Composer Alex Turley is the 2024 recipient of the Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship, as announced by Music Performance UNSW this morning.

Alex Turley. Image © Keith Saunders.

The Fellowship, valued at $10,000, engages a composer to write one small-scale and one large-scale chamber work under the Australia Ensemble UNSW’s artistic development program. Working across a year, the Fellow will also receive mentorship opportunities from the Australia Ensemble, Artistic Chair Paul Stanhope and external composers.

“I am honoured to be the 2023-24 Layton Emerging Composer Fellow. This is a valuable chance for me to refine my craft by writing for some of Australia’s most accomplished chamber musicians,” said Turley

“This Fellowship, now in its sixth year, has fostered the creation of a substantial body of contemporary music from emerging voices, and I am excited to be able to contribute to that legacy.”

The Fellowship is yet another accolade in Turley’s career. This year, he received an early-career Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowship from the Forrest Research Foundation, which sees an 18-month long academic appointment at a university in Western Australia with...