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Dr Roxanne Della-Bosca (b. 1977) is a West Australian composer-pianist and an accredited member of the NSW Accompanists' Guild. Her structuralist artistic lineage is traced to undergraduate mentors at the University of Western Australia, Roger Smalley and Nigel Butterley, while her vibrant and detailed expressive ideals were forged in French-style piano tutelage under Brian Michel. Post-graduate studies at the Sydney Conservatorium under Martin Wesley-Smith developed an interest in the socio-political potential of musical composition.

The youngest finalist in the inaugural ABC Young Composers' Award in 1998, and finalist in the 1999 Young Australian of the Year Awards (WA - Arts Category), Della-Bosca went on to attend the Dartington International Summer School funded by a 2001 APRA Professional Development Award. She later completed a PhD in music psychology at the University of Western Australia, as a Hackett Scholar.

In her early career period, Della-Bosca championed modern music as a performer through her duo work with the violist Ivan Vukcevic, and as a pianist premiered over 20 Australian works. She composed chamber, solo, vocal and theatre work, as well as a prolific orchestral output broadcast by the ABC. She also taught composition at the University of Western Australia, Newcastle Conservatorium and Sydney Conservatorium.

Nonetheless, for many years Della-Bosca withdrew from the field of composition in favour of raising a family, during which she was confronted and personally affected by issues in the family and domestic violence space, health sector and coronial processes. In response to this challenging fabric of socio-legal exposure, she undertook a law degree at the University of New South Wales, for which she graduated with distinction and the Juris Doctor medal in 2024.

During this time Della-Bosca prepared a re-debut as a composer, publishing a song cycle and violin sonata in 2023. However, as her socio-legal voice has matured she is now repositioning as a cross-platform thought leader, working on projects that draw upon both her textual and musical capacities.

Roxanne Della-Bosca — current to September 2025