Biography

Anusha Yellapragada is an early-career composer with a practice grounded heavily in music for art-music, screen media, and multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is a Bespoke Artist with Speak Percussion, and has had work featured on both the Australian Art Music Playlist and the 1,000 Curious Ears playlist (Wasteland) curated by Cameron Lam. She has crafted music for chamber ensembles, games, film, dance, and theatre. Her work has been performed by Syzygy Ensemble, Ensemble Liaison, WHACKollective, Ellipsis Trio, and Monash University Percussion Ensemble.

Despite working across different mediums, Anusha’s compositional practice routinely involves close collaboration with musicians to craft engaging sonic worlds. Her compositions often blur the barrier between music and sound design, with the objective of creating highly immersive audio experiences – pieces that resonate as strongly in a games/film context as they do in the concert hall. Furthermore, she wishes to weave elements of Carnatic (South Indian Classical) music into her music craft.

With collaboration forming a core element of her practice, Anusha seeks to work with a diverse range of artists to bring exciting narratives to life. Additionally, with a background in immunological research, she is excited to work with researchers and use art to engage audiences with science. Anusha is eager to encourage dialogue around issues like the climate crisis which has led her to work on projects such as We The Ocean (theatre) and Wasteland (dance). Anusha wishes to continue developing her practice through boundary-pushing, narrative-based, music and multidisciplinary art.