Life
Ross Edwards was born in Sydney. After completing secondary education at Sydney Grammar School he received his early musical education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, completing his Master of Music degree at the University of Adelaide and graduating as Doctor of Music from the University of Sydney. His teachers have included Peter Sculthorpe, for whom he later worked as an assistant, Richard Meale, Sándor Veress and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with whom he studied in Adelaide and again in London in the early 1970s. Returning to Australia, he held teaching positions at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Conservatorium before becoming a freelance composer in 1980.
Among many awards, he considers two Keating Fellowships received in the 1990s to have been crucial to his development. He is based in Sydney, where he lives with his wife, Helen, spending as much time as possible working in his studio in the Blue Mountains, west of the city.
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