Author, Painter, Writer, Composer, Musician

After spending 12 years in Australia, he returned to England to live in 1995. Since that time, his music and work as a visual artist have slowly been re-established in UK and Europe as well as the United States.

During the late 1990s, he has also worked as an author of books on wildlife and the first in a major series, Birds Talk, has been published in 2001.

He was appointed the first Composer in Association with the BBC Singers, 2002-2006 and also created the first Artist in Residence with the Royal Society for the Protection of birds, also for the period 2002-06.

As a Public Speaker, he has always been much in demand and has already given the Ruskin Lecture at Oxford, the Gertrude Langer Memorial Lecture in Australia and the Kate Springett Memorial Lecture (on birds as composers) in London in 2003.

His music continues to be featured in major festivals throughout the world and regularly recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In early 2003, Cowie signed an exclusive contract with United Music Publishers, London,

General Biography (cont�d)

He now lives and works in Devon, England, with his Australian visual artist wife, Heather Cowie. He is currently Professor and Director of Research at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, a position he has held since 1996, where he continues to supervise large numbers of postgraduates in Music, the Fine Arts and Arts/Science research.