Carl Vine

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Carl Edward Vine, AO (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.

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From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue includes eight symphonies, thirteen concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. From 2000 until 2019 Carl was the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia. Within that role he was also Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival from 2006, and of the Musica Viva Festival (Sydney) from 2008. In 2005 he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award. In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers." Vine currently lectures in composition and orchestration at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. [1]

Career

Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. He played the cornet from the age of 5, and took up the piano when he was 10. A teenage fascination with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period of Modernism, which he explored until the mid-1980s. [2] He studied physics, then composition at the University of Western Australia (now the UWA Conservatorium of Music), before moving to Sydney in 1975, where he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles.

Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with 25 dance scores to his credit. In 1979 he co-founded the contemporary music ensemble "Flederman", which presented many of Vine's own works. From 1980 to 1982 he lectured in electronic music composition at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.

His catalogue includes eight symphonies, thirteen concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern classical music, he has undertaken tasks as diverse as arranging the Australian national anthem and writing music for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics closing ceremony.

From 2000 until 2019 Carl was the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. Within that role he was also Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival from 2006, and of the Musica Viva Festival (Sydney) from 2008. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician.

In 2012, his second piano concerto was premiered by Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, [2] and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with soprano Danielle de Niese premiered his solo cantata, The Tree of Man, after the 1955 novel by Patrick White.

In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers." [3]

Vine is based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer. His trombone concerto Five Hallucinations was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in October 2016. [4] Since 2014, Vine has also worked at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as a senior lecturer in composition. [1]

Works

Symphonic

Concertante

Other orchestral

Chamber music

Piano

Dance

Theatre

Film and television

Discography (partial)

Awards and prizes

Year awardedAwarding bodyAward
1970Australian Society for Music Education Composers' CompetitionFirst Prize (Under 18)
1972Australian Music Examinations BoardA.Mus.A. (Associate in Music) with distinction – piano
1972Perth Music FestivalWinner, Open Instrumental Solo Division (piano)
1974Australian Broadcasting Commission Instrumental & Vocal CompetitionW.A. State Division – piano
1976Australia Council AppointeeGulbenkian International Choreographic Summer School, Guildford, England
1983Adams AwardOutstanding Contribution to Music for Dance in Australia
1989Sounds Australian National Music Critics' AwardBest Instrumental or Ensemble Work, 'Miniature IV'
1990John Bishop CommissionSymphony No 2 for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
1993Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Music for a Feature Film, Bedevil
1994Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Theme for a Television Series, The Battlers
1994Australian Guild of Screen Composers AwardBest Original Song, The Battlers – 'Love Me Sweet'
2000Australian Commonwealth GovernmentCentenary Medal for Contribution to Australian Society
2002 APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Instrumental Work, Piano Sonata No 1
2005 APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Performance of an Australian Composition, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Steven Isserlis playing Cello Concerto
2005Australia Council for the ArtsDon Banks Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music
2009 APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Performance of an Australian Composition, West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing Symphony No 7
2010 University of Western Australia Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music
2012Collegiate of Specialist Music EducatorsHonorary Fellow, for outstanding contribution to music education
2014Governor-General of the Commonwealth of AustraliaOfficer of The Order of Australia (AO)
2018 APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Award for Excellence by an Individual
2019 APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Award for Orchestral Work of the Year: Implacable Gifts

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
1994 Bedevil Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album Nominated [8]

Bernard Heinze Memorial Award

The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2011Carl VineSir Bernard Heinze Memorial Awardawarded [9]

Don Banks Music Award

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. [10] It was founded by the Australia Council in honour of Don Banks, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of its music board.

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2005Carl VineDon Banks Music Awardawarded

References

  1. 1 2 "Carl Vine – Composer". www.carlvine.com. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Goldsworthy, Anna (November 2011). "Right Composition". The Monthly (73). Collingwood, Victoria: 60–61. ISSN   1832-3421.
  3. "The Queen's Birthday 2014 Honours List" (PDF). 9 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. Ward, Brendan (20 February 2016). "A Vision Splendid". Weekend Australian : Review, p.4.
  5. "Carl Vine's Zofomorphosis receives world premiere in Chicago | Faber Music". www.fabermusic.com. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  6. "Clarinet Quintet by Carl Vine", Australian Music Centre
  7. "Carl Vine :: Composer". www.carlvine.com. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  8. ARIA Award previous winners. "History Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. The Melbourne Newsroom
  10. "Don Banks Music Award: Prize". Australian Music Centre. Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.