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Jazzahead! 2020 now calling for proposals
by Australian Music Centre
The 2020 Jazzahead! industry event will take place in Bremen from 23 to 26 April 2020. Applications for the Jazzahead! Showcase Festival are now open, closing on 31 October 2019.
Australia Council Fellowships & grants
by Australian Music Centre
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the results of its recent round of grant funding, as well as its two-year fellowships. As a welcome development, music now gets two fellowships, with composer Cathy Milliken and drummer-improviser Laurence Pike the successful recipients of funding worth $80K over the fellowship period.
Other substantial funding was granted for projects involving...
2019 Paul Lowin Prizes & Glanville-Hicks Address, 22 October in Melbourne
by Australian Music Centre
Deborah Cheetham AO will deliver the annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in Melbourne on 22 October 2019, in conjunction with the awarding of the 2019 Paul Lowin Orchestral and Song Cycle Prizes.
2019 Albert H Maggs Composition Award
by Australian Music Centre
The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music invites submissions for the 2019 Albert H Maggs Composition Award. This Award is provided as a commission for Australian composers for the creation of a musical work of a substantial nature. The value of the award is $10,000, with an initial award of $7,000 and $3,000 following submission of the composition to the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music library. Applications for this scholarship close 13 October 2018.
Melbourne Prize 2019 - finalists
by Australian Music Centre
The 2019 Melbourne Prize for Music finalists have been announced. Soprano, composer Deborah Cheetham, composer/songwriter David Bridie, pianist-composer Andrea Keller, composer-improviser Erkki Veltheim, and cross-disciplinary performance-maker Sophia Brous have been shortlisted for the $60,000 prize to 'an outstanding Victorian musician or group whose work demonstrates exceptional musicianship, skill and creativity'.
2019 APRA Professional Development Awards - finalists
by Australian Music Centre
The finalists for the 2019 Apra Professional Development Awards (PDAs) have been announced, with AMC-represented Amanda Cole, Colin Black, Rhyan Clapham and Wally Gunn among the 40 shortlisted artists.