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	KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment: 10/01/2003 - 10/31/2003
		The long-running "Mamma Mia" is based on music by ABBA; the Tony-winning, rock-ballet "Movin' Out" is performed to Billy Joel's music; and this season marks the opening of "The Boy From Oz," a musical biography of Australian cabaret singer Peter Allen.
		In any case, the Distillers like their music raw, so the imagery is soaked in blood, guts and all sorts of body parts that have been torn out and left for dead.
		KCRW music director Nic Harcourt built the lineup from artists who have released critically acclaimed albums or EPs during the past year.
	www.kingblind.com /2003_10_01_michiganblind_archive.html

	APRA - For Composers Authors & Publishers of Music
		The Australian Music Prize Ltd will reward an Australian music artist (or group of artists) with a cash prize of $25,000.00 in recognition of their outstanding creativity during a particular year.
		With the establishment of a new Austrade Export Music Office, now is the perfect time for Australian country music artists considering entering the $2 billion United States market to act...
		The Jessica Michalik Contemporary Music Endowment - Application form (pdf).
	www.apra.com.au (239 words)

	Print Article: Winton's Dirt Music on Booker list
		Western Australian Tim Winton is among the 20 long-listed authors, with his latest novel, Dirt Music.
		With the prize money for the renamed Booker more than doubled this year to £50,000 ($141,000) and speculation that the new sponsor will open the prize to US authors, the judges just might favour an English author before it's too late.
		Given that Jacobson came to Australia in 1965 as a university lecturer, has lived half his life here since then, only recently divorced his Australian wife and makes disparaging jokes about us, surely we have a half-claim on him if he wins.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/08/19/1029114077567.html (249 words)

	Ny side 1
		He has been awarded the inaugural prize from the Fellowship of Composers (1989), the first National Critics� Award, and the inaugural Australian Composer�s Fellowship presented by the Music Board of the Australia Council.
		He has received many awards for his compositions, including the A.H.Maggs Award (twice), the Alfred Hill Memorial Prize for his String Quartet in 1968, a China Fellowship in 1983, a Fulbright Award in 1988-89, and an Advance Australia Award for achievement in music (1989).
		After having won several national and international prizes (including the Leo Kestenberg prize and one with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra), Sch�nfeld made his d�but with the Israeli Radio and Television Orchestra before embarking on a concert career that was to take him round the world, embracing also his gifts as composer and teacher.
	bednorz.uni2.net /Brofeldt/Catalogue_s.htm (249 words)

	List of prizes, medals, and awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Faisal Foundation Prize -- King Faisal Foundation was established in 1976 by the eight sons of the late King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder and the Kingdom's third monarch.
		A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc.
		"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_prizes,_medals,_and_awards (1256 words)

	GILA ALMAGOR ISRAEL PRIZE
		Almost pre-empting the decision to award her the prize for her tireless work in Israeli film, Gila, at the last AICE Board meeting held at the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv, vocally supported the importance of making The Best of Docaviv an annual event in Australia.
		Gila Alamagor, Grande Dame of stage and screen and Board member of AICE, is the recipient of the 2004 prestigious Israel Prize for her contribution to Israeli film.
		Following a two year period of studying ballet, acting and music in New York in her early twenties, Gila has dedicated her life to the screen, stage and television in Israel, winning numerous awards and performed all the major female roles of the theatrical canon.
	www.jewishaustralia.com /gilaalmagor-israelprize.htm (253 words)

	grandprixcities.com - international motorsport travel guide - vancouver, bc, canada 2004 molson indy events
		Prize includes $10,000 in prizing plus the opportunity to represent Canada at the Miss Indy Competition at the Australian Champ Car Race.
		MotorFest, in the Plaza of Nations, is the trade show portion of the Molson Indy Vancouver where all of the outside vendor and merchandise action takes place, plus beer gardens and live music on the Molson Canadian Mainstage.
		The Miss Molson Indy Sports Model Competition is the ultimate beauty pageant, where contestants compete for the opportunity to win the title of Miss Molson Indy Canada 2004.
	grandprixcities.com /vancouver2004molsonindyevents.html (253 words)

	UI CAMPUS NOTES -- IOWA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
		In 1992 Lim was the first writer to receive the Singapore Literature Prize, which she won for her third novel, "Fistful of Colours." The author, who also specializes in applied linguistics, works as a curriculum advisor in the Singapore Ministry of Education.
		The Composers Workshop performance season is managed by a doctoral composition student, thus affording composers practical experience in organizing performances of new music.
		She is the author of numerous works of scholarship on literary subjects, in particular concerning women's literature in her country.
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/1997/october/1003notes.html (2463 words)

	Awards & Prizes
		Official record of all Australians who have been honoured since federation with the exception of military campaign service and military long service awards.
		Provides information on the current Australian of the Year and a link to details of past winners, which contain short biographies of all recipients.
		Web site providing information about the Grammy Awards, which are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), and are considered the most coveted of the many contemporary music awards.
	www.library.uq.edu.au /nott/subject_vr.php?id=AW (312 words)

	Anthony Linden Jones, Biography : Australian Music Centre
		His music has received a number of prizes, including the John Antill prize in 1994.
		Living and working in Sydney, Australia, Anthony is a recent Honours graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he is currently undertaking postgraduate study.
		His music receives frequent stage performance and radio braodcast.
	www.amcoz.com.au /comp/j/ajones.htm (312 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of novelists by nationality
		Clinton Walker is a leading historian of Australian popular music.
		The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency.
		David Foster, OC, OBC, LL.D. born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a multi Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and composer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-novelists-by-nationality (6886 words)

	Kronos Quartet Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
		Kronos has won numerous international awards, including three Edison Awards (Netherlands), Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Germany), Rolf Schock Prize in Music (Sweden), eight ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventurous Programming (United States), Australian Broadcasting Company Classic FM Best International Recording of the Year (Australia), Le Diapason d'Or de Mai (France), and others.
		Synonymous with musical innovation, the Kronos Quartet is known for its unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation.
		“Synonymous with musical innovation, the Kronos Quartet is known for its unique artistic vision and fearless dedication to experimentation.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2002/kronos.html (6886 words)

	ninemsn Music - ARIA 2004 wrap
		After scooping the prize pool at the global MTV Music Awards for Best Rock Video last month, just weeks after a sell-out US tour, the band came in with the most nominations for this year’s ARIA Music Awards.
		If you could chart the progress of Australian music in one band this year, it would be Melbourne's denim rockers Jet.
		Proving Melbourne is still the place to be when it comes to live music, Dallas Crane received three gongs for their third, self-titled album, Dallas Crane, while stablemates Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males got three for Sing the Tabloid Blues.
	music.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=18638 (735 words)

	BBC News MUSIC Gorillaz storm MTV Awards
		Australian dance outfit The Avalanches won for best video, beating Fatboy Slim and Gorillaz among others, while Eminem, won the best rap artist prize.
		The winners were picked by an 800-member "voting academy" consisting of key record executives in the music industry and MTV viewers from across Europe.
		Links to more Music stories are at the foot of the page.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_1643000/1643395.stm (405 words)

	Biographies: RED FILES Production Team
		The eight-part series "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power," which aired on PBS in 1993, won numerous awards and garnered national media attention.
		Under the banner of his company 'Sound to Picture', Paul Foss has been composing successful, award-winning music scores since 1988.
		Other FRONTLINE documentaries for PBS include "The Godfather of Cocaine" (1995), "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" (1993), and the controversial and critically acclaimed "The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover" (1993), which made headlines around the world.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/bios/all_bio_prod_team.htm (2016 words)

	Schools in the Australian Capital Territory
		Erindale College is an exciting concept in the provision of Year 11/12 education in the Australian Capital Territory.
		It takes its name from its location marked as Telopea Park on Walter Burley Griffin's prize winning plan for a national capital.
		This site headed "Capital Dreaming" includes some original works from students in the areas of writing, art and music.
	www.gwb.com.au /gwb/com/schone.html (2016 words)

	Articles - Australian National University
		Nobel Prizes have been won by research performed at John Curtin.
		Music, and Social Sciences as well as the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and the Centre for New Media Arts.
		Nobel Prize - winning nuclear physicist, former chancellor
	www.kamero.net /articles/Anu (2016 words)

	Literary Awards, a beginners guide to. Book Prizes - What do they mean? The Booker, Whitbread, Orange Prize, The Pulitzer, PEN/Faulkner .....
		The Miles Franklin Award is an annual award with a A$30,000 prize originally bequethed by the Australian novelist Miles Franklin.
		The Kiriyama Prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding books that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim (East and Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and the Pacific-bordering nations of Latin America) and of the South Asian subcontinent.
		The oldest and most prestigous of the American awards, awarded each year in April by Columbia University for excellence in literary arts, journalism, education, drama and music.
	www.book-club.co.nz /features/awards.htm (2016 words)

	MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - Doug Parkinson
		Throughout, Doug Parkinson has distinguished himself as a great performer and a consummate professional, one of the true legends of the Australian music scene.
		Their profile increased with a residency at The Can disco in Sydney and they gained invaluable national exposure with a support spot on the controversial January 1968 Australian tour by The Who and The Small Faces.
		In a nail-biting finish, Doug Parkinson In Focus was awarded equal first place with competition underdogs The Masters Apprentices, and the two bands shared the prize.
	www.milesago.com /Artists/dougpark.htm (4809 words)

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		The Australian bass Dean Robinson studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.andnbsp; As a student he performed the roles of Geronimo (Il Matrimonio Segreto) and Silva (Ernani), and was awarded the Robin Kaye prize for Opera.
		After moving to England in 1983 she trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.andnbsp; Having completed her AGSM Diploma, she indertook the Advanced Solo Studies Course with Paul berkowitz and also studied chamber music with the late Edith Vogel.
		andnbsp;In May 1996 he received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Newcastle, and was made a CBE in the 1997 Queen?s Birthday Honours.
	www.geocities.com /bedfordsingers/programme02.html (1860 words)

	Peter Leech
		Peter’s awards for musical achievements include the Hooper Brewster Jones and Ruby Davy Prizes for Composition in 1987 and 1988 (Elder Conservatorium) and the Adelaide Choral Society Prize (1989).
		Conductor Peter Leech (b.1967) has established a reputation in the UK and internationally as a talented interpreter of a variety of choral and orchestral repertoire, ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary music.
		A distinguished scholar as well as a performer, with articles published in Early Music and The Revised New Grove, Peter was awarded a Ph.D in musicology from Anglia Polytechnic University in 2004 for his ground-breaking thesis 'Music and Musicians in the Stuart Catholic Courts, 1660-1718'.
	www.cappellafede.com (845 words)

	Musica Viva Australia - 2004 - Karol Szymanowski Quartet
		Prize-winners at numerous international competitions, including second prize and public praise at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the Karol Szymanowski Quartet performs music from classical to contemporary, including works dedicated expressly to the ensemble as well as live electronics and jazz.
		After founding the ensemble in Warsaw in 1995, the players began study at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, where the chamber music class was initiated especially for this highly talented young quartet.
		The Quartet`s 2001 concert programs feature Szymanowski`s electrifying Second Quartet, Verdi`s rarely-heard quartet, Berg`s Lyric Suite or Brahms` first String Quartet, and, in all programs, a new work by Russian-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.
	www.mva.org.au /2004/performer.asp?id=352 (120 words)

	Composer
		Orchestras that have performed her work include the Adelaide, Tasmanian, Queensland, West Australian and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, the Auckland Philharmonia and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra.
		She has also had chamber music performances by the New Zealand Ensemble, the Australia Ensemble, and principal players with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the NZSO, Florida West Coast Symphony and the Malaysian Philharmonic.
		Maria's awards for composition include the Jimmy McHugh Prize and the Halsey Stevens Prize from the University of Southern California, the Composers' Association of New Zealand Trust Fund Award and the Philip Neill Memorial Prize.
	www.sounz.org.nz /composer.php?search_for=works&search_by=com.composer_id&keyword_text=G051&keyword_type=match&selected_works=true (797 words)

	ipedia.com: Culture of Sydney Article
		Many well-known Australian rock bands have had their genesis in Sydney, from Midnight Oil to INXS, as well as a host of independent groups from punk rock Radio Birdman, indie rockers The Clouds and The Crystal Set, to electronic music pioneers Severed Heads and Itch-E and Scratch-E.
		The Archibald Prize is a noted portraiture prize awarded each year by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales located in Sydney.
		To a lesser extent jazz and new music (such as Sydney-based The Necks) has found a home in places like "The Basement" and the Harbourside Brasserie.
	www.ipedia.com /culture_of_sydney.html (440 words)

	Adelaide pianist wins accompanists’ award
		The annual award is one of the few Australian prizes to celebrate and encourage the profession of piano accompaniment.
		For First Prize, Michael Ierace receives $1000, plus payment of a further $1000 when he completes his recital with professional musicians arranged by the Guild in 2005.
		Honours music student and pianist Michael Ierace has won the 2004 Geoffrey Parsons Award.
	www.adelaide.edu.au /news/news1321.html (440 words)

	john eccles
		John Eccles is also the name of an Australian Nobel Prize winner.
		Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1680s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
		He was appointed to the King's band in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick.
	www.fact-library.com /john_eccles.html (290 words)

	Ny side 1
		He has been awarded the inaugural prize from the Fellowship of Composers (1989), the first National Critics’ Award, and the inaugural Australian Composer’s Fellowship presented by the Music Board of the Australia Council.
		He has received many awards for his compositions, including the A.H.Maggs Award (twice), the Alfred Hill Memorial Prize for his String Quartet in 1968, a China Fellowship in 1983, a Fulbright Award in 1988-89, and an Advance Australia Award for achievement in music (1989).
		She toured extensively in Denmark and Germany giving concerts in Leipzig (Gewandhaus under Nikisch), Vienna, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Stockholm, Warsaw etc.
	bednorz.uni2.net /Brofeldt/Catalogue_s.htm (290 words)

	ACOF, Alicia Grant : Australian Music Centre
		Alicia Grant was born in Sydney in 1978 and holds an LRAM and first-class BMus(Hons) degree from the Royal Academy of Music, University of London where she studied composition with Simon Bainbridge, Christopher Brown, and Melanie Daiken.
		Whilst at the RAM, she won numerous scholarships and prizes including the Charles Lucas prize, William Elkin prize, and the Arthur Hinton Memorial prize for composition.
		Alicia Grant can be contacted by email at alicianina@hotmail.com
	www.amcoz.com.au /acof/grant.htm (568 words)

	State of the Arts archive
		The TinAlley String Quartet from Melbourne are the winners of the prestigious 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition taking out the Musica Viva Australia — Tony Berg Award.
		A book of poetry by a young Indigenous writer has taken out the top poetry prize and been named Book of the Year, the Premier and Minister for the Arts, Mr Bob Carr, announced last night at the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
		New Zealand pianist John Chen has taken out the FIRST PRIZE in the 8th Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia (SIPCA).
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news/archive.asp (12587 words)

	State of the Arts archive
		Composers Andrew Ford, Gordon Kerry and Richard Charlton were among the distinguished field of national winners at the 2004 APRA - Australian Music Centre Classical Music Awards announced at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music last night.
		Talented TAFE NSW students, friends, families and dignitaries came together on Thursday, 25 November to celebrate the announcement of winners in the 2004 TAFE NSW Arts & Design Prize.
		Internationally recognised watercolourist, David Taylor has been named as the first Principal Artist-In-Residence in the 37-year history of USQ's McGregor Summer School.
	www.stateart.com.au /sota/news/archive.asp (12587 words)

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