Miriama Young

Miriama Young is a composer and sound artist, originally from Aotearoa New Zealand.

She is Associate Professor and Head of Composition at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Young graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, then with a Fulbright gained a PhD at Princeton, USA.

In her 25 years as a professional composer, Miriama’s music has been performed from Norway to New Zealand, and by ensembles including Sydney Symphony, Canberra Symphony, Scottish Opera and So Percussion. Miriama's music spans vocal, instrumental, and orchestral concert works, film scores, interactive sound for dance, electro-acoustic and radiophonic work, and sound installations. Her sound world is grounded in themes of place, memory, and ecology.

Miriama's scholarly work explores the intricate relationship between the human voice and recording technology. Her monograph Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology, was listed in the Times Higher Education Best Books 2015, while chapters and articles on a similar theme are published in the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies, Leonardo Music Journal, and Contemporary Music Review.