one of “the finest young musicians you could hope to hear within Australia”
- Fever Pitch Magazine, 11/11/2019
ABOUT BRIDGET
Currently undertaking a Composition Masters at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Bridget Bourne is an award-winning percussionist-composer hailing from Melbourne/Naarm, Australia.
As both performer and composer, her work explores the boundaries that link music, dance, art, and theatre – unearthing the musicality of physical gesture, the rhythm of visual art, and the melody of everyday objects. Her works have been performed around the world including in the United States of America, Switzerland, and across Australia.
A keen collaborator, she has a particular affinity for cross-disciplinary and explorative performance, as evidenced in her work with the National College of Dance’s performances of ‘Banged and Tapped’, and her collaboration with Juliana Kay on their APRA AMCOS Art Music Award Nominated song cycle ‘Earth-Shaped Hearts’, commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Classic Composer Commissioning Fund.
Bridget excels in theatrically captivating and intricate performances, as exemplified by her most recent work ‘256Hz’ for tuning forks, gesture, and microphones which she premiered in January of this year. As an ensemble member, she has toured to China, Singapore, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and New Zealand as well as extensively throughout Australia. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Joyce McKenna Scholarship from the University of Melbourne, awarded to the most talented classical graduate from the previous year’s cohort of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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