Don Banks Music Award
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The Don Banks Music Award was established in order to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The award was founded in honour of Don Banks
, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of the music board. Nominations for music artists, including performers and composers from all areas of music, are invited. The award is considered the nation's most valuable individual music prize.
The award is intended for artists 50 years and over. The Don Banks music award is granted only once in an artist’s lifetime. Nominations for music artists, including performers from all areas of music, are invited for this award twice, but only once in any ten-year period.
Prize recipients receive $60,000 AU as a reward for their contribution towards Australian music.
Don Banks
Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.He initially studied at the University of Melbourne, then moved to London where he studied with Mátyás Seiber...
, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of the music board. Nominations for music artists, including performers and composers from all areas of music, are invited. The award is considered the nation's most valuable individual music prize.
The award is intended for artists 50 years and over. The Don Banks music award is granted only once in an artist’s lifetime. Nominations for music artists, including performers from all areas of music, are invited for this award twice, but only once in any ten-year period.
Prize recipients receive $60,000 AU as a reward for their contribution towards Australian music.
Award recipients
- 2009 - Warren FaheyWarren FaheyWarren Fahey AM is a social historian, author, record producer, broadcaster and singer.Fahey is the founder of Larrikin Records and the folk band The Larrikins...
- 2008 - Bob SedergreenBob SedergreenBob Sedergreen is a renowned Australian jazz pianist. Bob has had a long and distinguished career as a performer, bandleader and educator. He has collaborated with leading Australian artists, such as John Sangster, Don Burrows, Brian Brown and Judy Jacques, and supported some of the biggest names...
, jazz pianist - 2007 - Peter SculthorpePeter SculthorpePeter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
AO OBE, composer - 2006 - Richard GillRichard Gill (conductor)Richard James Gill OAM is an Australian conductor who has earned awards for his work. He conducts choral, orchestral and operatic works, and has been involved in music training and education...
OAM, conductor - 2005 - Carl VineCarl VineCarl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...
, contemporary composer - 2002 - John CurroJohn CurroJohn Curro AM MBE is an Australian based violist, conductor, and music director.He is the founder and Director of Music of the Queensland Youth Orchestras with whom he established the National Youth Concerto Competition . John Curro was awarded the Don Banks Music Award in 2002...
AM MBE, music educator - 2000 - Allan BrowneAllan BrowneAllan Browne is an Australia jazz drummer and composer first known for his work in the Red Onion Jazz band in the 1960's.-Life and career:...
, jazz drummer - 1999 - Bunna Lawrie, singer/songwriter
- 1998 - Bernie McGannBernie McGannBernie McGann is an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and is still active as a performer, composer and recording artist.- Biography :...
, jazz saxophonist - 1996 - Jonathan Mills, composer
- Richard MealeRichard MealeRichard Graham Meale, AM, MBE was an Australian composer of instrumental works and operas.-Biography:Meale was born in Sydney and studied piano with Winifred Burston at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, as well as clarinet, harp, music history and theory, before studying at the University of...
AO MBE, composer