Darcy Lewis is a multidisciplinary artist and composer of new music incorporating elements of movement, improvisation, and extra-musical creative processes. An honours student in Composition and Sonic Arts at WAAPA, Darcy’s curiosity hsas also led him to broader study in Tokyo, Japan and Gothenburg, Sweden where he collaborated with international ensemble Curious Chamber Players on his work Let Movement (2024), and Språng Kultur on the multidisciplinary dance project, Ark. Darcy’s research and composition focuses on the exploration of gestural notations and using them to provide audiences and performers with diverse points of access to his work; this work as a composer has notably been featured in Perth’s Revelation Film Festival, and was recently awarded The Bendat Family Foundation Scholarship for most outstanding composition for his piece Aluminated Grey at the West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Project 2025. As a result, Darcy will write again for WASO in 2026. As a performer Darcy is a participant in, and advocate for, collaborative music making and can be found performing new and exploratory music around Perth in a variety of spaces with occasional collaborator Fred Johnston-Horstman in the duo Duck Looking Left, as well as WAAPA’s HearNow Art Orchestra and other small ensembles. His other compositional work includes choral, big band, chamber music, and films including Threadbare (2022) which was exhibited at Revelation Film Festival in Perth, Australia
Beyond working as a composer, Darcy has held a number of positions as a piano and guitar teacher at West Coast Music School and Grow Music Studio in Perth, Western Australia and worked with Propel Youth Arts and the Youth Affairs Council of Australia supporting young people's voices in and beyond the arts.
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