Felicity Wilcox

Felicity Wilcox is currently completing her PhD in multi-media composition at the Sydney Conservatorium as the recipient of a University Postgraduate Award. Her interest is primarily in combining music and sound with images. All of the work she is making as a postgrad involve collaborations with visual artists, photographers and designers. As well as working with orchestral instruments, Felicity has composed in the digital domain for many years, making samples, writing sounds for synthesizers and manipulating digital waveforms. Her major work, Threading The Light, incorporates a new electronic instrument, programmed and designed by Felicity.

Felicity has also worked for over twenty years as a composer for film, television, radio and theatre. Under the alias, Felicity Fox, she has contributed to many award winning films. In 1992, 2008 and 2009, she was nominated for AFI awards for her scores to the feature Redheads, and the award-winning feature documentaries The Oasis and The Choir. She received an ARIA nomination in 1999 for her soundtrack album Afrika, Capetown to Cairo. She was Composer and Assistant Music Director for the Paralympics Opening Ceremony at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 1993, she received the Best Music for Film award at the FIFREC Film Festival in France. Her soundtracks have been screened worldwide, both on television and at major festivals, including Venice, Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin, London and New York. Felicity teaches composition at UWS and lives in the Blue Mountains with her two beautiful children.

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