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Composer and writer Rosalind Page studied composition at Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1990–91 with further studies in North America, graduating with a B.A. (Mus) Summa cum laude from the University of Delaware, USA. In 1994 she was honoured as a winner of the University of Delaware's Edward H. Rosenberry Award for Excellence in Writing.

Upon return to Australia, Page studied at the University of New South Wales, receiving a Master of Arts (Theatre and Film Studies) in 1996 for her research into sound and image relationships in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. In 2006, she completed her PhD in Composition with Ross Edwards at the University of Sydney.

Diverse musical interests have resulted in work with Gamelan Lake of the Silver Bear (USA), Melbourne Theatre Company (composer for the Australian premiere of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney , directed by Jenny Kemp), New Music Tasmania, Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music, Halcyon, Sydney Youth Orchestra, The Song Company, Sydney Philharmonia, OneExtra NOISE ensemble (USA) and Aurora Festival.

In 2003, Page shared the dual role of dramaturg and sound/music composer for Mary Sitarenos's world premiere VCA production Red Shoes. Recent theatre work includes electronic music for choreographer/director Dean Walsh's solo unSpeakable, with performances in Australia and Japan and composer/sound designer for the dance theatrework Back From Front, premiering at Carriageworks in 2008.

Receiving a Highly Commended Award in the prestigious 2004 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize, Fracture, a noh play for cello and orchestra (2004) – an interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's RAN – was commissioned by Ars Musica Australis and written especially for virtuosic cellist Geoff Gartner.

In 2006, Page's song cycle Sonetos del Amor Oscuro (2004) – commissioned by Halcyon and setting texts by Federico Garcia Lorca – was awarded the 2006 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize.

Page has taught film sound aesthetics through Union Broadcast Services (UBS), the University of Sydney; Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music; scripted original works for theatre and film, and set texts in French, German, Russian, Latin, Spanish, Sanskrit and Icelandic. Further exploring her abstract allegorical language in electroacoustic territories, current projects include five sounds for chamber ensemble in collaboration with Halcyon and Ensemble Offspring. In late 2008, Page will take up residency at the International Composers Centre at Visby, Sweden, where she will compose trente, the fourth movement in her Kandinsky/astronomy series, commissioned by pianist Mark Knoop.

Biography provided by the composer — current to May 2008