Ian Potter Cultural Trust
October 2nd 2009 04:30
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WINNERS ANNOUNCED
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MAJOR COMPOSITION AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust last night (Thursday 1 October) announced winners of the final Ian Potter Music Commission Fellowships, with $100,000 awarded to two of Australia's finest composers. Selected from a record field of applications of the highest standard, the Commissions were awarded in two categories - Emerging Composer and Established Composer.
In the Established Composer category the 2009 winner Gordon Kerry, received a Fellowship of $80,000. Iain Grandage was awarded the $20,000 Emerging Composer's Fellowship.
At the judges' recommendation and in recognition of the calibre of the field, Chairman, Mr Charles Goode AC and the Trustees of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust also awarded an additional extraordinary grant of $8,000 to composer Damien Ricketson to help create a specific work for premiere at Sydney Festival 2010.
From a field of entries that came in from around the country, four finalists were chosen in each category. The ultimate winners of the Fellowships demonstrated exceptional artistic and musical ability and presented strong concepts with excellent opportunities for performance, that the judges believe will be of significant value to Australian music.
The Judges, Mr John Hopkins OBE, Ms Elena Kats-Chernin, Professor Barry Tuckwell AC, OBE and Dr Richard Mills AM, were presented with the challenge of judging the detailed applications;
The awards give the recipients the opportunity to create a significant portfolio of work over the next two years.
"I am excited and honoured to receive this Fellowship. This opportunity will allow me to consolidate some of the more important strands of my artistic life to date and provide me with the scope to create a varied body of works that will, I trust, have a life well beyond their first performances" commented Gordon Kerry, winner of the Established Composer Fellowship of $80,000.
"I'm thrilled to have been given the opportunity to bring elements of my theatrical past to the exacting world of chamber music" says Iain Grandage, Emerging Composer Fellowship winner. "It is an honour and a great privilege to be given the resources to write for some of Australia's finest musicians in a venue [Fremantle Arts Centre] that is steeped in history and theatrical possibility."
The Ian Potter Music Commissions 2009 Fellowships were presented at a special event at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday 1 October 2009. The event also marked the final year of the Music Commissions, which were celebrated with a special performance of selected works composed by past Ian Potter Music Commissions Fellows including the Australian premiere of pieces by Richard Mills, Damian Barbeler and Liza Lim, performed by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, soprano Merlyn Quaife, pianist Caroline Almonte, and a solo percussion piece by Anthony Pateras played by Dr Vanessa Tomlinson.
Gordon Kerry
Ian Potter Music Commissions Winner: Established Composer
Award: $80,000
A graduate of University of Melbourne, composer and author Gordon Kerry is an exceptional talent in Australian composition. He has written a catalogue of symphonic and chamber works for orchestras and ensembles both in Australia and overseas and in 2008 was composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music. For The Ian Potter Music Commissions, Gordon proposed four new works including a symphonic work for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a flute concerto for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, a work for men's voices and harp for the Sydney Chamber Choir and a new concert overture for Bendigo Symphony Orchestra plus the completion of a full score for Victorian Opera.
Iain Grandage
Ian Potter Music Commissions Winner: Emerging Composer
Award: $20,000
Emerging Composer winner Iain Grandage is a composer, cellist and pianist who graduated with honours in cello performance from the University of Western Australia School of Music in 1992 and has primarily specialised in writing for theatre, for which he has won a string of awards. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, and works as a freelance composer but also still performs on occasion with a variety of artists including The Black Arm Band and Meow Meow. Iain has proposed a trilogy of 'ocean songs' inspired by the seascapes of Western Australia: a work for The Australian Brass Quintet, a work for percussionist Paul Tanner and the third, a piece for the ensemble Fused, to be performed as part of the Fremantle Arts Centre's Soft Soft Loud Chamber Music Series in 2010/2011.
Damien Ricketson
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Extraordinary Grant
Award: $8,000
A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and PhD in Music from the Sydney Conservatorium, Damian works as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring and teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium. Characterised by exotic sound-worlds and innovative forms, Damien Ricketson is quickly emerging as one of the most prominent Australian composers of his generation and his compositions have received both critical and popular acclaim, as well as a string of awards and accolades. Most recently, Damien received the NSW State Award for the 'Best Composition by an Australian Composer' for his string quartet So We Begin Afresh at the 2008 AMC/APRA Classical Music Awards. The extraordinary grant from The Ian Potter Cultural Trust will help Damian to fulfil an opportunity to create a unique work to be premiered at Sydney Festival 2010 (program to be announced 4 November 2009).
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust last night (Thursday 1 October) announced winners of the final Ian Potter Music Commission Fellowships, with $100,000 awarded to two of Australia's finest composers. Selected from a record field of applications of the highest standard, the Commissions were awarded in two categories - Emerging Composer and Established Composer.
In the Established Composer category the 2009 winner Gordon Kerry, received a Fellowship of $80,000. Iain Grandage was awarded the $20,000 Emerging Composer's Fellowship.
At the judges' recommendation and in recognition of the calibre of the field, Chairman, Mr Charles Goode AC and the Trustees of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust also awarded an additional extraordinary grant of $8,000 to composer Damien Ricketson to help create a specific work for premiere at Sydney Festival 2010.
From a field of entries that came in from around the country, four finalists were chosen in each category. The ultimate winners of the Fellowships demonstrated exceptional artistic and musical ability and presented strong concepts with excellent opportunities for performance, that the judges believe will be of significant value to Australian music.
The Judges, Mr John Hopkins OBE, Ms Elena Kats-Chernin, Professor Barry Tuckwell AC, OBE and Dr Richard Mills AM, were presented with the challenge of judging the detailed applications;
The criteria for this prize are precise and exacting and both winners responded to these criteria with proposals of exceptional standard, demonstrating imagination and genuine focus on creating works that will be played, listened to and appreciated over many years
Ian Potter Music Commissions judge,
Richard Mills.
Ian Potter Music Commissions judge,
Richard Mills.
The awards give the recipients the opportunity to create a significant portfolio of work over the next two years.
"I am excited and honoured to receive this Fellowship. This opportunity will allow me to consolidate some of the more important strands of my artistic life to date and provide me with the scope to create a varied body of works that will, I trust, have a life well beyond their first performances" commented Gordon Kerry, winner of the Established Composer Fellowship of $80,000.
"I'm thrilled to have been given the opportunity to bring elements of my theatrical past to the exacting world of chamber music" says Iain Grandage, Emerging Composer Fellowship winner. "It is an honour and a great privilege to be given the resources to write for some of Australia's finest musicians in a venue [Fremantle Arts Centre] that is steeped in history and theatrical possibility."
The Ian Potter Music Commissions 2009 Fellowships were presented at a special event at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre on Thursday 1 October 2009. The event also marked the final year of the Music Commissions, which were celebrated with a special performance of selected works composed by past Ian Potter Music Commissions Fellows including the Australian premiere of pieces by Richard Mills, Damian Barbeler and Liza Lim, performed by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, soprano Merlyn Quaife, pianist Caroline Almonte, and a solo percussion piece by Anthony Pateras played by Dr Vanessa Tomlinson.
Gordon Kerry
Ian Potter Music Commissions Winner: Established Composer
Award: $80,000
A graduate of University of Melbourne, composer and author Gordon Kerry is an exceptional talent in Australian composition. He has written a catalogue of symphonic and chamber works for orchestras and ensembles both in Australia and overseas and in 2008 was composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music. For The Ian Potter Music Commissions, Gordon proposed four new works including a symphonic work for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a flute concerto for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, a work for men's voices and harp for the Sydney Chamber Choir and a new concert overture for Bendigo Symphony Orchestra plus the completion of a full score for Victorian Opera.
Iain Grandage
Ian Potter Music Commissions Winner: Emerging Composer
Award: $20,000
Emerging Composer winner Iain Grandage is a composer, cellist and pianist who graduated with honours in cello performance from the University of Western Australia School of Music in 1992 and has primarily specialised in writing for theatre, for which he has won a string of awards. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, and works as a freelance composer but also still performs on occasion with a variety of artists including The Black Arm Band and Meow Meow. Iain has proposed a trilogy of 'ocean songs' inspired by the seascapes of Western Australia: a work for The Australian Brass Quintet, a work for percussionist Paul Tanner and the third, a piece for the ensemble Fused, to be performed as part of the Fremantle Arts Centre's Soft Soft Loud Chamber Music Series in 2010/2011.
Damien Ricketson
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Extraordinary Grant
Award: $8,000
A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and PhD in Music from the Sydney Conservatorium, Damian works as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring and teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium. Characterised by exotic sound-worlds and innovative forms, Damien Ricketson is quickly emerging as one of the most prominent Australian composers of his generation and his compositions have received both critical and popular acclaim, as well as a string of awards and accolades. Most recently, Damien received the NSW State Award for the 'Best Composition by an Australian Composer' for his string quartet So We Begin Afresh at the 2008 AMC/APRA Classical Music Awards. The extraordinary grant from The Ian Potter Cultural Trust will help Damian to fulfil an opportunity to create a unique work to be premiered at Sydney Festival 2010 (program to be announced 4 November 2009).
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