Caerwen has the unenviable brag of lived experience with neurodivergence, physical disability, mental illness, family violence, and gendered violence however, Caerwen transmutes her trauma by sharing the hard-earned wisdom of hindsight with others through social media in an effort to end the gender violence crisis in Australia and gendered discrimination around the world.
International experience 1998 ‒ 2024: Cellist and Composer: USA, Western Europe, Scandinavia, the Balkans, South Africa, Japan, Taipei, UK, NZ and Australia. With over seven albums and multiple video works, their output includes compositions for orchestra, chamber ensemble, small ensemble, solo, choral, pedagogical studies and pieces, contemporary dance, ballet, art installation, theatre, feature film score, short film score including a recreation of their Opera, Artesian.
Career Highlights: The Ancestors are Calling Dr Lou Bennett AM & SiloSQ Adelaide Festival 2023 & RISING Festival 2022, SiloSQ Carnegie Hall (NYC) 2008, Bang on a Can Festival & Next Wave Festival (NYC) 2001, The Kennedy Centre Washington 2001, Melbourne Sydney Perth Darwin International Arts Festivals and WOMAD with the Black Arm Band 2006 - 2009, Melbourne International Jazz Festival with Ambrose Akinmusire SiloSQ 2019, Concertgebouw 1998, Reception (Hellow) at 2006 Adelaide Biennale.
Awards: Catherine Mary Sullivan Scholarship for excellence, The Orloff Family Trust Scholarship, The Guitar Perspectives Award for Excellence, the Sir John T Reid Scholarship, The RTP Scholarship, 2 x Academic Assistantship, the Athenaeum Prize, Perth Modern Scholarship
