Vanessa Tomlinson
Vanessa Tomlinson (born 1971) is an Australian percussionist, composer, artistic director and educator. She is Director of Creative Arts Research Institute and Head of Percussion at Griffith University and has produced 150 publications. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Clocked Out, along with Erik Griswold. Career In 1993 Tomlinson was awarded a recording contract with Etcetera Records, and won two awards for her percussion. Upon completing her degree in Adelaide, Tomlinson studied with Bernhard Wulff and Robert van Sice at Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany. She then moved to San Diego to complete a Masters under Steven Schick, and completed a Doctor Of Musical Arts in 2000. Since 2000 she has collaborated with her partner Erik Griswold and released several albums together as Clocked Out Duo. They won two Green Room Awards for their collaboration Dada Cabare in 2000, and later won the Award for Excellence by an Organisation or Individual and Queensland State Award at 2011's APRA and AMC Art Music Awards for their work as Clocked Out. In 2017 Tomlinson began a collaboration titled TOMLIN | FERGUS with Dr John Ferguson, an academic at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music where Tomlinson also taught. In 2018 Tomlinson released her