BIOGRAPHY
Oliver John Cameron is an award-winning composer based in Sydney. Unafraid to tackle any genre, his output has included choral, musical theatre, sound-design, chamber, and orchestral works. He completed a Bachelor of Music (Composition) with Honours in 2015 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is currently the composer-in-residence at Meriden School. Oliver devised, composed and performed in The Colour Orange, winning the Sydney Fringe Critic's Pick Award in 2017 and the Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award in 2018.
Oliver was selected to attend the 2019 Atlantic Music Festival in the US and participated in the Sydney Philharmonia 2021 New Voices Workshop in Orange with Elena Kats-Chernin. He has been a festival artist for the 2021 and 2022 National Young Writers' Festival and placed third in the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra's Young Composer Award 2022. His work, five lullabies for uncertain times, was the winner of the 2021 Willgoss Choral Composition Prize.
In 2022, Oliver was selected as a composer for the NEO Voice Festival in Los Angeles, scored the radio play, Acqua Profunda, as part of Bondi Festival and has provided additional orchestrations for an upcoming Netflix film. He is currently collaborating with the poet Luke Patterson and composing a new work for the Australian Vocal Ensemble featuring Katie Noonan.
Oliver is working on another musical, always, via emails to himself.