Tim Dargaville is an award winning composer whose music is a distinctive voice in recent Australian contemporary music. His compositions include work for the concert platform, as well as music and sound design for theatre productions, and have received international recognition with performances at the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), the Unerhorte Musik series (Berlin), the East-West Music and Dance Encounter (India), the Wigmore Hall Masters Series (London, UK), and the Rotterdam Bach Festival (Netherlands). In Australia, his music has been broadcast on ABC radio and national television, featured in the Melbourne and Sydney International Festivals, awarded the prestigious Albert Maggs award, the Jean Bogan prize and an Ian Potter Music Commission. Compositions have also been nominated for both Sounds Australian and Green Room Awards for best new work.

In 2017 Tim Dargaville was the subject of a composer portrait concert Speaking in Tongues; held at the Salon at the Melbourne Recital Centre, and broadcast nationally on ABC FM. He has also been the recipient of two Asialink Artists Residencies, researching the South Indian vocal percussion art form Konnakol, and its creative potential for generating new music. His PhD practice based research in this area has been recently published internationally in the 2017 Perspectives on Artistic Research (ed. Burke and Onsman, Rowman and Little). Recordings have been released on ABC Classics, Move Records and The Divine Art (UK).

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