Tim Dargaville is an Australian composer, pianist and percussionist whose eclectic, intercultural music spans the concert platform, theatre and dance. His training includes composition with Richard Meale and Keith Humble, percussion with master drummers Kobla Ladzekpo and Sri TAS Mani, and piano with Michael Kieran Harvey, complemented by two Asialink residencies in India studying traditional drumming and theatre. He has been performed internationally and at the Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, broadcast on ABC radio and television, and honoured with the Jean Bogan Prize (1999) and an Ian Potter Music Commission. Recent practice centres on the ongoing kolam series, linking the South Indian vocal-percussion art of konakkol to Tamil mandala traditions, and intimate works such as Lost Pages from the Book of Memory and Forgetting (2017). Dargaville completed a PhD and now teaches at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
