Bruce Crossman
Bruce Crossman (b. 1961) is an Australian composer who has achieved international recognition with performances in Australasia, Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines), Europe (England, Holland, Germany) and the USA.
Highlights of his career include working with the Kanagawa Philharmonic (Japan), Korean Symphony Orchestra, New Asia String Quartet at the Pacific Rim Music Festival in the USA, and with Kawamura Taizan (shakuhachi) at the Asian Music Festival 2010 in Tokyo and shihans Tomotsune Bizan and Kikuchi Kouzan's at Asian Music Festival 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. Recent projects include performances at the ISCM World New Music Days in Beijing and Asian Composers League Festival and Conference in Taiwan in 2018, and collaborations with Korean Gugak performers , gayageum master Yi Jiyoung (Seoul) and taegüm virtuoso Hyelim Kim (London) in 2020.
Crossman lives in Sydney and works as an Associate Professor of Music, Music and Music Therapy Discipline at Western Sydney University. He contributes to the Asia-Pacific region through invitations as a Collaborator, Aichi University of the Arts, Japan in 2015, Composer, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan in 2019, Scholar/Artist-in-Residence, Seoul National University , South Korea in 2022, and advisory work for the Rockefeller Foundation in New York (USA).