Amy McNickle
Amy is a Melbourne-based composer who develops creative arts projects with a music/sound focus. She most recently composed the music for animation The Lost Sound by Steffie Yee, which is premiering as part of the Animation Shorts at this year’s festival.
Amy is involved with music and arts collaborations both nationally and internationally, most notably composing collaboratively for the SocialNui Interactive Art Installation Encounters and being a collaborator/composer for Shermaine Heng's dance production Breathe, Woman. She is currently working on directing and composing a collaborative Sound/Art Installation titled Worldline Corporations that explores time-travel and the human condition.
Amy will be performing a contemporary repertoire for solo piano that is inspired by/translates well to music for moving image, including a combination of original compositions, as well as works from Nils Frahm, Yann Tiersen, Olafur Arnalds and a few others.