Linda Kouvaras

Linda Kouvaras (born 1960) is a Melbourne-based composer with a background in Punk/New Wave. Her compositions, which explore genre mixing, are focused on vocals and piano music, and are released on ABC Records and Move Records.Kouvaras is also a musicologist at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music of the University of Melbourne; her research interests include Australian music and gender and music. Her book, Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age was published by Ashgate in 2013 and received the Rebecca Coyle Publication Prize of 2014. She is one of the editors of the academic journal Current Issues in Music.