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Dr Caroline Wilkins comes from a background of new music performance, composition and theatre, and has worked extensively on collaborative productions involving a combination of these disciplines. After studying piano and composition at the Royal College of Music, she moved to Sydney, Australia, and regularly gave workshops in improvisation and new music theatre at the Conservatorium of Music. As a performer she collaborated in projects and productions of new-form theatre/music theatre whilst pursuing parallel studies in performance/theatre skills at the Drama Action Centre, Sydney.

In 1987 she was awarded an Australia Council grant for further study in new music theatre composition with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. Since this time Wilkins's music has received performances, prizes and broadcasts worldwide, and has been selected on numerous occasions by the ISCM World Music Days. She was awarded the KarlSczuka prize from South West German Radio in 2000 for her radio composition Mecanica Natura.

She currently lives in Britain, where she completed a practice-based PhD in Sound Theatre at Brunel University, West London in 2012. As a researcher she continues to present at national and international conferences including ARTECH, Guimares, IFTR World Congress (Munich), Sibelius Academy (Helsinki 2010), Caen University (2011), AISB University of Kent and TaPRA (2015). Forthcoming contributions include the Performance Studies Network Conference at Bath Spa University (2016).

She has published extensively online, in journals such as Perspectives of New Music (2013), MusikTexte, Contemporary Music Review, Leonardo Music Journal (2003), Studies in Musical Theatre / International Journal of the Performing Arts & Digital Media (2012/13, Intellect Books), and as a contributor to the book Gestures of Music Theater (2013, Oxford University Press). Forthcoming publications include the Journal of Performance Philosophy (2016), Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, Vol.2 (Routledge 2016) and Studies in Musical Theatre (Intellect Books 2017).

As a vocalist/instrumentalist Caroline has recently performed solo and collaborative work both internationally (Japan, Slovenia, Belgium, Crete) and in the UK at venues such as Sadler's Wells, Riverside Studios (Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival), and Sonorities Festival, Belfast. Venues include Sadlers Wells (April) with the company Dans Sans Joux, and King's Place, London, with Tete-a-Tete: the Opera Festival, King's Cross 2014. Her instrumental music theatre work A Dust of White Sleep was performed at the Colourscape Festival, London, by Jane's Minstrels. She presented her 1-act opera The Dressing Room' with 'rough for opera', Cockpit Theatre, London, in 2014, subsequently performed at Tete-a-Tete's Festival in 2015 (see: photo gallery).

Collaborations include work with Australian audiovisual artist Rees Archibald and electronics composer Oded Ben-Tal on a video entitled Mitslalim, which has been shown at numerous conferences including Stanford and Kingston Universities, and in Crete, Corfu and Spain. She has recently finished a 3-act opera for 1-4 performers entitled Beyonsense based on Russian Futurist poetry, to be performed in 2016/17 (see: images from Act 1 'Victory over the Sun' excerpts performed by the composer at Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, King's Plce, London in 2014).

Excerpts from Wilkins's sound theatre works can be viewed on her YouTube channel. Her PhD thesis can be viewed online at: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6438.

Works published by G.Ricordi & Co. Munich.

Caroline Wilkins — current to December 2017