Aad's composition work includes the production of printed scores, public performances, radio broadcasts, commissions, arrangements, soundtracks, operas, publications and recordings. He has produced large works for string quartet, theatre, choir, as well as electro-acoustic and multimedia works. He also has wide experience as a conductor, director, bass player, record producer and musical director. His current focus is concentrated on collaborations with the visual arts.

He was lecturer in contemporary music theory and composition at Latrobe University from 1990-2000. His research included a study of Alban Berg's music. He co-founded the art music group Slave Pianos in 1999 (www.slavepianos.org). In 2000, they toured Russia with Krasnyi Quartet. In 2004, their acoustic theatre work, Two Lives in Flux, was premiered in Lithuania. Their large-scale multi-artform work, Dissident Consonances, was presented in Melbourne and Berlin in 2007. He recently completed a work for the New York-based Flux String Quartet. He currently operates Run Stop Sound, a studio producing his own work and recordings by other artists. These include Jim Kane, Andrew Byrne Band, The Taylor Project, Tessa Lancashire, John Campbell, Lucie Thorne, Slave Pianos and The Spaghetti Western Orchestra.

His time is now spent balancing composition activities with recording, teaching and playing guitar.

Biography provided by the composer and current to 2009.

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