David Chisholm

David Chisholm, Composer and Creative Producer. David has an international practice defined through diverse and hybrid collaboration for which he has won six Green Room Awards, a French Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award, a Highly Commended Paul Lowin Prize, a Mention at 36th Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Electronic Art, a Special Mention in the X Media Forum, 31st International Film Festival in Moscow, the Medibank Private State and National Arts Awards and The National Young Achiever of the Year.

David is founder, CEO and Artistic Director of the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music. In 2014 he was an Associate Artist for Malthouse Theatre. David lectures and tutors at Monash Univiersty and tutors in orchestration at Melbourne University where he completing a PhD candidate.


David is an Australia Council for the Arts’ Composer in Residence at HIAP in Helsinki, Finland where he is composing for defunensemble.