Amy Bastow
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Amy Bastow (b. 1985) was born in a small rural town in outback Australia, and at 15,
won the “Roger Woodward Playoff Competition” for a performance of one of her piano
compositions. A recent 1st class honours graduate and scholarship recipient from the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Amy has studied composition with Michael Smetanin,
Anne Boyd, Mary Finsterer, Damien Ricketson, William Mival (Royal College of Music, London),
Paul Patterson (Royal Academy of Music, London), Joby Talbot (British Film Composer), James
Ledger and piano with Daniel Herscovitch.
Amy has written music for the "Performing Australian Music Competition" (London),
Chronology Arts, Flip Side Strings, Scorpio Music, the Miriam Hyde Competition for Piano
Composition, the Louisa Macdonald Oration (a fanfare for the Governor of NSW, Dr Marie Bashir),
the University of Sydney, The Song Company, The New Zealand Film School, Victorian College of the
Arts, Canberra School of Music, the Australian Youth Orchestra's Composition Programs and other
soloists. Amy has also experimented with writing and playing jazz, and making experimental short films.
Amy currently sings with the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence, teaches piano and musicianship
at St. Andrew’s Cathedral School and is a teacher and accompanist for Musicalis Australis.
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