Kate Neal

Lecturer
The Centre for Ideas

Kate Neal studied Early Music (recorder) and Composition at the Victorian College of the Arts with Mary Finsterer, Mark Pollard and Brenton Broadstock, graduating in 1996. Kate received a NUFFIC scholarship from the Dutch Government in 1998 and moved to The Netherlands to study composition with Martijn Padding, Louis Andrieson and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory, and Carnatic (South Indian) music studies with Rafael Rainer at the Sweelink Conservatory, Amsterdam. In 2000 Kate was awarded equal first prize in the International Young Composers meeting and a special mention in the Henriette Bosmans prize.

Recent commissions and performances include: Concave City, Anam String Orchestra conducted by Brett Dean 2004; Solo, for solo violin, Melbourne Festival 2003; Little Fury II, Dead Horse Ensemble, World Wide Warehouse 2003, 2004; Rabid Bay for Michael Kieran Harvey and Ensemble, World Wide Warehouse 2004; Little Fury I, Ballet, D’Ereprijs Ensemble, Holland 2002; Fanfare for the Debutante, Ensemble Royale Holland 2001; Copernicus, Symphony Australia New Voices TSO 2001; Exodus, film score, Holland 2002; HYRAX, Ian Potter Foundation Melbourne Festival 2000; Jos Ei Nyt Niin Million, INDICTUS Dance Company, Finland 2002; Dead Horse Gap, Tetzepi Big Band, Holland 2001.