Eleven composers from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand have been named as the recipients of this year’s Art Music Fund. They will each receive a $7,500 (AUS) grant towards the commission of a proposed work.

The Art Music Fund is an initiative of APRA AMCOS, presented in partnership with the Australian Music Centre and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.

This year’s recipients are: Sia Ahmad, Eve de Castro-Robinson, Cameron Deyell, Dominik Karski, Peter Knight, Anna Liebzeit, Nathaniel Otley, Christine Pan, James Rushford, Emily Sheppard, and Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim.

The recipients of the 2024 Art Music Fund: Top L-R: Anna Liebzeit, Christine Pan, Dominik Karski, Emily Sheppard. Middle row: Eve de Castro-Robinson, James Rushford, Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim, Nathaniel Otley. Bottom row: Peter Knight, Sia Ahmad, Cameron Deyell.

The funding they receive will support a broad range of projects, addressing themes including ecological impacts and ocean sound, 3D sound, Chinese rituals and beliefs, gender identity and faith.

Since 2016, the Art Music Fund has granted more than half a million dollars to new works that have been presented in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. Previous recipients include Connor D’Netto, Sandy Evans, Matt Keegan, Eve Klein, Liza...