Diversability music series: Georgia Scott on cerebral palsy
Watch my interview with Australian contemporary art music composer Georgia Scott on her cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect a person's ability to move and maintain balance and posture.
Georgia’s music aims to explore identity and lived experience. Georgia studied a BMus
(Hons) at the Royal College of Music, and MMus at the Sydney Conservatorium,
participating in the 2018-2019 Composing Women Program. Georgia has worked with the
Sydney, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the Janáček Philharmonic
Orchestra, Moorambilla Voices, Gondwana Junior, the Australian World Orchestra, SSO
Fellows, WA Youth Orchestras, Australian Ballet, Orchestra Victoria, Flautist Claire Chase,
the Sydney Bach Society and Sydney Chamber Opera. Georgia has also shared her research
into the representation of women with disability in music at Harvard and Columbia
universities.
In 2021, Georgia’s Opera ‘Her Dark Marauder’ was a finalist for ‘Work of the year: Dramatic'
in the APRA AMC Art Music Awards and Georgia received the Australia Council Young Artist
Award at the 2021 NADA Awards. Georgia is a participant in the 2022-2023 TSO Composers’
School, and in December 2022 Georgia co-curated a disability-led concert celebrating the
music of neurodivergent artists and artists with disability as part of Backstage Music. As part
of this concert Georgia helped to co-ordinate concert accessibility under the guidance of
renowned industry figures Morwenna Collett and Janelle Ryan. This concert was performed
at Phoenix central park’s venue ‘The Church’ and the fully accessible digital version was
recorded at the Sydney Opera House. In 2023 Georgia will work with Tasmanian Symphony
Orchestra, the Find Your Voice Collective, Backstage Music and London-based hand horn
specialist, Isaac Shieh.