14 November 2013
Brett Dean wins the Melbourne Prize for Music
© Pawel Kopczynski
Brett Dean has won the 2013 Melbourne Prize, awarded yearly to a Victorian musician, or group of musicians, whose work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian music. Also shortlisted for the $60,000 prize were composer and pianist Tony Gould, musician and composer Mick Harvey (The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party), singer-songwriter Shane Howard and violinist Wilma Smith.
In addition to the main prize, the Outstanding Musician Award of $30,000 went to guitarist Stephen Magnusson (also shortlisted: Ros Bandt, Grigoryan Brothers, Gian Slater, Eugene Ughetti, Erkki Veltheim, Bart Willoughby, Ainslie Wills, Julien Wilson and Lisa Young). The $13,000 Development Award went to jazz pianist/vocalist/saxophonist and composer Kate Kelsey-Sugg. The shortlist for the Development Award also included Michael Bakrnčev, Helen Croome, Jessica Jiang and Adam Katz.
The prize-winners were announced in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Further links
Melbourne Prize website
(melbourneprizetrust.org)
Media release - winners (pdf, 13 November
2013)
© Australian Music Centre (2013) — Permission must be obtained from the AMC if you wish to reproduce this article either online or in print.
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