Wendy Suiter : Associate Artist
Random Audio Sample: Carlin (piano trios) by Wendy Suiter, from the CD Rear vision
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Artist website: http://www.australiancomposers.com.au/composers/wendysuiter/index.html
Artist website: http://www.melbournecomposersleague.org/~wsuiter
Wendy Suiter was born a Scorpio in 1954, in Caulfield, on Bunarong land, in Victoria, Australia. She is currently residing in Australia.
Although she studied classical guitar throughout secondary school, Wendy Suiter went on to study economics and mathematics, which lead to research and policy work in women’s services and later work in labour economics and financial management. However, in her mid thirties she decided to follow her passion for music through formal study of composition. After returning to private lessons in flute and music theory, she successfully auditioned for entry to Bachelor of Music at La Trobe University.
After majoring in instrumental and electronic music composition at La Trobe University, Wendy Suiter completed her Honours year at Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. She is currently working towards a PhD at University of Wollongong, in music composition. Her research concerns the use of fuzzy logic principles to exploit compositional determinants of expression.
Her work has been performed in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges in a wide variety of settings from art galleries, dedicated concert spaces, to cafes and outdoor performances.
Her professional achievements to date include the soundscapes to accompany art exhibitions, publication of a brass work Paul Keating by Redhouse Press, publication of other works by Wirripang, and the broadcast on ABC Classic FM of her piano trio Carlin. Her music has been included on recently released on CDs of Australian flute music, Australian chamber music, and Australian computer music.
As a community musician, Wendy Suiter has been Musical Director of POW Circus, Melbourne, and composer in residence at the Jika Jika Community Centre, Melbourne, and regular workshop presenter at the Darebin Music Feast where participants have been playing her music for the Federation Bells.
Wendy Suiter is primarily concerned with the development of algorithms as compositional tools, while using the timbral qualities of instruments and sampled sounds to inform her work. She has been influenced by the intellectual rigour of both counterpoint and serial techniques, but is searching for a way to include the passion of the Romantics through the use of ‘grand gesture’ and melodic motifs.
She believes that art music should engage with the real world, removing itself from its self proclaimed rarefied atmosphere separate from our every day lives.
Biography provided by the composer — current to April 2009