The Australian Music Foundation MFis a charitable foundation, first established in the United Kingdom, with the chief purpose of providing financial support to outstanding young Australian musicians who wish to pursue post-graduate music courses in leading music education institutions around the globe. It also offers performance opportunities in Australia and abroad, advice and mentoring to awardees. At inception, the AMF's activities were centred on the UK, reflecting a historical tradition of strong institutional links between Australian music academies and British institutions such as the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of ...

, the

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and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In recent years the AMF has more actively expanded its field of activity to include North America, Europe, and South East Asia.

History

The AMF was initially established by Deed of Trust declared on 30 December 1975 in the United Kingdom (under the name of 'Australian Musical Foundation in London'), the original Trustees being Baron Goodman, Sir Davis Hughes, Mr Robert Norman, Group Cpt Douglas Bader, Mr Sam Lynn, and Mr Guy Parsons OBE. The first awards were made in 1980. In 2006 an Australian Trust to support the work of the AMF was created under the name of "The AMF Australia Foundation". Professor

Peter Tregear Peter John Tregear OAM is an Australian musicologist, author and performer. Education Born in Melbourne in 1970, Tregear graduated with a Bachelor and Master's degree in music from the University of Melbourne, and subsequently obtained a PhD i ...

OAM was founding chair;

Dene Olding Dene Maxwell Olding (born 11 October 1956) is an Australian violinist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, performing over forty concertos in recent years, including many world premiere ...

took over in 2021.

Structure

The Australian Music Foundation (UK)

*Patron-in-Chief: The Prince of Wales KG *Patron: His Excellency the Honourable

George Brandis George Henry Brandis (born 22 June 1957) is a former Australian politician. He was a Senator for Queensland from 2000 to 2018, representing the Liberal Party, and was a cabinet minister in the Abbott and Turnbull governments. He was later Hi ...

QC, Australian High Commissioner to the UK *President:

Lord Broers Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineer. In 1994 Broers was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to electronic beam lithography and microsc ...

Kt FRS FREng *Joint Life Presidents:

Richard Bonynge Richard Alan Bonynge ( ) (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances ...

AC CBE,

Yvonne Kenny Yvonne Kenny AM (born 25 November 1950) is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel, Mozart and bel canto roles. Biography Born in Sydney, she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemi ...

AM *Life Presidents In Memoriam:

Dame Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possess ...

AC DBE, Sir Charles Mackerras CH AC CBE, Dr Peter Andry, OBE OAM, Professor

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...

AO OBE, Sir

John Tooley Sir John Tooley (1 June 1924 – 18 March 2020)Tooley profile
announcements.telegraph. ...

Lord Carrington Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (6 June 1919 – 9July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secret ...

KG GCMG CH MC, Guy Parsons OBE *Chair (Board of Trustees):

The AMF Australia Foundation (AUS)

*Patron: His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) *Chair (Board of Trustees):

*Secretary: Mr Andrew Boxall

Awardees

*2015/16: Emily Edmonds (mezzo soprano),

Lauren Fagan Lauren Fagan is an Australian operatic soprano. Fagan grew up in Sydney, and received a business degree in Australia, before studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and joining The Royal Opera The Royal Opera is a British o ...

(soprano),

Alexandra Flood Alexandra Flood (born 26 February 1990) is an Australian operatic soprano. __TOC__ Career Born in Cowes, Victoria, Flood attended the Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne and studied from 2007 until 2010 at the University of Melbourne (B. A., Gra ...

(soprano), Andrey Lebedev (guitar), Stephanie Jones (guitar), Sonya Pigot (piano – AMF Nora Goodridge Young Artist Award) and Emily Sun (violin – AMF Nora Goodridge Emerging Artist Award). *2019/20: Magdalenna Krstevska (clarinet – AMF Nora Goodridge Developing Artist Award), Yvette Keong (soprano – AMF Nora Goodridge Young Artist Award), James Blackford (euphonium – AMF Guy Parsons Award), Victoria Wong (violin), David Soo (piano), Waynne Kwon (cello), Jeremy Kleeman (bass baritone), Courtenay Cleary (violin), Guillaume Wang (cello), Robbin Reza (piano), Mitzi Gardner (violin).

Alumni

Past awardees have become some of Australia's leading musicians in their field; they include: Elizabeth Campbell (mezzo-soprano),

Rosamund Illing Rosamund Illing is an English Australian soprano. Together with Richard Bonynge and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra Illing was nominated for the 2000 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the album ''Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane A ...

(soprano), Ian Munro (piano),

Craig Ogden Craig Ogden is an Australian classical guitarist whose albums have topped the UK classical charts. He is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. Ogden began playing guitar at the age of seven, and ...

(guitar),

Deborah Riedel Deborah Riedel (31 July 19588 January 2009) was an Australian operatic soprano. Hers is generally regarded as one of the greatest voices ever produced in Australia. She died of cancer at the height of her career, at the age of 50. Riedel was bor ...

(mezzo-soprano), Jeffrey Black (baritone), Mark Bonetti (cello),

Peter Coleman-Wright Peter Coleman-Wright (born 13 October 1958) is an Australian baritone from Geelong. He began his career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte'', winning the Touring Prize. Subsequently, he sang Sid in '' Al ...

(baritone), Andrew Wheeler (conductor), Alexander Briger (conductor),

Yelian He Yelian He ( , ''Mandarin: hé yè lián'') is an Australian/Chinese classical concert cellist and martial arts teacher. Born in Shanghai and raised in Melbourne, Yelian began studying the Cello at the age of 5, almost two years after he commen ...

(cello), Slava Grigoryan (guitar),

Clemens Leske Clemens is both a Late Latin masculine given name and a surname meaning "merciful". Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adelaide Clemens (born 1989), Australian actress. * Andrew Clemens (b. 1852 or 1857–1894), American folk artist ...

(piano), Benjamin Bayl (organ),

Duncan Gifford Duncan George Gifford (born 26 November 1972) is an Australian-born award-winning concert pianist and teacher. He has been a professor of piano at the Conservatory of Palma in Majorca since 2006. Musica Viva describes him as a "major artist of ...

(piano), David Hansen (counter-tenor), Laurence Meikle (baritone), Amir Farid (piano),

Amy Dickson Amy Dickson (born 1982) is an Australian classical saxophone player. Early life Dickson was born in Sydney. She began to play piano at the age of two, and saxophone at the age of six. She initially played 'some jazz' in her youth, but eventual ...

(saxophone), Lauren Fagan (soprano), Emily Sun (violin).

References

External links

* {{official, https://www.australianmusicfoundation.com/ Music charities based in the United Kingdom Music organisations based in Australia Arts organizations established in 1975 1975 establishments in the United Kingdom Foundations based in Australia