Contemporary Musical Virtuosities

This edited collection explores recent insights into the experience and role of virtuosity in different contexts, via contributions from an intergenerational group of artists, academics, and artist-academics and offers a vision for the future that prioritises inclusive and overlapping practices and processes in music.

Louise Devenish is a contemporary percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, collaboration and artistic research. She is Senior Research Fellow and Percussion Coordinator at Monash University, where she is undertaking an Australian Research Council DECRA in artistic research, developing performance works with collaborators across music, visual arts, digital arts and design. Additional projects include ARC Special Research Initiative on gender diversity in Australian jazz and improvisation, and ongoing artistic research in animated notation (Decibel New Music) and contemporary music performance (The Sound Collectors Lab). Her writing on music performance, Australian music, and notation is published in Contemporary Music Review, Tempo, Musicology Australia, Music & Practice, and Percussive Notes, and monograph Global Percussion Innovations: The Australian Perspective. Her creative work has been acknowledged by awards and grants including a Churchill Fellowship.

Cat Hope is an artist scholar whose research interests include animated notation, gender and music, Australian music, digital archiving as well as music composition and performance as artistic research. She is currently Professor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne. She is vice president of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) and a reviewer for a number of journals and conferences. She was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts, on the Humanities and Creative Arts panel (2016-2019).