AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FEMALE IDENTIFYING COMPOSERS
Noisy Women Commission
What is Noisy Women Commission?
The Noisy Women Commission provides a high-profile opportunity for an exceptional Australian female-identifying or non-binary composer. The chosen composer will create a new chamber work for Ensemble Offspring in close collaboration with our expert musicians. Every second year, the commission is awarded to a former Hatched Academy participant. In 2023 the award is open to all female-identifying Australian composers.
The Noisy Women Commission provides significant creative freedom for the composer whose application will be chosen on the basis of a project proposal and examples of past work. The commission comprises a $4000 fee, mentorship from our musicians on instrumental techniques, ensemble workshops to develop the piece and a professionally documented public performance in the subsequent Offspring season. The work should be approximately 10 minutes in duration for an ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (or a subset thereof), with the addition of multimedia elements if desired.
Past recipients are Nirmali Fenn, Eve Klein, Nicole Murphy, Elizabeth Younan and Fiona Hill. The 2022 Noisy Women Commission recipient is Samantha Wolf.
