Art Music Awards Archives

APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards were held in Sydney tonight (15 August 2023).

The APRA AMCOS 2022 Art Music Awards have been held in Melbourne.

Sydney composer, pianist, teacher and broadcaster Nigel Butterley AM will be honored with the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the 2022 Art Music Awards.

The 2022 Art Music Awards will take place in Melbourne on August 31.

As the only event that specifically acknowledges the achievements of Australia’s outstanding talent in the fields of composition, performance, education and presentation of Australian art music, APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) are delighted to announce details of the 2022 ART MUSIC AWARDS to be held on Wednesday 31 August at Meat Market, North Melbourne.

The APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards will return for 2021. The Art Music Awards are set for the Meat Market in North Melbourne for 17 August.

The APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards have been announced for 2020.

The ART Music Awards will be virtual in 2020 with 278 nominees holding out for 13 awards.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) are proud to announce this year’s ART MUSIC AWARDS, a virtual event, streamed online to an audience worldwide on Tuesday 8 September.

Mona Foma curator and bass player for Violent Femmes Brian Ritchie has been honored with an APRA AMCOS Art Award recognizing his contribution to the Australian music sector as a performer, curator and mentor.

Experimental band The Necks will be the recipients of the 2019 Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music.

Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie has been nominated for the Excellence by an Individual Award at the 2019 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards.

Pianist and composer Barney McCall has been chosen to curate the 2019 Art Music Awards.

APRA has a vital position in the Australian music industry with the Art Music Awards. APRA is the one organisation that recognises that creative works to not have to fit within a Top 40 format.

Curator, academic and musicologist Robyn Holmes will be given the Distinguished Services to Australian Music award at the 2018 Art Music Awards.

Full list of 2018 Art Music Awards finalists follows.

The Art Music Awards for 2017 have been handed out at a gala reception at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.

The nominees for the 2017 Art Music Awards have been announced.

APRA AMCOS will present to the 7th Art Music Awards in Sydney on August 22.

Composer Helen Gifford OAM has been announced as the 2016 recipient of the Distinguished Services to Australian Music Award for 2016 at the APRA Art Music Awards to be handed out in Melbourne on 16 August, 2016.