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Leah Barclay

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Leah Barclay has been recognised as one of the most promising Australian composers of her generation. Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, she has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and India. She has studied with a range of international artists including Alcides Lanza and Yves Daoust in Montreal, Quebec and is currently completing her PhD under the supervision of Gerardo Dirie and Huib Schippers.

Her dynamic work has resulted in numerous awards, including the inaugural Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Scholarship, Australia’s most prestigious prize for digital media art. Barclay’s academic work has been published widely as she has presented at many of the worlds forums for electroacoustic music and digital media. In addition to her work as an artist, she is regularly engaged as a producer, educator, curator and musicologist.
In 2009 her residencies include the VKV Cultural Centre in Aranmula, South India and Sound Fabrika Studios in Istanbul, Turkey. Barclay is the recipient of the 2009 Asialink Performing Artist Residency at the Art Centre Nabi in Seoul, South Korea where she will create a new work for intercultural ensemble and live electronics to premiere in December 2009. During her residency she will also produce a series of hybrid performances for diffusion via broadband networks.
Currently Barclay resides between Brisbane, Australia and Kerala, South India where she is studying carnatic percussion with Guru Subhash Kumar and composing and performing with the innovative Nada Laya ensemble.
For more information, a full Biography or to join Leah’s mailing list please visit www.leahbarclay.com
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Member Since: 26/05/2007
Band Website: www.leahbarclay.com
Band Members: Leah Barclay is a solo artist who regularly collaborates with interdisciplinary artists to create her distinctive music and sound installations.
Leah is also a founding member of the Nada Laya ensemble - an innovative collective based in Kerala, South India featuring acclaimed musicians from India, Australia and England. The ensemble specializes in Carnatic (South Indian Classical) music and draws influence from jazz, western classical and electroacoustic music traditions. www.nada-laya.com
Leah regularly performs and collaborates with a range of ensembles in Australia and internationally. More information at www.leahbarclay.com
Influences: Kaija Saariaho, Alcides Lanza, Gerardo Dirie, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Coulter, John Cousins, Ros Bandt, John Cage, Tristram Cary, Tan Dan, Louis Dufort, Rajesh Mehta, Yves Daoust, Simon Emmerson, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Percy Grainger, Karaikkudi R. Mani, Denis Smalley, Keith Humble, Elena Kats-Chernin, Subhash Kumar, Stephen Leek, Liza Lim, Ligeti, Steve Reich, Pierre Schaeffer, Schoenberg, Martin Wesley-Smith, Trevor Wishart, Varèse, Stockhausen…
Sounds Like: Leah’s mixed media compositions such as Confluence (2005), Everglades (2006) and Wolf Rock (2008) are strongly driven by environmental and political themes. Her current works fuses the spontaneity of live performance with the infinite possibilities of technology. Reviews such as “innovation with veracity”, “dynamic originality” and “firing curiosity” have often been associated with her performances.

Record Label: Triveni www.trivenirecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

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