Abigail Lui : Associate Artist
Abigail Lui (b. 2003) is a Brisbane-based composer and violinist inspired by the stories we tell to make sense of the world. A recipient of ABC Classic's 2024 Composer Commissioning Fund, she was awarded the Adelaide Chamber Music School's 2022 Composition Prize for her string quartet Sunrise, and is a 2024 Australian Youth Orchestra Composition Participant, 2023 Composer Fellow with Queensland Youth Orchestras (QYO), 2022-23 Mentee in Topology's Launchpad Mentorship Program, and Choral Composition Fellow of the Singapore choir Vox Camerata's 2022-23 Choral Collective Residency Programme. In 2023, her orchestral works To the New Day, Myora and Three Park Songs were workshopped and performed by QYO ensembles. In 2022, she was commissioned by Voices of Birralee to write Sandcastles for the Queensland Day in Song Festival and wrote and performed film music for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. In 2020, her choral work Hope, written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was premiered virtually by Vocal Australia. Abigail is in her fourth year at the University of Queensland, studying composition with Dr Robert Davidson and violin performance with Courtenay Cleary, and previously Adam Chalabi. Other composition mentors include Paul Dean, Lachlan Skipworth, Cameron Patrick, Nicole Murphy, Anne Cawrse, Corrina Bonshek, and Erik Griswold.
Biography provided by the composer — current to July 2024