Jennifer Fowler facts for kids

Jennifer Joan Fowler is a talented composer who was born in Australia on April 14, 1939. A composer is someone who writes music. She studied music at the University of Western Australia. While she was a student, she won many awards for her music. Her pieces were even played at the Festival of Perth and on the radio!

In 1968, she worked with electronic music in the Netherlands. A year later, in 1969, she moved to London, England. There, she became a freelance composer, meaning she writes music for different projects. Jennifer is married to Bruce Paterson and has two sons.

Awards and Achievements

Jennifer Fowler has won many important awards for her music. These awards show how talented she is!

• In 1970, she won a prize from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, Germany.
• In 1971, she shared the Radcliffe Award in Great Britain.
• In 1975, she won first prize in an international competition for women composers in Germany.
• Her piece Eat and Be Eaten received a special mention in 2001.
• In 2003, she won the Miriam Gideon prize from a group called the International Association of Women in Music.
• She also won prizes in the UK and Bulgaria in 2006 and 2009.

Musical Works

Jennifer Fowler has written many different kinds of music. Here are some of her selected works:

• Lament for Dunblane – a piece for a chorus (a group of singers).
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis – also pieces for a chorus.
• Blow Flute
• Towards Release – a duet for a violin and a marimba (a musical instrument like a large xylophone).
• Piece for an Opera House – for two pianos.
• Cycling – for a solo piano.
• Streaming Up – for four bassoons and a piano.
• Echoes from an Antique Land
• Plainsong for Strings – for a string orchestra.

Her music has also been recorded and released on CDs. Some of these include:

• The Flute Ascendant (1992)
• Sydney Dreaming
• Lines Spun (2019)