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Kitty Xiao : Associate Artist

Random Audio Sample: Brought Into Morning (satb choir with string orchestra) by Kitty Xiao, from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 121.


Photo of Kitty Xiao

Photo: Owen Marshall

Kitty Xiao is a New York based composer, electronic musician and pianist from Naarm/Melbourne. Her music involves electro-acoustic and acoustic compositions, and live analog electronics which explore the relationship between sound and physical embodiment. Currently her music is concerned with questions which arise from the body, the experience it carries, and its role in social change. Through exploring the sonic limits of perception and sensation her music seeks to discover interconnectedness between social bodies and imaginaries.

Her music is represented by the Australian Music Centre and she is the recipient of the 2022 APRA Professional Development Award (AU), 2021 Sounds Australia Export Stimulus Program (AU), 2020 Belle S. Gitelman Award (US), 2019 Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize (US) and is an Alfred Kitchin scholar (UK). She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Music Composition at Columbia University, studying composition with Georg Friedrich Haas and George Lewis.

Selected performances of her work include: Ensemble Modern (GER), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (GER), Mivos Quartet (US), Sarasota Orchestra (US), Switch~ Ensemble (US), OSSIA New Music (US), line upon line percussion (US), Transient Canvas (US), Panoramic Voices (US), Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (US), Frequency Shift (US), Modular World (US), Slow Rise Music (CAN), Modulate TV (UK), Clan Analogue (AU), Australian National Academy of Music (AU), Arts Centre Melbourne (AU).

Kitty holds a Master of Music (Composition) from the Eastman School of Music, Master of Music (Performance) from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Master of Teaching and Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne.


Kitty Xiao — current to April 2023

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for
2022 APRA Professional Development Award (Art Music) Wnner

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
the intimacy of strangers (countertenor with live electronics) (2021) Commissioned by Panoramic Music and Melbourne Composers' League, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria
In flesh (cello with live electronics) (2021) Commissioned by The ANAM Set, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) for performance by Hamish Jamieson.
Emphysema feathered his appetites (duos: bass clarinet, marimba with live electronics) (2020) Commissioned by the Red Note New Music Festival
Brought Into Morning (satb choir with string orchestra) (2019) Commissioned by Panoramic Voices.
A city's pounding heart (quartets: percussion, string, woodwind) (2019) Commisisoned by Image/Sound Festival 2020
Xphae Drones (quartets: keyboard, percussion) (2019) Commissioned by Yarn Wire Institute 2019