Profiles
JENNIFER FOWLER (1939) studied at the University of Western Australia, where she won the University’s Convocation Award for outstanding results. Since 1969, she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer.
She has won a number of international prizes for composition, including awards from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin; the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain; the GEDOK International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim; the Paul Lowin Awards, Australia; the Miriam Gideon Prize; the Christopher Bodman Memorial Composers' Prize, UK; the International Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize; and the Marin Goleminov International Composition Prize. These last two prizes were awarded in 2009.
Her music has been included in such prestigious international festivals as the ISCM World Music Days; the Gaudeamus Music Week, Holland; the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, UK; and Women in Music festivals in USA, UK, Italy, Australia, and China.
She has had commissions from such organisations as the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Perth International Arts Festival, the Music Board of the Australia Council, the Song Company in Sydney, Donne in Musica, Italy, and Women in Music (UK).
In 2011 she was commissioned to write a piece for oboe and piano for the "Music in the Village" festival at Walthamstow, London E17. This will be premiered on 23rd February, 2012. In 2010 she was commissioned by the Whitehall Orchestra to write a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra, premiered at St John's Smith Square, London on 26th March 2011, with Amy Dickson as soloist. The same piece was also performed by the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic in Sydney on 21 & 22 May 2011. Other recent performances have been in Beijing, Melbourne, Rome, Sofia, Adelaide, Oxford, Arizona, Perth and London.