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This ground-breaking program enabled postgraduate students to work closely with high-profile industry partners to develop their compositional work and professional skills.

Established to mark the centenary of the Conservatorium, Sydney Conservatorium of Music offered a program of professional development aimed at fostering and empowering women composers. The program ran from 2016-2021, with a new intake every second year.

The program's focus was on developing the compositional work and professional skills of the participants. Their compositions were workshopped and performed, with intensive group and individual sessions over two years. The compositions went on to form part or all of each participant's portfolio for her degree.

In addition to this, participants who were not already in receipt of a postgraduate scholarship received a scholarship of $10,000 a year from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

The program gave students the opportunity to work with our high-profile industry partners includingÌý,ÌýÌý·É¾±³Ù³óÌý,Ìý,Ìý,Ìý, theÌý, percussionistÌýÌýand flute soloistÌý.

Throughout the program, students received mentorship from ProfessorÌýÌý(2018-21) and Matthew Hindson (2016-17), in addition to members of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s composition unit. We also worked with organisations suchÌý,Ìý, theÌýÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýÌýto provide participants with training in production and administrative skills.

This program was made possible through the generous assistance of our partners and through the Patrons of the Composing Women Program.

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