CURRENT RESIDENTS
PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS HOUSE - PADDINGTON, NSW
Olivia Davies
Olivia is from Western Australia and has recently won the prestigious award for Work of the Year: Large Ensemble at this year’s AMC/APRA Art Music Awards for her piece “Stratus” which was commissioned and premiered by the WA Symphony Orchestra. During her time in the Peggy Glanville-Hicks House she will work on a range of new commissions and collaborations.
Responding to the news, composer Olivia Davies said “I’m so grateful to have received this residency. I’m really looking forward to being in the house and having the time to focus on creating new music as well as to reconnect with peers and make new connections. For me it’s an incredible opportunity for growth.”
Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) bequeathed her terrace home in Paddington, Sydney as a haven for composers and, since 1994, it has housed 28 different Australian artists for long-term residencies.
GALLOP HOUSE - PERTH, WA
Jae Laffer is a songwriter, producer and musician and also originally from Western Australia. He recorded six albums as lead singer and songwriter of The Panics, collecting numerous awards along the way including an ARIA and Triple J Album of the Year. He has subsequently released two solo albums and will spend his time in Gallop House working on a third, with a series of collaborators.
In 2016 the National Trust of Western Australia offered Gallop House in Perth as an additional residency, and the two now form the centerpiece of the Prelude Program, a national network of residencies.
The successful applicants are provided with sole occupancy of the houses for a year as well as a modest stipend to cover living costs and travel.
RESIDENTS 2022
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks House - Paddington, NSW
Brenda Gifford
Brenda is a First Nations, Yuin woman from Wreck Bay, NSW. Her country, community and culture are the basis of her arts practice.
She is a composer and classically trained saxophonist and pianist, her 2021 projects have included commissions for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Canberra Music Festival & the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sydney Chamber Choir.
North Adelaide Baptist Church, SA
Anne Cawrse
Anne recently received awards for Chamber Music Work of the Year and South Australian State Luminary at the Art Music Awards.
Her 2021 activity has included new works for Claire Edwardes, Slava and Sharon Grigoryan, the Adelaide Chamber Singers, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, & the Australian Vocal Project.
Anne curated ‘She Speaks’ for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and will soon release her first album of original music for String Quartet, Soprano and Guitar.
GALLOP House - Dalkeith, WA
Anna Laverty
Anna is a songwriter, producer & engineer. She is an APRA Ambassador & the current Australia Council music fellow.
Anna was the featured studio engineer in the 2019 ABC television series ‘The Recording Studio’ which brought everyday Australians into the studio to write and record a song.
She has recently contributed compositions to albums by Stella Donnelly & Kav Temperley. She has an extensive program of co-writing planned while in residence.
RESIDENTS 2021
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks House - Paddington, NSW
Aviva Endean
An artist dedicated to fostering a deep engagement with (and care for) sound and music, with the hope that attentive listening can connect people with each other and their environment. She is active as a clarinetist, composer, improviser, curator, sound artist, performance-maker and collaborator. Aviva regularly works across a range of contexts including experimental and improvised music, new chamber music, creating theatre works, which are designed to be listened to, and working on cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her work seeks to go beyond the boundaries of her art form, to reimagine the possibilities of a practice with sound.
Her debut solo release cinder : ember : ashes featuring improvisations and original compositions was released on Norwegian label SOFA in 2018 to critical acclaim, with reviews speaking to Aviva’s innovation and virtuosity.
GALLOP House - Dalkeith, WA
Yitzhak Yedid (PhD)
An award-winning composer, pianist and pedagogue. His interest lies in composing and performing concert music. Yedid's folio of compositions contains over 50 orchestral, chamber, solo and vocal works, published by IMI and AMC. Yedid's music has won several international awards, most recently, the prestigious Canadian Azrieli Music Prize, valued at over $200,000 CAD. Yedid is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2018-19).
Thirteen albums of Yedid’s music have been released by prestigious international publishers and distributers including Challenge Records International, Sony, Naxos, -btl-, Muse, MCI & Kaleidos, and numerous reviews published in the international music media.
Collingrove Homestead - Angaston, SA
Matt Laing
Matt is a professional composer and violist. A graduate of ANAM, his quartet “Shapes” Was workshopped and performed in 2017 by the Flinders Quartet. He was subsequently commissioned by the Flinders Quartet and Ossicle Duo to write substantial works in 2019.
He Was supported by an Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant to work with Brett Dean in Berlin and London in 2019. In 2020 Matt was to have seven new works premiered by various professional ensembles, including the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. He’s the 2021 Young Composer in Residence with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with multiple commissions to complete
RESIDENTS 2020
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks House - Paddington, NSW
William Barton
A composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading didgeridoo players and composers. For two decades, William Barton has forged a peerless profile as a performer and composer in the classical musical world, from performances with the Philharmonic Orchestras of London and Berlin to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, Anzac Cove and the Beijing Olympics. His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. William has also been actively involved in the Arts and Music Circle, created by Brisbane Judge Anthe Phillippides to bring together emerging Indigenous leaders through a shared experience of a wide range of arts and culture. With his prodigious musicality and the quiet conviction of his Kalkadunga heritage, he has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo and the culture and landscape that it represents.
GALLOP House - Dalkeith, WA
Rachael Dease
Rachael’s artistic practice encompasses art music, film and theatre scoring, installation, site-specific work and songwriting. She won the inaugural Martin Sims Award at Fringe World, the Melbourne Fringe Music Award and received critical acclaim at New York Fringe Festival for her 2013 contemporary song cycle City of Shadows. Recent composition and sound design for theatre include the Helpmann Award-nominated It’s Dark Outside (The Last Great Hunt), Sunset (Strut Dance/Maxine Doyle) and Rest (WAYTCO). Installation includes Black Mass (PICA) Winter Feast (Dark Mofo), Museum of Water (Perth Festival), and Like Embracing Ice (Fremantle Arts Centre). Dease was awarded the 2017 DCA Performing Arts Fellowship, won the Performing Arts WA award for Best Music for Let The Right One In (Black Swan State Theatre Company) and been a Besen Fellow at Malthouse Theatre. She has been a resident artist at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Proximity Festival, Lumen Studios Italy and The Arctic Circle.
Collingrove Homestead, Angaston, SA
Connor D'netto
Connor is a composer of contemporary classical music, described as "the model contemporary Australian composer" by ABC Classic FM. Throughout his works, Connor balances driving rhythmic elements, heartfelt lyrical expression drawn from his extensive performance experience as a classically trained bass baritone, a lushly textural approach to orchestration, combined with contemporary performance practices, unique one-off performances, and the delicate incorporation of electronic music elements. Connor's music has been commissioned and performed across Australia and abroad, including from ensembles such the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian String Quartet, New York based groups including Bang On A Can, and performers such as Katie Noonan, Karin Schaupp and Claire Edwardes. Connor was the Composer-In-Residence of the 2019 Australian Festival of Chamber Music, making him the youngest in the Festival's 29-year history.
Heather Shannon
Heather is best known for her work as one quarter of internationally renowned independent rock band, The Jezabels. Shannon has spent most the past decade writing and recording award winning albums and performing in venues such as The Sydney Opera House, The O2 Arena (London), Webster Hall (New York) and at festivals such as Lollapalooza (Chicago), and Glastonbury (UK). Following a 2017 placement in the Nes Artist Residency in the north of Iceland, in 2018 she scored her second Feature Film and her chamber piece Study in Morbid Fragments was performed by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre.
In 2019, Heather was honoured to have two of her works – Ricochet& Ricochet From A Distance- performed by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Connor nor Heather were able to carry out their residencies.