The flautist was the only Australian winner at this year’s Grammy Awards, which took place in LA last week.

Australian flautist Timothy Munro celebrated his third Grammy win last week, as the only Australian to receive one of the prestigious music awards this year.

The now Chicago-based musician and his new music sextet, eighth blackbird, won the gong for Best Chamber Music Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards.  Munro was the co-artistic director of the contemporary music group from 2003 until 2015, in which time the ensemble performed extensively internationally, as well as in 40 US states. He was also involved in the curation of three music festivals and premiered more than 100 news works, including Steve Reich’s Double Sextet.

“The vibrancy of the American classical music world shows it’s a place where anything goes in many ways,” Munro said in an interview with ABC’s 7.30 program, discussing the significance of the win. “You know this strange world of classical music and, more specifically, music by living composers written in the classical music tradition or contemporary classical music, for me, as a practitioner of that, it’s a wonderful way to put that music and that art on the map.”

Queensland...