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We are so proud of Old Girl Kate Milligan (2013), who was awarded the 2022 Schenberg Music Fellowship. The Fellowship, overseen by the University of Western Australia’s Conservatorium of Music, is a prize for composition awarded to high-performing tertiary students at a recognised WA institution to allow them to undertake further study in composition interstate or overseas.
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This fellowship, as well as support from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, is allowing Kate to complete a Master of Art the Royal College of Art, London, in interdisciplinary practice. The Schenberg Art and Music Fellowships are prestigious awards made possible by a generous UWA philanthropic supporter medical doctor, art collector and accomplished jazz pianist the late Dr Harold Schenberg, who died in 2000. Kate Milligan is a composer, conductor and researcher. Her works are experimental and evocative, drawing on influences from many disciplines. Kate’s most recent work, Lux Levis, was commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) for violinist Josef Hanna (Victoria). She has also written for the Summers Night Project, Perth Orchestra Project, Decibel New Music Ensemble, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (Young and Emerging Composition Project). Kate regularly conducts the Perth Symphony Orchestra (PSO), having been appointed as the inaugural Conducting Fellow in 2020-21. Kate’s current course of study is Master of Art, Information Experience Design, at the Royal College of Art. This is an interdisciplinary design course with a heavy focus on collaboration. Kate hopes to improve upon her digital audio literacy, as well as her skillset in graphic/animated scoring and sound installation. Kate holds a MMus (musicology) and a BA (Hons) (composition) from the University of Western Australia. Her prior research on gender an aesthetics in new opera is published in TEMPO: A Quarterly Review of New Music, Cambridge University Press. News about Kate has featured in Resonate Magazine, Seesaw Magazine and Limelight Magazine and her work has been aired on ABC Classic FM.
Minna (Mitchell) George (1962) dropped in to organise her 60-year Reunion and noticed a hat an Old Girl had donated. She saw it had her sister's name signed on the brim - Joy (Mitchell) Rogers (1955) (dec.). This was a touching moment for Minna who had not seen the hat before! Kate, we're so proud and excited for you!
