PALMER, Georgina

Georgina Palmer (b. 2002) is an emerging composer and arts practitioner from Aotearoa New Zealand, and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. Her notable composition highlights to date include winning the 2020 NZCF/SOUNZ Big Sing Choral Composition Competition, winning the 2022 Audrey Reid Orchestra Composition Prize, having a work performed by the 2022 National Youth Brass Band of NZ, having a work performed in the 2022 Celebrating Global Harmony Through Music concert at Carnegie Hall (NYC), winning the 2024 RSCM Harold Smart Composition Prize, and being selected as a finalist for both the Todd Young Composer Awards (NZ) and the prestigious County Hall Arts Peace Symphony Concours (UK) in 2025. She was the Emerging Composer for the 2023 At The World's Edge Classical Music Festival in Queenstown, NZ, and participated in the 2025 Vienna Contemporary Composers' Festival, and continues to intertwine her composition practice with her passion for dance, film, and other creative mediums.