Rachel Meyers, violin
Credit: Albert Comper
Rachel Meyers is a Tasmanian violinist and violist, composer, and sound artist whose work spans folk and experimental traditions, electroacoustic composition, and ecological sound practice rooted in the cold southern coastline of Lutruwita/Tasmania.
As a performer, Rachel has toured nationally and appeared at major venues and festivals including Melbourne Recital Centre, UKARIA, Powerhouse Museum, MONA FOMA, Ten Days on the Island, Dark Mofo, and most folk festivals around the country. She has collaborated on original music across a range of ensembles over more than two decades.
As a composer, her work has been supported by Creative Australia and Arts Tasmania, with commissions from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Music Centre: Momentum, Liquid Architecture, and Next Wave Festival. She is nearing completion of a PhD in Music Composition at the University of Tasmania, investigating embodied environmental engagement as compositional methodology