WASO’s Composition Project offers young and emerging Western Australian composers the opportunity to develop their skills in a professional environment. Through a series of individual lessons, workshops and rehearsals, participants will compose a new work for a 14-piece chamber ensemble, performed by WASO musicians in front of a live audience at Perth Concert Hall. Participants are mentored both by James Ledger (Artistic Director), Olivia Davies (WASO Composer-in-Residence) and WASO musicians.
This project has helped previous participants successfully gain placement in national and international composition programs, post-graduate studies and secure professional commissions and residencies.
The program offers emerging composers currently studying at a tertiary institution or recently graduated (2022/2023) the opportunity to write a chamber work for WASO musicians. Throughout the project composers will develop their work in close collaboration with a WASO musicians, building knowledge of the professional commissioning process of working with a chamber ensemble and building skills in the live compositional workshop process.
The winner will get the opportunity to compose a new 3-minute piece of music for WASO’s mainstage education concert in 2025.
Composition Project is supported by Bendat Family Foundation.