Adriel Sukumar is a young Australian composer Studying his fourth year of a Bachelor of Music (Composition) Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Carl Vine AO. His music has been played by various ensembles including the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra and New Music Ensemble, the Australian and Sydney Youth Orchestras, Steel City Strings, Ensemble Offspring, the Goldner String Quartet, the Australian String Quartet, Caesura Ensemble, SAGA Collective, and the Choir and Organists of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Parramatta, who also commissioned his work ‘Lament for Organ and Cello’ as part of their organ’s 125th anniversary concert celebrations in 2023. He has also had his music played by fellow students in concert events at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.  He has been awarded the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s 2022 Horace Keats Memorial Prize for Composition, their 2023 Frank Albert Music Prize, a 2022 and 2023 Academic Merit Prize from the University of Sydney, and Second place in the 2025 Willoughby Symphony Orchestra young composer Award.

Current as of April 2025