FOWLER, Jennifer

  JENNIFER FOWLER was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1939. During her student years at the University of Western Australia she won several composition prizes and was awarded the University's Convocation Award for outstanding results. While still a student, she had pieces performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by the ABC. In 1968 she spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht, on a Dutch Government scholarship. Since 1969, she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer.
Prizes
- 1970 shared 1st prize from International Composers' Prize, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
- 1971 joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain
- 1975 1st prize in the International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim, Germany
- 2001 high commendation in Paul Lowin Prize, Australia.
- 2003 the Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music
- 2006 2nd prize in the Christopher Bodman Memorial Competition, UK
- 2009 the international Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize
- 2009 equal winner of the Marin Goleminov First International Composition Contest in Bulgaria.

Works
nbspHer output includes orchestral works, chamber pieces, works for voice and instrumental ensemble, solo music and vocal ensembles of various kinds. She has written for top professional players and also for amateurs and children.
Festivals
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; the International Sydney Spring Festival; the Perth International Arts Festival, Australia; City of London Festival; Women in Music festivals in London, Atlanta, Alaska, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Rome, and Beijing; and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
Commissions
She has had pieces commissioned by such organisations as the BBC; the ABC; the Festival of Perth; the Music Board of the Australia Council; the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain; the Seymour Group, Sydney; the Song Company, Sydney; Donne in Musica, Italy; Women in Music (UK); the Whitehall Orchestra, London; and the University of Western Australia.