Biography

Imogen Ferdinando (she/her) is a composer, performer, conductor and artistic director based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Her compositions have been featured in the Osaka World Expo 2025 (Japan), the Cortona Sessions for New Music 2024 (Netherlands), the World Saxophone Congress 2023 (Spain), and have received performances across Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Imogen has composed for the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, the Young Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Guitar Ensemble, Griffith Film School, and the Noosa Orchestra. Recently she was appointed Emerging Composer-in-Residence with Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra for 2026. Regularly collaborating in chamber music contexts, she has been commissioned by artists and ensembles such as Dialogue of Minds, Red Room Chamber Ensemble, and Eden Annesley from Duo Aki. In 2024 she was a recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant which enabled her to travel to the Netherlands to further her study in chamber music composition.

With a passion for showcasing Australian new music and its creators, Imogen is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Nexus New Music; a nonprofit arts organisation based in Meanjin. She is also an avid performer, with recent session work including recording cello for Joff Bush Music on the Bluey album ‘Rug Island’, and for Brian Cachia at BCMuse Studios for the upcoming U.S documentary ‘Black Sunday’.

Imogen holds a Bachelor of Music (Hons I) from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, majoring in composition under the tutelage of Dr. Gerardo Dirié and Dr. Nicole Murphy. In 2025 she was awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Academic Excellence. Supervised by Professor Catherine Grant, her Honours research explores hybrid music practices as a method to approaching intercultural composition, drawing from her own Sri Lankan Sinhalese and Western cultural heritage.