Brenton Broadstock

Brenton Broadstock AM (born Melbourne, 1952) is one of Australia’s most awarded composers. He studied at Monash University, with Donald Freund at Memphis State University and Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney, and received the University of Melbourne’s Doctor of Music in 1987. From 1982 to 2006 he was Professor of Music and Head of Composition at the University of Melbourne, later a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow. His honours include the Paul Lowin Prize, the Don Banks Award, multiple APRA Awards and the Albert H Maggs Award (2014). In 2014 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to music, and in 2015 became an APRA/AMCOS Ambassador. Now a freelance composer on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, recent works include the opera The Nurses at Vung Tau (2022), Let There Be Light, and the brass band work Prayers and Tribulations.

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