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.
Richard John MillsDMus BA(Hons), is an Australian conductor and composer. He is currently the artistic director of Victorian Opera, and formerly artistic director of the West Australian Opera and artistic consultant with Orchestra Victoria. He was commissioned by the Victoria State Opera to write his opera Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1996) and by Opera Australia to write the opera Batavia (2001).
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.
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 an 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, actor, composer and playwright.
Richard Sydney Divall was an Australian conductor and musicologist.
The Tait Memorial Trust [TMT] is a charitable foundation, which was first established in the United Kingdom, with the chief purpose of providing financial support to outstanding young performing artists from Australia and New Zealand. It aims to help those who wish to pursue post-graduate studies in leading performing art institutions or privately with internationally recognized teachers in the United Kingdom. It also offers performance opportunities in its many concerts and events in London together with advice and mentoring to awardees. The TMT was founded by Isla Baring OAM in memory of her father, Sir Frank Tait and his brothers, who played an important part in the establishment of theatre and the performing arts in Australia. Sir Frank, the youngest of the Tait brothers, carried the firm J. C. Williamson's into its most successful years dominated by the Sutherland-Williamson opera company in 1965 which brought Dame Joan Sutherland back to her homeland.
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.
Beryl Kimber was an Australian violinist. In addition to her performing career, she taught violin at the Elder Conservatorium of Music for 34 years.