composer
Amy Bastow
Amy Bastow (b. 1985) was born in a small rural town in outback Australia, and began piano lessons at an early age, before taking up the flute, violin and saxophone. Amy began to experiment with music composition and at age 15, won the Audience Selection Prize of the “Roger Woodward Playoff Competition” for a performance of one of her piano compositions. A recent 1st class honours graduate from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Amy has studied composition with Michael Smetanin, Anne Boyd, Mary Finsterer and Damien Ricketson, as well as gaining her diploma of piano performance (AmusA) under the guidance of Daniel Herscovitch. During her time at the Conservatorium, Amy was awarded the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Board of Governors Award, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Roy Agnew Prize and The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Doris Burnett Ford Award, all for music composition.
Amy has written music for the "Performing Australian Music Competition" in London, Chronology Arts, Flip Side Strings, Scorpio Music, the Australian Youth Orchestra's Composition Programs, the Miriam Hyde Competition for Piano Composition, the Louisia MacDonald Oration (a commission to compose a fanfare for the Governor of NSW, Dr Marie Bashir), resident ensembles at "The Women's College" (within the University of Sydney) and various soloists.
Amy has sung with the Sydney Conservatorium Choir and the St. Paul’s College Chapel Choir, and is currently with the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence. Amy teaches piano and musicianship at St. Andrew’s Cathedral School Sydney and the Sydney Music Education Centre, and is a teacher and accompanist for Musicalis Australis. Amy is Music and Artistic Director of a classical music project with Scorpio Music which involves composing a number of arrangements of pop songs for a contemporary classical CD. Recent commissions include a Requiem for choir and small orchestra, a collection of 5 small violin pieces, an organ work, a piano solo and a string quartet.
Current as of the 1st of July, 2008.
Concerts with Chronology Arts