Emotional connection with listeners through sensitive, passionate and inspired music is at the heart of Naomi Dodd’s compositional practice. Her place in the Australian composition world is rapidly being established, with works having been commissioned by leading ensembles around the country. In 2024, Naomi holds the position of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Cybec Young Composer in Residence for which she is writing three new works to be premiered by MSO this year. Naomi is also one of four composers selected to participate in Tasmania Symphony Orchestra’s Australian Composers’ School throughout 2024-2025.
Naomi’s musical style draws from impressionist, romantic and modern Australian influences, while her inspiration is deeply connected to her emotional sensitivities with compositions often reflecting Naomi’s experiences and impressions of subjects such as Australian landscapes and coastlines, home and the human experience. Her work ranges from intensely passionate and colourful moments to gentle fragments echoing the ethereal.
Naomi graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music Composition. Since graduating Naomi has had works commissioned and performed by many notable ensembles and artists such as Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Omega Ensemble, Australian guitarists Matt Withers and Callum Henshaw, Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, Penrith Symphony Orchestra, Awesöme Orchestra Collective (San Francisco), Northern Beaches Orchestra, Balmain Sinfonia, SCM Modern Music Ensemble and Geist String Quartet.
Naomi’s belief that all people possess an innate potential for musical appreciation shapes her desire to create music that reaches and impacts all who listen.
Naomi Dodd's position is generously supported by The Cybec Foundation
