Described as “a truly imaginative, thoughtful and special musician,” by the late Richard Gill AO, Otto Gibbs (b. 2004) is an Australian composer with a rapidly expanding career. Some of the notable performers he has written for include musicians of the Singapore, Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Darlington Quartet, Symbios Quartet, the Straits Ensemble, Qiqi Lu, and Emma Matthews AM. For his work, Otto became a two-time winner of the WA Royal Overseas League Orchestral Composition Prize (2023 and 2026), placed third in the Willoughby Symphony's Young Composer Awards (2025), and secured a finalist position in the European Recording Orchestra's Call for Scores (2025). Whilst Otto's music is performed most often in his homeland, his international presence is steadily growing, with recent performances taking place in Singapore, Norway, and the USA. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious New Colombo Plan scholarship program (2024), of which he was the designated Singapore Fellow for his cohort. Otto's rigorous studies of Asian musical traditions while in Singapore culminated in him becoming the first non-Asian to participate in the New Sights Fellowship program, a preeminent intercultural composition program in the country.

Beyond composition, Otto is also an adept percussionist and conductor, and freelances in Australia and Singapore in both roles. He was formerly a section percussionist in the West Australian Youth Orchestra and Defying Gravity Percussion; the latter of which he toured with in mainland China in 2024 and were guests of honour in the 2026 Taiwan International Percussion Convention. While classically trained by the likes of Jonathan Fox and Tim White OAM, Otto also has a keen interest in Chinese percussion and delivered the Australian premiere of Wang Chenwei's concerto for percussion and Chinese orchestra,Bronze Age of Shang. His mentors in this discipline include Benjamin Boo and the attendants of the Nam Ann Siang Theon Temple.