Work TBA
Composed for Tom Allen
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as part of the ANAM Set 2026 and written for Tom Allen, to be premiered during ANAM’s 2026 recital season at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.
The 2026 ANAM Set commissions are supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation.
About the composer:
Elliot Vaughan is a composer, performer, and artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. His output includes exploratory concert music, composed theatre, pop songs, performance art, and contributions to collaborative projects. He was the 2024 Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music Composer-in-Residence.
For fifteen years he lived in Vancouver, where he completed a BFA at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts and made his living freelancing. His career there extended from arrangements for theatre and pop records to music for dance and contemporary classical composition.
Returning to Aotearoa in 2018 to earn his Master of Music at Te Kōkī, Elliot has established himself as a key voice in exploratory composition and performance. His blurring of performance art and music has been recognised with awards and commissions, including for his shows First Buzzard at the Body (2021) and Fish in Pink Gelatine (2019).
Elliot is violist with the Moth Quartet, and has a pop band called Eigenface.
Website: elliotvaughan.com
Image credit: Supplied by composer.