I A I N  G R A N D A G E - B I O G R A P H Y

Iain Grandage is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Youth Orchestras of Australia, having most recently completed a similar residency with the WA Symphony Orchestra.

He has won Helpmann and Green Room Awards for theatre scores, which include Cloudstreet, The Blue Room, Babes in the Wood, Plainsong, Merry-Go-Round in the Sea & True West .

He has been a member of Bulletin Magazine’s Smart 100, and has won APRA/AMC awards for his orchestral orchestral works, and has orchestrated songs for Ben Folds, Augie March, Tim & Tex and the Whitlams. He has composed an opera for children, scores for dance projects, and incidental music for BBC Radio3 and Radio4.

In 1996 and 1998, Iain was musical director and arranger for the national tours of Jimmy Chi’s multi award winning Corrugation Road, and his involvement with indigenous musicians has continued through his collaborations with the Spinifex people of central Australia, initially on the theatre work Career Highlights of the Mamu, and more recently with concert works in collaboration with WASO, and Topology. A documentary on these collaborations titled 'Ooldea' aired on ABC TV in March 2007.

His concert compositions have been performed throughout Australia and overseas by the Australian Voices, Australian Boys’ Choir, St Peter’s Chorale, Collegium Musicum, WA Youth Orchestra and the WA Symphony Orchestra.

As a performer, he plays in the funk cello band wood, contemporary ensemble Pi, the Australian Art Orchestra, and moonlights with a cabaret singer called Meowmeow.

Future projects include a song cycle for Sara Macliver titled Blackwood, a quintet for the Brodsky Quartet with Craig Ogden, touring in Europe with the dance-theatre work Lawn, working with The Black Arm Band and composing the score for a new dance-theatre piece for Cologne Theatre.