Biography

Rósa Lind is a composer and writer whose works draw inspiration from the visual arts, landscape, science and text to create poetic sonic connections between time, space and place.

Composer and writer Rósa Lind

KANDINSKY KUNSTWERKE, Rósa Lind's major cycle of works for piano, cello, flute and chamber ensemble, linking the art of Wassily Kandinsky with astronomy, was released to acclaim in 2023 on UK label ‘allthatdust’ and honoured by Deutschlandfunk as Die Neue Platte and broadcast on BBC 3 Sounds.

International residences include Visby International Composers' Centre (VICC, Sweden), CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, (France), Herhusið (Iceland), Leighton Artists' Colony, Banff Centre (Canada) and Imogen Holt's Residency through the Britten-Pears Foundation (UK).

HORIZON (2018), composed for the Latvian Radio Choir as a multilingual work, premiered at the National Museum of Art in Riga.  HORIZON was also honoured by inclusion in the ISCM Official Australian Selection and performed by the Latvian Radio Choir at ISCM World Music Days 2019 Tallinn. 

Rósa Lind’s three song cycles, Apollinairesongs, Hrafnsöngvar and Sonetos del Amor Oscuro, were included as Required Contemporary Repertoire in the prestigious 10th International Hilde Zadek Vocal Competition, during which Rósa Lind as Guest Composer attended Grand Final performances at the Musikverein, Vienna.


Sonetos del Amour Oscuro, a setting of five texts in Spanish by Federico García Lorca, won the  2006 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize. In 2004, Rósa Lind received the Highly Commended in the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for Fracture: A noh play for cello and orchestra
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Rósa Lind creates her work in Australia, Iceland, Canada and the UK.


Music that moves seamlessly between acoustic and electronic realms, mapping poetic interconnections across sound, image, astronomy and text.