Albert H. Maggs Composition Award
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The Albert H. Maggs Composition Award is a commission-based Australia
n classical
composition award given in order to "encourage and assist composers who might otherwise abandon their efforts for want of means".
The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs
, a Melbourne
-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine. He initially provided $10,000, and made later contributions to keep the award viable.
The only qualification is that applicants must have resided in Australia for at least two years before the closing date for applications, in March. It is administered by the University of Melbourne
and is awarded annually in August.
The winner agrees to submit their work within 18 months of the award being made. The current value of the award is $600.
Australia
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n classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
composition award given in order to "encourage and assist composers who might otherwise abandon their efforts for want of means".
The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs
Albert H. Maggs
Albert H. Maggs was an Australian bookmaker and philanthropist. He founded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award of the University of Melbourne in 1966, and he was posthumously honoured with the creation of the Albert Maggs Scholarship for Postgraduate Medical Research by the St Vincent's...
, a Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine. He initially provided $10,000, and made later contributions to keep the award viable.
The only qualification is that applicants must have resided in Australia for at least two years before the closing date for applications, in March. It is administered by the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
and is awarded annually in August.
The winner agrees to submit their work within 18 months of the award being made. The current value of the award is $600.
List of winners
The following composers have been awarded the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award:- 1967 Nigel ButterleyNigel ButterleyNigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.-Life and career:Butterley learnt to play the piano at the age of five. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but as music wasn't taught at the school at that time, he also sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music....
- 1968 Larry SitskyLarry SitskyLazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...
- 1969 Colin BrumbyColin BrumbyColin Brumby is an Australian composer and conductor.He was born in Melbourne and studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, from which he graduated in 1957. He went to Spain to study advanced composition with Philipp Jarnach, and to London to study with Alexander Goehr...
- 1970 Keith Humble
- 1971 Raymond Hanson
- 1972 George DreyfusGeorge DreyfusGeorge Dreyfus AM is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.-Life:The Dreyfus family moved in 1935 to Berlin to enable a better education for their two sons...
- 1973 Graham Hair
- 1974 Donald Hollier
- 1975 Ann Carr-BoydAnn Carr-BoydAnn Carr–Boyd is an Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia.-Biography:...
- 1975 George TibbitsGeorge Tibbits (composer)George Richard Tibbits was an Australian composer and architect.Tibbits was born in Boulder, Western Australia, to a family of mining prospectors, and when his father returned wounded from the First World War, the family moved to Colac, Victoria, to take up dairying...
- 1976 Eric GrossEric GrossEric Gross AM was an Austrian-Australian pianist and composer.-Biography:Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras...
- 1977 Tristram CaryTristram CaryTristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM was a pioneering English-Australian composer.-Early life:Cary was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson...
- 1978 Barry ConynghamBarry ConynghamEmeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His...
- 1979 Richard Hames
- 1979 Vincent Plush
- 1980 David WorrallDavid Worrall (composer)David Worrall is an Australian composer and sound artist working in sound sculpture and immersive polymedia as well as traditional instrumental music composition. He performs and exhibits internationally...
- 1981 Larry SitskyLarry SitskyLazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...
- 1982 Richard MillsRichard MillsRichard 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...
- 1983 Božidar Kos
- 1984 Brenton BroadstockBrenton BroadstockBrenton Broadstock is an Australian composer.Brenton Broadstock - Australian Composer - was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied History, Politics and Music at Monash University, and later composition and theory with Donald Freund at the University of Memphis in the USA and with Peter...
- 1985 Andrew SchultzAndrew SchultzAndrew 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 ,...
- 1986 Warren BurtWarren BurtWarren Burt is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music...
- 1987 Chu Wang-Hua
- 1988 Julian Yu
- 1989 no award given
- 1990 Mary FinstererMary Finsterer-Life:Mary Finsterer was born in Canberra, Australia, and graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and...
- 1991 Stephen Cronin
- 1992 Mark Pollard
- 1993 Lesleigh Thompson
- 1994 Gerard Brophy
- 1995 Thomas Reiner
- 1996 Wilfred Lehmann
- 1997 David JosephDavid JosephDavid Joseph is the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK.-Career:David Joseph joined Universal Music UK in August 1998 as general manager of the company's Polydor label before moving up in February 2002 to become managing director and later co-President of Polydor...
- 1998 Christopher WillcockChris WillcockChristopher Willcock is an Australian Jesuit priest and one of the most prolific and frequently published Catholic composers of liturgical music. Willcock studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was ordained to the Priesthood in 1977. He then pursued doctoral studies in...
- 1999 Wilfred Lehmann
- 2000 Gerard Brophy
- 2001 Stuart Greenbaum
- 2002 Lawrence Whiffin
- 2005 John Peterson
- 2006 Johanna Selleck
- 2007 Mark Isaacs
- 2008 Barry ConynghamBarry ConynghamEmeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His...
- 2009 Kate Neal
- 2010 Paul Stanhope