Check out today's Meet the ComposHER interview with Linda Kouvaras!
Linda is an Australian classic composer, musicologist, pianist, teacher at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and... a former Punk/New Wave composer! She co-wrote songs for the band Voxpop during a break from university studies in the 80's.
After that, she studied piano in the UK in 1984, returning to Melbourne University to complete her AMus in piano (1986), BMus (Hons) (1988), and Master's (1991). She also holds a PhD in musicology (1996).
In the course of her studies Kouvaras received some 16 prizes/awards/scholarships as well as a Senior Research Fellowship at the Australia Centre.
According to her: 'My composition practice explores various postmodern approaches, including incorporating popular-music styles, minimalism and neo-tonal/modal structures. Extra-musical impetus ranges from humour to the tragic, kitsch to the high-order contemplative - all with the human condition as focal point.'
Learn more about her and her awesome works in the Meet the ComposHer of this week!
I always wanted to be a musician – a pianist, first, and later, a composer (and musicologist!)
Piano teachers
Time management and putting myself forward
Haphazard! Intuitive, quite linear
Haphazard! Intuitive, quite linear
Embrace it all
Self-belief and integrity for the work are of utmost importance
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