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29 February. The AMF congratulates awardee Jayson Gillham for winning the Keyboard section in the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. He will now perform in the *Grand* Final at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 8th May.
26 January. The AMF extends its warmest congratulations to AMF Life President Maestro Richard Bonynge AC CBE on being made a Companion of the Order of Australia, which is the highest award in the Australian honours system.
12 October. The AMF today celebrates the launch of The Australian Music Foundation North America, Inc. with a reception hosted by The Australian Consul General in New York, Phillip Scanlan AM. The AMF North America is a body with tax-exempt status under 501(c)( 3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and will help the AMF assists grant recipients as they pursue music studies in America.
15 July. The AMF is delighted to announce the establishment of the Dame Joan Sutherland Award, to be awarded to an applicant studying, or about to commence study, at the Royal College of Music. The award has the value of $20,000, and is the result of the generosity and vision of the Davros Family Foundation.
15 June. The AMF is delighted to announce the establishment of the Riddiford Trust Scholarship, which is to support a young musician currently resident in Australia with financial need who wishes to study overseas for three years. The award is to the value of $20,000 per year for three years, and is the result of the munificence of the Riddiford Trust, for whom we express our deepest thanks.
29 April 2011 The AMF Australia Foundation is honoured to announce that at a reception presented by the Australian Music Foundation at
Australia House in London in honour of Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and in her presence, Her Excellency has accepted the appointment as Patron of the AMF Australia Foundation.
1 March 2011 — AMF Awards FAQs now updated, see here.
15 February 2011 — The Australian Music Foundation, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Australian High Commission, London, was honoured to share in the organising of a Service of Thanksgiving for the late Dame Joan Sutherland at Westminster Abbey, attended by our Patron-in-Chief, HRH Prince Charles, on Tuesday 15 Feburary 2011 at 12 noon. A eulogy was presented by UK Trustee Sir John Tooley, and AMF Awardee Valda Wilson sang, accompanied by the orchestra of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. A news report from ABC Australia can be found here.
14 February 2011 — The Australian Music Foundation is proud to announce the formation of a 61-strong body of distinguished International Advisors to help guide the development of the AMF in the coming years. Click here to view the list.
10 December 2010 — The Australian Music Foundation is sad to announce the passing of long-serving chairman, Dr Peter Andry OBE OAM. Peter and Dame Joan Sutherland DBE, whose recent passing we also mourn, were Life Presidents of the AMF and passionate and long-standing supporters of the work of the Foundation.
The AMF also acknowledges the passing of it’s long standing patron Sir Charles Mackerras CH AC CBE, earlier this year.
22 September 2010 — Audition Finals at Wigmore Hall, London, for AMF Prizes. The 2010 Competition included nine finalists and the judges made four awards: Mr Jonathan Wilson (Piano) for sudy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Uk) (The Guy Parsons Award); Ms Tahlia Petrosian (Viola), to support study at the University of Arts, Berlin; Mr Yelian He (Cello) to support study at the Royal Northern College of Music (UK); and Ms Lauren Easton (Mezzo Soprano), to support study with Dennis O’Neal in Cardiff.
Summer Performances — Young AMF musicians took part in two summer festivals in July: the Henley Festival and the Petworth Festival. Performers included Valda Wilson, Anne Veinberg, Simon Powis, Russell Harcourt and Jacob Cordover.
