About

I am a West Australian composer who was accepted into Edith Cowan University (ECU) in my 16th year for a Certificate IV course in Classical Composition at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). After graduation, I started a Bachelor of Music in Composition which I completed in 2008 with a High Distinction in Composition. Prior to my university entry, I was tutored by various musicians from across Western Australia.

On the 18th of September 2006, I won the Tura New Music, Young Composers’ Award 2006 for the premier of my Clarinet Sonata. Following the success of 2006, I was commissioned to write a Piece for Harpsichord and Guitar by Stewart Smith and Dr. Jonathan Paget. The piece was Premiered at the  Darwin International Guitar Festival, on the 7th of July 2007 followed by another performance at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts’ weekly Tuesday Lunch Time Concerts. My Clarinet Sonata was first performed in full at Aprilyn Podd’s graduation recital in 2007. At my graduation recital on the 20th of November 2008 I premiered my Piano Trio. I continued my study with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) course in 2009, for which my recital premiered a Piano Sonata and a Set of Bagatelles for solo piano. My honours dissertation was on Creative Commons and copyright in relation to music

In 2009 I was commissioned to develop and present an intellectual property framework for the editorial board of the then newly formed music label at WAAPA, Slow Release and to consult the label regarding the implementation of such a proposition. The 2009 and 2010 I was asked to conduct a series of lectures under the employment of ECU to over eighty students covering various topics of Copyright. Additionally in 2010, I was twice a guest lecturer at ECU on the topic of music harmony to second year students.

I am presently an Administrator at the popular free and legal public domain sheet music site the Petrucci Music Library – previously the International Music Score Library Project.

With a strong interest in Intellectual Property law and with a childhood in a politically motivated family, I joined and assisted in allowing the Pirate Party Australia to develop. Currently I am the still involved in the party’s framework.