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about the artist
Leah Barclay has been recognised as one of the most promising Australian composers of her generation. Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, she has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and India. She has studied with a range of international artists including Alcides Lanza and Yves Daoust in Montreal, Quebec and is currently completing her PhD under the supervision of Gerardo Dirie and Huib Schippers.
Her current work explores hybrid media and experimental sonic languages fusing the spontaneity of live performance with the infinite possibilities of technology. Reviews such as “innovation with veracity”, “dynamic originality” and “firing curiosity” have often been associated with her performances.
Her dynamic work has resulted in numerous awards, including the inaugural Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Scholarship, Australia’s most prestigious prize for digital media art. Barclay’s academic work has been published widely as she has presented at many of the worlds forums for electroacoustic music and digital media. In addition to her work as an artist, she is regularly engaged as a producer, educator, curator and musicologist.
In 2009 her residencies include the VKV Cultural Centre in Aranmula, South India and Sound Fabrika Studios in Istanbul, Turkey. Barclay is the recipient of the 2009 Asialink Performing Artist Residency at the Art Centre Nabi in Seoul, South Korea where she will create a new work for intercultural ensemble and live electronics to premiere in December 2009. During her residency she will also produce a series of hybrid performances for diffusion via broadband networks.
Currently Barclay maintains a hectic touring schedule and resides between Brisbane, Australia and Kerala, South India where she is studying carnatic percussion with Guru Subhash Kumar and composing and performing with the innovative Nada Laya ensemble.
For more information, a full Biography or to join Leah’s mailing list please visit www.leahbarclay.com
