Vanessa Tomlinson (born 1971) is an Australian percussionist, composer, artistic director and educator. She is Director of Creative Arts Research Institute and Head of Percussion at
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian ...
and has produced 150 publications. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Clocked Out, along with
Erik Griswold
Erik Griswold (born 1969) is an American-born, Australian-based composer and pianist from Brisbane.
Career
Griswold began playing piano at the age of five, and has cited his early influences as Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartok, and Miles Davis, a ...
.
Career
In 1993 Tomlinson was awarded a recording contract with Etcetera Records, and won two awards for her percussion.
Upon completing her degree in Adelaide, Tomlinson studied with
Bernhard Wulff
Bernhard Wulff (born 1948 in Hamburg) is a German composer, conductor, percussionist and musicologist.
Wulff studied conducting, composition and percussion in Hamburg, Freiburg, Basel and Siena and is professor for percussion instruments at the H ...
and
Robert van Sice
Robert van Sice is an American percussionist and marimba player. He has toured and recorded extensively, currently teaches at the Yale School of Music (where he was appointed Director of Percussion Studies in 1997) and the Peabody Conservatory of ...
at
Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany. She then moved to San Diego to complete a Masters under
Steven Schick,
and completed a Doctor Of Musical Arts in 2000.
Since 2000 she has collaborated with her partner Erik Griswold and released several albums together as Clocked Out Duo. They won two
Green Room Awards
The Green Room Awards are peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, drama, fringe theatre, musical theatre and opera in Melbourne.
The awards were started in 1982 when Blair Edgar and Steven Tandy formed the Green Room Awards A ...
for their collaboration ''Dada Cabare'' in 2000,
and later won the Award for Excellence by an Organisation or Individual and Queensland State Award at
2011's APRA and AMC Art Music Awards for their work as Clocked Out.
In 2017 Tomlinson began a collaboration titled TOMLIN , FERGUS with Dr John Ferguson, an academic at the
Queensland Conservatorium of Music
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (formerly the Queensland Conservatorium of Music) is a selective, audition based music school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is part of Griffith University.
History
The Conservatori ...
where Tomlinson also taught.
In 2018 Tomlinson released her debut solo album ''The Space Inside'' on
Room40
Room40 is an Australian independent record label founded by Lawrence English.
The label has released work by Australian and international musicians such as Erik Griswold, Chihei Hatakeyama, Mike Cooper, Ben Frost, and Beatriz Ferreyra. They h ...
on cassette tape.
Discography
2019 - ''Pateras Collected Works Vol. II (2005-2018)'' Immediata
2018 - ''The Space Inside'' Room40
2017 - ''Ephemoral Rivers'' Hat Hut Records
2017 - ''Water Pushes Sand'' Jazzhead Records
2015 - ''Time Crystals'' Innova Records
2015 - ''Daughters Fever'' Hellosquare Recordings
2010 - ''From Small Things Grow'' Clocked Out
2010 - ''fish boast of fishing'' Listen Hear Collective
2010 - ''Foreign Objects'' Clocked Out
2007 - ''Wide Alley'' Clocked Out
2006 - ''Xenakis Complete Percussion Works'' Mode
2004 - ''Mutant Theatre'' Tzadik
2002 - ''Water Pushes Sand'' Clocked Out
2000 - ''Every Night the Same Dream'' Clocked Out
1997 - ''Ferneyhough Solo Works'' Etcetera
Awards
References
External links
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Performance of Sonic Dream by Vanessa Tomlinson and John Ferguson(20 minute audio-video)
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Living people
Australian women artists
Place of birth missing (living people)
1971 births