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Katherine Rawlings is currently completing a Master of Music degree in composition, studying with Terumi Narushima at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Rawlings began experimenting with composition in 1998, and - studying under a number of accomplished composers including Stuart Greenbaum and Brenton Broadstock - she completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in Composition in 2002 at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Music.  

In 2006 Rawlings's music was featured in a solo concert tour entitled Lucid Dreaming in Melbourne and Sydney. This concert showcased fifteen of her original works for strings, piano, chamber ensemble and film. In the previous year she was one of five to be selected to participate in the Symphony Australia's Composer Development Program with Richard Mills and Orchestra Victoria. She has also previously been selected to take part in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Young Composers Program where her work for orchestra Remembering Kindness, was performed and recorded by the MSO and later went on to win the 2003 'Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Award'. In the same year Anthea's Garden for solo percussion was commissioned by soloist Carmen Chan. This work included complimentary multimedia artwork by Kelly Hobbs and is representative of her interest in combining a number of art forms. Her second work for film entitled while no one was looking, was nominated for best soundtrack, for the RMIT Creative Media Screen Awards, 2003.

Rawlings's music is thematic and emotive in style, drawing inspiration from visual, emotional, literary and political ideas. She writes:  'My music tells a story. It seeks to portray musically a fragment of the human experience – be it the wonder at the beauty of a flower, or the wandering of the mind into dreaming and fantasy, into the process of creativity itself. Above all it seeks to stimulate the imagination and provoke intellectual thought'.

Biography provided by the composer — current to December 2006