Caitlin Rowley
- PhD student – Composition
- Department: Bath School of Music and Performing Arts
- Campus: Newton Park
- Website:
Personal statement
Caitlin Rowley is a composer, artist and performer whose work has been performed, broadcast and exhibited internationally. She's a member of the acclaimed experimental music group Bastard Assignments.
A PhD student at Bath Spa University, her practice-based research questions the separation of public and private creative spaces through developing interdisciplinary compositions which use her composing activity in her studio and notebooks as compositional material.
Academic qualifications
- BMus (Hons) Music Composition, University of Sydney – 2:1
- GrDip Design, University of Technology Sydney – Distinction
- MFA Creative Practice (Music) in Music Composition – Distinction
Qualifications, skills and experience
- Editor of ‘Australia: Exploring the Musical Landscape’, Australian Music Centre/Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2005
- ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ for flute and objects performed by Jenni Hogan live on BBC Radio 3 ‘Hear and Now’, September 2016
- Snape Maltings Open Space artist (with Bastard Assignments), 2017-19
- ‘Aides Memoire’ for narrator, tape and live photography performed by Bastard Assignments live on BBC Radio 3 ‘Hear and Now’, October 2017
- ‘Community of Objects’ performed by Bastard Assignments at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 2017
- ‘Quiet Songs’ commissioned by Aldeburgh Festival and premiered there by the composer, June 2019
Thesis title
"Studio/Stage: Questioning the division of ‘private’ and ‘public’ creative spaces through interdisciplinary compositional practice"
Research supervisors
- Professor James Saunders, Bath Spa University
- Dr Robert Luzar, Bath Spa University
Research interests
- Private experience (composition practice, memory)
- Generative creative spaces (studio/notebooks)
- The score as object
- The everyday
- Fear as a creative tool
- Interdisciplinary composition/The New Discipline
- Erik Satie