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Arts / Greenaway honoured at Art Music Awards

Sally Greenaway
CANBERRA composer Sally Greenaway was one of the many Australian musicians honoured tonight (August 22) at the seventh annual Art Music Awards.

The winners, from 11 national categories as well as eight state and territory categories, were announced at an industry celebration at the City Recital Hall in Sydney. Each award-winner was from genres such as contemporary art music, contemporary jazz and experimental music.

Staged jointly by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre, the event was hosted by Simon Marnie, with musical performances curated by Gabriella Smart and presenters, Sandy Evans, Paul Mason, Stephen Lias, Natalie Williams and Marshall McGuire.

Greenaway won the ACT Award for Instrumental Work of the Year for her composition “The 7 Great Inventions of The Modern Industrial Age”, recently presented in theatrical form at The Street Theatre.

The Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music, determined by the APRA Board of Writer and Publisher directors was presented to John Pochée for his influential and visionary work as a jazz drummer and bandleader.

Melbourne composer Liza Lim received the Instrumental Work of the Year award for “How Forests Think”, a 35-minute reflection on the work of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn who writes about forest ecologies and also the award in the Vocal/Choral Work of the Year category for “Tree of Codes”, an opera based upon Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2010 novel of the same title.

The Orchestral Work of the Year winner was composer Lyle Chan for “Serenade for Tenor, Saxophone and Orchestra (‘My Dear Benjamin’)” with text by Benjamin Britten and Wulff Scherchen, while Performance of the Year Award went to pianist Peter de Jager for his performance of the Piano Sonata by Chris Dench.

Jazz pianist and composer Tom O’Halloran has received the Jazz Work of the Year award for “Now Noise”, and Award for Excellence in Jazz went to Andrea Keller for the creation, presentation and release of contemporary jazz in 2016.

The Award for Excellence by an Organisation has gone to “Speak” Percussion for their 2016 program and sustained contribution to Australian music, while the Award for Excellence by an Individual was awarded to new music innovator Daryl Buckley for his work through the work of the Elision ensemble.

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