Lazar "Larry" Sitsky is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar. His long term legacy is still to be assessed, but through his work to date he has made a significant contribution to the Australian music tradition.
Move Records is an Australian record label that was started in 1968 by Martin Wright. It concentrates primarily in classical and jazz music, particularly Australian, and most frequently Melbourne-based musicians and composers.
Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.
Brenton Thomas Broadstock AM is an Australian composer. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 2014 for "significant service to music as a composer, educator and mentor."
The Don Banks Music Award was established in 1984 to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. It was founded by the Australia Council in honour of Don Banks, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of its music board.
The APRA Music Awards in Australia are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance.
Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.
Raymond (Charles) Hanson AM was an Australian composer and lecturer in composition at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music now known as the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. A highly regarded teacher and mentor to many prominent Australian musicians, such as Don Burrows, Larry Sitsky and Roger Woodward, Hanson himself was largely self-taught.
Colin James Brumby was an Australian composer and conductor.
Michael Kieran Harvey is an Australian pianist and composer whose career has been notable for its diversity and wide repertoire. He is renowned for commissioning, performing and composing new music. He has especially promoted the works of Australian composers, such as Carl Vine, most of whose piano music he has recorded and much of which was written for him. He is also particularly associated with the piano music of Olivier Messiaen.
David Pereira is an Australian classical cellist, considered one of the finest working today. He was Senior Lecturer in Cello at the Canberra School of Music from 1990 to 2008. Later he worked there as a Distinguished Artist in Residence. Since April 2017 he again teaches cello there as a Senior Lecturer.
Emeritus Professor Barry Ernest Conyngham,, 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 output is largely for orchestra, ensemble or dramatic forces. He is an Emeritus Professor of both the University of Wollongong and Southern Cross University. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne.
Albert Hartley 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 Institute of Medical Research.
Mary Finsterer is an Australian composer and academic.
The Trio for horn, violin, and piano is a chamber music work by the Australian composer Don Banks. It was composed in 1962 and premiered the same year at the Edinburgh Festival. A performance takes about 15 minutes.
Tropic of Capricorn is a compilation album of orchestral music. Subtitled Orchestral Music by Queensland Composers, the album has 5 tracks each composed by a different composer who had either worked or studied in Queensland. The album was nominated for 1989 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.
Katy Abbott is an Australian composer. Abbott writes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Her work reflects her interests in contemporary Australian cultures and often explores notions of home, place, humour and connection.
Stuart Greenbaum is an Australian composer and professor of music composition at the University of Melbourne. He is currently the Head of Composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
Michael Laurence Gordon Barkl OAM is an Australian composer and musicologist.