Veteren art music composers Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor are the recipients of the 2025 Richard Gill
Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music.

They will be honoured during the 2025 Art Music Awards ceremony on 21 August at Sydney’s City Recital Hall.

Jon Rose & Hollis Taylor. Photo supplied

Together, Rose and Taylor have collaborated on a variety of projects including Great Fences of Australia, a recording project where the two perform along 35,000km of fence lines across the Australian outback. Rose and Taylor are also highly accomplished composers in their own rights.

Rose is a UK-born composer, violinist and multimedia artist internationally renowned for his work with the violin, experimental instruments and free improvisation. He has featured on more than 90 albums and has published five books. In 2012, he received the Don Banks Music Award, one of Australia’s highest musical honours.

Born in the United States, Taylor is a violinist, zoomusicologist and composer celebrated for her work with Australian birdsong. She has featured in the films My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and in 2019 was appointed an Australian Research Council Future Fellow for her work...