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Deadline:

17th September 2025

Type:

Awards/funding, bursary, Calls/Commissions, Conference, Job/recruitment, Other, Performance, Research/education/courses, Residencies, Work Placements, Young composer (under 18)

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Free online workshop open to composers of all levels.Welcome to the word of open-scoring for community-music makers. Join Tamara Kohler (CEO and Artistic Director for Contemporary Music for All – CoMA), as she shares tips, ideas and examples gathered across CoMA’s 32 years of commissioning, on how to write engaging, collaborative and high quality music for amateur and community musicians.6-7pm including approx. 40 min talk with a Q&A session at the end. Please note that although we try to wrap-up opensound sessions by 7pm, they often run over by 5-10 mins.

BiographyTamara Kohler is an Australian flautist and arts producer, specialising in new music performance. She is Co- Artistic Director and flautist of award-winning Australian art music ensemble Rubiks Collective, known for their “incredibly personal, strangely spiritual and ultimately deeply touching” performances (Limelight Magazine). Rubiks reimagines classical music for the modern era, showcasing bold cross-art collaborations, sharing untold stories and championing gender equity in the arts.Under Tamara’s leadership, Rubiks have commissioned 40+ works, were awarded the inaugural MRC ‘Percy Grainger Award’ in 2021, and have received international recognition for their esteemed Pythia Prize initiative.

Tamara is also Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) – UK based participatory new music charity, dedicated to broaden open opening within communities to new music participation, and increasing accessibility for underrepresented minorities within the UK arts sector.

Noted for her “fearless execution” in performance, Tamara has performed internationally throughout Australia, Europe, America & Asia with many leading new music ensembles. Tamara has performed countless Australian and world premieres of new works, with her festival credits including the Klangwerkstatt Festival (DE), the inaugural Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab (USA), Australia Fest (IN), Bang on a Can Summer Festival (USA) and Darmstadt International Festival for New Music (DE).

She has held multiple artistic residencies at the Banff Centre (CAN) and in 2017 was a Classical Freedman Fellowship finalist. In 2020, she was selected to represent Australia at Classical:NEXT.

Tamara is passionate about opening access within the arts for underrepresented voices, having worked with high profile arts charities Raw Material (Brixton, UK) and Short Black Opera (Melbourne, AUS) to design and deliver various community projects. She is in demand as a creative arts leader, having been invited to deliver keynote presentations at conferences in Germany, Belgium and England.

She regularly mentors young people interested in embarking on less conventional creative careers and has guest presented at the University of Melbourne, Australian National Academy of Music, the University of Queensland, Monash University and the Melbourne Recital Centre.

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