Ihlara McIndoe is a composer/musicologist from Aotearoa New Zealand whose work draws on themes of exploration and preservation to investigate artistic ecologies and creative modes of (re)thinking, (re)making and remembering. Her projects span across acoustic and electroacoustic concert settings from solo instrument to orchestral scores, as well as interdisciplinary projects incorporating movement, poetry, and storytelling, and give particular emphasis to timbre, texture, and form. She is a graduate of McGill University, the University of Otago, and the Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation. During her studies, she received composition mentorship from Professor Anthony Ritchie, Professor Peter Adams, Chris Gendall, Dylan Lardelli, and Professor Brian Cherney, and was supervised in her musicology thesis research by Professor Roe-Min Kok. Outside of music, Ihlara enjoys improvising in the kitchen (with mixed results), running (especially when the run finishes at a coffee shop), and rewatching Taskmaster.
