Kate Neal: Distilled Momentum

Kate Neal is an artist with over 20 years’ experience as a composer, arranger, teacher, artistic director and collaborator. Since 2006 she has been incorporating extra-musical parameters within the notation of a musical score, such as physical gesture, design, light and movement. In 2019 Neal premiered The Commuter Variations commissioned by the Melbourne Recital Centre (10^th Anniversary), performed by Lisa Moore with animation by Sal Cooper. In 2018 Neal premiered ‘While You Sleep’, a 60min work for string quartet and visual media, presented by Arts House, Melbourne.  In 2017 Neal premiered new works for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sound Collectors, Arcadia Winds and SO Percussion. In 2016 Neal won the Beleura Award for Composition as part of the Melbourne Music Prize, as well as Performance and Instrumental Work of the Year at the Art Music Awards for her work Semaphore. In 2015 Neal was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship, allowing her to compose six substantial works over two years. In 2013 Neal returned from the US to take a one-year position as Composer in Residence for the Four Winds Festival. From 2009-2013 Neal was a Graduate Fellow at Princeton University in the USA, and from 2007-2009 she was based in the UK. Neal currently (2022) teaches Interactive Composition at the

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

 www.kateneal.com

“Adrenalin-filled musical adventure a winner” – The Age

“Ravishing piano glissandi and arpeggiated strings” – The Australian

“Complex, rousing stuff, performed with precision” – Australian Arts Review