Linda Kouvaras

Linda Kouvaras (b. 1960) is a Melbourne composer, pianist and musicologist who is now Professor in Music (Musicology) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne. After early years in post-punk and New Wave bands, she completed her piano studies and a PhD in musicology (1996), and went on to become a nationally recognised authority on contemporary Australian art-music, sound art, modernism and gender in music. Her book Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age (Ashgate, 2013) won the 2014 Rebecca Coyle Publication Prize, and she co-edits the journal Current Issues in Music. Her works, which blend genres around voice and piano, have been performed some 200 times internationally and recorded on Move Records and ABC. Pianist Coady Green is recording her complete chamber music in an eight-CD Toccata Classics series. She holds full representation at the Australian Music Centre and publishes with Reed Music.