James is the recipient of an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award (with ADSR Zine) and was a finalist in the APRA-AMCOS Professional Development Awards (Experimental). From 2023–24 he undertook a funded residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, supported by Create NSW and Fondation Singer-Polignac, and participated in composition mentorships in Berlin with Johannes Kreidler and Peter Ablinger. In 2024, James recieved an honourable mention in the Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change.
Hazel’s work has been presented, performed, or exhibited at venues and festivals including Performance Space, Gadeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht); Liquid Architecture, Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Peggy Glanville-Hicks House (Sydney), HighSCORE Festival (Italy), Charlotte New Music Festival (USA) among others. He has created scores for ensembles and organisations including Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Mise-en (New York), Gondwana Choirs, Sydney Dance Company PPY, The West Australian Ballet, and Dancer Maker’s Collective, and has collaborated with choreographers and performance makers across Australia and internationally.
Selected projects include underscoring the commons (2023), a major solo exhibition and score project examining the acoustics of gentrification; an edited collection of scores for Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer Journal on the working-class voice; and experimental radio-opera works developed through the ABC Top 5 Arts Research residency (University of Melbourne/Australia Council). Hazel’s current para-operatic project ‘poor opera’ continues the exploration of the poetics of the working-class voice as a charged index of refusal and social magic.
Hazel is co-founder of ADSR Zine, Danger/Dancer, (under)scoring the commons, and poor opera(tions), platforms supporting intersectional working-class and experimental artists. He also leads workshops and community projects with CLASS ACTIONS COLLECTIVE, co-founded with Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor and Kaz Therese.