The nominees for the 2017 Art Music Awards have been announced.
Brett Cottle, APRA AMCOS Chief Executive said of the awards, “Australia’s art music community is creating and presenting extraordinary work. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the AMC on the 7th Art Music Awards, and I congratulate all the 2017 finalists.”
Vocal / Choral Work of the Year
Title: Agnus Dei (Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep)
Composer: Paul Stanhope
Text: Mary Elizabeth Frye; Requiem Mass
Performer: Adelaide Chamber Singers, Carl Crossin conductor
Title: Permission to Speak
Composer: Kate Neal
Text: Tamara Saulwick
Performer: Chamber Made Opera (Gian Slater, Georgie Darvidis, Josh Kyle and Edward Fairlie)
Title: Tree of Codes
Composer: Liza Lim
Performer: Ensemble MusikFabrik; Cologne Opera, Clement Power conductor
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia
Title: With Love and Fury
Composers: 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
Jazz Work of the Year
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: Now Noise
Composer: Tom O’Halloran
Performer: Memory of Elements
Title: Still Night
Composer: Andrea Keller
Performer: Vince Jones, Andrea Keller, Stephen Magnusson, Gian Slater and Julien Wilson
Instrumental Work of the Year
Title: Aisles
Composer: Austin Buckett
Performer: Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring
Title: Diomira
Composer: Peter Knight
Performer: Australian Art Orchestra
Title: How Forests Think
Composer: Liza Lim
Performer: ELISION
Published by: Universal Music Publishing MGB Australia
Title: Moon Fire
Composer: Jessica Wells
Performer: Lyn Fuller
Orchestral Work of the Year
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: Andrew Ford
Performer: Zane Banks (guitar), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Benjamin Northey (conductor)
Title: Serenade for Tenor, Saxophone and Orchestra (“My Dear Benjamin”)
Composer: Lyle Chan
Text: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Andrew Goodwin (tenor), Michael Duke (saxophone), the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and
Paul Kildea (conductor)
Title: The Witching Hour
Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin
Performer: Australian World Orchestra, Alexander Briger (conductor) and soloists
Publisher: Hal Leonard/Boosey & Hawkes Group
Performance of the Year
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
Performer: Peter de Jager
Title: Piano Sonata
Composer: Chris Dench
Award for Excellence by an Organisation
Speak Percussion for their 2016 program and sustained contribution to Australian music
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
Cat Hope for performance, academia, composition, mentoring and advocacy
Daryl Buckley for over 30 years of contribution to the international projection of Australian contemporary performance,
ideas and practice
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
Goulburn Regional Conservatorium, Canberra Symphony Orchestra and University of Canberra for The Goulburn
Concerto
Moorambilla Voices for their 2016 season
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
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
Tura New Music for their 2016 Regional Program
Award for Excellence in Experimental Music
Clocked Out with Bruce and Jocelyn Wolfe for The Piano Mill Project
JOLT Arts for The Book of Daughters mini-festival
Matthias Schack-Arnott for the percussion duo, Anicca
Robert Curgenven for Climata, a performance, installation and recording project
Award for Excellence in Jazz
Andrea Keller for the creation, presentation and release of contemporary jazz in 2016
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
The 2017 Art Music Awards will be presented at a gala event in Sydney on Tuesday 22 August at the City Recital Hall.
