Julia Potter : Associate Artist
Photo: Keith Saunders
Artist website: http://www.juliapotter.com.au
Julia Potter is a Melbourne-based screen and art music composer.
In 2022 Potter partook in the Omega Ensemble CoLAB and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers' programs for young composers. Her previous work has been performed by Ensemble Offspring, The Penny Quartet, Syzygy Ensemble, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Melbourne University Symphony Orchestra and the Arcis Quartet. Her music for documentary Acts for the Invisible was featured at Sydney Film Festival and Mardis Gras Film Festival.
Potter graduated with a Masters degree at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2021 specialising in film music composition, studying with Cameron Patrick. In 2018, Potter completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, studying with Stuart Greenbaum, Elliot Gyger and Katy Abbott Kvasnica.
In 2019 Potter was the recipient of the Melbourne Recital Centre/Melbourne Conservatorium of Music graduate commission and 2017 recipient of the Esther Rofe Composition Award.
Julia Potter — current to January 2025
Selected Commissions
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What Lies Beneath : for flute, viola and tape (2024) | What Lies Beneath is a collaboration between Alyse Faith and Julia Potter as part of Eliza Shephard’s “March of the Women” initiative. |
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When It's All Gone : for vibraphone and tape (2023) | Commissioned by Musica Viva Australia. |
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A Nostalgia I Have No Right To Own : for clarinet in Bb, violin, viola, cello & piano (2022) | Commissioned by Omega Ensemble. |
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Belonging (and Longing to Be) : for string quartet (2020) | Commissioned by Melbourne Recital Centre, University of Melbourne. |
| Eyes on the Stars : string orchestra (2020) | Commissioned by Board of Trustees of Brisbane Girls' Grammar School 2019 |