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Gabriella is a leading advocate of new music in Australia, with sustained contribution over 35 years. Her excellence has been recognised through major awards including residencies, and prestigious fellowships. Her composition Parasymbiosis was a finalist in the 2025 APRA AMCOS Awards (Electroacoustic: Best Work). In 2020/21 Gabriella was the recipient of the Paris Residency from Creative Australia, an SA Government Creative Fellowship, and an APRA AMCOS Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual in 2019. In 2018, she was awarded a Prelude Composer Residency (Australia) and a UNESCO City of Music residency in Katowice, Poland. Gabriella has been the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship (2010), national Helpmann Award (2009), and Ruby Award for Best Event in South Australia in 2009.
An internationally recognised pianist specialising in new music, Gabriella has performed extensively, premiering over 80 new works for solo piano in Australia, Europe and China, promoting the works of Australian composers. Gabriella's playing has been described as 'meltingly beautiful' by The Australian. She has performed in the Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide International Festivals, MONA MOFO, TURA (Perth) and in Europe and China.
Gabriella also performs and composes on a range of MIDI keyboards, and the Electric Cristal, an instrument created by Dylan Crismani (SA) in 2021. In 2025 she established Gada kosma with David Kotlowy as a vehicle for collaborative, microtonal experimental music performances on electric cristal, Roli Seaboard, microtonal electric guitar, and electronics. An active composer, her commissions include ADT, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Film Festival, Perth International Festival, ABC Classic and Art Zoyd (France). In 2024, her composition Parasymbiosis premiered in The Netherlands, and she toured Germany with ABE Ensemble.
Gabriella is Artistic Director of Soundstream New Music (est. 1993). She has close, 50-year family ties to the Inarma Choir (Titjikala Community, NT). Since 2015 Gabriella has been conducting music workshops in Community, working closely with Inarma Women's Choir. A passionate educator, Gabriella established the Soundstream Emerging Composers' Forum in 2012, a nationally recognised Australian Forum supporting emerging composers. With Cat Hope in 2018, she established Summers Night Project, aiming to address the gender diversity of composers in Australia.

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Biography provided by the composer — current to February 2026