bio

Chris
Watson (
PhD
-
Victoria, 2007) is a New Zealand composer and current
Mozart
Fellow 2008/2009 at the
University
of Otago. His music has enjoyed premieres by orchestras such as the
Tokyo Philharmonic, the
New
Zealand Symphony and the
West Australian,
ensembles such as
Stroma
and
175 East and soloists including
Yuji Takahashi,
Rieko
Suzuki,
Andrew Uren,
Lars Mlekusch and
Madeleine
Pierard.
He was winner of the 2002
Asian
Composers' League Young
Composers Competition, was the 2004 recipient of the Composers' Association
of New Zealand
Trust Fund
Award and won the Panel Prize in the 2006
Douglas
Lilburn Prize.
Chris graduated in 2007 with a PhD in composition from
Victoria
University of Wellington under the supervision of
Ross
Harris and
Dugal
McKinnon. A
thesis
and a body of new works investigated the effects of music notation software
on compositional practices and outcomes.
See also Chris's page at
SOUNZ.