Sydney-based composer Richard Charlton has taken out the top prize, with Natasha Lin and Naomi Dodd as runners up.

December’s playlist is entirely constructed from 2021 releases. It’s been a great chance to look through what’s been happening through an intense and stressful year – and the amazing work our composers and performers have done.

Bartsch's Merlyn Myer Commission, along with arrangements of selections from her solo classical/jazz hybrid albums, provides a subtle submergence in a range of lush lullabies and flowing lattices of chamber writing.

Nat Bartch's new work The Glasshouse, the 2021 Merlyn Myer Commission, is inspired by portraits taken by Victorian-era photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. 

ABC Classic dominates the Classical category once again, while Earshift Music receives three nominations in Jazz and World Music.

Curated by Cameron Lam, this month's playlist of Australian art music features new music from 2021 Art Music Fund recipients and the first of the ABC's Fresh Start Commissions.

From the long-awaited recording of Jessica Wells’ The Night Parrot to Nardi Simpson’s Of Star and Birds, Cameron Lam catches up on a bumper few months of album releases in his latest playlist.

Cameron Lam shares his latest playlist of Australian art music from Melbourne’s lockdown.