Louise Devenish Bio
Louise Devenish is a percussionist whose creative practice blends performance, artistic research, and creative collaboration with composers, visual artists, designers and improvisors . A passionate advocate of new music, Louise has commissioned over 50 works for percussion, and her performances are acknowledged for their ‘dazzling vitality’, ‘stunning virtuosity’, ‘interpretive flair and technical brilliance’. As a soloist and with ensembles including acclaimed electroacoustic sextet Decibel (WA) and her studio-lab The Sound Collectors Lab, she develops new works exploring graphic notation, instrumentality and collaborative creativity, performing around Australasia, Europe, North America and the UK. Louise has collaborated on award-winning recordings with these ensembles and others including Speak Percussion and Synergy Percussion, released on HatArt, ezz-thetics, Listen/Hear, Immediata, Navona, and room40, as well as solo album music for percussion and electronics (Tall Poppies). Louise’s creative work has been recognised by a Churchill Fellowship, WA Music Awards, and numerous APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, including Performance of the Year Award and Luminary Award, and she is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship. Louise is Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, where she is also Convenor of the Classical Music Stream and Percussion Coordinator. Her writing on new music is published in academic books and journals, industry publications, and zines.
