Linda is a pianist, composer and musicologist, with particular interests in contemporary music. She has recorded, commissioned, and premiered numerous contemporary Australian works for piano, performing extensively in city and regional centres. Her recordings appear on the Move Records, ABC Audio, Cicada and Au Go Go labels. Following her Master's Degree in piano in 1991, she was awarded the Hugh Williamson Fellowship at the Australian Centre to reseach contemporary Australian music composition. Her PhD examined the ramifications of postmodernism and feminism for Sweet Death , a contemporary Australian chamber opera by Andrée Greenwell , produced by the Chamber Made Opera Company. Her articles, chapters and criticism have appeared in such publications as Sounds Australian, Journal of Australian Studies, Context, Australian Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies: Pluralism and Theory 2, APRA, New Music Articles, Aflame with Music: 100 Years of Music at the University of Melbourne, Sound Ideas: Australian Composers born after 1950 , and Ormond Papers , and her compositions are published by the Australian Music Centre . She teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and at the Faculty of Music , the University of Melbourne.