This is the house that Peggy built…
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
The Australian composer, Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990) gifted her house in central Sydney to the nation as a residence for Australian composers. She lived in the house from 1976 to 1990 and it still holds a number of artefacts from that period.
“It is apparent that leisure and silence are absolute prerequisites for composers if they are to engage fully the many forms of awareness involved in creative activity.
This leisure and silence have become the greatest luxuries in the modern world, and composers less than any other group in art or science are able to command it.”
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
The Prelude Project
A national network of annual residencies
Prelude is a national network of year-long residencies for Australian composers, for which they also receive a modest stipend plus the time and space to create new work.
The partners behind these residencies are the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers House and National Trust of WA, with funding support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW and APRA AMCOS, enabling a national composer-in-residence program.
Applications for the 2025 residency program will open in mid-2024
ENQUIRIES to pghcomposershouse@gmail.com or peggyhouseprogram@gmail.com
