NOMINATION: Luminary - Individual
The Luminary Awards seek to honour individuals 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.
Nominations for individuals should demonstrate a program of activities or a range of projects rather than (for example) the recording and release of a single album. Nominations for a single work or project should be made in the Work of the Year or Excellence categories.
If you believe you are nominated in the wrong category or the details of your nomination to be incorrect, please contact the AMC via email at awards@australianmusiccentre.com.au before proceeding with the nomination.
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Nominee
Ms Emily Granger
Nominated Project/Activity
For Sustained Contribution to the Creation and Performance of Australian Harp repertoire
Nominator Statement
Ms Emily Granger is an exceptional harpist whose love of the harp and integrity in her playing shines in every performance. Since becoming an Australian resident, Granger has impressively adopted the Australian music idiom into her repertoire and actively commissioned, performed and promoted the music of Australian composers.
Over the past five years, Emily Granger has commissioned and premiered over fifty solo, small and large chamber works for harp. These include works by leading composers Anne Boyd, Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin, Tristan Coelho, Sally Greenaway, Sally Whitwell, Christopher Gordon, Lyle Chan, Jack Symonds, Paul Stanhope, and Elliott Gyger. She has regularly collaborated with leading new music specialists Ensemble Offspring and Claire Edwardes OAM, and premiered new works with the Sydney Dance Company, Omega Ensemble, Sydney Chamber Choir, Sydney Chamber Opera, Hourglass Ensemble, Nexas Quartet, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Emily has dedicated herself to performing across the nation promoting Australian art music into the country's leading concert halls: UKARIA, Sydney Opera House, and Melbourne Recital Centre, and on her tours for Musica Viva Australia, Music in the Regions, and Contra Concerts. In addition to performing Australian art music in the country's major cities, she has toured new works to dozens of regional towns and centres from Far North Queensland to Tasmania.
In 2022, her debut solo album, In Transit (AVIE Records), was Featured Album on ABC Classic and 2MBS Fine Music Sydney. The album was praised by BBC Music Magazine as "beautiful" and Limelight Magazine as "an impressive debut" and has so far reached more than 800,000 people through 3,500,000+ streams. In 2023, she followed up with her second album, "Something Like This," with flautist Sally Walker. Praised by The Australian as intoxicatingly beautiful. 2024 will see the release of two more albums: "Suite Mágica" on ABC Classic with guitarist Andrew Blanch and "Magic Sound" for the HUSH Foundation with percussionist Claire Edwardes.
In 2023, Emily was appointed Principal Harp with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. She is currently on faculty at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a member of Ensemble Q.
I am honoured to nominate Ms Emily Granger for a National Individual Luminary Award.
Nominee
Ms Emily Granger
Nominated Project/Activity
For Sustained Contribution to the Creation and Performance of Australian Harp repertoire
Over the past five years, Emily Granger has commissioned and premiered over fifty solo, small and large chamber works for harp. These include works by leading composers Anne Boyd, Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin, Tristan Coelho, Sally Greenaway, Sally Whitwell, Christopher Gordon, Lyle Chan, Jack Symonds, Paul Stanhope, and Elliott Gyger. She has regularly collaborated with leading new music specialists Ensemble Offspring and Claire Edwardes OAM, and premiered new works with the Sydney Dance Company, Omega Ensemble, Sydney Chamber Choir, Sydney Chamber Opera, Hourglass Ensemble, Nexas Quartet, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Emily has dedicated herself to performing across the nation promoting Australian art music into the country's leading concert halls: UKARIA, Sydney Opera House, and Melbourne Recital Centre, and on her tours for Musica Viva Australia, Music in the Regions, and Contra Concerts. In addition to performing Australian art music in the country's major cities, she has toured new works to dozens of regional towns and centres from Far North Queensland to Tasmania.
In 2022, her debut solo album, In Transit (AVIE Records), was Featured Album on ABC Classic and 2MBS Fine Music Sydney. The album was praised by BBC Music Magazine as "beautiful" and Limelight Magazine as "an impressive debut" and has so far reached more than 800,000 people through 3,500,000+ streams. In 2023, she followed up with her second album, "Something Like This," with flautist Sally Walker. Praised by The Australian as intoxicatingly beautiful. 2024 will see the release of two more albums: "Suite Mágica" on ABC Classic with guitarist Andrew Blanch and "Magic Sound" for the HUSH Foundation with percussionist Claire Edwardes.
In 2023, Emily was appointed Principal Harp with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. She is currently on faculty at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a member of Ensemble Q.
I am honoured to nominate Ms Emily Granger for a National Individual Luminary Award.