
"Cat Hope is noted for her championing of new music as a composer, musician, director, educator and researcher and through her work as artistic director for Decibel. Amongst her many achievements in 2012, she secured the International Computer Music Conference in Perth and commenced the online archive of Western Australia new music from 1970 to the present - a project that will preserve Western Australian music into perpetuity. She is to be commended for her tireless support of young musicians and composers and new music in Western Australia".
See the four nominees described here.