Andrew Schultz has composed for a diversity of media including chamber, orchestral and vocal works. Works including Ekstasis, Dead Songs, Barren Grounds and Stick Dance have entered the main repertoire of a number of leading groups in Australia and have received many performances. His opera Black River was given its premiere in 1989 by the Sydney Metropolitan Opera, received a second season in 1990 and has been made into a film which was awarded the 1993 Opera Screen, Grand Prix at Opera Bastille and has screened widely in Australia and overseas. A graduate of The Universities of Queensland and London, Schultz has received numerous awards and commissions and is currently Associate Professor and Head of Music at the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong.