The University of NSW has announced Angus Davison as the winner of the 2022–23 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship. The Sydney-based composer will receive $10,000, and over the course of the year will compose two pieces for the Australia Ensemble UNSW.

Angus Davison has been announced as the winner of the 2022–23 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship for Australia Ensemble UNSW. Photo supplied

The Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship is open to early career composers (defined as being within the first five to seven years of creative practice). Applicants were required to submit a portfolio of scores of at least three pieces of music, showcasing two of which must be purely instrumental (ie, no voices), one of which must be for chamber ensemble (up to six players), and one of which must be from the last three years.

Davison’s submission was selected from a highly competitive field of over 50 submissions, and was described as “both technically accomplished and creative”, demonstrating a “consistent sense of musical voice” and his compositions as “clever, polished and with a great sense of colour and shape” by the selection panel.

Paul Stanhope, the Artistic Chair of Australia Ensemble...