The Ian Potter Cultural Trust has announced the recipients of its Emerging Artist Grants for 2024.

Twenty-four Australian artists have been awarded funding from a pool of $296,112 to fund participation in both Australian-based and international professional development opportunities.

Ray Lin. Photo courtesy of Ray Lin.

Seven artists have been granted funding in this year’s classical music category, six of whom have been awarded $15,000 to attend Masters courses at universities around Europe: violinist Leanne McGowan (Berlin); violists Raphael Masters (Vienna) and Patrick Shannon (Salzburg); guitarist Shane Campbell (Linz); cellist Nadia Barrow (Helsinki), and pianist Michelle Duong (Salzburg).

Mezzo-soprano Ella Orehek-Coddington has also been granted $9,000 to attend two terms of Opera Studies at the Royal Academy of Music and undertake an audition tour in Europe.

Within the contemporary music category, Ray Lin has been awarded $15,000. The Queensland composer and conductor, who is Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Young Composer of the Year, will undertake a Master of Music in Composition for Screen (Fast-track) at London’s Royal College of Music.

Melbourne-born contemporary musician Lena Douglas, currently...