NOVEMBER 2023

Winner of UK’s Business and Media Innovator Award:
“Composer and Saxophonist of the Year 2023 (Australia): Katia Beaugeais”

2013 – 2018

University of Sydney Alumni Award
1 of 6 Alumni awards (top-up scholarship) awarded across the whole university “for academic excellence and outstanding research candidates”.

Australian Postgraduate Award
Full PhD Composition Scholarship – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

September 2014
Con Centenary Commissioning Award – Terra Obscura: Concerto for Saxophone
As a result of winning the 2010 ISCM/IAMIC International Young Composer Award.
http://music.sydney.edu.au/con100years/centenary-commissioning-project/

May 2010

ISCM/IAMIC International Society for Contemporary Music Young Composer Award: Sound Box for solo soprano saxophone
As part of 80 works selected from more than 700 from 52 countries, Beaugeais’s composition was voted best piece by an international judging panel: USA, Sweden, Korea, Venezuela, Belgium.
http://www.iscm.org/activities/ycawards/2010-iscm-iamic-young-composer-award-katia-beaugeais

2008
University of Canberra Composers Competition
The Last Flight of Saint-Ex for oboe and string quartet

2006
Willoughby Symphony/2MBS-FM Composition Competition
Fellowship of Australian Composers Encouragement Award: Aurora Australis for Orchestra

2004
North Queensland Concerto and Vocal Competition
1st Prize in the ‘Piano and Instrumental’ section
2nd prize in the ‘Australiana’ section

2002
2MBS-FM Young Performers Award Finalist
Selected to perform a one-hour recital, broadcast live on 2MBS–FM for the Young Performers Award Competition.

2000 & 2001
11th & 12th Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music
Selected to perform in the Young Composers Salon at the Studio, Sydney Opera House.

2001
South Sydney Rotary Club Felix Switzer Memorial Scholarship
Sydney Conservatorium of Music

2000
Zelma Oakley Dinely Scholarship
Sydney Conservatorium of Music