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 2017 Art Music Awards were held on Tuesday 22 August at the City Recital Hall, Sydney.
Distinguished Services to Australian Music |
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Winner |
JOHN POCHÉE OAM |
Award for Excellence by an Organisation |
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Winner |
Speak Percussion for their 2016 program and sustained contribution to Australian music |
Finalists |
Synergy & Taikoz Limited for activities and achievements of the two new music ensembles Synergy Percussion and Taikoz |
Tura New Music for their 2016 program and sustained contribution to Australian music for over 30 years |
Zephyr Quartet for performances, collaborations, commissions and recordings in 2016 |
Award for Excellence by an Individual |
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Winner |
Daryl Buckley for over thirty years of contribution to the international projection of Australian contemporary performance, ideas and practice |
Finalists |
Cat Hope for performance, academia, composition, mentoring and advocacy |
David Bridie for the music project, a Bit na Ta |
Tos Mahoney for his work with new music in Western Australia in 2016 |
Award for Excellence in Music Education |
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Winner |
Moorambilla Voices for their 2016 season |
Finalists |
Goulburn Regional Conservatorium, Canberra Symphony Orchestra and University of Canberra for The Goulburn Concerto |
Sydney Symphony Orchestra for their annual teacher-training program, TunED-Up! |
West Australian Symphony Orchestra for their 2016 education program |
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area |
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Winner |
Tura New Music for their 2016 Regional Program |
Finalists |
Four Winds for their 2016 Easter Festival |
Ngarukuruwala for Ngiya awungarra (I Am Here, Now), ethnographic recordings of Tiwi song material |
Primal Dance Company for modern dance work, Footmarks (NSW Central Coast) |
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music |
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Winner |
Clocked Out with Bruce and Jocelyn Wolfe for The Piano Mill Project |
Finalists |
JOLT Arts for The Book of Daughters mini-festival |
Matthias Schack-Arnott for percussion duo, Anicca |
Robert Curgenven for Climata, a performance, installation and recording project |
Award for Excellence in Jazz |
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Winner |
Andrea Keller for the creation, presentation and release of contemporary jazz in 2016 |
Finalists |
Daniel Susnjar for Afro-Peruvian Jazz musical activities including album Moth to a Flame and Australian / US touring |
Ross McHenry for the album Child of Somebody and various performances |
Stu Hunter for the recording, world premiere and national tour of The Migration |
Vocal / Choral Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Tree of Codes |
Composer: | Liza Lim |
Performer: | Ensemble MusikFabrik; Cologne Opera, Clement Power conductor, Massimo Furlan director |
Publishers: | Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia obo G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH |
Finalists | |
Title: | Agnus Dei (Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep) |
Composer: | Paul Stanhope; text by Mary Elizabeth Frye; Requiem Mass |
Performer: | Adelaide Chamber Singers, Carl Crossin conductor |
Title: | Permission to Speak |
Composer: | Kate Neal; text by Tamara Saulwick |
Performer: | Chamber Made Opera (Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle and Edward Fairlie) |
Title: | With Love and Fury |
Composer: | Katie Noonan, Paul Dean, Andrew Ford, Paul Grabowsky, Iain Grandage, David Hirschfelder, Elena Kats-Chernin, John Rodgers, Richard Tognetti and Carl Vine |
Performer: | Katie Noonan & the Brodsky Quartet |
Instrumental Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | How Forests Think |
Composer: | Liza Lim |
Performer: | ELISION, Wu Wei soloist, Carl Rosman conductor |
Publishers: | Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia obo G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH |
Finalists | |
Title: | Aisles |
Composer: | Austin Buckett |
Performer: | Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring |
Title: | Diomira |
Composer: | Peter Knight |
Performer: | Australian Art Orchestra |
Title: | Moon Fire |
Composer: | Jessica Wells |
Performer: | Lyn Fuller |
Orchestral Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Serenade for Tenor, Saxophone and Orchestra (“My Dear Benjamin”) |
Composer: | Lyle Chan text by; Benjamin Britten and Wulff Scherchen |
Performer: | Andrew Goodwin (tenor), Michael Duke (saxophone), Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Paul Kildea (conductor) |
Finalists | |
Title: | Frog and Star Cycle: double concerto for alto saxophone, percussion and orchestra |
Composer: | Ross Edwards |
Performer: | Amy Dickson (saxophone), Colin Currie (percussion), Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Lothar Koenigs (conductor) |
Publisher: | BMG AM |
Title: | Raga: for electric guitar and orchestra |
Composer: | Maria Grenfell |
Performer: | Andrew Ford |
Title: | The Witching Hour |
Composer: | Elena Kats-Chernin |
Performer: | Australian World Orchestra, Alexander Briger (conductor) and soloists |
Publisher: | Hal Leonard/Boosey & Hawkes Group |
Jazz Work of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Title: | Now Noise |
Composer: | Tom O’Halloran |
Performer: | Memory of Elements |
Finalists | |
Title: | [Intrusions |
Composer: | Eugene Ball |
Performer: | Monash Art Ensemble |
Title: | Moons of Jupiter |
Composer: | Paul Grabowsky |
Performer: | The Paul Grabowsky Sextet |
Publisher: | BMG AM |
Title: | Still Night |
Composer: | Andrea Keller |
Performer: | Vince Jones, Andrea Keller, Stephen Magnusson, Gian Slater and Julien Wilson |
Performance of the Year | |
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Winner | |
Performer: | Peter de Jager |
Title: | Piano Sonata |
Composer: | Chris Dench |
Finalists | |
Performer: | Adelaide Chamber Singers |
Title: | Agnus Dei (Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep) |
Composer: | Paul Stanhope |
Performer: | Benjamin Beilman and Andrew Tyson |
Title: | Cerulean Orbits |
Composer: | Jane Stanley |
Performer: | Michael Kieran Harvey |
Title: | Piano Concerto |
Composer: | Yitzhak Yedid |
State Award Winners |
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Australian Capital Territory |
Instrumental Work of the Year |
Sally Greenaway for The 7 Great Inventions of the Modern Industrial Age |
New South Wales |
AWARD FOR Excellence in Music Education |
Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA) for Young Women's Jazz Workshop program |
Northern Territory |
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area |
Ngarukuruwala for Ngiya awungarra - I am here, now |
South Australia |
Performance of the Year |
Adelaide Chamber Singers for Agnus Dei (Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep) by Paul Stanhope |
Western Australia |
Jazz Work of the Year |
Daniel Susnjar for Help You Along Your Way |
Victoria |
Performance of the Year |
Chamber Made Opera (Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle and Edward Fairlie) for Permission to Speak by Kate Neal |
Tasmania |
Award for Excellence by an Organisation |
MONA for Mofo, 2016 |
Queensland |
Award for Excellence by an Individual |
Vanessa Tomlinson for conceiving and curating the 2016 Australian Percussion Gathering |