Libby Myers is a guitarist and music researcher from Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Her intimate, heartfelt performances aim to tell unique stories through music, with a passion for contemporary and experimental projects.
She has a passion for contemporary music and experimentation, having given world premieres of solo, chamber and orchestral works for classical and electric guitar throughout Australia and abroad. Her debut solo album Unfettered and Alive was highly commended in the 2023 Queensland Music Awards. In 2024, she will be a mentor at the Dots+Loops NONSTOP festival where she will premiere new commissions for solo guitar written by the festival’s Composition Fellows.
As an improviser, she has collaborated with artists of disparate genres and disciplines, and it is in this mode of collaborative creativity she feels most at home. She has premiered her own experimental, improvisation-led compositions on both classical and electric guitar that explore open notation, effects, gesture and objects.
Libby has toured Australia with the Riverside Guitar Ensemble and the Rosa Guitar Trio, with whom she was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The trio released the album Brasiliana which featured their signature interpretations of traditional Brazilian music and was toured through regional Australia through Musica Viva.
Libby’s research focuses on musical practice, subjectivity and experimentation using innovative artistic and narrative research methods. She is an experienced and passionate music educator, currently tutoring in decolonising, practice-led approaches to music theory and aural skills at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Libby also teaches and directs award-winning student ensembles in high schools throughout Brisbane, and was a teaching assistant at the annual Sydney Guitar Summer School. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Griffith University and masters degrees from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain, and the University of Queensland, where she researched on the application of acting techniques to musical performance.