Six Australian compositions have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 Paul Lowin Prizes, as announced by the Australian Music Centre today. They are Katy Abbott, Brett Dean, Elliott Gyger, Lachlan Skipworth, Luke Styles and Nigel Westlake. The winners of the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize (valued at $25,000) and the Song Cycle Prize (valued at $15,000)…
Ensemble Offspring presents a showcase of the sheer virtuosity of three of its core musicians in Lone Hemispheres, an evening of works inspired by the uncompromising power and aural intensity of a true revolutionary, Iannis Xenakis, architect, mathematician and composer. His music is fiendishly difficult, yet described as “joyously elemental music which turns collections of pitches and rhythms…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…