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LYDIA GARDINER
COMPOSER & MUSICIAN
Lydia Gardiner is a composer and singer from Perth, Australia. Her work as a composer focuses on developing a harmonic language that uses tonality in a novel and distinctive way, combined with careful manipulation of timbre to evoke image to create a communicative link between herself, the performer, and the listener. She holds a bachelor’s degree with first class honours in Music Composition from the University of Western Australia and a Master in Music Composition with distinction for mastery of large-scale musical dramaturgy. She was the recipient of the Holland and Excellence Scholarships as well as receiving the Henk van der Meulen Award for the best composition exam (2025).
“To Gardiner’s A New Ceremony of Carols, Sonus Angelorum brought the same stylistic versatility and beauty of sound to the new work as they had to its elder. In composing for the choir, Gardiner—who also doubled (tripled!) as choral singer and soloist in the work—more than equalled the work of her predecessor, building on and expanding the harmonic language and stylistic diversity set before her.”
Limelight Magazine on A New Ceremony of Carols