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 2013 Art Music Awards were held on Monday 26 August at Parade Theatre, NIDA.
Distinguished Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
George Dreyfus |
Award for Excellence by an Organisation |
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Winner |
Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival for the sustained promotion of new music |
Finalists |
Acacia Quartet for Blue Silence, the recording of the complete string quartets of Elena Kats-Chernin |
Speak Percussion for their 2012 Artistic Program |
Tura New Music and the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the Reef Tour 2012 |
Award for Excellence by an Individual |
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Winner |
Danielle Bentley for dedication and commitment to Australian art music and chamber music |
Finalists |
Cat Hope for supporting and growing new music in Western Australia |
David Young for 20 years of commissioning, curating & producing new Australian art music |
Zubin Kanga for Spectrum, a recital of newly commissioned piano music |
Award for Excellence in Music Education |
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Winner |
New England Conservatorium of Music for New England Sings! |
Finalists |
Gondwana Choirs for Gondwana Choirs Choral Training Programs 2012 |
James Humberstone for Cycles & Circles education program (as part of Ensemble Offspring's Music to Infinity program) |
Speak Percussion for their 2012 education programs |
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area |
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Winner |
The Wired Lab and Country Arts SA for Southern Encounter |
Finalists |
Gondwana Choirs for the Cairns Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir |
Tammy Brennan, Sofie Loizou and Barton Staggs for the site-specific performance installation, Confined, at the Old Alice Springs Gaol |
Tura New Music and the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the Reef Tour 2012 |
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music |
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Winner |
The Wired Lab and Country Arts SA for Southern Encounter |
Finalists |
Daniel Blinkhorn for composition and location field recording, frostbYte – triptych |
Decibel for their 2012 Program |
Super Critical Mass for their activities in 2012 |
Award for Excellence in Jazz |
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Winner |
Jamie Oehlers for recording, touring and educational achievements in 2012 |
Finalists |
Quentin Angus for composition, performance and career development |
Trichotomy for compositional performance & recording projects |
Jeremy Rose for Excellence in Jazz |
Work of the Year: Vocal/Choral | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Heritage in Song |
Composer: | Stephen Leek |
Text: | Stephen Leek |
Performer: | Sydney Children’s Choir conducted by Lyn Williams |
Finalists | |
Title: | Conversations with Ghosts |
Composer: | Paul Kelly* and James Ledger |
Text: | Paul Kelly, Emily Dickinson, Norman MacCaig, Les Murray, Kenneth Slessor, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats |
Performer: | Paul Kelly, James Ledger, Genevieve Lacey and musicians from Australian National Academy of Music |
Publisher: | Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia P/L* |
Title: | The Domestic Sublime |
Composer: | Katy Abbott |
Text: | Chris Wallace-Crabbe |
Performer: | Greta Bradman (soprano) and Leigh Harrold (piano) |
Title: | We Apologise |
Composer: | Robert Davidson |
Text: | Robert Davidson (from Kevin Rudd’s apology to Indigenous Australians, 13 February 2008) |
Performer: | The Australian Voices conducted by Gordon Hamilton |
Work of the Year: Instrumental | |
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Winner | |
Title: | String Quintet |
Composer: | Gordon Kerry |
Performer: | Kuss Quartet with Naoko Shimizu |
Finalists | |
Title: | Bright Birds |
Composer: | Damian Barbeler |
Performer: | Stephen Emmerson and Sonya Lifschitz |
Title: | dark nebulae |
Composer: | Lachlan Skipworth |
Performer: | Khasm Quartet |
Title: | Falling |
Composer: | Mary Finsterer |
Performer: | Paul Grabowsky and Gabriella Smart |
Work of the Year: Orchestral | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Fire Music |
Composer: | Brett Dean |
Performer: | Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brett Dean |
Publisher: | Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd OBO Bote Bock Der Boosey Hawkes Bote Bock GM |
Finalists | |
Title: | Blitz |
Composer: | Andrew Ford |
Performer: | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marko Letonja |
Title: | Full Moon Dances |
Composer: | Ross Edwards |
Performer: | Amy Dickson (saxophone) with the Sydney Symphony conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
Title: | Piano Concerto No 2 |
Composer: | Carl Vine |
Performer: | Piers Lane (piano) with the Sydney Symphony conducted by Hugh Wolff |
Publisher: | Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd OBO Faber Music Ltd |
Work of the Year: Jazz | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Anda Two |
Composer: | Marc Hannaford |
Performer: | The Marc Hannaford Trio |
Finalists | |
Title: | Meditations on Light |
Composer: | Andrea Keller |
Performer: | Andrea Keller Quartet and No Tango Quartet |
Title: | Meetings at the Table of Time |
Composer: | Sandy Evans |
Performer: | Members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble |
Title: | The World Rushes On |
Composer: | Alice Humphries |
Performer: | Ecila Ensemble |
Performance of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Performer: | Members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble |
Title: | Meetings at the Table of Time |
Composer: | Sandy Evans |
Finalists | |
Performer: | Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frederic Chaslin |
Title: | Bénédiction d’un conquérant: for Symphony Orchestra |
Composer: | Andrián Pertout |
Performer: | Trio Dali |
Title: | Im Winde |
Composer: | Gordon Kerry |
Performer: | Zubin Kanga |
Title: | The Drumfire was incessant, and continued all night with unabated fury… |
Composer: | Andrew Harrison |
State Award Winners | |
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Australian Capital Territory | |
Excellence By An Individual | |
Nicole Canham for Hourglass | |
New South Wales | |
Excellence In Music Education | |
Moorambilla Voices for Moorambilla Voices Education Program | |
South Australia | |
Excellence in Music Education | |
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and OzAsia Festival for Australian Emerging Composers Creative Workshops with Tan Dun | |
Tasmania | |
Work of the Year: Instrumental | |
Title: | Ten Suns Ablaze |
Composer: | Maria Grenfell |
Performed by: | The Australia Ensemble |
Western Australia | |
Excellence in a Regional Area | |
Tura New Music and The Australian Chamber Orchestra for The Reef Tour 2012 | |
Victoria | |
Excellence by an Organisation | |
Chamber Made Opera for The Minotaur Trilogy (and their Living Room Opera Series) | |
Queensland | |
Performance Of The Year | |
Performer: | Linsey Pollak |
Title: | The Dream of Zedkat Nabu |
Composer: | Linsey Pollak |