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The winners of the 2009 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced on 30 October 2009 at a special ceremony at The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House.

In September 2009, the Australian contemporary classical music industry celebrated the year's most outstanding achievements at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse Theatre with a list of winners that aptly reflects the broad range of artistic practice of the contemporary Australian classical music today.

Hear nine brand-new works for voices, by some of the finest emerging composers in the Pacific.

Music lovers, festival programmers, teachers, students, and the creators and performers of original Australian music across the globe now have an indispensable new resource in Australian Music Centre Online at www.australianmusiccentre.com.au

David Chisholm's and Amanda Cole's works have been selected for performance during the 2009 ISCM World Music Days in Sweden.

Brett Dean has won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing.

The annual Classical Music Awards by the Australasian Performing Right Association APRA and the Australian Music Centre celebrated the success of this year’s most outstanding classical music achievements at the Sydne

The Australian Music Centre’s online magazine resonate is, slowly but surely, growing into an impressive repository of writing about Australian new music.

The winners of the 2006 APRA Professional Development Awards were announced; ELISION celebrates its 20th anniversary; the 2006 Aurora Festival takes place in Sydney in May.