Last week, Katia Geha was announced as a recipient of the 2026 Art Music Fund.

It’s the latest achievement in a fast-growing list for the Sydney-born composer, who also works as the Australian World Orchestra’s librarian – a 2027 ANAM Set commission, a 2025 Emerging Artist Award from the Australian Women in Music Awards and First Prize at the 2025 Engine Room International Sound Art Competition, with her winning installation played in London.

Katia Geha. Photo supplied

Currently based in Basel, Geha is an Australian-Lebanese composer whose musical approach favours an experimental, performance art approach to composition. Her output ranges from solo, chamber, choral and orchestral music to screen and multidisciplinary approaches, and has been performed across the US, Europe and in Australia by groups including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring and Omega Ensemble.

In 2025, she was awarded the Australian Women in Music Awards’ Emerging Artist Award, and took home First Prize at the Engine Room International Sound Art Competition, which saw her debut an installation work in Morley Gallery in London.

Chatting to Limelight, Geha talks about her time in Basel, her upcoming projects and her role...