Jonathan Mills, one of Australia’s most experienced festival directors, took up the post of Festival Director and Chief Executive of the Edinburgh International Festival in October 2006.
Until recently, he was the Vice-Chancellor’s (Professorial) Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Alfred Deakin Lectures and an Artistic Advisor to the new Melbourne Recital Centre & Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.
His previous posts include Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Federation Festival, the Melbourne Millennium Eve celebrations and the Brisbane Biennial International Music Festival.
Mills graduated in music from the University of Sydney, where he specialised in composition with Peter Sculthorpe. He is regularly commissioned in Australia and increasingly in Europe and the UK and his composition Sandakan Threnody for solo tenor, choir and orchestra won the Prix Italia in 2005.
