AUSTRALIAN PERCUSSIONIST | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | ADVOCATE
Prodigiously talented Australian…Edwardes’ is an
invigorating musical life force.
The Age
Unique treasure of Australia’s
musical community.
Limelight
AUSTRALIAN PERCUSSIONIST | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | ADVOCATE
Prodigiously talented Australian…Edwardes’ is an invigorating musical life force.
The Age
Unique treasure of Australia’s
musical community.
Limelight
about
Claire Edwardes OAM is Australia's ‘sorceress of percussion’ and the only Australian to win the APRA Art Music Luminary Award four times. A charismatic percussion virtuosi, Claire leaps between her roles as Ensemble Offspring’s Artistic Director/CEO, recital and concerto soloist, recording artist, leader, curator, mentor, advocate & cultural activist. In 2022 Claire was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her indelible contribution to Australian music and in 2023 she was the recipient of the Australian Women in Music Award for Creative Leadership. Having commissioned more than 80 solo works, she has collaborated with international composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Steve Reich and Anna Meredith and Australian's including Elena Kats-Chernin, Ross Edwards and Kate Moore.
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which I live and create, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. This land has been a place of culture and music making for over 60,000 years and we are very fortunate to make art and continue a living culture on it.