Robert Davidson is a prolific composer, bassist, founder and artistic director of Topology, ensemble-in-residence at the Brisbane Powerhouse, and lecturer at the University of Queensland. Davidson studied composition with Terry Riley in California before completing a composition PhD at the University of Queensland, included on the Dean's list of outstanding PhDs in 2003. Davidson's studies with Riley were made possible by a Churchill Fellowship, during which he also consulted many leading composers in the US and Europe. He previously studied South Indian vocal music in Kerala, India. Davidson was a bassist in the Australian Opera, Sydney Symphony, and Queensland Symphony orchestras and has been featured as a bassist in the Darwin International Guitar Festival, performing chamber works with John Williams, and with the Brodsky Quartet. Davidson's compositions are regularly performed, recorded, and broadcast around the world. His composition practice draws on the nuances, melodies, and rhythms of speech in an innovative interweaving of word and sound as musical narrative.




Keynote Speakers

Tom Barone, Arizona State University

Cheryl Craig, University of Houston

Robert Davidson, The University of Queensland

Ellen Dissanayake, University of Washington, Seattle

Bronwyn Lea, The University of Queensland

Sandra Stauffer, Arizona State University

Graham Welch, University of London

 

Robert Davidson - University of Queensland