Carl Vine

Carl Vine, AO (born 8 October 1954), is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.

Career

Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. A teenage fascination with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period of Modernism, which he explored until the mid-1980's.[1] He studied physics, then composition at the University of Western Australia, before moving to Sydney in 1975, where he worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles.

Vine first came to prominence in Australia as a composer of music for dance, with 25 dance scores to his credit. In 1979 he co-founded the contemporary music ensemble "Flederman", which presented many of Vine's own works. From 1980 to 1982 he lectured in electronic music composition at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane.

His catalogue includes seven symphonies, ten concertos, music for film, television and theatre, electronic music and numerous chamber works. Although primarily a composer of modern classical music, he has undertaken tasks as diverse as arranging the Australian National Anthem and writing music for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics closing ceremony.

Since 2000, Vine has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia, the world's largest entrepreneur of chamber music. In 2005, he was awarded the Don Banks Music Award, the highest accolade the Australia Council for the Arts can confer on a musician. Since 2006, he has also been the Artistic Director of the Huntington Estate Music Festival.

In 2012, his second piano concerto was premiered by Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,[1] and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with soprano Danielle de Niese premiered his solo cantata, The Tree of Man, after the 1955 novel by Patrick White.[2]

In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Vine was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer, conductor, academic and artistic director, and to the support and mentoring of emerging performers."[3]

Vine is based in Sydney, where he works as a freelance composer.

Works

Symphonic

Concertante

Other orchestral

Chamber music

Piano

Dance

Theatre

Film and television

Discography (partial)

Awards and prizes

Year awarded Awarding body Award
1970
Australian Society for Music Education Composers' Competition First Prize (Under 18)
1972
Australian Music Examinations Board A.Mus.A. (Associate in Music) with distinction – piano
1972
Perth Music Festival Winner, Open Instrumental Solo Division (piano)
1974
Australian Broadcasting Commission Instrumental & Vocal Competition W.A. State Division – piano
1976
Australia Council Appointee Gulbenkian International Choreographic Summer School, Guildford, England
1983
Adams Award Outstanding Contribution to Music for Dance in Australia
1989
Sounds Australian National Music Critics' Award Best Instrumental or Ensemble Work, 'Miniature IV'
1990
John Bishop Commission Symphony No 2 for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
1993
Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award Best Music for a Feature Film, Bedevil
1994
Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award Best Theme for a Television Series, The Battlers
1994
Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award Best Original Song, The Battlers – 'Love Me Sweet'
2000
Australian Commonwealth Government Centenary Medal for Contribution to Australian Society
2002
APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Instrumental Work, Piano Sonata No 1
2005
APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Performance of an Australian Composition, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Steven Isserlis playing Cello Concerto
2005
Australia Council for the Arts Don Banks Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music
2009
APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards Best Performance of an Australian Composition, West Australian Symphony Orchestra playing Symphony No 7
2010
University of Western Australia Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music
2012
Melbourne University and Friends of Melbourne Symphony Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to music in Australia
2012
Collegiate of Specialist Music Educators Honorary Fellow, for outstanding contribution to music education
2014
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Officer of The Order of Australia (AO)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Goldsworthy, Anna (November 2011). "Right Composition". The Monthly (Collingwood, Victoria) (73): 60–61. ISSN 1832-3421.
  2. The Tree of man, Carl Vine, January 2013
  3. "The Queen's Birthday 2014 Honours List" (PDF). 9 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. Fantasia, Carl Vine, January 2013

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