Anne Cawrse
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Anne Cawrse (/kɔːrs/ "coarse"; born 23 January 1981)[1] is an Australian composer based in South Australia. As of 2022[update] she is on the composition staff at Elder Conservatorium of Music.
Career
In 2021, Cawrse became the curator of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra festival "She Speaks", a classical music festival with a focus on music written by female composers.[3] The festival included a performance of Cawrse's Suite from Innocence, her opera based on Stephen Orr's novel Time's Long Ruin.[4] In 2022, she co-curated the festival with Anna Goldsworthy.[5]
In 2022, Cawrse's album Advice to a Girl was released on ABC Classics.[6] It features works for strings, voice and guitar, performed by Sharon and Slava Grigoryan (cello, guitar), Bethany Hill (soprano), Aleksandr Tsiboulski (guitar) and the Australian String Quartet.[7]
