Australian composer Graeme Koehne is a Lecturer in Music at Adelaide University. He studied at that institution with Richard Meale, and in the United States, after being awarded a Harkness Fellowship, with Virgil Thomson and Louis Andriessen. Koehne's solo, ensemble and orchestral music is widely performed and includes commissions from the Australian Ballet, the Sydney Dance Company, the West Australian Ballet, the Queensland Ballet and the Seymour Group.