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Classical Music Awards - Best Composition by an Australian Composer

Prize/Award

Classical Music Awards - Best Composition by an Australian Composer

The award for Best Composition by an Australian Composer must have been composed by an Australian citizen or by a composer who has permanent residence in Australia. The work must have been performed publicly in the year prior to the year of the Award (ie. 2008). If the work received its FIRST performance in 2008, it may have been completed at any time previously. If the work did not receive its first performance in 2008 it must have been completed in the three years prior to the year of the Award (i.e. 2006, 2007 or 2008).

Nominations of non score-based works are also encouraged.

 

Recipients of this award

Year Placing Awarded to Awarded for
1996 Winner Elena Kats-Chernin Cadences, deviations and Scarlatti
1997 Winner Colin Bright The wild boys
1998 Winner Paul Sarcich Matters arising
1999 Winner Lawrence Whiffin Murchitt
2000 Winner Brett Dean Beggars and angels
2001 Winner Gordon Kerry Vigil
2002 Winner Liza Lim Yuè lìng jié
2003 Winner Richard Meale Three Miró pieces
2004 Winner Andrew Ford Learning to howl
2005 Winner Brett Dean Moments of bliss
2006 Winner Michael Smetanin Mysterium cosmographicum
2007 Winner Roger Smalley Footwork
2008 Winner Colin Bright The last whale
2009 Winner Georges Lentz Monh
2009 Finalist Iain Grandage Black dogs
2009 Finalist Daniel Blinkhorn jeu fabriqué
2009 Finalist Michael Yezerski and Richard Tognetti The Red Tree