Andrea Lam’s Piano Diary has been awarded Best Classical Album at the ARIA Awards, presented at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on 19 November.

The album of 16 diverse tracks – ranging from Earl Wild’s Etude No. 6 (based on Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm) to Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 and Nocturne in C-sharp minor – was described by Limelight’s reviewer as “a beautifully performed gem with something for every lover of the instrument”.

Andrea Lam. Photo © Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Piano Diary has topped a category that also includes Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti’s Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings and Adante Cantabile / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Nat Bartsch’s Forever Changed, Simone Young and Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Barton: Of the Earth and Sophie Hutchings’ Become the Sky.

Also in the Fine Arts section, Lucy Clifford has collected Best Jazz Album for Between Spaces of Knowing.

Gurrumul has been awarded Best World Music Album for Banbirrngu – The Orchestral Sessions, which revisits some of the late singer-songwriter’s works with the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra in arrangements by Erkki Veltheim.

Best Original Soundtrack has been awarded to the various artists...