"Charlie, by his second wife, the presenter Sue Cook. Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance BRIT Award for Best Classical Recording British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1980. John Williams (guitarist) John Christopher Williams, OBE (born 24 April 1941) is an Australian virtuosic classical guitarist renowned for his ensemble playing as well as his interpretation and promotion of the modern classical guitar repertoire. In 1973, he shared a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category with fellow guitarist Julian Bream for ""Julian"
"label, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Tall Poppies, and Supraphon. He won an ARIA, the Australian Recording Industry Association award for ""Best Classical Album"" with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 1991, and was nominated for the same award five times, most recently in 2002 and 2010. He has also received the Gramophone Award for Best Recording. Geoffrey Lancaster Geoffrey Lancaster AM (born 20 August 1954) is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky. He"
"Tahu Rhodes, Slava Grigoryan, Gareth Koch, David Hobson, Karin Schaupp, Diana Doherty, Roger Woodward, Gerard Willems, Cantillation, Sydney Children's Choir, Gondwana Voices and Saffire (the Australian Guitar Quartet). They have a strong emphasis on Australian compositions, with their Australian Composers Series recorded in conjunction with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra being a major milestone in Australian Music. ABC Classics has been awarded the prestigious ARIA Music Award for Best Classical Album 25 times since the inception of the awards in 1987. The history of the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album parallels ABC Classics' own history and highlights the label's ongoing"
"(1991), Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra (2000), ""Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan"" (2000), and his score for the film ""The Red Violin"" (1998). His clarinet concerto is the first by an American composer to have entered the standard repertoire since Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto. John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano (born 16 February 1938) is an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the"
"Burt Bacharach Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. , he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music. His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background"
"John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano (born 16 February 1938) is an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. The Italian-American Corigliano was born in New York City to a musical family. His father, John Paul Corigliano Sr., was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, and"
"the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services as a composer and concert pianist. John Carmichael (composer) John Carmichael OAM (born 5 October 1930) is an Australian pianist, composer and music therapist who has long been resident in the United Kingdom. One of his best known works is the ""Concierto folklorico"" for piano and string orchestra. His works for piano form much of his musical output, although he composes for many other instruments. His work is described as expressive and lyrical. John Carmichael was born in Melbourne in 1930. He studied piano with Margaret Schofield and in"
"Charlie Chan (composer) Charlie Chan (born 2 January 1966) is an Australian pianist/composer best known for her original, mostly instrumental music albums and for creating numerous soundtracks for the stage and screen. Having studied piano, guitar, double bass, orchestration and computer-based music technology in her childhood, Chan's public career began in the 1990s with a series of original jazz, classical, improvisation and world-music inspired albums on the Sony Masterworks classical label. At this time, she gained a reputation for blending acoustic and electronic music, while pioneering an Australian artist's use of multimedia technologies and the internet. Since the early 2000s,"
"in 1986, is his and Trish Ludgate's biological child. Woodward has had numerous awards, including: Critiques and testimonials Roger Woodward Roger Woodward AC OBE (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical concert pianist. Woodward was born in 1942 in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney, the youngest of four children to Gladys and Frank Woodward. He studied church music with Kenneth Long in Sydney, and, at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, conducting with Sir Eugene Goossens, piano with Alexander Sverjensky and composition with Raymond Hanson. He won the piano section of the 1964 ABC Instrumental and Vocal"
"He is the father of two sons and is an avid player. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has been nominated in award categories numerous times. As of 2015, Kernaghan has had 33 #1 hits on the Australian country charts, and has sold over two million albums. He was named ""Hit Maker of the Decade"" twice, in 2001 and 2011. This title goes to country artists from anywhere in the world who achieves the most amount of hits in the Australian market over the past decade. He has sold over two million albums, and won"
"pianist Gerard Willems have both won the award twice, Willems taking out the award in two successive years for his Beethoven Piano Sonatas project. ABC Classics ABC Classics is the classical music record label within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is internationally recognised as Australia's premier classical music label, with a catalogue of more than 500 titles. Based in the Sydney, ABC Classics was founded in 1987 as a means of showcasing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's classical music recordings under its own banner. The label operates as part of ABC Music. ABC Classics has worked with some of Australia's greatest"
"Andrew Schultz Andrew Schultz (born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 18 August 1960) is an acclaimed Australian classical composer. A musician with a large and widely performed output and an international sphere of activity he has, since 2008, lived in Sydney, New South Wales. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received many awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award (1982), the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (1985), Grand-Prix, Opera Screen de Opéra-Bastille (1991), the APRA Award for Classical Composition of the Year (1993), the Schueler Award (2007), the"
"Bryan Johanson Bryan Johanson (born 1951) is an American classical guitarist & composer. He was born in Portland, Oregon and is recognized as a composer of modern works. Johanson has performed, recorded and published works internationally. Johanson's works have won major awards from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, UCLA and The Esztergom International Guitar Festival. Johanson studied composition with Charles Jones and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom. Johanson's compositions feature three symphonies, concertos for violin, cello and piano, numerous chamber works, song cycles and choral works,"
"oppressive, droning, painfully self-important."" Michael White of ""The Daily Telegraph"" described Glass' ""Violin Concerto No. 2"" as being Best Original Score Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music Best Original Score Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as ""minimal music"", having similar qualities to other ""minimalist"" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Glass describes himself as a composer of ""music with repetitive structures"", which he has helped evolve stylistically."
"plays a 1728 Stradivarius violin, owned by the Australian Chamber Orchestra Instrument Fund. Australian Chamber Orchestra The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) was founded by cellist John Painter in 1975. Richard Tognetti was appointed Lead Violin in 1989 and subsequently appointed Artistic Director. As well as frequent Australian tours, the Australian Chamber Orchestra often tours Asia, Europe and the USA, including regular performances at London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Vienna's Musikverein and Washington's Kennedy Center. Recordings by Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra of J.S. Bach won three consecutive ARIA Awards. In 2014 an album"
"Carl Vine Carl Vine, (born 8 October 1954), is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue includes seven symphonies, eleven concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Since 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia. In 2005 he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award. In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), ""for distinguished service"
"In 1995 his Guitar Concerto won the APRA Award for the best Australian Classical Composition. Philip Bračanin Philip Bračanin (born 26 May 1942) is an Australian composer and musicologist. Bračanin was born in Kalgoorlie, the son of Croatian immigrants. HIs early musical studies were with Miss Olive Ruane, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962 with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and music. He pursued graduate studies at the same school in musicology specialising in analysis of 20th-century music, earning an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970. His master's thesis was on the music of"
"Brian Keane Brian Keane (born January 18, 1953) is an American composer, music producer, and guitarist. He has composed the music for hundreds of films and television shows and produced over a hundred record albums. Keane is known as a world class guitarist, a musical pioneer in scoring music for television documentaries, a leading record producer of the 1980s and 1990s, and one of the most prominent and influential composers of his era. Keane has scored well over one hundred award-winning documentaries and films, including eighteen Emmy winners for best documentary or series (among sixty seven nominations), nine Peabody Award-winning"
"Gary Foster (musician) Norman Gary Foster (born May 25, 1936) is an American musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He is considered a crossover artist, performing jazz, pop, and classical music. He has been prominent in the film, television, and music industries for five decades, having performed on over 500 movie scores and with over 200 orchestras. He has recorded on numerous Grammy, Academy Award, Emmy, and Golden Globe winning media and soundtracks for artists and composers such as Carol Burnett, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Sinatra, Pat Williams, John Williams, Natalie Cole, Jerry Fielding,"
"bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, and cello (1961); a Horn Concerto (1965); a Trio for horn, violin, and piano (1962); and a Violin Concerto (1968). He died at his home in the Sydney suburb of McMahons Point, after an eight-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. He left a widow, Valerie, and a son, Simon. The Don Banks Music Award, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, is named after him Banks is credited for composing music in the following films: Don Banks Donald Oscar Banks (25 October 19235 September 1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and"
"of a few obscure classics. The album also contains two instrumental tracks. Brendan produced all tracks, features on vocals, guitars, harmonica and mandolin, and is joined by some of Australia’s premier musicians, including James Gillard, Mitch Farmer, Jake Lardot, Hugh Curtis, Vaughan Jones, Michel Rose, Mick Albeck, Rose Carleo and a duet with Casey Watt. Brendan is up for awards in four of the seven categories including best Male Vocalist, Bush Ballad/Heritage, Instrumental and Vocal Collaboration at the Queensland Country Music Awards. Brendan Radford Brendan Radford (fl. 2000s) is a vocalist and guitarist who has performed and recorded with many"
"Bryce Jacobs Bryce Jacobs (born Bryson Kenneth Jacobs) is an Australian composer, producer and musician, most famous in the composing world for his style that uses classical orchestral techniques and electronica elements, but highly infused with guitar and vocal textures. After completing a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jacobs returned 18 months later to complete a Masters in Composition. As he started learning the stylistic standards of both classic orchestral, jazz, and rock, he went on to design, and build, a new style of guitar. The instrument he created used twelve individual strings (not"
"and as organist and choirmaster. He was born on 4 July 1929. He grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, where as a pianist he often competed against Peter Sculthorpe, who jokingly said he would concentrate on composing because he could never beat Olding in piano competitions. In 1950, at age 21, he was appointed an Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) Examiner. He won the Commonwealth final of the 1952 ABC's Concerto Competition. He began his tertiary teaching career at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium. He was an adjudicator at the 1952 City of Sydney Eisteddfod and has since adjudicated at most"
"Ross Edwards (composer) Ross Edwards AM (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. His distinctive sound world reflects his interest in deep ecology and his belief in the need to reconnect music with elemental forces, as well as restore its traditional association with [ual]] and dance. He also recognises the profound importance of music as an agent of healing. His music, universal in that it is concerned with age-old mysteries surrounding humanity, is at the same time connected to its"
"a son, Harold, and a daughter, Annie. He is currently married to pianist Yoshiko Sato, with whom he has a son, Noa. Allen Shawn Allen Evan Shawn (born August 27, 1948) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and author who lives in Vermont. Shawn began composing at the age of ten, but dates his mature work from 1977. He has written a dozen orchestral works, including a symphony, two piano concertos, a cello concerto, and a violin concerto; three chamber operas; five piano sonatas and many additional works for piano; a large catalogue of chamber music, songs and choral music."
"Robert Cray Robert William Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He has led his own band and won five Grammy Awards. One music journalist noted ""If you define 'blues' by the rigid categories of structure rather than the flexible language of feeling allusion, Robert Cray... Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and James Armstrong are a new and uncategorizable breed, their music blues-like rather than blues, each of them blending ideas and devices from a variety of sources – soul, rock, jazz, gospel – with a sophistication beyond the reach of their forerunners"". Robert Cray"
"commitment to the music of Australia's composers, soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras. The list of ABC Classics award winners includes a number of artists who have been honoured more than once, and numerous others who have been nominated as finalists on several occasions. Music by Australian composers features prominently in the list of winners: Peter Sculthorpe's music has received the award three times, and recordings of music by Richard Meale, Carl Vine and Ross Edwards have also been honoured. Australian orchestras have also dominated the awards, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra featuring on four award winners. Soprano Yvonne Kenny and"
"He was a finalist at the Australian Songwriters Association Awards in 2001, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016. He is also member of the Australian Performance Rights Association (APRA). Pete Hawkes Pete Hawkes (born 28 May 1965) is an Australian composer, mathematician/data analyst, musician and luthier. He composes music in many genres. Hawkes has composed over 1200 recordings covering folk music, jazz, jazz fusion, classical, world music, rock, ragtime, blues, ambient, and baroque. He has collaborated with Bert Jansch, Joe Cocker, Phil Emmanuel, and Dave Swarbrick. An accomplished finger style and slide guitarist, his folk-blues style has been compared to Nick"
"Richard Harvey Richard Harvey (born 25 September 1953) is a BAFTA Award–winning English musician and composer. Originally of the mediaevalist progressive rock group Gryphon, he is best known now for his film and television soundtracks. He is also known for his guitar concerto ""Concerto Antico"", which was composed for the guitarist John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra. In April 2012, UK radio listeners voted Richard Harvey's Concerto Antico into the Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time. Born in London, Harvey soon became involved in music, learning the recorder when he was four years old, switching first"
"1974. Helen Edwards, currently his manager, having spent many years as a piano teacher, has always been a committed supporter of his work. They have two children, Jeremy and Emily. Ross Edwards (composer) Ross Edwards AM (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. His distinctive sound world reflects his interest in deep ecology and his belief in the need to reconnect music with elemental forces, as well as restore its traditional association with [ual]] and dance. He also recognises the"
"others Gary Foster (musician) Norman Gary Foster (born May 25, 1936) is an American musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He is considered a crossover artist, performing jazz, pop, and classical music. He has been prominent in the film, television, and music industries for five decades, having performed on over 500 movie scores and with over 200 orchestras. He has recorded on numerous Grammy, Academy Award, Emmy, and Golden Globe winning media and soundtracks for artists and composers such as Carol Burnett, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Sinatra, Pat Williams, John Williams, Natalie Cole, Jerry"
"Roger Woodward Roger Woodward AC OBE (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical concert pianist. Woodward was born in 1942 in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney, the youngest of four children to Gladys and Frank Woodward. He studied church music with Kenneth Long in Sydney, and, at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, conducting with Sir Eugene Goossens, piano with Alexander Sverjensky and composition with Raymond Hanson. He won the piano section of the 1964 ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition, beating David Helfgott in the final. In 2002 he was appointed founding director of the School of"
"between 40 and 100 representatives experienced with classical music. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has received the award five times. The Australian Chamber Orchestra has been a three-time winner, with the ACO’s Richard Tognetti receiving a further two awards for his solo violin recordings. In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface. Nominees from 1988 are not available in published sources. ARIA Award for Best Classical Album The ARIA Music Award for Best Classical Album, is an award presented within the Fine Arts"