Katy Abbott
The Artists' Mentor: Illuminate. Challenge. Change.
- Creative Director of The Artists' Mentor & Senior Lecturer in Composition (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music)
Education & Training
My Connection Statement
I support high-achieving artists across disciplines to build vibrant, long-term careers so they have impact, meaning and momentum.
I do this through my signature program CATAPULT: 6-month Artist Mentoring Virtual Residency Program as well as tailored programs for Arts Organisations.
About Me - My Biography
Dr Katy Abbott is forensically curious about what makes us tick. As a nationally recognised composer, she is an artist who uses music to illuminate stories of heart and courage.
As The Artists’ Mentor, Katy works with established artists and Arts Leaders across disciplines to support them to have vibrant, joyful, long-term careers that have meaning and impact.
Katy’s compositions are performed, published, broadcast and recorded around the world. She has 5 solo albums and a bucketful of Australia’s top composition prizes and awards and is currently composig a major work for The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for late 2023.
My Expertise
I build ripple effects. My expertise is in being able to capture the essence of something – to gently bring to the surface the things we feel and know but do not consciously acknowledge. I do this in my music composing work but I also do this through The Artists’ Mentor, in online courses and mentoring. I support creatives get underneath their unconscious drivers (think people-pleasing, difficult decision-making for example) to capture the essence of their yearning to create art and art-making practices that deeply match ‘them’. Supporting women to develop and use their own artistic voice, so they can help others’ use their voice.
I also have a flourishing composing practice where my work is internationally recognised as giving voice to those that do not have one in my Hidden Thoughts(TM) series.
