Presented each year by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre, the Awards recognise achievement in the composition, performance, education and presentation of Australian art music. Art music covers activity across contemporary classical music, contemporary jazz and improvised music, experimental music and sound art.
The 2011 Art Music Awards were held on Tuesday 3 May at Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay.
Distinguished Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
john hopkins |
Winner |
Patrick Thomas |
Award for Excellence by an Organisation or an Individual |
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Winner |
Clocked Out: 2009/2010 Annual Programs |
Finalists |
Jane Sheldon & Peter Godfrey-Smith: The Origin Cycle Project |
Southern Cross Soloists: 2009/2010 Annual Programs |
Way Out West: Developing Australian jazz music.Touring Nationally and Internationally innovative new work |
Award for Excellence in Music Education |
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Winner |
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre: Composer-in-Focus 2010 with Ross Edwards |
Finalists |
Cat Hope: Contribution to Music Education in Western Australia |
Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra: Commissioning Hide and Squeak by Damian Barbeler and the 2010 Kids Proms concerts |
The Australian Voices: Young Composers' School |
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area |
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Winner |
Four Winds Festival: 2010 Festival in Bermagui, NSW |
Finalists |
Arts in the Valley: 2009 Festival in Kangaroo Valley, NSW |
Hunter Singers: Commissioning and performing Australian Choral Music, NSW |
Tura New Music: 2009/2010 Regional Program, WA |
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music |
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Winner |
Cat Hope: Decibel’s 2009/2010 Annual Programs |
Finalists |
Fractured Again Project: Damien Ricketson (Composer/Concept), Ensemble Offspring (Performers), Elaine Miles (Installation Art), Andrew Wholley (Video Art), Paul Gough - Pimmon (Electronic Music), Bob Scott (Sound Design), Matthew Marshall (Lighting Design). |
Constellation and epi-thet Project: An exhibition with performance interruptions and a sound installation activated by the audience. A collaboration of; Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Robin Fox, Wang Zheng Ting, Anita Hustas, Rohan Drape,Ros Bandt, Sebastian Harris, Graeme Leak, Kate Neal, David Young,Carolyn Connors, Neil Kelly, Jesse Stevens |
Work of the Year: Vocal/Choral | |
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Title: | Deserts of Exile |
Composer: | Paul Stanhope |
Text: | Jabra Ibrahim Jabra published by University of California Press |
Performer: | Choir of Trinity College Cambridge Stephen Layton (conductor) |
Finalists | |
Title: | Beach Burial |
Composer: | Andrew Schultz |
Text: | Kenneth Slessor published by Angus and Robertson |
Performer: | Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Orchestra Brett Weymark (conductor) |
Title: | Iphighenia in Exile |
Composer: | Helen Gifford |
Text: | Richard Meredith |
Performer: | Aphids, Chamber Made Opera, Speak Percussion |
Work of the Year: Instrumental | |
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Winner | |
Title: | String Quartet No. 2 |
Composer: | Paul Stanhope |
Performer: | Pavel Haas Quartet |
Finalists | |
Title: | Fractured Again |
Composer: | Damien Ricketson |
Performer: | Ensemble Offspring |
Work of the Year: Orchestral | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Chronicles |
Composer: | James Ledger |
Performer: | West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Paul Daniel (conductor) |
Finalists | |
Title: | A Dream of Drowning |
Composer: | Andrew Ford |
Text: | Tim Winton |
Performer: | West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Teddy Tahu Rhodes (soloist), Paul Daniel (conductor) |
Title: | Golden Kitsch |
Composer: | Elena Kats-Chernin |
Performer: | Sydney Youth Orchestra, Claire Edwardes (soloist) |
Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes Inc (ASCAP), sub published by Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd |
Title: | Lightfall for Horn and Orchestra |
Composer: | Christopher Gordon |
Performer: | Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Robert Johnson (soloist), Richard Gill (conductor) |
Work of the Year: Jazz | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Ashes to Ashes |
Composer: | Johannes Luebbers |
Performer: | Johannes Luebbers Dectet |
Finalists | |
Title: | That Which Is Not Fleeting |
Composer: | Sean Foran |
Performer: | Misinterprotato and Topology |
Title: | The Gathering |
Composer: | Stuart Hunter |
Performer: | Stuart Hunter (piano), Simon Barker (drums), Cameron Undy(bass), Matthew Keegan (sax), Julien Wilson (sax), James Greening (trombone/pocket trumpet) |
Performance of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Performer: | Jane Sheldon (soprano) and Ensemble Offspring Roland Peelman (conductor) |
Title: | The Origin Cycle |
Composer: | Elliott Gyger/Kate Neal/Barry Conyngham/Rosalind Page/ Elena Kats-Chernin/Nicholas Vines/Paul Stanhope/Dan Walker |
Finalists | |
Performer: | Halcyon |
Title: | From the Hungry Waiting Country |
Composer: | Elliott Gyger |
Text: | Vincent Buckley/William Hart-Smith/Gwen Harwood/ A.D. Hope/Mark O’Connor/Elizabeth Riddell/ Randolph Stow |
Performer: | Clocked Out and Speak Percussion |
Title: | Refractions |
Composer: | Anthony Pateras |
Performer: | The Song Company and William Barton (soloist) |
Title: | Kalkadunga Man |
Composer: | William Barton/Ross Edwards/Sarah Hopkins/Rosalind Page/Dan Walker |
State Award Winners | |
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Australian Capital Territory | |
Excellence By An Organisation | |
National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra International Music Festival, National Library of Australia: The Voss Journey | |
New South Wales | |
Excellence by an Organisation | |
Moorambilla Voices for Moorambilla festival | |
South Australia | |
Instrumental Work of the Year | |
Title: | Airborne |
Composer: | Grant Sheridan |
Tasmania | |
Work of the Year: Instrumental | |
Title: | 48 Fugues for Frank |
Composer: | Michael Kieran Harvey |
Western Australia | |
Excellence in Experimental Music | |
Decibel’s 2009/2010 Annual Programs | |
Victoria | |
Performance Of The Year | |
Performer: | Genevieve Lacey |
Title: | En masse |
Composers: | Genevieve Lacey, Marc Silver, Lawrence English, John Rodgers, Jim Atkins, Steve Adam, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, dj olive, Christian Fennesz, Taylor Deupree |
Queensland | |
Excellence by an Organisation | |
Clocked Out: 2009/2010 Annual Programs |