APRA Awards of 2008
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The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2008 (generally known as APRA Awards
APRA Awards
The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....

) are a series of awards which include the APRA Music Awards, Classical Music Awards, and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards ceremony occurred on 16 June at the Sydney Hilton, they were presented by APRA and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). The Classical Music Awards were distributed in July in Sydney and are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre
Australian Music Centre
The Australian Music Centre fosters the development of an Australian music community by providing specialist support to its membership of performers, composers, sound artists, educators, students, and music specialists across Australia and throughout the world.The AMC is the Australian national...

 (AMC). The Screen Music Awards were issued in November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC).

Awards

Nominees and winners with results indicated on the right.

APRA Music Awards


Song of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"1234
1234 (song)
"1234" is a song from Feist's third studio album, The Reminder. It is Feist's most successful single to date. The song was co-written by Sally Seltmann, an Australian singer-songwriter who also recorded under the name New Buffalo, and Feist...

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Feist Sally Seltmann, Leslie Feist
"20 Good Reasons
20 Good Reasons
"20 Good Reasons" was the first single from Thirsty Merc's second album Slideshows. It was released on 17 March 2007 and is to date the band's highest charting single, reaching number four on the Australian Singles Chart and number seventeen on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song was nominated...

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Thirsty Merc
Thirsty Merc
Thirsty Merc are an Australian pop rock band formed in 2002 in Sydney, Australia. The band consists of Rai Thistlethwayte , Phil Stack , Karl Robertson , and Matt Smith ....

Rai Thistlethwayte
Rai Thistlethwayte
Rai Thistlethwayte is an Australian rock and jazz musician and songwriter. Rai is an accomplished pianist, guitarist, and vocalist. He is most widely known as the lead singer and primary songwriter in the Australian rock pop band Thirsty Merc...

"Better Than
Better Than
"Better Than" is an alternative rock single/extended play by Australian jam band The John Butler Trio from their fourth studio album, Grand National...

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The John Butler Trio John Butler
John Butler (musician)
John Charles Wiltshire-Butler or John Charles Butler is an Australian musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer...

"Lost and Running
Lost and Running
"Lost and Running" is a song by Australian rock group Powderfinger. It was released as the first single from the group's sixth studio album Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. It is the band's twenty-second single and peaked at No. 5 on the Australian chart, the group's second highest charting...

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Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....

Jonathon Coghill
Jon Coghill
Jon Coghill is an Australian drummer best known for his work with Australian rock band, Powderfinger, although he has also toured with Regurgitator. Coghill replaced Powderfinger's original drummer Steven Bishop in 1991 when Bishop wanted to pursue further studies...

, John Collins
John Collins (Australian musician)
John Andrew Collins is the mainstay bass guitarst for Australian rock band Powderfinger since 1989. He is one of the founding members of the band, along with guitarist Ian Haug, forming at their high school, Brisbane Grammar School as a three piece. Powderfinger has released seven studio albums, a...

, Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....

, Ian Haug
Ian Haug
Ian David Haug is a lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the Australian rock band Powderfinger. Mainstays Haug and bass guitarist John Collins formed the band in Brisbane in 1989. During a hiatus in Powderfinger's career, Haug worked on a side project, The Predators, with Collins and original...

, Darren Middleton
Darren Middleton
Darren Stuart Middleton is an Australian lead guitarist for alternative rock band Powderfinger. He is also the lead singer for Drag....

"Straight Lines
Straight Lines (song)
"Straight Lines" is a song by Silverchair. It was released in Australia on 20 March 2007, and debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. The single was shortly followed by the release of the band's fifth studio album Young Modern on 31 March 2007...

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Silverchair
Silverchair
Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

Daniel Johns
Daniel Johns
Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...

, Julian Hamilton
Julian Hamilton
Julian Thomas Hamilton is a singer, song-writer and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, makes up successful Sydney electronica duo, The Presets.-Biography:...


Songwriters of the Year
Writer Result
Daniel Johns
Daniel Johns
Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...


Breakthrough Songwriter Award
Writer Result
Sally Seltmann

Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
Name Result
Roger Davies
Roger Davies (manager)
Roger Davies is an Australian born business manager and music producer with a long career in the music industry. His career has taken him from working as a roadie in Australia in the early 1970s to managing some of the most successful female pop/rock performers in the world including Olivia...


Most Played Australian Work
Title Artist Writer Result
"20 Good Reasons
20 Good Reasons
"20 Good Reasons" was the first single from Thirsty Merc's second album Slideshows. It was released on 17 March 2007 and is to date the band's highest charting single, reaching number four on the Australian Singles Chart and number seventeen on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song was nominated...

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Thirsty Merc
Thirsty Merc
Thirsty Merc are an Australian pop rock band formed in 2002 in Sydney, Australia. The band consists of Rai Thistlethwayte , Phil Stack , Karl Robertson , and Matt Smith ....

Rai Thistlethwayte
Rai Thistlethwayte
Rai Thistlethwayte is an Australian rock and jazz musician and songwriter. Rai is an accomplished pianist, guitarist, and vocalist. He is most widely known as the lead singer and primary songwriter in the Australian rock pop band Thirsty Merc...

"Light Surrounding You
Light Surrounding You
"Light Surrounding You" is the second single by Evermore, taken from their second studio album Real Life. It was written by Dann Hume, the drummer....

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Evermore Dann Hume, Jon Hume
"Lost and Running
Lost and Running
"Lost and Running" is a song by Australian rock group Powderfinger. It was released as the first single from the group's sixth studio album Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. It is the band's twenty-second single and peaked at No. 5 on the Australian chart, the group's second highest charting...

"
Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....

Jonathon Coghill
Jon Coghill
Jon Coghill is an Australian drummer best known for his work with Australian rock band, Powderfinger, although he has also toured with Regurgitator. Coghill replaced Powderfinger's original drummer Steven Bishop in 1991 when Bishop wanted to pursue further studies...

, John Collins
John Collins (Australian musician)
John Andrew Collins is the mainstay bass guitarst for Australian rock band Powderfinger since 1989. He is one of the founding members of the band, along with guitarist Ian Haug, forming at their high school, Brisbane Grammar School as a three piece. Powderfinger has released seven studio albums, a...

, Bernard Fanning
Bernard Fanning
Bernard Joseph Fanning is a musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and frontman of Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 to its dissolution in 2010....

, Ian Haug
Ian Haug
Ian David Haug is a lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the Australian rock band Powderfinger. Mainstays Haug and bass guitarist John Collins formed the band in Brisbane in 1989. During a hiatus in Powderfinger's career, Haug worked on a side project, The Predators, with Collins and original...

, Darren Middleton
Darren Middleton
Darren Stuart Middleton is an Australian lead guitarist for alternative rock band Powderfinger. He is also the lead singer for Drag....

"New York
New York (Eskimo Joe song)
"New York" is the third single by Eskimo Joe, taken from their third studio album Black Fingernails, Red Wine. The band flew to New York to film the music video for the single. The music video for "New York" debuted on ABC's all night music program, Rage, as the first clip shown on the 15 December...

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Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....

Stuart MacLeod
Stuart MacLeod (musician)
Stuart MacLeod from Scottish/English heritage is the guitarist and backup singer of the Australian band Eskimo Joe. He lives in South Fremantle, Western Australia. When he was seven he lived next door to Kavyen Temperley and they have been best friends for years. Temperley and MacLeod both...

, Joel Quartermain
Joel Quartermain
Joel Quartermain is the guitarist, back-up singer, recording drummer and pianist of the Australian band Eskimo Joe. He spent a lot of his childhood focused on radio and tapes. In 1989, he moved to Perth, where he attended Hollywood Senior High School...

, Kav Temperley
"Straight Lines
Straight Lines (song)
"Straight Lines" is a song by Silverchair. It was released in Australia on 20 March 2007, and debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart. The single was shortly followed by the release of the band's fifth studio album Young Modern on 31 March 2007...

"
Silverchair
Silverchair
Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

Daniel Johns
Daniel Johns
Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, vocalist, composer, guitarist, and pianist, best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. He is also part of The Dissociatives...

, Julian Hamilton
Julian Hamilton
Julian Thomas Hamilton is a singer, song-writer and keyboardist, who, with bandmate Kim Moyes, makes up successful Sydney electronica duo, The Presets.-Biography:...


Most Played Australian Work Overseas
Title Artist Writer Result
"Woman
Woman (Wolfmother song)
"Woman" is a song by Australian hard rock band Wolfmother, featured on their 2005 debut studio album Wolfmother. It was released as the band's fourth single in Australia on 17 June 2006, and later in the United Kingdom on 17 July...

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Wolfmother
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian rock band from Erskineville, Sydney. Formed in 2000, the group was originally a trio composed of vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett. Wolfmother released their self-titled debut album in October 2005,...

Andrew Stockdale
Andrew Stockdale
Andrew James Stockdale is an Australian hard rock musician, he is the lead singer, lead guitarist and the only mainstay member of the rock band, Wolfmother which formed in 2000. In 2007, alongside his Wolfmother band mates, he won 'Songwriter of the Year' at the APRA Awards...

, Chris Ross
Chris Ross
Chris Ross is an Australian musician from Erskineville, New South Wales. Best known for his former role as bassist and keyboardist of hard rock band Wolfmother, Ross was formerly a digital designer and has two children...

, Myles Heskett
Myles Heskett
Myles Heskett is the former drummer of Australian rock band Wolfmother.Heskett grew up in Sydney's Northern Beaches, attending Barrenjoey High School. His mother was a primary school principal and his father, who died in 2004, was an artist...


Blues & Roots Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Funky Tonight
Funky Tonight
"Funky Tonight" is the first single by the John Butler Trio from their fourth studio album, Grand National. It was released in December, 2006, on Jarrah Records. The song blends funk, roots, blues, and rock...

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The John Butler Trio John Butler
John Butler (musician)
John Charles Wiltshire-Butler or John Charles Butler is an Australian musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer...

"Good Excuse
Good Excuse
"Good Excuse" is a promotional only release by Australian jam band, The John Butler Trio from their fourth studio album Grand National."Good Excuse" was released in March 2007 in Australia by Jarrah Records and in the United States by Atlantic Records....

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The John Butler Trio John Butler
"I Thought About You" The Beautiful Girls
The Beautiful Girls
The Beautiful Girls are an Australian band, predominantly playing roots music. They have released three EPs, Morning Sun, Goodtimes and Weight Of The World. Plus four full length albums, Learn Yourself, We're Already Gone, Ziggurats and Spooks. They played at Dusty Days on 15 March 2008 in Wagga...

Matthew McHugh
"I’ve Been Loving You Too Long" The Hiptones Narmon Tulsi, Paul Wimbles, Stephen Smith
"La" Old Man River
Old Man River (musician)
Old Man River is the stage name of Australian singer-songwriter Ohad Rein, and the name of his band. In 2009, "Sunshine", co-written by Old Man River, won the 'Blues & Roots Work of the Year' category at the Australasian Performing Right Association Awards.-History:Ohad Rein was born in Sydney,...

Ohad Rein

Country Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Everything's Going to be Alright" Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley
Troy Cassar-Daley is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales, Australia.He released his first EP, "Dream Out Loud", in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year...

Troy Cassar-Daley, Don Walker
Don Walker (musician)
Don Walker is an Australian musician and songwriter known for writing many of the hits for Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. He played piano and keyboard with the band from 1973 to 1983, when they disbanded. He has since continued to record and tour, both solo and with Tex, Don and Charlie,...

"Higher Than Heaven" James Blundell
James Blundell (singer)
-Music:He won a Golden Guitar Award for best new talent of 1987.Blundell's eponymous first album, in 1989, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990 following its success in Australia. Successive albums were This Road and Touch of Water. This Road included the...

James Blundell, Lyndsay Hammond
"Rockin' the Rig" Travis Sinclair Colin Buchanan, Garth Porter
Garth Porter
Garth Porter is an Australian musician, songwriter and record producer best known as a member of the 1970s pop group Sherbet, and for his key role as co-writer and producer for country music singer Lee Kernaghan....

"Run Away" Carter and Carter Merelyn Carter, David Carter
"Spirit of the Bush" Lee Kernaghan
Lee Kernaghan
Lee Kernaghan OAM is an Australian country music singer and songwriter. He was the 2008 Australian of the Year.-Honours:Kernaghan received the Order of Australia Medal in 2004....

 featuring Adam Brand
Adam Brand
Adam Brand is an Australian musician who sings country music. Active since 1997, he has released seven studio albums and thirteen singles. His first three albums are all certified platinum in Australia...

 and Steve Forde
Steve Forde
Steve Forde is an Australian country music artist and host of Rollin with... on the Country Music Channel. Forde split from his band The Flange late 2006/early 2007.-Biography:...

Lee Kernaghan, Colin Buchanan, Garth Porter

Dance Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Don't You Wanna Feel
Don't You Wanna Feel
"Don't You Wanna Feel" is a dance-pop-rock song written by James Ash and Natalie Bassingthwaighte for the Rogue Traders' third studio album Better in the Dark. It was released on schedule as the album's first single on 29 September 2007...

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Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders
Rogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many...

Jamie Appleby
James Ash
James Ash , is an English-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He is the co-founder and keyboardist of Australian electro-rock group, the Rogue Traders...

, Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and television personality. She began her career as an actress on the television series All Saints. She then starred in the American television movie Counterstrike...

, Steven Davis, Dougal Drummond
"In Love Again
In Love Again
"In Love Again" is the fifth and final single released by Australian electro-rock group Rogue Traders from their second album Here Come the Drums. It was released for digital download in Australia in 2006. At the time of its release, digital downloads were not included as part of the main singles...

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Rogue Traders Jamie Appleby, Melinda Appleby, Roland Orzabal
Roland Orzabal
Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.- Early career :Orzabal...

, Curt Smith
Curt Smith
Curt Smith is an English musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Also a solo artist, he released his third album Halfway, Pleased in May 2008....

"The Others
The Others (song)
"The Others" is the first single by Australian Rock group Dukes of Windsor, taken from their debut album The Others.-Track listing:-Remix version:...

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TV Rock
TV Rock
TV Rock are an Australian dance music duo consisting of Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough.TV Rock entered the mainstream in February 2006 with their hit "Flaunt It" featuring Seany B. which reached #1 for 5 weeks and spent 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50...

 vs the Dukes of Windsor
Dukes of Windsor
Dukes of Windsor are a Berlin-based Australian Electro/Rock group most noted for their single It's A War, released in Australia in 2008 and in Europe in early 2010, as well as their song The Others, remixed by Australian dance act TV Rock.-Biography:...

Cory Blight, Scott Targett, Jack Weaving
"Pictures" Sneaky Sound System
Sneaky Sound System
Sneaky Sound System are a Sydney-based Australian dance music group consisting of guitarist and producer Black Angus and vocalist Connie Mitchell.-Early Years:...

Angus McDonald, Connie Mitchell
Connie Mitchell
Connie Mitchell is an Australian pop singer and the lead vocalist with the Sydney band Sneaky Sound System. She appears on the band's singles "Pictures", "I Love It", "UFO", "Goodbye", "Kansas City", "When We Were Young", "16" and "We Love"...

"UFO
UFO (song)
"UFO" is the fifth single by Australian dance group Sneaky Sound System, taken from their self-titled debut album Sneaky Sound System. "UFO" has been Sneaky Sound System's most successful song to date, peaking at #11 on the ARIA Singles Chart...

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Sneaky Sound System Angus McDonald, Connie Mitchell

Jazz Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"Away" Stephen Magnusson Stephen Magnusson
"Ceremony" Matt McMahon Trio Matt McMahon
"Eucalypso" The Moovin' and Groovin' Orchestra Kenneth Schroder
"More Spare Time" Colin Hopkins Colin Hopkins
"Postcard from Footscray" Way Out West Peter Knight

Urban Work of the Year
Title Artist Writer Result
"All Night Long
All Night Long (Joel Turner song)
"All Night Long" is an independent hip-hop single by Australian artist Joel Turner. It was released on 24 February 2007 and received moderate airplay on television and radio, with influential music show Video Hits screening it only once....

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Joel Turner
Joel Turner (musician)
Joel Turner is an Australian beatboxer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer best known for the Australian hit song "These Kids". As a beatboxer, he is recognised for his raw power, deep bass, and trademark sounds such as his "third voice", cowbell, teeth beats and bass guitar...

Joel Turner, Stanley Campbell, Chris Heiner, Israel Cruz
"City of Dreams
City of Dreams (Joel Turner song)
"City of Dreams" is the first single from Joel Turner's second studio album Out of the Box.It was released on August 25, 2007 and features Turner on vocals, beatbox and acoustic guitar, with rappers C4 and KNO performing the verses...

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Joel Turner featuring C4 & KNO Joel Turner, Shaunn Diamond, Chris Heiner, Kitchener Wesche
"Dr Love" The Bumblebeez Christopher Colonna, Pia Colonna
"In the Basement
In The Basement (song)
"In The Basement" was the first single to be lifted of Australian urban singer Jade MacRae's second album Get Me Home. The single didn't fare well in the charts due to lack of Radio airplay....

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Jade MacRae
Jade MacRae
Jade MacRae is an Australian R&B/Soul singer and the daughter of two professional New Zealand musicians living in the UK. Her debut single "You Make Me Weak" debuted in the top 50 of the Australian singles charts in November 2004...

Jade MacRae, Arnthor Birgisson
"What a Great Night
What a Great Night
"What a Great Night" is the third single released by Hilltop Hoods from their 2006 album, The Hard Road. It was released as a CD single and as a 12" vinyl.It is a song about the party lifestyle that many people enjoy...

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Hilltop Hoods
Hilltop Hoods
The Hilltop Hoods are an ARIA Award winning Australian hip hop group, from Adelaide, South Australia. Their members are MCs Suffa , MC Pressure , DJ Debris and formerly DJ Next. They have been at the centre of the Australian hip hop scene for the better part of two decades, originally forming back...

Barry Francis, Matthew Lambert
Suffa
Suffa is one of the MCs of the Adelaide-based hip-hop group the Hilltop Hoods. He currently lives in Adelaide, Australia. Suffa also serves as producer and has produced tracks for a number of other hip hop artists in addition to his work within the Hilltop Hoods, he has been doing this for more...

, Daniel Smith

Classical Music Awards


Best Composition by an Australian Composer
Title Composer Result
So We Begin Afresh Damien Ricketson
Micrographia Michael Smetanin
Piano Sonata No.3 Carl Vine
Carl Vine
Carl 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...

The Last Whale Colin Bright
The Love of the Nightingale Richard Mills
Richard Mills
Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...


Best Performance of an Australian Composition
Title Composer Performer Result
Rare Sugar Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake
-Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...

The Australia Ensemble, Catherine McCorkill (clarinetist)
Sonatina for Solo Violin Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz
Andrew Schultz is an Australian classical composer. Since 2002 he has lived in New South Wales on the coast south of Sydney. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award ,...

Jennifer Pike
Piano Sonata No. 3 Carl Vine
Carl Vine
Carl 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...

Elizabeth Schumann
O Antiphons Raffæle Marcellino
Raffæle Marcellino
-Life:Raffaele Marcellino graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with merit in 1985.In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music where he served as Director from 1996–1998 and resumed normal teaching duties in 1999...

The Song Company
The Lost Art of Letter Writing Brett Dean
Brett Dean
Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...

Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Frank Peter Zimmermann is a German violinist.He was born in Duisburg, Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10....

 (violinist), Munich Philharmonic, Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott
Jonathan Nott is an English conductor, the son of a priest at Worcester Cathedral. He was a music student and choral scholar at the University of Cambridge, and also studied singing and flute in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music. Nott was also a conducting student in London...

 (conductor)

Instrumental Work of the Year
Title Composer Performer Result
More Marimba Dances Ross Edwards
Ross Edwards (composer)
Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...

Claire Edwardes
Walk a Golden Mile Mark Isaacs Mark Isaacs (piano), James Muller (electric & acoustic guitars), Jay Anderson (acoustic bass), Vinni Colaiuta (drums), Bob Sheppard (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones)
Waltz for Melanie Mark Isaacs Mark Isaacs (piano), James Muller (electric & acoustic guitars), Jay Anderson (acoustic bass), Vinni Colaiuta (drums), Bob Sheppard (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones)

Long-Term Contribution to the Advancement of Australian Music
Artist or Organisation Result
Gwen Bennett
Richard Letts
Richard Letts
-Life & Work:Richard Letts trained as a classical pianist and composer and worked as a jazz band leader in his early years. In 1964 he moved to the University of California where he completed his Ph.D. in 1971. In 1972 he build and became the director of the East Bay Center for Performing Arts, a...

Sally Mays
Sonic Art Ensemble (The Seymour Group)
The Song Company

Orchestral Work of the Year
Title Composer Performer Result
90 Minutes Circling the Earth Stuart Greenbaum Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

, Brett Kelly (conductor)
Cantilena Pacifica Richard Meale Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .-Activities:...

, Erica Kennedy (violin), Richard Mills
Richard Mills
Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...

 (conductor)
Glass Soldier Suite Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake
-Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

, Geoffrey Payne (cornet), Jean-Louis Forestier (conductor)
Musaic Anne Cawrse
Anne Cawrse
Anne Cawrse is an Australian composer based in Adelaide, South Australia.-Life and career:Anne Cawrse was born in country South Australia, and spent her formative years living on a farm in Freeling, South Australia...

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

, Kevin Field (conductor)
Oboe Concertante Margaret Sutherland
Margaret Sutherland
Margaret Sutherland was an Australian composer, probably the best-known female composer her country has produced....

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

, Jiří Tancibudek
Jiří Tancibudek
Jiří Tancibudek AM was a Czech-born Australian oboist, conductor and teacher of great renown in his adopted country and elsewhere. His obituary in the Adelaide Review, titled "Prince of the oboe", said of his playing:-Biography:...

 (oboe), Patrick Thomas
Patrick Thomas (conductor)
Patrick Thomas MBE is an Australian conductor.For a period of almost 35 years he conducted hundreds of performances across Australia in just about every centre where the various state symphony orchestras ventured, and introduced music to virtually a whole generation of young Australians through...

 (conductor)
Trumpet Concerto James Ledger West Australian Symphony Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra , often known as the "Orchestra of the West", is the premier professional orchestra of the state of Western Australia.-History:...

, David Elton (trumpet), Sachio Fujioka (conductor)

Outstanding Contribution by an Individual
Individual Work Result
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council...

composer, writer, educator and broadcaster in Australia and overseas
Ian Munro
Ian Munro (pianist)
Ian Munro is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator. His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.-Biography:...

contribution to Australian performance and composition in 2007

Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation
Organisation Work Result
Halcyon, Synergy Percussion and Ensemble Offspring collaboration in Tehillim
Tehillim (Reich)
Tehillim is a piece of music by American composer Steve Reich, written in 1981.The title comes from the Hebrew word for "psalms", and the work is the first to reflect Reich's Jewish heritage...

International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) concerts presented at the 2007 international conference (Sydney)
Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, Nicole Canham, Pro Musica Inc 2007 Canberra International Chamber Music Festival
Tura New Music 2007 festival, touring program, its advocacy and support in Western Australia
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra , often known as the "Orchestra of the West", is the premier professional orchestra of the state of Western Australia.-History:...

Concerto Project

Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education
Organisation Work Result
Griffyn Mentoring Ensemble 2007 activities
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Melbourne, Australia. It has 100 permanent musicians. Melbourne has the longest continuous history of orchestral music of any Australian city and the MSO is the oldest professional orchestra in Australia...

's ArtPlay ensemble
touring program and music theatre project Hunger
Sydney Symphony
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...

 Education Program
2007 Sinfonietta Project
The Song Company MODART professional development project

Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area
Organisation Work Result
Australian Voices
The Australian Voices
The Australian Voices are a choral ensemble based in Brisbane, Australia.In 1993 Graeme Morton and Stephen Leek founded The Australian Voices, an ensemble of young adult singers who work to promote Australian composers. The Australian Voices has performed and promoted new Australian music...

2007 Australian Voices Festival (Kenilworth, Queensland)
Peter Lynch, Murray Conservatorium (Albury Wodonga) inspired commitment to Australian Music

Vocal or Choral Work of the Year
Title Composer Performer Result
"Carol of the Font" from Soul Architecture Cycle Becky Llewellyn Syntony
Symphony No. 4 "Star Chant" Ross Edwards
Ross Edwards (composer)
Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...

, Fred Watson
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was founded as a 17 player radio ensemble in 1936, in Adelaide, South Australia. The orchestra reformed in 1949 as the 55 member South Australian Symphony Orchestra. It reverted to its original and present title, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, in late 1974, and...

, Richard Mills
Richard Mills
Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...

 (conductor); Adelaide Chamber Singers, Carl Crossin (director); Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus, Timothy Sexton (director)

Screen Music Awards


Best Feature Film Score
Title Composer Result
Children of the Silk Road
The Children of Huang Shi
The Children of Huang Shi is a Chinese 2008 film...

David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder is an Australian film score composer and performer.Hirschfelder was born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria....

Rogue
Rogue (film)
War is a 2007 American action thriller film, directed by Phillip G. Atwell who makes his film debut, with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released in North America on August 24, 2007 and stars action film actors Jet Li and Jason Statham, making their second collaboration after the...

Francois Tetaz
Francois Tetaz
François "Franc" Tétaz is an Australian film composer and music producer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association / Australian Guild of Screen Composers 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award for Wolf Creek .-Biography:In 1992, François Tétaz with Charles Tétaz and Darrin...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 American Western drama film. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik, with Brad Pitt portraying Jesse James and Casey Affleck as his killer, Robert Ford.Filming took place in rural Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba...

Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

, Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...

Unfinished Sky
Unfinished Sky
Unfinished Sky is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Peter Duncan. It is based on the 1998 Dutch film De Poolse bruid.- Plot :...

Antony Partos

Best Music for an Advertisement
Title Composer Result
Australian Rugby Union
Australian Rugby Union
The Australian Rugby Union is the governing body of rugby union in Australia. It was founded in 1949 and is a member of the International Rugby Board the sport's governing body. It consists of eight member unions, representing each state and territory...

 – "Men of Gold"
Mark Rivett, Haydn Walker
Herringbone – "Hands" Elliott Wheeler
LMFF – "Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival" (2008) Robert Burke, Benjamin Grayson
SBS Station ID – "Six Billion Stories & Counting" Roger Mason
Roger Mason (musician)
Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of New Wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and for various Australian artists...

, Bryony Marks

Best Music for Children's Television
Title Composer Result
Animalia
Animalia (TV series)
Animalia is an Australian children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base.-Development:...

– "Butterfly Winter"
Christopher Elves
Dogstar
Dogstar (TV series)
Dogstar is an Australian children's animated television program produced by Media World Pictures which first screened on the Nine Network and then Disney Channel Australia. There are 26 episodes in the first series....

- "Episode 24"
Yuri Worontschak
Gumnutz! A Juicy Tale Clive Harrison
Pirate Islands the Lost Treasure of Fiji Art Phillips
Art Phillips
Arthur "Art" Phillips served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level...


Best Music for a Documentary
Title Composer Result
Halal Mate – "Episode 1 – Afifas Match" Michael Den Elzen
Last Trimate Caitlin Yeo
Night Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski, born 1949, Warsaw, Poland, is an Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra.Migrating from Poland to Australia in 1974, he studied the piano from the age of six. He currently lives in East St Kilda, Melbourne...

Secrets of the Forbidden City Brett Aplin

Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie
Title Composer Result
East West 101
East West 101
East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue....

- "Episode 1"
Guy Gross
Emerald Falls Richard Pleasance
Richard Pleasance
Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992...

Indonesia a Reporter's Journey – "Episode 1 A difficult engagement" Scott Saunders

Best Music for a Short Film
Title Composer Result
Noir Drive
Noir Drive
Noir Drive is an Australian film noir short film written and directed by Benson Riddle, produced by Matthew Bristow, and starring Matt Passmore, Rachael Berry, Vincent Stone, Nic Aplin and Steve Price...

Geoffrey Russell
Shot Open Rachel Gaudry
The Funk Paul Gillett
The Ground Beneath Jonathan Nix, Miles Nicholas

Best Music for a Television Series or Serial
Series or Serial Episode title Composer Result
City Homicide
City Homicide
City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne...

"Episode 14" Richard Pleasance
Richard Pleasance
Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992...

Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High is a Logie Award-winning Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. It is a parody of high-school life epitomised by its three protagonists: effeminate and megalomaniacal "Director of Performing Arts" Mr G; self-absorbed, privileged teenager...

"Episode 8" Jason Catherine, Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley (comedian)
-External links:****...

, Bryony Marks
Underbelly
Underbelly (TV series)
Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...

"Episode 5" Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...

Who Do You Think You Are?
Who Do You Think You Are? (Australian TV series)
Who Do You Think You Are? is an Australian television documentary series, based on the BBC series of the same name, airing on SBS One. SBS first aired six episodes of the BBC series in late 2007, followed by six Australian episodes beginning 13 January 2008, and then six more from the original BBC...

"Episode 2" Ash Gibson Greig

Best Original Song Composed for the Screen
Song title Work Composer Result
"Free Falling 2" Night Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski
Cezary Skubiszewski, born 1949, Warsaw, Poland, is an Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra.Migrating from Poland to Australia in 1974, he studied the piano from the age of six. He currently lives in East St Kilda, Melbourne...

, Jan Skubiszewski, Andy Baldwin, Clairanne Brown, Jules Pascoe
"It’s a Jungle Out There" Underbelly
Underbelly (TV series)
Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...

Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...

"The Greatest Act in History" The Black Balloon
The Black Balloon (film)
The Black Balloon is a 2008 Australian|British AFI award-winning dramedy feature film which stars Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward as well as a cast of newcomers. It is directed by first time feature film director, Elissa Down.The film was released in Australian...

Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski is an award-winning Australian composer known for his scores for features film such as The Waiting City, The Black Balloon , Newcastle, and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir Michael Yezerski...

"When We Get There" The Black Balloon Josh Pyke
Josh Pyke
Josh Pyke is an Australian singer-songwriting musician.-Beginnings and Feeding the Wolves :Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Playing guitar and initial song writing efforts came aged 14...

, Michael Yezerski

Best Soundtrack Album
Title Composer Result
East of Everything
East of Everything
East of Everything is an Australian drama television series which began screening on 30 March 2008 on the ABC. It is produced by Deborah Cox , Fiona Eagger and Roger Monk...

Greg Walker
Greg Walker
Gregory Lee Walker is a former power-hitting first baseman in Major League Baseball and the former hitting coach of the Chicago White Sox, the team for which he played all but the last 14 games of his career. As a player for 9 years, Walker hit 113 home runs and drove in 444 runs, while scoring...

Rogue Francois Tetaz
Francois Tetaz
François "Franc" Tétaz is an Australian film composer and music producer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association / Australian Guild of Screen Composers 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award for Wolf Creek .-Biography:In 1992, François Tétaz with Charles Tétaz and Darrin...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 American Western drama film. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik, with Brad Pitt portraying Jesse James and Casey Affleck as his killer, Robert Ford.Filming took place in rural Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba...

Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

, Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...

The Black Balloon
The Black Balloon (film)
The Black Balloon is a 2008 Australian|British AFI award-winning dramedy feature film which stars Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward as well as a cast of newcomers. It is directed by first time feature film director, Elissa Down.The film was released in Australian...

Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski
Michael Yezerski is an award-winning Australian composer known for his scores for features film such as The Waiting City, The Black Balloon , Newcastle, and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir Michael Yezerski...


Best Television Theme
Title Composer Result
Elders David Chapman
Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High is a Logie Award-winning Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. It is a parody of high-school life epitomised by its three protagonists: effeminate and megalomaniacal "Director of Performing Arts" Mr G; self-absorbed, privileged teenager...

Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley (comedian)
-External links:****...

The Gruen Transfer
The Gruen Transfer
The Gruen Transfer is an Australian television program focusing on advertising, which debuted on ABC1 on 28 May 2008 and has run for four seasons...

David Chapman
Underbelly
Underbelly (TV series)
Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...

Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard von Dallwitz is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical...


International Achievement Award
Artist Result
Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone

Most Performed Screen Composer - Australia
Composer Result
Les Gock
Jay Stewart
Neil Sutherland
Dinesh Wickremeratne

Most Performed Screen Composer - Overseas
Composer Result
Alastair Ford
Guy Gross
Chris Pettifer
Neil Sutherland

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