With BalletLab, he was part of the first company in residence at the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center, New York in late 2008. Chisholm was the first Australian composer in residence at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, from January to June 2009, where he presented a concert of his works alongside those of colleague Patricia Alessandrini.

David Chisholm's large-scale and long-form work KURSK: an oratorio requiem will be developed in Melbourne in late February 2010 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. David is currently planning works in 2010 for Golden Fur, Baroque trio Latitude 37, a solo cello work for US Cellist Victoria Bass and a stage work in 2012 for Geneva-based guitar electronics duo Mauricio Carrasco and Daniel Zea in collaboration with media artist Boris Eldagsen and writer Mark Ravenhill.

David Chisholm — current to February 2010