KIM CUNIO

Kim has studied with a number of Australia's finest musicians including the eminent Australian composer Nigel Butterly, conductor Eric Clapham and Jazz guitar legend Ike Isaacs. He has a Bachelor and Masters Degree in composition and is currently completing a Doctorate in intercultural composition. His work with the ABC and ABC Classics will see him produce and make a number of disks and new music projects for CD film and television, as well as expanding the ABC's presence into World Music. He is one of Australia’s most accomplished researching composers and was awarded an ABC Golden Manuscript Award in 2004 in recognition of his work with traditional and Islamic music.

Some of Kim's recent commissions, together with the The Temple Project, a realization process setting ancient Psalms and Biblical texts to Baghdadian Jewish chant on replica instruments, include Tomorrow's Islam, a commission to write music reflective of contemporary, modernist Islamic thinkers, and Buddha Realms, a response to the diversity of Buddhist music, written as a response to transcriptions of Buddhist players and singers. Kim has also been commissioned by the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the Art Gallery of NSW and published and recorded by the ABC. He is currently working on a new disk of the music of Hildegard Von Bingen, a 15 minute work for a sacred music festival in New York, and a chamber symphony for South Indian flautists Dr Ramani.

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