Elizabeth Drake
Pianist /Composer
____________________________________________________________________
Mobile: 61 - 413 921 052
email: [email protected]
website: www.elizabethdrake.com.au
2012-15 Honorary Councilor in the Composer’s Chapter
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
AACTA Honorary Council
2006 Who’s Who of Australian Women
2018-2022 Board of AUSTRALIAN GUILD OF SCREEN COMPOSERS
2019 RABBIT SONG Piano Solo
Recording and performance by Michael Kieran Harvey
2019 RABBIT SONG Piano Solo
Performance Sedition Festival Sydney
2019-2020 FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN with Jan Cornall
Sedition Festival Sydney
2018 Prima Donna Project
Interview podcast produced by Nat Grant
FILM Composer
2017 BAXTER and ME
Feature Documentary written and directed by Gillian Leahy
Sydney Film Festival
2015 LOOKING FOR GRACE
Feature Drama Film written and directed by Sue Brooks
In Competition Venice Film Festival &
Toronto Film Festival
Invited Delegate Venice and Toronto
2014 THE SILENCES
Feature Documentary written and directed by Margot Nash
2005 – 2010 Board of Australian Guild of Screen Composers
2018 - 2022
2019 - 2022 Chair, Gender Equity Committee
2004 PARTS OF A HORSE short film,
Producer: Carmel McAloon, Director: Kerreen Ely-Harper
2003 JAPANESE STORY feature film, Gecko Films
Producer: Sue Maslin, Director: Sue Brooks
Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard
Invited delegate
2000 IN THE HEART OF THE EYE dance-film from Dance Works.
Margie Medlin, filmmaker; Sandy Parker, choreographer.
2000 LOST a film by Jo Kennedy.
Best short film: Melbourne Film Festival
1997 ROAD TO NHILL feature film, Gecko Films.
Producer Sue Maslin, Director Sue Brooks.
1995 THE SEAL Animation project, directed by Lucinda Clutterbuck.
1994 THE LAND OF THE LONG WEEKEND
ABC/Film Australia
Executive producer, Sharon Connolly.
Director, Sue Brooks.
1992 BLACK MAN’S HOUSES Open Channel
Director, Steve Thomas.
1990 - 91 BREATHING UNDERWATER feature film,
Composer and sound design consultant.
Film, written and directed by Susan Dermody,
produced by Megan McMurchy.
1990 - 91 IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS SHOPPING
Film, written, directed and produced by Sarah Gibson.
1988 SHADOW PANIC an experimental fiction,
Written and directed by Margot Nash and supported by the
Music Board of the Australia Council.
1986 MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE feature film
Written and directed by Gillian Leahy.
1984 KEMIRA DIARY OF A STRIKE,
Written and directed by Tom Zubrycki.
Commission from the Music Board of the Australia Council
1982 - 83 FOR LOVE OR MONEY, Feature documentary, directed by
Megan McMurchy, Jeni Thornleigh, and Margot Nash.
1981 Title song, 14’S GOOD, 18’S BETTER, directed by Gillian Armstrong.
FILM Awards
2004 APRA – AGSC Award
Best Music for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2004 ARIA Award Nomination
Screen CD
Japanese Story
2003 AFI-AACTA Award
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2003 Film Critics Circle Award
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2003 IF Award Nomination
Best Music Score
Japanese Story
1997 AFI Award Nomination
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Road to Nhill
1998 Film Critics Circle Award Nomination
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Road to Nhill
1992 Australian Guild Of Screen Composers Award
Special Achievement in Sound Design
Breathing Underwater
1986 AFI Award Nomination
Best Sound in an Experimental Film
My Life Without Steve
THEATRE and DANCE Composer
2019 CLOUDSTREET Malthouse Theatre
Directed by Matthew Lutton
2019 ESCAPED ALONE Red Stitch Theatre
Directed by Jenny Kemp
2013 -2014 GROUNDED Red Stitch Theatre Company
Directed by Kirsten von Bibra
GREEN ROOM AWARD Nomination 2014
2012 TOP GIRLS Melbourne Theatre Company
Directed by Jenny Kemp
GREEN ROOM AWARD Nomination 2012
2007 GREEN ROOM AWARD - Companies
Best Music and Sound Composition
CARGO Malthouse Theatre
2007 PERJURED CITY VCA Space 28
Directed by Kirsten von Bibra
2006 CARGO Malthouse Theatre
Sarah Cathcart, Kerreen Ely-Harper
2004 STILL ANGELA National Tour, Mobile States
Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart
2002 RAPTURE by Joanna Murray – Smith
Playbox Directed by Jenny Kemp
2002 STILL ANGELA by Jenny Kemp
Playbox, Melbourne
2000 AUDIBLE DanceWorks
Arts House Nth Melbourne
1999-2000 IN THE HEART OF THE EYE DanceWorks
Athaneum 2, The Studio, Sydney Opera House
1999-2000 NIGHTFALL by Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Jenny Kemp Playbox, Sydney Theatre Company
1996 BLACK SEQUIN DRESS
Writer and Director: Jenny Kemp Adelaide Festival, Playbox,
1994 HER BODIES Dance project by Libby Dempster. Gasworks theatre.
1990 CALL OF THE WILD
Producer for ‘The Listening Room’ ABC FM.
1989 - 90 CALL OF THE WILD written by Jenny Kemp,
Co-director and Composer.
Spoleto Festival, Melbourne. Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1985 SLOW LOVE, written by Richard Murphet, Performance Space,
Sydney.
1981 ANOREXIA SOMETIMES, by Gillian Jones, Nimrod Theatre,
Sydney, Troupe Theatre, Adelaide. ABC-FM The Listening Room
1982 WORSE THAN PERVERSE, with Jan Cornall, Sydney,
Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
1980 - 81 Performance duo with Jan Cornall - cabaret version of
FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN, Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, Melbourne,
Lismore, and Adelaide.
Recorded for ABC radio, Producer, Ros Cheney.
1979 FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN, written by Jan Cornall.
Pram Factory, Melbourne
1977 - 80 Collective member of the Australian Performing Group, Pram
Factory.
PIANIST
2017 Performance D –Division Pentridge Prison
TWO PIANOS performs Piano Phase by Steve Reich
2014 Performance Harry Seidler building.
Schoenberg and Philip Glass
2013 Princess Theatre performance with Vanessa Tomlinson
TWO PIANOS Piano Phase by Steve Reich
2012 Contemporary Site Investigation at Flinders Street Station Ballroom, beamed onto Federation Square screen and through all stations at FLINDERS STREET STATION
Performances on Two Pianos of CANTO OSTINATO by Simeon ten Holt, PIANO PHASE by Steve Reich and
RABBIT SONG for piano solo by Elizabeth Drake
2012 Composer / Pianist for radio essay SPACE JUNK for ABC
Produced by Norie Neumark Executive Producer Claudia Taranto
2010 - 13 TWO PIANOS Piano Duo formed to perform durational works.
2012 TWO PIANOS performs < canto ostinato > at
WOMADelaide 2012
2011 Performance < canto ostinato > IWAKI auditorium recorded for
ABC Classic FM
with pianists: Lisa Moore, Caroline Almonte,
Emily Green-Armitage, Elizabeth Drake
2011 TWO PIANOS performance < canto ostinato >
Newcastle Conservatorium on two Stewart Pianos
2010 Australian Performing Arts Market
Performance of < canto ostinato > by
Simeon ten Holt with TWO PIANOS
Adelaide Railway Station
2010 Perth International Arts Festival
Performance of < canto ostinato > by
Simeon ten Holt with TWO PIANOS and
Emily Green – Armytage
Michael Kieren Harvey and
Adam Pinto
ORIGINAL Music Theatre Works
2005 TIME-PALCE-SPACE 4 Facilitator, New Media Arts Board
2001 MILES TO FURPHY Seduction Opera - Astra
Commission: Music Board Australia Council
1995 Creative Development Grant for THE SPOKEN OPERA COMPANY,
Hybrid Arts Board, Australia Council.
Music theatre work based on the writing of HELENE CIXOUS
1995 BLOOM performance at Linden Gallery.
1994 Performance project grant from Arts Victoria to create BLOOM
in collaboration with Jude Walton and Rosslynd Piggott.
1992 ACTUAL AND IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art.
Production Grant - Performing Arts Board, Australia Council
1991 ACTUAL AND IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS, Shortlist,
Sound - Art competition, The Listening Room ABC/FM.
1991 VOICES II, presented at ‘Performance and its Discourses
Conference’. Melbourne University.
1990 Creative Development Grant - Performing Arts Board Australia
Council, to develop VOICES II
GRANTS
2000 - 2001 Commission – Music Board Australia Council
MILES TO FURPHY Seduction Opera - Astra
1995 Creative Development Grant for THE SPOKEN OPERA COMPANY from
the Hybrid Arts Board, Australia Council.
1994 Performance project grant from Arts Victoria to create BLOOM
in collaboration with Jude Walton and Rosslynd Piggott.
1992 Production Grant - Performing Arts Board, Australia Council
ACTUAL and IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS
1990 Creative Development Grant - Performing Arts Board Australia
Council, to develop VOICES II.
1988 Commission - Music Board, Australia Council. Original music
and sounds for SHADOW PANIC, an experimental fiction,
written and directed by Margot Nash
1984 Commission - Music Board, Australia Council to compose the
music for KEMIRA DIARY OF A STRIKE, written and directed
by Tom Zubrycki.
Published ARTICLES
1998 - 2000 RealTime
When Worlds Collide October 1998
(In) the Presence of Ghosts December 1998
On the Bank of a River February 1999
The Body as Composer April 1999
Immersion July 1999
Words and Music October 1999
The (Unbearable) Lightness of Being March 2000
Teaching
- 2022 Victorian College of the Arts
Film School
- 2019 Tertiary Coursework at
Victoria University
- 2022 Private teaching
Piano and Film Composition
Australian Film & Television School
UTS Faculty of New Media
Victorian College of the Arts
Drama School
- 2015 Yamaha Music Education Centre
Pianist /Composer
____________________________________________________________________
Mobile: 61 - 413 921 052
email: [email protected]
website: www.elizabethdrake.com.au
2012-15 Honorary Councilor in the Composer’s Chapter
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
AACTA Honorary Council
2006 Who’s Who of Australian Women
2018-2022 Board of AUSTRALIAN GUILD OF SCREEN COMPOSERS
2019 RABBIT SONG Piano Solo
Recording and performance by Michael Kieran Harvey
2019 RABBIT SONG Piano Solo
Performance Sedition Festival Sydney
2019-2020 FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN with Jan Cornall
Sedition Festival Sydney
2018 Prima Donna Project
Interview podcast produced by Nat Grant
FILM Composer
2017 BAXTER and ME
Feature Documentary written and directed by Gillian Leahy
Sydney Film Festival
2015 LOOKING FOR GRACE
Feature Drama Film written and directed by Sue Brooks
In Competition Venice Film Festival &
Toronto Film Festival
Invited Delegate Venice and Toronto
2014 THE SILENCES
Feature Documentary written and directed by Margot Nash
2005 – 2010 Board of Australian Guild of Screen Composers
2018 - 2022
2019 - 2022 Chair, Gender Equity Committee
2004 PARTS OF A HORSE short film,
Producer: Carmel McAloon, Director: Kerreen Ely-Harper
2003 JAPANESE STORY feature film, Gecko Films
Producer: Sue Maslin, Director: Sue Brooks
Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard
Invited delegate
2000 IN THE HEART OF THE EYE dance-film from Dance Works.
Margie Medlin, filmmaker; Sandy Parker, choreographer.
2000 LOST a film by Jo Kennedy.
Best short film: Melbourne Film Festival
1997 ROAD TO NHILL feature film, Gecko Films.
Producer Sue Maslin, Director Sue Brooks.
1995 THE SEAL Animation project, directed by Lucinda Clutterbuck.
1994 THE LAND OF THE LONG WEEKEND
ABC/Film Australia
Executive producer, Sharon Connolly.
Director, Sue Brooks.
1992 BLACK MAN’S HOUSES Open Channel
Director, Steve Thomas.
1990 - 91 BREATHING UNDERWATER feature film,
Composer and sound design consultant.
Film, written and directed by Susan Dermody,
produced by Megan McMurchy.
1990 - 91 IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS SHOPPING
Film, written, directed and produced by Sarah Gibson.
1988 SHADOW PANIC an experimental fiction,
Written and directed by Margot Nash and supported by the
Music Board of the Australia Council.
1986 MY LIFE WITHOUT STEVE feature film
Written and directed by Gillian Leahy.
1984 KEMIRA DIARY OF A STRIKE,
Written and directed by Tom Zubrycki.
Commission from the Music Board of the Australia Council
1982 - 83 FOR LOVE OR MONEY, Feature documentary, directed by
Megan McMurchy, Jeni Thornleigh, and Margot Nash.
1981 Title song, 14’S GOOD, 18’S BETTER, directed by Gillian Armstrong.
FILM Awards
2004 APRA – AGSC Award
Best Music for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2004 ARIA Award Nomination
Screen CD
Japanese Story
2003 AFI-AACTA Award
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2003 Film Critics Circle Award
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Japanese Story
2003 IF Award Nomination
Best Music Score
Japanese Story
1997 AFI Award Nomination
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Road to Nhill
1998 Film Critics Circle Award Nomination
Best Original Music Score for a Feature Film
Road to Nhill
1992 Australian Guild Of Screen Composers Award
Special Achievement in Sound Design
Breathing Underwater
1986 AFI Award Nomination
Best Sound in an Experimental Film
My Life Without Steve
THEATRE and DANCE Composer
2019 CLOUDSTREET Malthouse Theatre
Directed by Matthew Lutton
2019 ESCAPED ALONE Red Stitch Theatre
Directed by Jenny Kemp
2013 -2014 GROUNDED Red Stitch Theatre Company
Directed by Kirsten von Bibra
GREEN ROOM AWARD Nomination 2014
2012 TOP GIRLS Melbourne Theatre Company
Directed by Jenny Kemp
GREEN ROOM AWARD Nomination 2012
2007 GREEN ROOM AWARD - Companies
Best Music and Sound Composition
CARGO Malthouse Theatre
2007 PERJURED CITY VCA Space 28
Directed by Kirsten von Bibra
2006 CARGO Malthouse Theatre
Sarah Cathcart, Kerreen Ely-Harper
2004 STILL ANGELA National Tour, Mobile States
Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart
2002 RAPTURE by Joanna Murray – Smith
Playbox Directed by Jenny Kemp
2002 STILL ANGELA by Jenny Kemp
Playbox, Melbourne
2000 AUDIBLE DanceWorks
Arts House Nth Melbourne
1999-2000 IN THE HEART OF THE EYE DanceWorks
Athaneum 2, The Studio, Sydney Opera House
1999-2000 NIGHTFALL by Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Jenny Kemp Playbox, Sydney Theatre Company
1996 BLACK SEQUIN DRESS
Writer and Director: Jenny Kemp Adelaide Festival, Playbox,
1994 HER BODIES Dance project by Libby Dempster. Gasworks theatre.
1990 CALL OF THE WILD
Producer for ‘The Listening Room’ ABC FM.
1989 - 90 CALL OF THE WILD written by Jenny Kemp,
Co-director and Composer.
Spoleto Festival, Melbourne. Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
1985 SLOW LOVE, written by Richard Murphet, Performance Space,
Sydney.
1981 ANOREXIA SOMETIMES, by Gillian Jones, Nimrod Theatre,
Sydney, Troupe Theatre, Adelaide. ABC-FM The Listening Room
1982 WORSE THAN PERVERSE, with Jan Cornall, Sydney,
Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.
1980 - 81 Performance duo with Jan Cornall - cabaret version of
FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN, Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, Melbourne,
Lismore, and Adelaide.
Recorded for ABC radio, Producer, Ros Cheney.
1979 FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN, written by Jan Cornall.
Pram Factory, Melbourne
1977 - 80 Collective member of the Australian Performing Group, Pram
Factory.
PIANIST
2017 Performance D –Division Pentridge Prison
TWO PIANOS performs Piano Phase by Steve Reich
2014 Performance Harry Seidler building.
Schoenberg and Philip Glass
2013 Princess Theatre performance with Vanessa Tomlinson
TWO PIANOS Piano Phase by Steve Reich
2012 Contemporary Site Investigation at Flinders Street Station Ballroom, beamed onto Federation Square screen and through all stations at FLINDERS STREET STATION
Performances on Two Pianos of CANTO OSTINATO by Simeon ten Holt, PIANO PHASE by Steve Reich and
RABBIT SONG for piano solo by Elizabeth Drake
2012 Composer / Pianist for radio essay SPACE JUNK for ABC
Produced by Norie Neumark Executive Producer Claudia Taranto
2010 - 13 TWO PIANOS Piano Duo formed to perform durational works.
2012 TWO PIANOS performs < canto ostinato > at
WOMADelaide 2012
2011 Performance < canto ostinato > IWAKI auditorium recorded for
ABC Classic FM
with pianists: Lisa Moore, Caroline Almonte,
Emily Green-Armitage, Elizabeth Drake
2011 TWO PIANOS performance < canto ostinato >
Newcastle Conservatorium on two Stewart Pianos
2010 Australian Performing Arts Market
Performance of < canto ostinato > by
Simeon ten Holt with TWO PIANOS
Adelaide Railway Station
2010 Perth International Arts Festival
Performance of < canto ostinato > by
Simeon ten Holt with TWO PIANOS and
Emily Green – Armytage
Michael Kieren Harvey and
Adam Pinto
ORIGINAL Music Theatre Works
2005 TIME-PALCE-SPACE 4 Facilitator, New Media Arts Board
2001 MILES TO FURPHY Seduction Opera - Astra
Commission: Music Board Australia Council
1995 Creative Development Grant for THE SPOKEN OPERA COMPANY,
Hybrid Arts Board, Australia Council.
Music theatre work based on the writing of HELENE CIXOUS
1995 BLOOM performance at Linden Gallery.
1994 Performance project grant from Arts Victoria to create BLOOM
in collaboration with Jude Walton and Rosslynd Piggott.
1992 ACTUAL AND IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art.
Production Grant - Performing Arts Board, Australia Council
1991 ACTUAL AND IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS, Shortlist,
Sound - Art competition, The Listening Room ABC/FM.
1991 VOICES II, presented at ‘Performance and its Discourses
Conference’. Melbourne University.
1990 Creative Development Grant - Performing Arts Board Australia
Council, to develop VOICES II
GRANTS
2000 - 2001 Commission – Music Board Australia Council
MILES TO FURPHY Seduction Opera - Astra
1995 Creative Development Grant for THE SPOKEN OPERA COMPANY from
the Hybrid Arts Board, Australia Council.
1994 Performance project grant from Arts Victoria to create BLOOM
in collaboration with Jude Walton and Rosslynd Piggott.
1992 Production Grant - Performing Arts Board, Australia Council
ACTUAL and IMAGINARY UNDERGROUNDS
1990 Creative Development Grant - Performing Arts Board Australia
Council, to develop VOICES II.
1988 Commission - Music Board, Australia Council. Original music
and sounds for SHADOW PANIC, an experimental fiction,
written and directed by Margot Nash
1984 Commission - Music Board, Australia Council to compose the
music for KEMIRA DIARY OF A STRIKE, written and directed
by Tom Zubrycki.
Published ARTICLES
1998 - 2000 RealTime
When Worlds Collide October 1998
(In) the Presence of Ghosts December 1998
On the Bank of a River February 1999
The Body as Composer April 1999
Immersion July 1999
Words and Music October 1999
The (Unbearable) Lightness of Being March 2000
Teaching
- 2022 Victorian College of the Arts
Film School
- 2019 Tertiary Coursework at
Victoria University
- 2022 Private teaching
Piano and Film Composition
Australian Film & Television School
UTS Faculty of New Media
Victorian College of the Arts
Drama School
- 2015 Yamaha Music Education Centre