Congratulations to all the winners and nominees in the 2024 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, revealed at a ceremony at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne\/ Naarm on 14 August.<\/p>\n
Celebrating outstanding artists and works in Australian art music and sound art, the awards celebrate some of the finest established and emerging artists in contemporary classical music, jazz, improvisation, electronic and sound art, and experimental practice.<\/p>\n
The Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music was presented to\u00a0Lyn Williams AM recognising her pioneering and long-standing dedication to the development of Australian choral music through the Gondwana Choirs, and the musical voices she has amplified throughout her career.<\/p>\n
Luminary Awards went to Omega Ensemble\u00a0<\/strong>for championing emerging and diverse voices and commissioning of new Australian works. Luminary Awards\u00a0were also presented to individuals and organisations who made significant contributions to the music community in their local state or territory namely,\u00a0Jessica Cottis\u00a0(ACT),\u00a0Jessica Wells\u00a0(NSW),\u00a0Camerata \u2013 Queensland\u2019s Chamber Orchestra\u00a0(QLD),\u00a0The Bowerbird Collective\u00a0(SA),\u00a0Don Kay\u00a0(TAS),\u00a0Dur\u00e9 Dara OAM\u00a0(VIC), and\u00a0Gemma Farrell\u00a0(WA).<\/p>\n Mary Finsterer won two awards, Work of the Year: Choral<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Performance of the Year: Notated Composition <\/em>for her epic symphony\u00a0Stabat Mater,<\/em> performed by the\u00a0Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the\u00a0Choir of Trinity College Melbourne,\u00a0Mia Robinson and\u00a0Joseph Nolan, conducted by Benjamin Northey with Christopher Watson as choral director and narrated by\u00a0Mel Gibson. The awards are Finsterer\u2019s seventh and eighth Art Music Awards wins.<\/p>\n Genevieve Lacey\u00a0was awarded\u00a0Work of the Year: Electroacoustic\/Sound Art<\/em>\u00a0for the evocative sound installation\u00a0Breathing Space<\/em>\u00a0at the National Museum of Australia and\u00a0Luminary Award – National Individual <\/em>for the inspiring breadth and depth of her collaborative relationships, including the mentoring of young artists, championing diversity within Australian art music, and leading through her own artistic practice.<\/p>\n Sally Whitwell\u2019s \u201cmeta-opera\u201d Margaret and the Grey Mare<\/em> highlighting colonialist racism and unquestioned misogyny in the canonical repertoire won Work of the Year: Dramatic<\/em>.<\/p>\n Work of the Year: Jazz<\/em>\u00a0was presented to\u00a0Cheryl Durongpisitkul\u00a0for\u00a0A Pinky Promise<\/em>, a provocative work reflecting on her experiences as woman of colour in the jazz community.<\/p>\n Alice Chance\u2019s \u00a0Through Changing Landscape<\/em>, an homage to travel and long train journeys, commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Fifty Fanfares project won Work of the Year: Large Ensemble. <\/em><\/p>\n Kate Milligan\u2019s innovative Visions | Vestiges<\/em>, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Project in 2023, a work written with animated notation to be read directly through a crystal ball\u00a0earned the gong for\u00a0Work of the Year: Chamber Music.<\/em><\/p>\n Mindy Meng Wang and Paul Grabowsky AO were awarded\u00a0Performance of the Year: Jazz\/Improvised Music<\/em>\u00a0for bringing to life their collaborative work\u00a0Spring, Flower, Snow and the Moon\u00a0<\/em>\u6625\u82b1\u79cb\u6708<\/em>, a seamless introduction of the Chinese Guzheng into Western and improvised music.<\/p>\n The Excellence Awards recognise projects which champion cross-cultural collaboration and artistic practice in contemporary Australian art music. They went to The Song Room\u00a0<\/em> for Excellence in Music Education<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>building thriving communities for children in remote Northern Territory through the co-creation of Australian music centred on important local people, places, ways of creating, learning and being through music education; to Tura\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0The Journey Down, <\/em>for Excellence in a Regional Area, a work which resulted from deep engagement with community, touring over 3,456km of regional Western Australia; and to Gelareh Pour <\/em>and Brian O\u2019Dwyer\u00a0<\/em>for their project\u00a0Z\u00d6J, <\/em>a voice and percussion duo who have released a debut album and sold-out shows blending traditional Persian elements with contemporary Australian sounds, winning the award for Excellence in Experimental Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n Image: Luminary Award winners. RC Stills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to all the winners and nominees in the 2024 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, revealed at a ceremony at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne\/ Naarm on 14 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-32327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"\n