(photo: Andrew McDougall 2008)
Thomas Meadowcroft is an Australian freelance composer and musician living in Berlin where he has been based since 1998.
Thomas Meadowcroft's music has been described as 'reaching an inexpressible purity' (Le Monde), 'nerve torture' (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and 'dreamy post-rock' (New York Times). His compositions have been performed at various contemporary music festivals in Europe (Bludenz, Happy Days, Festival Présences, Wiener Festwochen etc.) and his music has been commissioned by ensemble recherche, ELISION ensemble, KNM Berlin, Ensemble Mosaik and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. His notated work is available through Plainsound Music Edition.
As an electric organ player, he has performed at the Holland Festival and Maerz Musik Berlin, working regularly with Australian percussionist Steve Heather and keyboard player and saxophonist, Boris Hauf. He has also worked in collaboration with, among others, the Munich-based theatre company HUNGER UND SEIDE, Canadian video artist Peter Sabat, filmmaker Romeo Grünfelder, and New York based cellist Alex Waterman.
The sound installation Monaro Eden was on display at the exhibition 'Australian Contemporary Art: Optimism' at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2008/9.
In 2005, Thomas Meadowcroft was in residence at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (as guest of the Berlin Senate for Science, Culture and Research). He was in residence at the Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, Sydney in 2007/8. Thomas Meadowcroft studied composition in the USA with George Crumb and Brian Ferneyhough.