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The coveted Paul Lowin Prizes are being awarded again in 2013, and the winners will be announced in Sydney, on Monday October 28th, 2013.<\/p>\n

Presented by the Paul Lowin Trust and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the awards are\u00a0among Australia’s richest prizes for composition, with an Orchestral Prize\u00a0of\u00a0$25,000 and a Song Cycle Prize of $15,000.<\/p>\n

The Orchestral Prize will be awarded to a work for modern chamber or symphony orchestra of at least 30 players and 15 independent\u00a0parts and may\u00a0be augmented by soloists, choral, or electronically\u00a0produced or pre-recorded elements.<\/p>\n

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2009 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize winner Andrew Schultz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Song Cycle prize\u00a0is judged as\u00a0a work\u00a0for chamber performance, of up to\u00a08 independent\u00a0parts, accompanied by up to 10 instrumentalists.<\/p>\n

To ensure that a compositions in contention\u00a0is truly contemporary,\u00a0the work\u00a0must have been completed\u00a0after the closing date for entries in the previous competition, in this instance, 30 June 2009.<\/p>\n

Reflecting\u00a0a broad and egalitarian base from which the contenders are drawn anyone, including publishers, members of the public and\u00a0composers,\u00a0can nominate a work for the Paul Lowin Prizes. This year, the competition\u00a0attracted the highest number of entries in the history of these prizes, since they were inaugurated in 1991, with 55 entries for the Orchestral category, and 48 for the Song Cycle category.<\/p>\n

The shortlisted composers and works for the 2013 Paul Lowin Prizes\u00a0are:<\/p>\n

For the\u00a0Orchestral Prize:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brett Dean: The Last Days of Socrates<\/em> (2012) for bass-baritone, SATB chorus and orchestra<\/p>\n

Andrew Ford: Blitz<\/em> (2011) for full orchestra with prerecorded\u00a0sound<\/p>\n

Mark Isaacs: Invocations<\/em> (2011) for cello and orchestra<\/p>\n

Nigel Westlake: Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli<\/em> (2010) for symphony orchestra, SATB chorus and male treble solo.<\/p>\n

For the Song Cycle\u00a0Prize<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Ross Edwards: Five Senses<\/em> – five poems of Judith Wright (2012) for soprano and piano<\/p>\n

Andrew Ford: Willow Songs<\/em> – six poems of Anne Stevenson (2009)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto flute\/piccolo, clarinet in A\/bass clarinet, percussion, piano.<\/p>\n

Elliott Gyger: Giving Voice<\/em> (2012) for mezzo-soprano and\u00a0ensemble.<\/p>\n

Paul Lowin is a little known figure who\u00a0arrived in\u00a0Australia from Czechoslovakia in 1939.\u00a0He\u00a0establishing a successful wholesale dealership, the Swedish Handweaving Company, trading in cloth and dry goods on George Street in Sydney, but music was his passion. His neighbour, Mrs L Krips, is quoted as writing \u201cWe never found out what he was doing for a living, as nothing seemed to him important enough to talk about if\u00a0 he could talk about music\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lowin lived in Australia for almost twenty years before returning to Vienna, where he died in 1961.\u00a0His legacy, in the form of a hand-written will\u00a0was to establish a competition for works by living Australian composers.\u00a0 In 1990 The Paul Lowin Prizes were established, and the first prize was awarded in 1991.<\/p>\n

To date<\/span>, <\/span>the Paul Lowin Prizes have awarded\u00a0 over $370,000 in prizes. Previous winners include luminaries like Rosalind Page, Liza Lim, Andrew Ford, Brett Dean, Raffaele Marcellino, Mary Finsterer, Andrew Schultz, and Michael Smetanin. The Prizes are\u00a0 held every two to three years and are judged by a panel of leading composers, performers, artistic directors and musicologists.<\/p>\n

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