The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is an Australian music award.
The award was inaugurated following the death of Sir Bernard Heinze in 1982. The award honours the memory of Sir Bernard Heinze (1894–1982), who for 31 years was Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne, and one of the major pioneers of orchestral life in Australia.
The award is in the form of a medallion and is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.
Sir Bernard Thomas Heinze, AC, FRCM was an Australian conductor, academic, and Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music.
John Raymond Hopkins AM OBE was a British-born Australian conductor and administrator.
Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and emeritus professor of music at the University of Sydney.
The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur and director Dame Peggy van Praagh as founding artistic director. Today, it is recognised as one of the world's major international ballet companies and performs upwards of 150 performances a year.
Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell, was an Australian French horn player who spent most of his professional life in the UK and the United States. He is generally considered to have been one of the world's leading horn players.
Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist.
Graeme John Koehne, is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral trilogy Unchained Melody, Powerhouse, and Elevator Music makes allusions to Hollywood film score traditions, cartoon music, popular Latin music and other dance forms.
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 is awarded by Creative Australia in honour of Don Banks, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of its music board.
Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE was a Scottish-born Australian composer. His melodies are driven by short motives and unrelenting ostinato figures.
Roger David Covell AM FAHA was an Australian musicologist, critic and author. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continued until shortly before his death to contribute articles and reviews to The Sydney Morning Herald, where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s.
Richard Albert Letts is a music advocate and administrator.
Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.
Deborah Joy Cheetham Fraillon is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, composer, and playwright. She leads Short Black Opera, based in Melbourne, which provides training and opportunities for emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musical artists.
Richard Sydney Divall was an Australian conductor and musicologist.
Judith Mary Bailey is a New Zealand-born pianist, jazz musician and composer who has lived in Australia since 1960.
Nicolette Ella Fraillon is an Australian conductor, who was chief conductor of The Australian Ballet from 2003 until 2022.
The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is the music school at the University of Melbourne and part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne City Centre on the Southbank campus of the University of Melbourne.
Margaret Joy Kartomi is an Australian ethnomusicologist who is known especially for her contributions to the study of Asian music. She is an emeritus professor of Monash University in Melbourne. She specialises in the music of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Linda Mary Barwick is an Australian musicologist and professor emeritus at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Barwick has focused on researching Australian Indigenous music and the music of immigrant communities. She also works in the field of digital humanities, archiving recordings.
Lyn Adrienne Williams, AM is an Australian choral conductor and the founder and artistic director of the Gondwana Choirs. She has been recognised for her significant contribution to the development of choral music for young people in Australia.