28 March 2012
Art Music Awards 2012 - Distinguished Services Award to Peter Sculthorpe
Composer Peter Sculthorpe will receive the award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the 2012 Art Music Awards, held at the Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House next Tuesday (3 April 2012).
Special guest presenters Mike Nock, Marshall McGuire, Deborah Conway and Ross Edwards will join MC James Morrison for the Awards ceremony. The live performance program, curated by Marshall McGuire, will feature a special tribute to Peter Sculthorpe: the Australian String Quartet will perform Sculthorpe's String Quartet no.11, Jabiru Dreaming.
The ceremony will open with the world premiere of Halo for spatialised alto saxophones by Julian Day and Luke Jaaniste. Andrea Keller will be performing an original composition for solo piano with loop pedal from a new collection titled Family Portraits. Andrea Keller is a finalist in two categories for the 2012 Art Music Awards: the Award for Excellence in Jazz and the Work of the Year: Jazz. Also performing on the night will be the Band of Brothers, featuring guitarists Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, along with the extraordinarily talented Joseph Tawadros (oud) and James Tawadros (req').
The Art Music Awards are hosted by APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) and presented yearly before a gathering of composers, performers, educators, critics and music lovers.
2012 Art Music Awards finalists
Work of the Year: Instrumental
Title:
Flesh and Ghost
Composer: Anthony
Pateras
Performed by: Speak Percussion
Title:
…out of obscurity
Composer: Elliott
Gyger
Performed by: Zubin Kanga (piano)
Title:
Qinoth
Composer: Paul
Stanhope
Performed by: ACO2, Australian Chamber Orchestra's young artists'
training ensemble, led by Dale Barltrop
Title:
Sextet
Composer: Brett
Dean
Performed by: Australia Ensemble
Publishers: Boosey & Hawkes Inc (ASCAP), subpublished by Hal
Leonard Australia Pty Ltd
Work of the Year: Orchestral
Title:
Gardener of Time
Composer: Barry
Conyngham
Performed by: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
(conductor)
Title:
Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli
Composer: Nigel
Westlake
Text: John Weiley, Hannie Rayson & Michael Cathcart
Performed by: Sydney Symphony, Nigel Westlake (conductor)
Title:
Spirit Ground
Composer: Ross
Edwards
Performed by: West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Margaret Blades
(soloist), Paul Daniel (conductor)
Title:
The Shining Island
Composer:
Peter Sculthorpe
Publishers: Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of Faber
Music Ltd
Performed by: Canberra Festival Camerata, ANU School of Music
Chamber Orchestra, Tor Fromyhr (conductor)
Work of the Year: Vocal/Choral
Title:
Blackwood
Composer: Iain
Grandage
Text: Kevin Gillam
Performed by: Sara Macliver (soprano), Allan Meyer (clarinet) and
Graeme Gilling (piano)
Title:
Osanna Mass
Composer: Clare
Maclean
Performed by: Sydney Chamber Choi, Paul Stanhope (conductor)
Title: Pomegranate Friends
Composer: Gerardo
Dirié
Performed by: Fusion Vocal Ensemble, Debra Shearer-Dirié
(conductor)
Title:
Sacred Kingfisher Psalms
Composer: Ross
Edwards
Performed by: The Song Company, Roland Peelman (conductor)
Publisher: Edition-s Music-Sound-Art
Work of the Year: Jazz
Title: Affectations
Composer: Andrea
Keller
Performed by: Bennetts Lane Big Band
Title: Dissolve for two pianos
Composer: Tom O'Halloran
Performed By: Tom O'Halloran and Graham Wood
Title: Unknowness 1 (from
Fish boast of Fishing)
Composer: Peter
Knight
Performed by: Peter Knight (trumpet and laptop), Adam Simmons
(contrabass clarinet),
Frank Di Sario (double bass), Erik Griswold (prepared piano),
Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion), Joe Talia (drum kit and
electronics)
Title: River Meeting Suite
Composer: Jeremy Rose
Performed by: Compass Saxophone Quartet plus Bobby Singh and
Sarangan Sriranganthan
Performance of the Year
Performer: Felicitas Fuchs, Qian Zhou and Bernard Lanskey
Title:
Stille Sprache
Composer: Andrew
Schultz
Performer:
Michael Kieran Harvey
Title:
Piano Sonata No 3
Composer:
Lawrence Whiffin
Performer: Sydney Symphony, Nigel Westlake (conductor)
Title:
Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli
Composer: Nigel
Westlake
Performer: West Australian Symphony Orchestra, WASO Chorus, Paul
Daniel (conductor)
Title:
Two Memorials (for Anton Webern and John Lennon)
Composer: James
Ledger
Award for Excellence by an Organisation or an Individual
Arcko Symphonic Project - 2011 concert series
Claire Edwardes - Flash: Marimba Miniatures recording
project
Graeme Morton - services to Australian Music
Speak Percussion - 2011 annual program
Award for Excellence in Music Education
Gondwana Choirs - 2011 program
Graeme Morton - contribution to music education through St Peters
Chorale
Kirsty
Beilharz - Diffuse series of educational concerts in 2011
Moorambilla Voices - education strategy in North Western NSW
Award for Excellence in a Regional Area
Creative Regions - The Crushing: A Gothic Opera
Gondwana Choirs - Cairns Residency Project
Moorambilla Voices - engagement with local community
Queensland Music Festival - Ailan Kores community project
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music
Daniel Blinkhorn - 2011 composition activities
Decibel - PICA Performance Series
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey - 2011 activities
Super Critical Mass - 2011 activities
Award for Excellence in Jazz
Andrea
Keller - contribution to Australian jazz
Quentin Angus - composition, performance and international
development
Tom O'Halloran - 'Piano Perspectives' concert performance of
Dissolve
Troy Roberts - compositions Siarus and Oscar and The
Show Box
Further links
Australian
Music Centre - Art Music Awards
APRA - Art Music Awards: Composer Peter Sculthorpe AO to be honoured for
Distinguished Services
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