Melbourne, Australia
Georgina Palmer is a New Zealand composer (now Melbourne-based) who has recently completed her BMusHons studies with First Class Honours at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Her notable career highlights to date include winning the 2020 SOUNZ NZCF Choral Composition Competition, winning the 2022 Audrey Reid Orchestra Composition Prize, having a work performed by the National Youth Brass Band of NZ, having a work performed in the Celebrating Global Harmony Through Music concert at Carnegie Hall in December 2022, winning the 2024 RSCM Harold Smart Composition Prize, and being selected as a finalist in both the Todd Young Composer Awards (NZ) and the prestigious County Hall Arts Peace Symphony Concours (UK) for 2025. She was the Emerging Composer for the 2023 At The World's Edge Classical Music Festival in Queenstown, NZ, and was a recent participant in the 2025 Vienna Contemporary Composers' Festival.