Cat Hope's experience across various styles of music composition and performance bring something unique to her academic work. She is a politically engaged artist and scholar with a passion for music innovation and experimentation.

Cat has Bachelor of Music (Performance) with Honours, and won the University Research Prize for Outstanding Thesis when her PhD in Art was conferred by RMIT University in 2010. She has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and most recently, a Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship in Germany. Her creative work has been recognised with range of awards in Australia and overseas, and her music is published by Material Press (Germany).

Cat was a member of the Australian Research Council Creative Arts and Humanities College of Experts from 2017-2019, and is currently the chair of the International Technologies of Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) conference. She has been the president of the Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) where she has been a passionate advocate for artistic practice as research. She has also been a board member of Liquid Architecture and the Australian Music Centre, and has led the development of undergraduate degrees that combine composition and music technology Australia wide. She is currently the Research Director and Professor of Composition at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance.

A leading International scholar examining digital notation, gender representation, experimentation and digital archiving for music, Cat is also an expert in practice based methodologies for music, engaging them as a composer and performer of new music as well as in the supervision of PhD and Masters students.

Cat is the director of the award winning music ensemble, Decibel, a national team of internationally recognised artistic-researchers working accross comopsition, performance, sound engineering, digital software development and publishing. Cat is currently a Chief Investigator on the European Research Council's "Digi-Score" project (2020-26), and sites on a range of peer review panels for conferences and journals, as well as the the European Science Foundation and Bloomsbury Academic.

Areas of Expertise:

• digital and graphic notation for music
• music software development
• gender and music
• digital archives for music
• Australian music and improvisation
• music and activism
• low frequency sound