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Linda Kouvaras

Associate Professor In Music (Musicology)
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
modernism and postmodernism
sound art
gender studies in music
Australian music
piano
arts & humanities
music
performing arts and creative writing
postmodern (rhythmic, tonal)
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Linda Kouvaras

 
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Fine Arts and Music
 
Primary Interest
Contemporary western music (esp. Australian); gender issues in music (incl. popular music of the 1960s-80s); original composition; piano music
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POSTMODERNISM IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART-MUSIC: ANALYSIS AND REAPPRAISAL

Art-music composition in Australia is vibrant and diverse but its relationship with current trends in other art practices has not been well ..

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Postmodernism in contemporary Australian art-music: analysis and reappraisal

Art-music composition in Australia is vibrant and diverse but its relationship with current trends in other art practices has not been well ..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Linda Kouvaras.

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The development of environmentally- 18 focused field recording, soundscapes and Sound Art in Australia

Linda Kouvaras

Book Chapter  |  2021

Over the past century, Sound Art—that is, music from the experimentalist tradition based on “noise”—has morphed from a celebration..

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Composer

Linda Kouvaras

Book Chapter  |  2021

Hearing Barry Conyngham’s Southern Cross: Double Concerto was “a defining moment” for composer Linda Kouvaras, Associate Professor..

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Ros Bandt: Sound-Sculptor/ Poet-Protector/ Crusader of the Land

Linda Kouvaras

Journal article  |  2020  |  Resonate Magazine

This article, commissioned by the Australian Music Centre to mark the announcement, in August 2020, of Ros Bandt's Art Music Award..

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Ros Bandt: Sound-Sculptor/ Poet-Protector/ Crusader of the Land

Linda Kouvaras

Journal article  |  2020  |  Resonate Magazine

Linda Kouvaras's article was written to mark the announcement, in August 2020, of Ros Bandt's Art Music Award for Distinguished Se..

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Subjective Beats Metaphor (1983), by Chris Mann and Warren Burt

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Journal article  |  2020  |  The Open Space Magazine

Extract from Chapter Three: ‘The Dawning of Australian Sound Art’, Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital A..

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Northcote Days

Linda Kouvaras, Deviani Segal

Recorded or Rendered Work - Performance  |  2019

This piano duet recording (with fellow pianist performer, Deviani Segal) was made at the behest of Move Records as part of “A spec..

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…until it's gone: rhapsody on loss

Linda Kouvaras

Original Creative Work - Musical Composition  |  2019

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(Post?-)Feminism, “New Topicality” and the “New Empathy”: Australian Composers Working with the Concrete

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Book Chapter  |  2018

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FUNDRAISER FOR LIDIA THORPE to win NORTHCOTE IN NOVEMBER

Linda Kouvaras, Deviani Segal

Live Performance of Creative Work  |  2018

These three house concerts were co-curated, with fellow pianist performer, Deviani Segal, to raise funds towards the re-election o..

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From port essington to the himalayas: Music, place and spirituality in two contemporary australian compositions

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Book Chapter  |  2018

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Arts and Leisure
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Performing Arts
Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Higher Education
Non-Oriented Research

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Faculty Special Studies Leave (Long) (SSP(L)) program Semester 2
2014

IASPM-ANZ Rebecca Coyle Publication Prize
2014

Recording of 1-min Work ‘60x60 Melbourne’: ‘Welcome to Melbourne’

Australasian Computer Music Conference 2014 Commission
2012

Research projects

Faculty Special Studies Leave (Long) (SSP(L)) program Semester 2
2010

3-week Residency

Bundanon Artist in Residence Program
2010

Fanfare for Brass and Percussion, for Melbourne Town Hall concert to celebrate newly amalgamated Faculty

School of Music, the University of Melbourne Commission
2009

Full Composer Representation

Australian Music Centre
2005

Co-Chief Investigator, Discovery Project: ‘Postmodernism in contemporary Australian art music: analysis and reappraisal’

Australian Research Council
2004

Co-Chief Investigator: ‘Pilot Study for the First Sustained Investigation of Postmodernism in Australian Art-Music'

Faculty of Arts Seeding Grant
2003

Young Voices of Melbourne

Arts Victoria Commission
2002

Chief Investigator: ‘Constructions of Identity in Contemporary Australian “Art” Music’

Early Career MRDG (Melbourne Research Development Grant)
2001

5-week Residency

Bundanon Artist in Residence Program
2000

6-week Residency

Bundanon Artist in Residence Program
2000

To record CD of original piano works

Ian Potter Grant
1999

6-week Residency

Bundanon Artist in Residence Program
1993

To undertake Doctoral Degree

Mabel Kent Scholarship
1992

To undertake Doctoral Degree

Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship
1992

To undertake Doctoral Degree

Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship
1990

To undertake Masters Degree (Piano)

Australian Postgraduate Research Award
1989

For ‘best student in final year of course’

Catherine Grace McWilliam Prize
1989

For ‘4th-Year Hons pianist, continuing piano studies’

Doris F. Chandler Memorial Bursary
1989

To undertake Masters Degree (Piano)

Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award
1987

For Pianoforte performance

Una Bourne Scholarship
1987

For academic merit

Ivy May Pendlebury Bursary
1987

For ‘Pianist entering 4th Year who shows the most promise in the interpretation of the classical music’

Florence Menck Meyer Prize
1986

In piano

First Prize Athanasas Karabatsas Instrumentalists’ and Singers’ Competition
1986

For ‘A student who has completed the first two years of the course and who shows promise worthy of develop

Eric and Linda Jullyan Memorial Scholarship
1986

For ‘The student who has completed the second year of the degree course and who is placed first in the class list i

Wright Prize in Instrumental Music
1986

For academic merit

Ivy May Pendlebury Bursary
1986

For Pianoforte Performance

Una Bourne Scholarship
1991

HWF - Hugh Williamson Fellowship

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor In Music (Musicology)

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Ordinary

American Musicological Society

Ordinary

IASPM Aust-NZ

Writer Full Member

Australasian Performing Rights Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Music

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Music (Honours)

University of Melbourne

Associate of Music Australia

Australian Music Examinations Board