A/Prof Linda Kouvaras is a musicologist, composer and pianist. She holds a continuing position in Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, and publishes in contemporary music, both classical and popular, focusing especially on Australian music, postmodernism and gender issues in music.
After several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s playing in rock and New Wave/Punk bands and for theatre productions, Linda resumed classical piano studies in the UK in 1984, returning to complete her studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, under A/Profs Ronald Farren-Price and Max Cooke, culminating in a Masters Degree in Piano in 1991. Her research work was supervised by Dr Brenton Broadstock, Dr Naomi Cumming, and historian Dr David Goodman and led to her PhD in Musicology in 1996. She has taught in tertiary Music since 1989. Linda Kouvaras's publications appear in all of Australia's musicological journals and in international forums. A substantial Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant (2005-08), where she was co-Chief Investigator, led to her monograph, https://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409441564 (Ashgate, 2013). This book was awarded the Rebecca Coyle Publication Prize in 2014 for the “publication representing popular music in the Australia-New Zealand region in a given year” through the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia / New Zealand. It has also garnered several reviews, all favourable, and has led to invitations for Linda to speak in public forums. Recordings of her works and piano performances appear on Move Records, with the ABC and independent release; they receive frequent radio broadcasts. Her compositions are played at recitals and festivals nationally and internationally. She has full composer representation with APRA-AMCOS and also publishes with Reed Music. Her solo CD is Kouvaras: PianoWorks (Move Records, 2000) and the most recent CD recording to feature her music is The Sky is Melting (Marianne Rothschild, Violin and Glenn Riddle, Piano, on Move Records, 2014). Linda has enjoyed several artist-in-residence stays at Bundanon, the Boyd Estate in NSW, 1999–2010. Linda Kouvaras is resident Academic Coordinator in Music and Performing Arts at Ormond College, the University of Melbourne and has tutored in Music there since 1993. Linda examines in piano for the Australian Music Examinations Board and maintains a select piano teaching studio.Subjects she is currently teaching at the MCM are Music History 3: Impressionism to Present (with A/Prof Michael Christoforidis); Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music; Art-Music and Postmodernism; Music as Noise: Making Sound Art; and Music Language 2: Chromaticism and Beyond. She enjoys a vibrant supervisory interaction with her PhD, MMus and Hons Dissertation students across a broad range of research areas, centring on contemporary music and gender issues.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Recording of 1-min Work ‘60x60 Melbourne’: ‘Welcome to Melbourne’
Research projects
3-week Residency
Fanfare for Brass and Percussion, for Melbourne Town Hall concert to celebrate newly amalgamated Faculty
Full Composer Representation
Co-Chief Investigator, Discovery Project: ‘Postmodernism in contemporary Australian art music: analysis and reappraisal’
Co-Chief Investigator: ‘Pilot Study for the First Sustained Investigation of Postmodernism in Australian Art-Music'
Young Voices of Melbourne
Chief Investigator: ‘Constructions of Identity in Contemporary Australian “Art” Music’
5-week Residency
6-week Residency
To record CD of original piano works
6-week Residency
To undertake Doctoral Degree
To undertake Doctoral Degree
To undertake Doctoral Degree
To undertake Masters Degree (Piano)
For ‘4th-Year Hons pianist, continuing piano studies’
To undertake Masters Degree (Piano)
For ‘best student in final year of course’
For Pianoforte performance
For academic merit
For ‘Pianist entering 4th Year who shows the most promise in the interpretation of the classical music’
In piano
For ‘A student who has completed the first two years of the course and who shows promise worthy of develop
For ‘The student who has completed the second year of the degree course and who is placed first in the class list i
For academic merit
For Pianoforte Performance
HWF - Hugh Williamson Fellowship
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
Ordinary
Senior Common Room, Ormond College
Ordinary
Australian Music Centre
Ordinary
Musicological Society of Australia
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