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Cat Hope’s music is conceptually driven, using mostly graphic scores, acoustic /electronic combinations and new score reading technologies. It often features aleatoric elements, drone, noise, glissandi and an ongoing fascination with low frequency sound.
Cat's composed music ranges from works for laptop duet to orchestra, with a focus on chamber works, and in 2013 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to develop her work, as well as Civitella Ranieri (Italy) and Visby International Composers residency (Sweden) fellowships. Her practice has been discussed in books such as  Sonic Writing (Magnusson, 2019), Loading the Silence (Kouvaris, 2013), Women of Note (Appleby, 2012), Sounding Postmodernism (Bennett, 2011) as well as periodicals such as Gramophone UK, The Wire, Limelight and Neu Zeitschrift Fur Musik Shaft. Her works have been recorded for Australian, German and Austrian national radio, and her work has been awarded a range of prizes including the APRA|AMC Award for Excellence in Experimental Music in 2011, 2014 and the Peggy Glanville Hicks residency.
She has founded a number of groups, most recently Decibel new music ensemble, noise improv duos Candied Limbs,  HzHzHz, Super Luminum as well as multi bass projects Abe Sada and Australian Bass Orchestra. She has also founded and written pop songs for Gata Negra (1999-2006) and has an active solo bass noise practice, which has seen her collaborate with KK Null, Whitehouse, Acid Mother Temple, Merzbow and many more. She maintains an active profile as a flute performer, recently premiering a new work written for her on alto flute by French composer Eliane Radigue (OCCAM XXVI, 2018).

"one of Australia’s most exciting and individual creative voices...a remarkable composer." Gramaphone Magazine UK, 2017.
"dense yet airy, seemingly endless streams of sound ...exquisite listening pleasure of fleeting descending sound streams" Gerardo Scheige, Neue Zeitschrift for Musik, 2018. 

"one of the most important voices of modern Australian music"  Thomas Meyer, JazzNMore, 2017.
" a magical sonic world of considerable expressive depth" Lisa McKinney, 2014
“a superstar of Australian new music"  Alex Turley, Realtime133, 2016
"Intense and dramatic" Chris Reid, Realtime, 2017
"highly successful musical innovation" Chris Reid, Realtime, 2017
"… of the five works on the program, composer Cat Hope was the most successful…she shows that “new music” can be both accessible and relevant.” Joephine Giles, Aussie Theatre, July 2012.
“.. work of great psychological and theatrical impact” Chris Reid, Realtime, 2011.

Cat Hope is currently Professor of Music at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia where she is Head of Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music. Read her academic CV here.

Awards
2017    Winner of the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik, for CD of compositions 'Ephemeral Rivers'
2014    Winner of APRA|AMC National Award for Excellence in Experimental Music. 
2013    Awarded Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.
2013    Awarded Churchill Fellowship.
2012    Winner of the ‘Peoples Choice Award’ in the Space Time Concerto Competition, Newcastle, NSW.
2011    Awarded APRA|AMC National Inaugural Award for Excellence in Experimental Music.
           Winner of State Award for Excellence in New Music.
           Nominated finalist for APRA|AMC Award for Excellence in Music Education.
2011    Finalist for the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award- Arts, Culture and Entertainment category.

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Winner, 2017.

Winner, 2014 APRA|AMC Excellence in Experimental Music Award, for work with Drawn From Sound Exhibition.

2014 Fellow.

2013 Fellow.

Winner, Peoples Choice Award, networked Performance category.

Winner, 2011 APRA|AMC Inaugral Excellence in Experimental Music Award, for development of Decibel programs in 2009 and 2010.