Emily named Art Music Award Finalist

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Art Music Awards, to be held on Tuesday 17 August in Melbourne.

The Awards celebrate a diverse range of individuals, organisations and some of Australia’s finest composers and performers in contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music and sound art, recognised for excellence in their field.

The Performance of the Year – Notated Composition shortlist consists of Emily Granger for performance of The Harp and The Moon by Ross Edwards at Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. The panel found the performance to be a superb example of a musician having a close, personal relationship with their music, someone who can truly inhabit the work and can dismiss barriers to the outcome. It could be heard in the effortless delivery of the work and felt in the emotional cadence that guided the performance. The Harp and The Moon is a unique solo work evocative of Edwards's style, and the performance demonstrates a mastery of the harp as an instrument in the modern musical landscape and a great sense of emotion, structure, and meaning through its interpretation of the notated composition itself.