Jennifer Fowler Recordings

Jennifer Fowler was born in Bunbury, Western Australia in 1939. She studied at the University of Western Australia, where she won composition prizes and the University’s Convocation Award. In 1968 she spent a year in Holland at 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.

Her international prizes for composition include:
Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1970; Radcliffe Award of Great Britain, 1971; International Competition GEDOK, Mannheim, 1975; Miriam Gideon Prize, (USA) 2003; Bodman Memorial Competition, (UK) 2006; Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize, (USA) 2009 and Goleminov Contest, Bulgaria, 2009.

Her output includes orchestral works, chamber pieces, solo music and vocal ensembles of all kinds. Performances of works including some on this album have taken place recently in Australia, Hong Kong, Austria and the UK and her new work Bassoon Solo was given its premiere at the London Festival of New Wind Music in October, 2018.

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.