Described as “a truly imaginative, thoughtful and special musician,” by the late Richard Gill AO, Otto Gibbs (b. 2004) is a rising force in the realm of contemporary art music. Despite being in the process of completing his music undergraduate degree at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Otto has already made major strides as both a composer and arranger whose music has been performed both nationally and internationally to high renown.
Otto has composed and arranged music for performers of the Singapore, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, as well as chamber groups like the Straits Ensemble and Symbios Quartet. His compositions won him the 2023 Royal Overseas League Orchestral Composition Prize, third place in the 2025 Willoughby Symphony Young Composers Awards, and a finalist position in the 2025 European Recording Orchestra Call for Scores. In 2025, he was also the first Australian to be appointed a New Sights Fellow by Pasat Merdu.
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