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"It will be very interesting to hear what comes next from the inventive mind of Leah Blankendaal"

- MUSICTRUST

Leah Blankendaal is a multi-award-winning performance maker and sound artist, whose work explores stasis, light and space. Focused body autonomy, gender and transformation, her language is "kind, immersive and thoughtful," and offers "us space to breathe and to be." (Music Trust, 2020).

Blankendaal's diverse practice spans concert music, installation and improvisation. At home as a performer and creator of experimental sound, Blankendaal has worked with leading ensembles such as Quince Ensemble (USA), Duo Alterity (USA), Rubiks Collective (VIC), Luminescence Chamber Singers (ACT), Tura New Music and STRUT Dance (WA), Soundstream (SA). Recent engagement include premiers at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Australian International Computer Music Conference (VIC), Connecticut Summerfest (USA); and performances at Make It Up Club (VIC) Ainslie Art Centre On Location Festival (ACT), and praxis ARTSPACE (SA). Her work has toured Europe, South East Asia, USA and New Zealand.

Blankendaal has received multiple awards including the ABC Classic Composer Commissioning Fund, APRA AMCOS 2020 Art Music Fund Commission, the 2020 Peggy Glanville Hicks Commission, and the 2017 Australian Music Centre Classical: Next Fellowship. She has received grants from ABC Classic, Arts ACT, Arts SA, the Music Development Office (SA), APRA AMCOS, Monash University and Country Arts SA.

Blankendaal is a represented artist with the Australian Music Centre. She released her first solo album, Alongside, Amongst, Against in September 2020.

Leah Blankendaal — current to September 2023