Australian composer Elizabeth Sheppard’s music is recorded and broadcast by the ABC, and released on ABC CDs, Universal Music Australia, Hyperion, 1equalmusic, Spotify and iTunes. She is an Arts, Philosophy and Theology graduate, an accredited Cathedral Cantor, a music graduate of Eora Aboriginal College, an Aboriginal Law / Aboriginal Studies graduate of Tranby IAE College, and a graduate of the Australian National University’s Ngarra Burria First Peoples Composers Program, currently studying Postgraduate composition at the Australian National University. In October 2022 her mainstage a capella oratorio music on the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, commissioned by The Song Company for Songs from the Heart, was toured to Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta and Wollongong, streamed on the Australian Digital Concert Hall and released internationally on a Hyperion CD by 1equalmusic. The Australia Arts Council awarded a $25,000 grant for a second 2023 tour of Sheppard’s Songs from the Heart music. Sheppard’s forthcoming music includes Karollini Christmas (an album of ten new Australian Christmas carols), Minninup Pool (a string quartet), Mana Dharook (a chamber orchestra symphony), and Bina Benang (a song cycle).