Adriel Sukumar : Associate Artist
Photo: Elliot Leahy
Adriel is a young Australian composer currently based in Western
Sydney. He is in his fourth year of a Bachelor of Music
(Composition) Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
where he has been studying for the past few years under Carl Vine
AO.
His music often explores interesting harmonic sonorities and has
been played by various ensembles including the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra and New Music
Ensemble, the Australian and Sydney Youth Orchestras, Steel City
Strings, Ensemble Offspring, the Goldner String Quartet, the
Australian String Quartet, Caesura Ensemble, SAGA Collective, the
Macquarie Singers, and the Choir and Organists of Saint Patrick's
Cathedral Parramatta.
He is currently taking part in the Australian Haydn Ensemble's
inaugural Illuminated Now! emerging composer program, where he is
working on a new commissioned work for period instruments.
Adriel was awarded second prize (The Highly Commended Award) in
the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra's 2025 Young Composer Award. He
has also been awarded the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's 2022
Horace Keats Memorial Prize for Composition, their 2023 Frank
Albert Music Prize, their 2024 Ignaz Friedman Memorial Prize, and
a 2022 and 2023 Academic Merit Prize from the University of
Sydney.
Aside from his composing Adriel sings regularly as a Bass Scholar
with the Choir of Saint Patrick's Cathedral Parramatta. He is
currently also a Conducting Scholar with River City Voices.
Biography provided by the composer — current to August 2025