Featured Collaborator: John Polglase
Born in Adelaide in 1959, John Polglase lives and works in Adelaide. He completed both his Bachelor of Music (Honours – Composition) and Master of Music (Composition) at the University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Graeme Koehne and Richard Meale. He has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leonardo Prize, the South Australian Young Composers Competition, the Alex Burnard Scholarship, the Australian Society for Music Education Young Composers Competition, and the Dr Ruby Davies Prize for Composition. He was a founding member and co-director of the Firm, a composers collective in Adelaide, from 1996-2004. He currently lectures in composition at the University of Adelaide, and has also lectured at both Flinders University and the University of South Australia.