Composer-pianist Wendy Hiscocks was born in Wollongong near Sydney and began playing the piano at an early age.  In her teens she started composing, and went on to study composition with Peter Schulthorpe at University of Sydney.  Her career started with a two-year residence as
composer and composition teacher at a major Perth school that resulted in the establishment of composition as an accredited subject in the West Australian school syllabus.

Since moving to London in 1988, she has received commissions, premieres and broadcasts from distinguished soloists, ensembles and choirs from around the world.

Wendy’s recent appearance in an ABC TV-documentary on the Australian painter, Lloyd Rees, includes a performance of her choral work “Grace,” and is scheduled for broadcast in February 2008.

As a pianist she has appeared internationally at venues ranging from London’s Purcell Room to festivals on various continents such as the Kusatsu International Summer Academy and Festival in Japan and Australia’s Port Fairy Festival.  She performs piano duos and duets, chamber music and accompanies singers in a large range of repertoire, including her own compositions.

She has recorded the music of Chabrier with her piano duo partner, Roy Howat, for the French label Stil, and her piano duet arrangement of Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre was published by Edition Peters in 2007. Wendy is also an authority on the music of Arthur Benjamin, a topic on which she is preparing a doctorate for the Australian National
University.