Iain Grandage
Iain Grandage is a composer of scores for theatre, dance and the concert hall. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the WA Symphony Orchestra, the Youth Orchestras of Australia, UWA School of Music and Black Swan Theatre Company.
He has won Helpmann and Green Room Awards for his theatre scores, which include Cloudstreet, The Blue Room, Vamp, Optimism, Babes in the Wood, The Odyssey, Plainsong and True West, and has won APRA/AMC awards for his orchestral works. He has composed an opera for children, scores for dance projects (including Lawn and Remember Me) and has been involved in many collaborations with indigenous musicians, initially as musical director and arranger for Jimmy Chi’s multi award-winning Corrugation Road and subsequently with the Spinifex people of central Australia and the Black Arm Band.
As a performer, he plays in the cello and beats band wood, the chamber ensemble Windstrokes with William Barton, Claire Edwardes and Mel Robinson, and has moonlighted with the Brodsky Quartet, Australian Art Orchestra and Topology, as well as regularly performing on piano with cabaret überdiva Meow Meow.
Future projects include touring the theatre work Optimism to the Edinburgh Festival, the score for The Book of Everything – a collaboration between Co. B Belvoir and Theatre of Image, premiering in January 2010, a score for Stalker Stilt Theatre’s large scale festival work Shanghai Lady Killer, and a continuing collaboration with the Black Arm Band called dirtsong.
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