Mark Pollard

Head of Department
Composition & Lecturer, Performance Related Studies

Australian composer Mark Clement Pollard has an eclectic compositional style. His music is broadcast and performed widely in Australia. Internationally his work has been included at many major festivals including the Warsaw Festival, the Tokyo Nova Festival, the Liverpool Festival and the Under Capricorn Festival (USA). Site specific elements feature in many of his collaborative works.

In 1983, he received one of the inaugural Jacobena Angliss Music Awards. In 1984, his orchestral work Chamber Symphony received first place in the National-Canberra Orchestral Competition and in the same year he received a fellowship for the National Orchestral Composers' School. In 1992 he received the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award and in 1993 'The Spivokofsky Composition Prize'. In 2002 he was a semifinalist in the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Composition Prize at the University of Connecticut and has been a finalist in many major competitions including the Tokyo Music Today Competition.

Mark is currently Head of Composition at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne.