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 2016 Art Music Awards were held on Tuesday 16 August at the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne
Distinguished Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
helen gifford |
Award for Excellence by an Organisation |
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Winner |
Ensemble Offspring for 2015 activities and sustained services to Australian music for 20 years |
Finalists |
Arcko Symphonic Ensemble for presenting From Sorrowing Earth, a celebration of Nigel Butterley |
Speak Percussion for their 2015 Program: Performance, Commissions, Collaborations and Education |
The Music Show (ABC Radio National) for promotion, discussion and analysis of Australian music over 25 years |
Award for Excellence by an Individual |
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Winner |
Claire Edwardes for performance, advocacy and artistic leadership |
Finalists |
Andrée Greenwell for her work as composer and Artistic Director of Green Room Music |
Peter Knight for sustained contribution through composition, performance and leadership |
Ros Dunlop for her sustained contribution to Australian music for over 30 years |
Award for Excellence in Music Education |
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Winner |
Artology for the Fanfare Competition |
Finalists |
Australian Art Orchestra for the Creative Music Intensive residency project |
Queensland Music Festival for the Cape York Instrumental Program |
SCEGGS Darlinghurst for the Compose 120 Projects |
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area |
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Winner |
Moorambilla Voices for the Moorambilla Voices 2015 Tenth Anniversary Season |
Finalists |
Queensland Music Festival for Under This Sky, a large scale production in the community of Logan |
TURA New Music for the 2015 Reflection Tour to regional, remote and very remote Australia |
Tyalgum Music Festival for the 2015 Tyalgum Music Festival |
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music |
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Winner |
Speak Percussion for 2015 Music Program |
Finalists |
Clan Analogue for Intone: Voice Abstractions |
Decibel for After Julia program |
Leah Barclay for WIRA River Listening |
Award for Excellence in Jazz |
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Winner |
Australian Jazz Real Book for the Australian Jazz Real Book |
Finalists |
Alister Spence Trio for CD recording Alister Spence Trio: Live |
Mark Isaacs for his sustained contribution over four decades and 2015 Queensland Regional Tour |
WA Youth Jazz Orchestra for an outstanding 2015 annual program |
Vocal / Choral Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: |
Le Molière Imaginaire, for eight voices
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Composer: | Andrew Schultz |
Text: | Timothy Knapman, after the final scene of Molière's 'Le Malade Imaginaire' |
Performer: | I Fagiolini |
Finalists | |
Title: | Fly Away Peter |
Composer: | Elliott Gyger |
Text: | Pierce Wilcox, after the novel by David Malouf |
Performer: | Sydney Chamber Opera |
Title: | Malala |
Composer: | Paul Jarman |
Performer: | PLC Sydney Chamber Choir and soloists |
Title: | Paradise, five songs for soprano, cello and piano |
Composer: | Andrew Schultz |
Performer: | Felicitas Fuchs (soprano), Qin Li-Wei (cello) and Bernard Lanskey (piano) |
Instrumental Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Semaphore |
Composer: | Kate Neal |
Performer: | Semaphore band and dancers |
Finalists | |
Title: | Patañjali |
Composer: | Michael Kieran Harvey |
Performer: | Michael Kieran Harvey, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey and Eugene Ughetti with yoga asana by Arjun von Caemmerer |
Title: | read/write error |
Composer: | Tristan Coelho |
Performer: | Ensemble Offspring |
Title: | Saudade |
Composer: | Natalie Williams |
Performer: | Doric String Quartet and Pavel Haas Quartet |
Orchestral Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Earth Plays |
Composer: | Catherine Milliken |
Performer: | Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Fiona Campbell (Soloist) Peter Rundel (Conductor) |
Finalists | |
Title: | Darkest Light |
Composer: | Mary Finsterer |
Performer: | Monash Academy Orchestra |
Title: | From Joyous Leaves |
Composer: | Elliott Gyger |
Performer: | Arcko Symphonic Ensemble, Zubin Kanga (Soloist) Timothy Phillips (Conductor) |
Title: | Jerusalem (after Blake) |
Composer: | Georges Lentz |
Performer: | Sydney Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson (Conductor) |
Publisher: | Hal Leonard/Universal Edition |
Jazz Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Nyilipidgi |
Composer: | Paul Grabowsky and the Young Wägilak Group |
Performer: | PAUL GRABOWSKY, THE YOUNG WÄGILAK GROUP AND THE MONASH ART ENSEMBLE |
Publisher: | J Albert & Son |
Finalists | |
Title: | Beginning and End of Knowing |
Composer: | Laurence Pike and Mike Nock |
Performer: | Laurence Pike and Mike Nock |
Title: | Spiel |
Composer: | Paul Grabowsky* and Niko Schäuble |
Performer: | Paul Grabowsky* and Niko Schäuble |
Publisher: | J Albert & Son* |
Title: | Water Pushes Sand |
Composer: | Erik Griswold |
Performer: | Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Australian Art Orchestra and Sichuan musicians |
Performance of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Performer: | Semaphore band and dancers |
Title: | Semaphore |
Composer: | Kate Neal |
Finalists | |
Performer: | Goldner String Quartet |
Title: | String Quartet no. 3 |
Composer: | Paul Stanhope |
Performer: | Louise Devenish |
Title: | Electroacoustic Music For One Percussionist |
Composers: | Warren Burt, James Hullick, Stuart James, Andrián Pertout and Lindsay Vickery |
Performer: | Sydney Chamber Opera |
Title: | Fly Away Peter |
Composer: | Elliott Gyger |
State Award Winners |
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Australian Capital Territory |
Instrumental Work of the Year |
Natalie Williams for Saudade |
New South Wales |
Performance Of The Year |
Sydney Chamber Opera for Fly Away Peter |
Northern Territory |
Orchestral Work Of The Year |
Darwin Symphony Orchestra for Tracy |
South Australia |
Excellence By An Organisation |
Zephyr Quartet for Sustained Contribution |
Western Australia |
Performance of the Year |
Louise Devenish for Electroacoustic Music For One Percussionist |
Victoria |
Orchestral Work of the Year |
Elliott Gyger for From Joyous Leaves |
Tasmania |
Instrumental Work Of The Year |
Michael Kieran Harvey for Patañjali |
Queensland |
Excellence in Jazz |
Berardi/Foran/Karlen for Hope in my Pocket |