2024-2025

Katy Abbott Prize for Composition (IAWM Search for New Music) 

The 2025 Katy Abbott Prize for Composition has been awarded to Inga Chinilina. (IAWM)

Book Chapter: ‘Holding, Handling, Moulding and Setting the Inner Thoughts of another, in Hidden Thoughts: Do I Matter?’ (Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature))

The Composer, Herself: Contemporary Snapshots of the Creative Process, edited by Linda Kouvaras, Natalie Williams and Maria Grenfell. 2024.

Review: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Four Seasons Recomposed / Hidden Thoughts: Stories of Awe by Sue Kaufman (Classic Melbourne)

Review: Glacial Thunder / Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, “Music Speaks” (Limelight Arts)

Interview: Inspiring Young Minds” — with MSO Composer-in-Residence Katy Abbott on The Peasant Prince (by Kim Thomson) (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Interview: How Katy Abbott composed a work of compassion for asylum seekers in offshore detention by Miranda Ilchef (CutCommon Magazine)

Interview on Hidden Thoughts: Return to Sender and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra residency

Article: MSO 2024 season launch announcement (Australian Arts Review)

Katy Abbott named as MSO’s 2024 Composer-in-Residence in a season featuring Tan Dun and Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO

Article: ‘Awe in the ordinary’ — Feature article by Dr Katy Abbott on music, awe and wellbeing, previewing Hidden Thoughts: Stories of Awe and the 2024 MSO residency (Canberra Symphony Orchestra Magazine [Rest])

2021-2023

Interview: Returning to the Concert Hall with Katy Abbott’s Punch  (Music Academy, USA)

Interview: Composing Music Inspired by Pioneering Women Artists of the 20th Century (Resonate Magazine, AMC)

Review: Musical revelation of hidden thoughts sends powerful message (The Age)

Interview + Performance: Listening Between The Notes Katy Abbott’s Still (Australia Ensemble, 2021)

Pre-2020

Interview: The heartfelt humour and sorrow in an unopened letter, set to music (The Age)

Interview: Finding voice – Katy Abbott on composing Hidden Thoughts: Return to Sender (Finding Voice)

Interview: Katy Abbott on Return to Sender (Australian Music Centre)

Mini Doco on Hidden Thoughts: Return to Sender (The Flinders Quartet/Agatha Yim)

Podcast + Performance: Katia Beaugeais – New Australian Sax Music including Multisonics (YouTube)

Interview/Podcast: Alma Ensemble: Summer Interview Series – Katy Abbott (YouTube)

Podcast: Interview about Re-echo and International Rostrom of Composers (ABC New Waves Podcast)

Article: Insight: Introduced Species (Resonate Magazine, AMC)