Brett Dean, Brisbane State High School, 1978

Composer, Violist and Conductor, Brett Dean graduated from BSHS in 1978. Based in Melbourne and Berlin, he is one of the most internationally performed composers of his generation.

With over 56 compositions, he won the Grawemeyer Award for music composition in 2009 for his violin concerto ‘The Lost Art of Letter Writing’, and received the Elise L. Stoeger Prize in 2011 from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York. More recently, he was the Composer in Residence at the 2013/14 Grafenegg Festival.