NOMINATION: Luminary - Organisation
The Luminary Awards seek to honour organisations who, through sustained contribution (demonstrated over a period 3-5 years prior), have impacted our community on a national scale through visionary leadership, fearless trailblazing, high-level artistic practice, and championing of Australian repertoire.
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Nominee
Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Nominated Project/Activity
Ongoing training program, commissioning, ANAM Set, Quartetthaus
Nominator Statement
Embracing the future of Australian music making - this isnt hyperbole when youre talking about ANAM, the Australian National Academy of Music. In so many of our leading Australian chamber ensembles, every professional orchestra, as well as around the world, you will find ANAMs graduates. It's a unique place that supports Australia's next generation with the skills, professionalism, curiosity and capacity to thrive in our industry.
The last five years of activity exemplifies the range and diversity of enterprises offered by the ANAM: Australian works are consistently championed, including in student-programmed recitals, chamber music showcases and devised performances. Australian composers, musicians and cultural leaders frequently appear as guests to lead programs and discussions. And ANAM musicians can be found working with school-aged students in a number of outreach programs including at Richmond West Primary School and through Melbourne Recital Centres Making Waves project.
ANAM engages with a diverse range of emerging, well established and internationally celebrated composers. ANAM have welcomed first nations' leaders to share their creative work and to collaborate with musicians, including in recent years Christopher Sainsbury, Brenda Gifford, William Barton, Aaron Wyatt and Deborah Cheetham Fraillon.
But through extraordinary recent challenges have come extraordinary ideas, expanding once again what an institution like ANAM can do. The ANAM Quartetthaus project (Melbourne Museum, 2023) celebrated Australian composers and String Quartets in 56 concerts presented over an intense eight days. The ANAM Set has thus far commissioned, performed, and largely recorded, an impressive 87 new works, and is part of a continuing commitment from ANAM to create new solo and duo works for the repertoire. The scheme pairs an Australian composer with a current ANAM musician to premiere a work for their recital (with a further 18 works to be heard in 2025). The end-of-year 2024 ANAM Chamber Music Festival Sounds of Australia was an especially notable celebration of Australian composers, filling Rosina Auditorium across four concerts. An ongoing collaboration with Daryl Buckleys ELISION Ensemble in residence pushes the boundaries of ANAM musicians who explore today's cutting edge art music.
For me personally, my collaboration with ANAM French Horn graduate Calen Linke was a rewarding and fruitful experience. Under ANAM's auspices, the piece has been studio recorded by Calen for ABC, and the piece will add to the current body of repertoire for tertiary level (and above) horn players nationally. Secondly, hearing ANAM set players realise my piece 'Time and Tide, Echoes of Sydney Harbour' for the sold-out Sounds of Australia Festival concert last year was an absolute highlight. The level of professionalism and musicianship by the trio was stunning, the environment supportive and positive, and it is the best realisation I have heard of this piece to date.
Through the crucial work of ANAM, I'm confident that the future of art music in Australia is in safe hands - now and into the future, fuelled by the passion the musicians, faculty and staff have for celebrating, cultivating and showcasing Australian music.
Nominee
Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Nominated Project/Activity
Ongoing training program, commissioning, ANAM Set, Quartetthaus
The last five years of activity exemplifies the range and diversity of enterprises offered by the ANAM: Australian works are consistently championed, including in student-programmed recitals, chamber music showcases and devised performances. Australian composers, musicians and cultural leaders frequently appear as guests to lead programs and discussions. And ANAM musicians can be found working with school-aged students in a number of outreach programs including at Richmond West Primary School and through Melbourne Recital Centres Making Waves project.
ANAM engages with a diverse range of emerging, well established and internationally celebrated composers. ANAM have welcomed first nations' leaders to share their creative work and to collaborate with musicians, including in recent years Christopher Sainsbury, Brenda Gifford, William Barton, Aaron Wyatt and Deborah Cheetham Fraillon.
But through extraordinary recent challenges have come extraordinary ideas, expanding once again what an institution like ANAM can do. The ANAM Quartetthaus project (Melbourne Museum, 2023) celebrated Australian composers and String Quartets in 56 concerts presented over an intense eight days. The ANAM Set has thus far commissioned, performed, and largely recorded, an impressive 87 new works, and is part of a continuing commitment from ANAM to create new solo and duo works for the repertoire. The scheme pairs an Australian composer with a current ANAM musician to premiere a work for their recital (with a further 18 works to be heard in 2025). The end-of-year 2024 ANAM Chamber Music Festival Sounds of Australia was an especially notable celebration of Australian composers, filling Rosina Auditorium across four concerts. An ongoing collaboration with Daryl Buckleys ELISION Ensemble in residence pushes the boundaries of ANAM musicians who explore today's cutting edge art music.
For me personally, my collaboration with ANAM French Horn graduate Calen Linke was a rewarding and fruitful experience. Under ANAM's auspices, the piece has been studio recorded by Calen for ABC, and the piece will add to the current body of repertoire for tertiary level (and above) horn players nationally. Secondly, hearing ANAM set players realise my piece 'Time and Tide, Echoes of Sydney Harbour' for the sold-out Sounds of Australia Festival concert last year was an absolute highlight. The level of professionalism and musicianship by the trio was stunning, the environment supportive and positive, and it is the best realisation I have heard of this piece to date.
Through the crucial work of ANAM, I'm confident that the future of art music in Australia is in safe hands - now and into the future, fuelled by the passion the musicians, faculty and staff have for celebrating, cultivating and showcasing Australian music.