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Katherine Rawlings : Represented Artist

'My music tells a story. It seeks to portray musically a fragment of the human experience...'

Random Audio Sample: Setting sail : string quartet by Katherine Rawlings, from the CD Lucid dreaming


Photo of Katherine Rawlings

Katherine is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy in composition, studying with Katy Abbott and Johanna Selleck at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of VCA and Music. She obtained a Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne under Stuart Greenbaum and Brenton Broadstock in 2002, was offered full representation from The Australian Music Centre in 2004 and obtained a Master of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Terumi Narushima and Mary Finsterer in 2009.

Katherine's music has been performed in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and abroad in Toronto, Canada. In 2005 she was selected to participate in the Symphony Australia's Composer Development Program with Richard Mills and Orchestra Victoria. She has also previously been selected for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Young Composers Program where her work for orchestra Remembering Kindness, was performed by the MSO and later went on to win the Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Award (2003).

Drawing inspiration from visual, emotional, literary and political ideas, her work is largely thematic and emotive in style. She has been nominated for a number of other awards including best film score for the Golden Eye Award (2004), the APRA Professional Development Award 2009 and best soundtrack for the RMIT Creative Media Screen Awards (2003).


Katherine Rawlings — current to July 2010

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for
2003 Dorian le Gallienne Composition Award Recipient Remembering kindness

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Anthea's garden : for solo percussion (2003) Commissioned by Carmen Chan.
Rain dancing : for solo marimba (2000) Written for Carmen Chan