Dr Peter McNamara

Peter completed a PhD at Sydney University in 2011 and was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award, as well as a Masters of Music in 2006 and Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2003.

2015 APRA Professional Development Award (Classical Category)

2014 Gallipoli Songs Prize

2008 Sibelius Emerging Composer Commission

2008 2MBS FM Young Composer Prize for Orchestral Composition

2007 Betty Amsden Award for Orchestral Composition

Peter McNamara’s compositional interests extend across a wide variety of experimental music genres including orchestral, chamber, film and multi-media. He has a particular interest in applying music technology and the physics of sound in his compositions, and has conducted research into the Live Electronic music genre.

Peter McNamara’s current projects include a number of multi-media works with chamber instrumentation and live electronics/video. He is also co-authoring a research article discussing compositional approaches setting ancient texts to music.

Creative Outputs

2021, De Rerum Natura (Song Cycle Composition)

2021, De Rerum Natura (Album Release)

2019, Sideband: Renaissance (Curated Performance Event)

2019, Land of Cruelty (Composition)

2015, The General’s Garden (Composition)

2013, Amplitude (Composition)

2012, Perpetual Inertia (Composition)

2012, Mountain Study (Video and Sound Installation)

2005, Landscape of Diffracted Colours (Composition)

Journal Papers

2016, “Contrasting Approaches: The Continued Relevance of Pre-recorded Live Electronic Music in Australian Music”.  Musicology Australia, 38.1 (2016): 46-64

Conference Papers

2018, “Contrasting Approaches: The Continued Relevance of Pre-recorded Live Electronic Music”.  Australasian Computer Music Conference Proceedings (2018): 46-50.