The composer and Limelight publisher will spend six months at the inspirational Gallop House.

Composer, entrepreneur and publisher of Limelight magazine Andrew Batt-Rawden has been chosen as the inaugural Composer in Residence at Gallop House in Western Australia. He will spend six months living in the refurbished two storey heritage building and Dalkeith landmark, which is operated by the National Trust of Australia (WA) and is now the home for the new Feilman Foundation Composer in Residence Program. The residency is the brainchild of Sydney lawyer Shane Simpson, the executor of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks who died in 1990. Her Home in Sydney’s Paddington has been the site of an on-going rent-free composer studio for many years.

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“This is a pretty significant residency that Shane Simpson has been building for quite a while. I’m stoked that the National Trust of WA, along with the other partners in the project, has had the capacity and foresight to contribute in this way to nurturing Australian Culture,” said Batt-Rawden, one of Australia’s rising compositional stars. “Neil Armfield made a speech a while ago in which he asked (and I paraphrase) ‘who’s...