“The Passion That We Don’t Understand”: An Interview with Lisa Gerrard

Felicity Wilcox lectures in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. As a professional composer she has contributed soundtracks to over sixty film and television productions and has received commissions for concert works for leading Australian festivals and ensembles. Her scholarly research focuses on music for multimedia and gender in music. She has published on the film music of A. R. Rahman, the concert music of Ennio Morricone, and gender equity in screen music in Australia, informed by her own career and her advocacy as co-founder and chair of the Gender Equity Committee of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (2016-2020). Her new book is the edited collection Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound (Routledge, forthcoming).