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Cat Hope's experience in music composition and performance brings a unique perspective to her academic work as a politically engaged artist and scholar. She has a passion for innovation in music and experimentation. Cat holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) Honours and a PhD from RMIT University, where her research focused on the possibilities of infrasonic music. She has received several prestigious awards including the Churchill Fellowship and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Additionally, she has been a member of the Australian Research Council Creative Arts Humanities College of Experts and has chaired the International Technologies Music Notation Representation conference. Cat is currently the Research Director and Professor of Composition at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance. Her research interests encompass digital notation, gender representation in music, and experimentation with digital archiving. She is an expert in practice-based methodologies and supervises PhD and Master's students on related topics. As the director of the award-winning music ensemble Decibel, she is part of a team of internationally recognized artistic researchers engaged in composition, performance, and sound engineering.
Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Serving as the Research Director and overseeing academic programs related to music composition.
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