Curriculum vitae: Caitlin Rowley

Photograph of Caitlin Rowley by Studio Commercial, Sydney

 

Professional associations

Australian Music Centre - Associate represented composer (from 2002)

Offered associate representation status as a result of assessment of submitted compositions by a panel of stylistically sympathetic composers.

Music Arrangers' Guild of Australia - Accredited music copyist (from 1999)

Accepted as a copyist member using Finale. MAGA no. 398

 

Education and qualifications

Graduate Diploma in Design

University of Technology, Sydney (2000-2005)

Graduated with Distinction.

Elective subjects included New Media Aesthetics, Introducing Audio Production and Internet Design (Flash).

Screen composition seminar

Australian Film Television and Radio School (1998)

Selective three-day intensive course led by Jan Preston. Precursor of AFTRS' current screen composition degree course.

Bachelor of Music (Honours) - Composition major

University of Sydney (1991-1995)

Composition tuition with Professor Peter Sculthorpe (1992-1995) and Professor Eric Gross (1991).

Elective subjects included Stravinsky Seminar, Palaeography, Mediaeval Spanish Music, Italian, English.

Honours research paper, Satie the Neoclassicist, overseen by Professor Peter Sculthorpe.

Advanced Certificate of Information Technology (incomplete)

Central Queensland University (through Open Learning Australia) (1996)

Two subjects completed - Programming 1A and Fundamentals of Computer Hardware - with High Distinctions gained in both.

Film music seminar: 'Low-budget music for the no-budget film'

Australian Guild of Screen Composers, Australian Screen Directors Association (1997)

One-evening seminar on writing effective music for low-budget films.

 

Professional experience

Web design/development

Raspberry Blue Ltd (2007- )

Short-term contracts through own limited company, interspersed with periods of composition and work on own projects. Most recently, completed a contract for Imperial College, working on their e-learning system.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (Australia, UK, Global firms) (2000-2005)

Worked on public sites and intranets for the Australian, UK and Global firms. Landmark projects included clevercompanies.com.au (design/development), Global Migration Project (assisting firms around the world to migrate to a new design for pwc.com) and project-managing a reworking of the UK firm's online visual identity.

Harvest Communication (freelance client)

HTML, CSS, JavaScript coding and Flash development for provided designs for sites including palmbeachinsydney.com and dermatech.com.au

Australian Music Centre (1998-2000)

Redesigned the Centre's website, improving site architecture and bringing the look of the site into line with the Centre's recently-implemented offline visual identity. Ongoing maintenance, hand-coding HTML, image preparation, writing/adapting existing content for the web.

Currency Press (freelance client)

Redesigned website, tying the new design in with existing print materials. Reworked code to bring into line with then-current best practices. Hand-coded HTML, image preparation.

New Music Network (freelance client)

Designed websites for a number of NMN members, including Sydney Spring Festival and Machine for Making Sense

Georges Lentz (freelance client)

Taught composer Georges Lentz the basics of maintaining his own webpages. This involved setting up the site using his own designs and showing him how to update and expand it. He has since gone on to teach himself more about web development and expand his site significantly.

Editorial, music copying and other services

Australian Music Centre (1996-2000)

Held a number of positions at the Centre, starting as Project Officer on the NFRAM website project, then becoming Shop Manager and finally Publications Co-ordinator and Webmaster (see above). As Publications Co-ordinator (from 1998), was responsible for the writing, editing, QA, layout, pre-press and printing of Centre publications including Sounds Australian journal and the bi-monthly AMC Update.

Australasian Performing Right Association (freelance client)

Wrote an expert-witness musicological report for use in a copyright dispute.

Australian Music Centre (freelance client)

Created musical examples, typeset scores and wrote and edited text for education kits.

Bravo! magazine (freelance client)

Concert review writer.

Film composition

The blood feud (dir. Katie Speight, UK) 2005: interactive narrative

Fetisssh (dir. Simone O'Callaghan) 1998: website video project

infernal (dir. Leo Martyn, Sweden) 1997

One from the Vault (dir. Lynette Slater) 1997

Nightride (dir. Martin Myers) 1997: for AFTRS Screen Composition Seminar (original score by Carlo Giacco)

Episode (dir. Brad Keyes) 1996

Toybox (dir. Warren Lees) 1995: won 3rd prize (non-fiction) National Student Film and Video Competition

The Short Road Home (dir. Michelle Doyle) 1995

Saturday (dir. Leo Martyn) 1995

Practical Music Teaching

Private flute teacher (1991-4)

Private musicianship teacher (1993)

 

Compositions & arrangements

View a list of selected compositions and arrangements by Caitlin Rowley.

 

Selected publications

Articulation: Newsletter of the Sydney Chapter of the Musicological Society of Australia. Member of the editorial committee; graphic design & layout in PageMaker; some proof-reading and copy-editing

Barkl, Michael. Burning House: Music Resource Kit. Proofing, copy editing, typesetting of the score of Tony Lewis' Alien Moon and contribution of some suggested exercises for Aural, Composition and Performance.

Carrigan, Jeanell. Australian Post-1970 Solo Piano Works: An Annotated Guide. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1997 (1st ed.), 1998 (2nd ed.). Proofing, copy editing and (2nd edition only) some research of recordings.

Carrigan, Jeanell (piano). But I Want the Harmonica... CD recording. Vox Australis VAST023-2, Australian Music Centre, Sydney 1998. Proofing, copy editing, writing of composer biographies for liner notes.

Denning, Kim & Caitlin Rowley (compilers). Index to Sounds Australian Journal. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1997.

Lalor, Stephen. Clocks: Music Resource Kit. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1999. Proof-reading, typesetting of musical examples.

Lalor, Stephen. Heartbreak High: Music Resource Kit. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1998. Typesetting of musical examples, creation of guitar fretboard diagrams and keyboard diagrams.

Macarthur, Sally & Cate Poynton (eds) Musics and Feminisms. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1999. Proofing, typesetting of musical examples, bibliography checking/proofing.

Pusz, Ryszard. Time and Again...: Essential Practice for Percussion. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1998. Copy editing, proof-reading, troubleshooting in Finale files provided by the author as the basis of the book.

Rowley, Caitlin. 'Composer's search for leisure and silence' (article on Peggy Glanville-Hicks) in 2MBS-FM Stereo FM Radio, July 1999.

Rowley, Caitlin. 'Composers without borders' (article on young Australian composers influenced by popular music) in 2MBS-FM Stereo FM Radio, January 2000.

Rowley, Caitlin. 'Down the rabbit hole: Martin Wesley-Smith, David Del Tredici and the works of Lewis Carroll' in 2MBS-FM Stereo FM Radio, October 2002.

Rowley, Caitlin. Erik Satie's Crystal Ball <http://www.minim-media.com/satie/>. Musicological research site. Online since 1998.

Rowley, Caitlin. 'Review: Darlington School Composers: A Night of New Music' in Bravo! no. 1, Sydney, 1998.

Rowley, Caitlin. 'Review: SSO Messiaen Concert' in Bravo! no. 2, Sydney, 1998.

Rowley, Caitlin (ed.). Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape. Australian Music Centre and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Sydney, 1998.

Rowley, Caitlin & Graeme Skinner (eds). The Composer Speaks II: Proceedings of the 1990 New Music Conference. Australian Music Centre, Sydney, 1998.