Ros Bandt
[composer/performer]

Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and sound sculptor who lives and works in Melbourne. Her work includes musical compositions, improvisations, sculptures, interactive installations, sound art, environmental sound landscapes, visual notations, writings and spatial music.

Her 'sounding spaces' are constantly in demand in Europe, America and Australasia. Ccommissions include Radio Cologne, ISCM Warsaw, Transit, Radio Vienna and the Sound Symposium Newfoundland. She curated the first woman's sound art show in Australia in 1994. In 1990 Ros was the first woman to win the Don Banks Composers Award and in 1991 won the ABC/WDR joint Sound Art Prize. In 1993, she was inaugural Benjamin Cohen peace fellow at Ball State University, Indiana. She also tours and records with two ensembles, the early music quartet La Romanesca and the cross cultural group Back to Back Zithers (MD3141). On her 'Glass and Clay' CD, Ros is joined by Judy Lorraine.