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{{Short description|Ensemble founded by Paul Grabowsky in 1994}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Australian Art Orchestra
| name = Australian Art Orchestra
| image =
| image =
| image_size =
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| background = group_or_band
| origin = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| origin = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| genre = [[Jazz]], [[World music|world]], [[Experimental music|Experimental]]
| years_active = 1994–present
| genre = [[Jazz]], [[World music|world]], [[Experimental music|Experimental]]
| label = ABC Classics, AAO Recordings, Jazzhead
| years_active = 1994–present
| label = ABC Classics, AAO, Jazzhead
| website = {{URL|http://www.aao.com.au/}}
| current_members = * Aaron Choulai Artistic Director 2023-
| website = {{URL|http://www.aao.com.au/}}
*[[Peter Knight (musician)]] - Artistic Director (2013-23)
| current_members =
* Peter Knight - artistic director
* Erkki Veltheim
* Erkki Veltheim
* Vanessa Tomlinson
* Vanessa Tomlinson
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* Tony Hicks
* Tony Hicks
* Stephen Magnusson
* Stephen Magnusson
* Austin Buckett
* Niko Schauble
* Niko Schauble
* Tristram Williams
* Tristram Williams
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* Christopher Hale
* Christopher Hale
* Matthias Schack-Arnott
* Matthias Schack-Arnott
| past_members = * [[Paul Grabowsky]], founding AD, piano

| past_members =
* [[Paul Grabowsky]], founding AD, piano

}}
}}


The '''Australian Art Orchestra''' ('''AAO''') is one of Australia’s leading contemporary ensembles. Founded by pianist [[Paul Grabowsky]] in 1994, it has been led by composer/trumpeter/sound artist [[Peter Knight (musician)|Peter Knight]] since 2013. The Orchestra explores relationships between musical disciplines and cultures, imagining new musical concepts that reference how 21st century Australia responds to its cultural and musical history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra - insitearts.com.au|url=http://insitearts.com.au/australian-art-orchestra/|website=insitearts.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=20 February 2015}}</ref>
The '''Australian Art Orchestra''' ('''AAO''') is one of Australia's leading contemporary ensembles. Founded by pianist [[Paul Grabowsky]] in 1994, it has been led by composer/trumpeter/sound artist [[Peter Knight (musician)|Peter Knight]] since 2013 and led by pianist/composer/producer Aaron Choulai since 2023. The Orchestra explores relationships between musical disciplines and cultures, imagining new musical concepts that reference how 21st century Australia responds to its cultural and musical history.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra - insitearts.com.au|url=http://insitearts.com.au/australian-art-orchestra/|website=insitearts.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=20 February 2015}}</ref>


The AAO regularly tours both in Australia and internationally.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schedule|url=http://www.aao.com.au/events/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
The AAO regularly tours both in Australia and internationally.<ref>{{cite web|title=Schedule|url=http://www.aao.com.au/events/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>


==History==
==History==

===With Paul Grabowsky===
===With Paul Grabowsky===
The intention of the Australian Art Orchestra's work has always been to playfully explore the balance between avant-garde and traditional Jazz forms, allowing the incorporation of diverse influences to reference the importance this plays in the history of jazz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Grabowsky: The complete musician, at ANU| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTQpCxukBw|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=28 October 2010}}</ref>


The AAO began as a contemporary jazz orchestra but early on developed distinctive cross-cultural collaborations. These included ''Into the Fire'' and ''The'' ''Chennai Tapes''. In 1996 the Australian Art Orchestra first collaborated with one of South India's most significant musicians, [[mridangam]] virtuoso [[Karaikudi Mani|Kaaraikkudi R Mani]] in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Two Oceans: Australian Art Orchestra with Karaikudi Mani – Carnatic music with Western Jazz traditions|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/two-oceans-australian-art-orchestra-with-karaikudi-mani-carnatic-music-with-western-jazz-traditions/article3991619.ece|website=The Hindu|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-IN|date=16 October 2012}}</ref> In 1999 this collaboration created ''Into the Fire'', a piece bridging Australian and Indian traditions arranged for the orchestra by Adrian Sherriff.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sounds Australian: Australian Music Centre Journal|date=2000|publisher=The Centre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kwY5AQAAIAAJ&q=Into+the+Fire+Karaikudi+R+Mani|language=en}}</ref> This piece was released on CD in 2000 on ABC classics.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mani|first1=Karaikudi R|last2=Grabowsky|first2=Paul|last3=Sherriff|first3=Adrian|last4=Rodgers|first4=Moras, John|last5=Schäuble|first5=Niko. Ferryman|last6=Orchestra|first6=Australian Art|last7=Ensemble|first7=Sruthi Laya|title=Into the fire|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35212875?selectedversion=NBD21452438|publisher=Sydney, NSW : ABC|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=English|date=2000}}</ref> The association with Kaaraikkudi R Mani became a long-term project that toured all over the world, becoming an Australian [[world music]] collaboration.<ref>{{cite web|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 45 - QBFM review excerpts|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/45/5965|website=www.realtimearts.net|accessdate=20 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Shand|first1=John|title=The Chennai Tapes (Into the Fire)|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-chennai-tapes-into-the-fire-20101108-17kfe.html?deviceType=text|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=20 January 2018|date=9 November 2010}}</ref> This partnership also produced the album, ''The'' ''Chennai Tapes'' and touring group,''Two Oceans''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Two Oceans - with South Indian master percussionist, Guru Karaikkudi Mani|url=http://www.aao.com.au/twooceansintothefire/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=20 January 2018}}</ref> Arguably, the collaboration between Mani and AAO developed a completely original style of music, a meeting between the Carnatic tradition and Western jazz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Karaikudi R. Mani: Mridangam Maestro|url=https://www.pertout.com/Karaikudi1.htm|website=www.pertout.com|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>
The intention of the Australian Art Orchestra's work has always been to playfully explore the balance between avant-garde and traditional Jazz forms, allowing the incorporation of diverse influences to reference the importance this plays in the history of jazz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Grabowsky: The complete musician, at ANU|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTQpCxukBw|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=28 October 2010}}</ref>


In 1997 the AAO drew inspiration from J.S. Bach's ''[[St Matthew Passion]]''. Originally, five Australian Art Orchestra composers, Doug de Vries, Paul Grabowsky, John Rodgers, Niko Schauble and Alister Spence, were tasked to interpret five movements from the Bach original. Their compositions reimagined Bach's work rather than adapted it.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Age from Melbourne, Victoria on March 28, 1997 · Page 55|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/122868102/|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> ''Passion'' continues to progress and evolve for the AAO. Orchestra collaborators [[Ruby Hunter]] and [[Archie Roach]] were commissioned by the 2005 Festival de Mexico Centro Historico to compose and perform three love songs to add to the ''Passion'' composition.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Trade|first1=Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and|title=Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Annual Report 2004-05|url=https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/corporate/annual-reports/annual-report-2004-2005/performance/3/3.1.2.html|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> Another movement was commissioned in 2014 by Soundstreams in Toronto who asked [[Nicole Lizée]] to expand the piece with her own interpretation for ''Passion''{{'}}s Canadian premiere with a work called Hymns to ''Pareidolia''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preview: Soundstreams to present unique blend of Pareidolia and Passion - Ludwig van Toronto|url=https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2014/04/12/preview-soundstreams-to-present-unique-blend-of-pareidolia-and-passion/|website=Ludwig van Toronto|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=12 April 2014}}</ref>
The AAO began as a contemporary jazz orchestra but early on developed distinctive cross-cultural collaborations. These included The ''Chennai Tapes (Into the Fire)''. In 1996 the Australian Art Orchestra first collaborated with one of South India's most significant musicians,[[mridangam]] virtuoso [[Karaikudi Mani|Kaaraikkudi R Mani]] in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Two Oceans: Australian Art Orchestra with Karaikudi Mani – Carnatic music with Western Jazz traditions|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/two-oceans-australian-art-orchestra-with-karaikudi-mani-carnatic-music-with-western-jazz-traditions/article3991619.ece|website=The Hindu|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-IN|date=16 October 2012}}</ref> In 1999 this collaboration created ''Into the Fire'', a piece bridging Australian and Indian traditions.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sounds Australian: Australian Music Centre Journal|date=2000|publisher=The Centre|url=https://books.google.bg/books?id=kwY5AQAAIAAJ&q=Into+the+Fire+Karaikudi+R+Mani&dq=Into+the+Fire+Karaikudi+R+Mani&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh9PX_8PnYAhUDBywKHYTlDpwQ6AEIKDAA|language=en}}</ref> This was released on CD in 2000 on ABC classics.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mani|first1=Karaikudi R|last2=Grabowsky|first2=Paul|last3=Sherriff|first3=Adrian|last4=Rodgers|first4=Moras, John|last5=Schäuble|first5=Niko. Ferryman|last6=Orchestra|first6=Australian Art|last7=Ensemble|first7=Sruthi Laya|title=Into the fire|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35212875?selectedversion=NBD21452438|publisher=Sydney, NSW : ABC|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=English|date=2000}}</ref> The association with Kaaraikkudi R Mani became a long-term project that toured all over the world, becoming a renown Australian [[world music]] collaboration.<ref>{{cite web|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 45 - QBFM review excerpts|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/45/5965|website=www.realtimearts.net|accessdate=20 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Shand|first1=John|title=The Chennai Tapes (Into the Fire)|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/the-chennai-tapes-into-the-fire-20101108-17kfe.html?deviceType=text|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=20 January 2018|date=9 November 2010}}</ref> This partnership also produced the ''Chennai Tapes'' And ''Two Oceans''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Two Oceans - with South Indian master percussionist, Guru Karaikkudi Mani|url=http://www.aao.com.au/twooceansintothefire/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=20 January 2018}}</ref> Arguably, the collaboration between Mani and AAO developed a completely original style of music, a clash between the Carnatic tradition and Western jazz.<ref>{{cite web|title=Karaikudi R. Mani: Mridangam Maestro|url=https://www.pertout.com/Karaikudi1.htm|website=www.pertout.com|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>


The piece ''Testimony'' composed by Sandy Evans in 1995, was successfully transformed into a stage show by The Australian Art Orchestra in 2002. The composition is about the life of [[Charlie Parker|Charlie 'Bird' Parker]] and follows an epic poem by [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner [[Yusef Komunyakaa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Testimony by Sandy Evans|url=http://sandyevans.com.au/projects-ensembles/testimony/|website=sandyevans.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> The Australian Art Orchestra record label was founded in 2008.
In 2004 Grabowsky began a collaboration with [[Ruby Hunter]] and [[Archie Roach]], two musicians whose life stories inspired ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby's Story]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singer Ruby Hunter dies|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-18/singer-ruby-hunter-dies/335438|website=ABC News|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=18 February 2010}}</ref> Ruby was taken away from he family as a child, only learning of her aborigonal heritage when reading a picture-book at school about Captain Cook. She spent time living on the streets and met fellow musician Archie at a [[Salvation Army]] centre in Adelaide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby Hunter: Pioneering Aboriginal singer and songwriter|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ruby-hunter-pioneering-aboriginal-singer-and-songwriter-1920141.html|website=The Independent|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=12 March 2010}}</ref> The compositions explore these themes and the redemption they found in each other when they met, concluding with them travelling back to Ruby's country beside the Murray to raise a family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby's Story - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/gig-reviews/rubys-story/2006/04/27/1145861449724.html|website=www.smh.com.au|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> Tracks from the CD ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby]]'' still often play on Australian radio and the album receives good reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby|url=https://www.amazon.com/Archie-Roach-Hunter-Australian-Orchestra/dp/B004H1UC9C|publisher=Australian Art Orchestra Recordings|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=22 December 2010}}</ref> ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby]]'' was the first release on the Australian Art Orchestra record label.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra|url=https://www.discogs.com/label/774198-Australian-Art-Orchestra|website=Discogs|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>


In 2004 Grabowsky began a collaboration with [[Ruby Hunter]] and [[Archie Roach]], two musicians whose life stories inspired ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby's Story]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singer Ruby Hunter dies|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-18/singer-ruby-hunter-dies/335438|website=ABC News|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=18 February 2010}}</ref> Ruby was taken away from he family as a child, only learning of her aboriginal heritage when reading a picture-book at school about Captain Cook. She spent time living on the streets and met fellow musician Archie at a [[Salvation Army]] centre in Adelaide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby Hunter: Pioneering Aboriginal singer and songwriter|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ruby-hunter-pioneering-aboriginal-singer-and-songwriter-1920141.html|website=The Independent|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=12 March 2010}}</ref> The compositions explore these themes and the redemption they found in each other when they met, concluding with them travelling back to Ruby's country beside the Murray to raise a family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby's Story - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/gig-reviews/rubys-story/2006/04/27/1145861449724.html|website=www.smh.com.au|date=27 April 2006|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> Tracks from the CD ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby]]'' still often play on Australian radio and the album receives good reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby|url=https://www.amazon.com/Archie-Roach-Hunter-Australian-Orchestra/dp/B004H1UC9C|publisher=Australian Art Orchestra Recordings|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=22 December 2010}}</ref> ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby]]'' was the first release on the Australian Art Orchestra record label.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra|url=https://www.discogs.com/label/774198-Australian-Art-Orchestra|website=Discogs|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
Other cross-cultural collaborations include ''The Theft of Sita'' with musicians from Indonesia<ref>{{cite web|title=AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA - SITA|url=http://newmarketmusic.com/album/Australian-Art-Orchestra-%252d-Sita.html|website=New Market Music|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> premiering the piece at Melbourne Festival on 1 November 2000. ''Theft of Sita'' is a retelling of the epic Sanskrit legend ''The Ramayana'' and draws on Balinese shadow puppetry. This project toured all over the world and vastly increased the AAO’s following.<ref>{{cite web|title=AusStage|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/101161|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
''Crossing Roper Bar'' was created with musicians from [[Arnhem Land]] from 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Volume 2 CD|url=http://www.aao.com.au/crossingroperbarvol2cd/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Grabowsky|first1=Paul|last2=Orchestra|first2=Australian Art|last3=Group|first3=Young Wagilak|title=Crossing Roper Bar|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38040916?selectedversion=NBD46140772|publisher=North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=English|date=2010}}</ref> This linking of jazz traditions with such a venerable ancient culture was considered revolutionary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conversing tradition : Wagilak manikay 'song' and the Australian Art Orchestra's Crossing Roper Bar|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/124938|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> A recording was made in Alan Eaton Studio, St Kilda in 2009, during a Melbourne residency,<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Part 1|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5_EGWpOdk|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=29 November 2011}}</ref> following many live performances of the piece. There was an official tour featuring Benjamin Wilfred and the Young Wagilak Group in 2010, when the CD was released on the AAO label. The goal of the project was to inspire a wider audience to look into the traditions of their ancestors, the original people of Australia in the hope of inspiring respectful engagement.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Brochure|url=http://tobiastitz.de/downloads/pdfs/aao-crb-brochure.pdf|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>


Other cross-cultural collaborations include ''The Theft of Sita'' with musicians from Indonesia<ref>{{cite web|title=AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA - SITA|url=http://newmarketmusic.com/album/Australian-Art-Orchestra-%252d-Sita.html|website=New Market Music|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> premiering the piece at Melbourne Festival on 1 November 2000. ''Theft of Sita'' is a retelling of the epic Sanskrit legend ''The Ramayana'' and draws on Balinese shadow puppetry. This project toured all over the world and vastly increased the AAO's following.<ref>{{cite web|title=AusStage|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/101161|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
In 1997 the AAO drew inspiration from J.S. Bach's ''[[St Matthew Passion]]''. Originally, five Australian Art Orchestra composers, Doug de Vries, Paul Grabowsky, John Rodgers, Niko Schauble and Alister Spence, were tasked to interpret five movements from the Bach original. Their compositions reimagined Bach's work rather than adapted it.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Age from Melbourne, Victoria on March 28, 1997 · Page 55|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/122868102/|website=Newspapers.com|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> ''Passion'' continues to progress and evolve for the AAO. Orchestra collaborators [[Ruby Hunter]] and [[Archie Roach]] were commissioned by the 2005 Festival de Mexico Centro Historico to compose and perform three love songs to add to the ''Passion'' composition.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Trade|first1=Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and|title=Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Annual Report 2004-05|url=https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/corporate/annual-reports/annual-report-2004-2005/performance/3/3.1.2.html|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref> Another movement was commissioned in 2014 by Soundstreams in Toronto who asked [[Nicole Lizée]] to expand the piece with her own interpretation for ''Passion'''s Canadian premiere with a work called Hymns to ''Pareidolia''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preview: Soundstreams to present unique blend of Pareidolia and Passion - Ludwig van Toronto|url=https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2014/04/12/preview-soundstreams-to-present-unique-blend-of-pareidolia-and-passion/|website=Ludwig van Toronto|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=12 April 2014}}</ref>
''Crossing Roper Bar'' was created with musicians from [[Arnhem Land]] from 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Volume 2 CD|url=http://www.aao.com.au/crossingroperbarvol2cd/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Grabowsky|first1=Paul|last2=Orchestra|first2=Australian Art|last3=Group|first3=Young Wagilak|title=Crossing Roper Bar|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38040916?selectedversion=NBD46140772|publisher=North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=English|date=2010}}</ref> This linking of jazz traditions with such a venerable ancient culture was considered revolutionary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conversing tradition : Wagilak manikay 'song' and the Australian Art Orchestra's Crossing Roper Bar|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/124938|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> A recording was made in Alan Eaton Studio, St Kilda in 2009, during a Melbourne residency,<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Part 1| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5_EGWpOdk|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=29 November 2011}}</ref> following many live performances of the piece. There was an official tour featuring Benjamin Wilfred and the Young Wagilak Group in 2010, when the CD was released on the AAO label. The goal of the project was to inspire a wider audience to look into the traditions of their ancestors, the original people of Australia in the hope of inspiring respectful engagement.<ref>{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar Brochure|url=http://tobiastitz.de/downloads/pdfs/aao-crb-brochure.pdf|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>

The piece ''Testimony'' composed by Sandy Evans in 1995, was successfully transformed into a stage show by The Australian Art Orchestra in 2002. The composition is about the life of [[Charlie Parker|Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker]] and follows an epic poem by [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner [[Yusef Komunyakaa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Testimony by Sandy Evans|url=http://sandyevans.com.au/projects-ensembles/testimony/|website=sandyevans.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> The Australian Art Orchestra record label was founded in 2008.


===With Peter Knight===
===With Peter Knight===
Since Grabowsky's departure the Australian Art Orchestra developed an even more contemporary style under Peter Knight's direction. Knight instigated collaborations with international composers, including iconic American composer [[Alvin Lucier]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Pipe down: Melbourne Town Hall organ transforms for Australian Art Orchestra concert|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/pipe-down-melbourne-town-hall-organ-transforms-for-australian-art-orchestra-concert-20160205-gmmlqe.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=5 February 2016}}</ref> Canadian composer Nicole Lizée<ref>{{cite web|title=Nicole Lizée takes us through her upcoming Sydney Festival with The Australian Art Orchestra – the AU review|url=http://music.theaureview.com/interviews/nicole-lizee-takes-us-through-her-upcoming-sydney-festival-with-the-australian-art-orchestra/|website=the AU review|accessdate=13 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nicole Lizée|url=http://www.nicolelizee.com/biography/#.WlpiDaiWbIU|website=www.nicolelizee.com|accessdate=13 January 2018}}</ref> and Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singing robot Skeleton ready for world debut at Oz Asia|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/ai-android-sings-with-australian-art-orchestra-oz-asia-festival/9000192|website=ABC News|accessdate=13 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=29 September 2017}}</ref> The development of the Orchestra's collaborations with Australian indigenous musicians, and musicians from Asia has continued under Knight's direction receiving critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nicholas|first1=Jessica|title=Music review: Australian Art Orchestra anniversary gig thrills|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/music-review-australian-art-orchestra-anniversary-gig-thrills-20141109-11j9l8.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=13 January 2018|date=9 November 2014}}</ref>

Since Grabowsky's departure the Australian Art Orchestra has developed an even more contemporary style under Peter Knight’s direction. Knight has instigated collaborations with international composers, including iconic American composer [[Alvin Lucier]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Pipe down: Melbourne Town Hall organ transforms for Australian Art Orchestra concert|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/pipe-down-melbourne-town-hall-organ-transforms-for-australian-art-orchestra-concert-20160205-gmmlqe.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=5 February 2016}}</ref> Canadian composer Nicole Lizée<ref>{{cite web|title=Nicole Lizée takes us through her upcoming Sydney Festival with The Australian Art Orchestra – the AU review|url=http://music.theaureview.com/interviews/nicole-lizee-takes-us-through-her-upcoming-sydney-festival-with-the-australian-art-orchestra/|website=the AU review|accessdate=13 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nicole Lizée|url=http://www.nicolelizee.com/biography/#.WlpiDaiWbIU|website=www.nicolelizee.com|accessdate=13 January 2018}}</ref> and Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singing robot Skeleton ready for world debut at Oz Asia|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/ai-android-sings-with-australian-art-orchestra-oz-asia-festival/9000192|website=ABC News|accessdate=13 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=29 September 2017}}</ref> The development of the Orchestra’s collaborations with Australian indigenous musicians, and musicians from Asia has continued under Knight’s direction receiving critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nicholas|first1=Reviewed by Jessica|title=Music review: Australian Art Orchestra anniversary gig thrills|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/music-review-australian-art-orchestra-anniversary-gig-thrills-20141109-11j9l8.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=13 January 2018|date=9 November 2014}}</ref>


The Australian Art Orchestra has also drawn significant praise for its ground breaking ''Creative Music Intensive'' program which brings musicians from around the world together in [[Tarraleah]], in the [[Tasmanian Central Highlands]], to share ideas about collaborating musically across cultures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra brings music to old hydro-electric town|url=https://www.cutcommonmag.com/australian-art-orchestra-brings-music-to-old-hydro-electric-town/|website=CutCommon|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=4 September 2016}}</ref> This program was initiated by Peter Knight in 2014 and its first iteration was in [[Cairns]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Australian Newspaper|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/korean-musicians-help-australian-art-orchestra-build-a-cultural-bridge/news-story/f1df16ee1b3b00c9a85476094eec0ab6|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
The Australian Art Orchestra has also drawn significant praise for its ground breaking ''Creative Music Intensive'' program which brings musicians from around the world together in [[Tarraleah]], in the [[Tasmanian Central Highlands]], to share ideas about collaborating musically across cultures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra brings music to old hydro-electric town|url=https://www.cutcommonmag.com/australian-art-orchestra-brings-music-to-old-hydro-electric-town/|website=CutCommon|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=4 September 2016}}</ref> This program was initiated by Peter Knight in 2014 and its first iteration was in [[Cairns]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Australian Newspaper|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/korean-musicians-help-australian-art-orchestra-build-a-cultural-bridge/news-story/f1df16ee1b3b00c9a85476094eec0ab6|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>


In 2022, Australian Art Orchestra was acknowledged with a National Luminary AMC/APRA Art Music Award.<ref name="apraamcos2022">{{Cite web |title=2022 Art Music Award winners |url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/2022-art-music-award-winners |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=APRA AMCOS}}</ref>
In 2016 the Creative Music Intensive was nominated for the AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education. In the same year the AAO premiered Peter Knight’s, ''Diomira'', which was also nominated for an AMC Art Music Award for Instrumental Work of the Year.<ref name="amc">{{cite web|last1=AMCOS|first1=APRA|title=Finalists announced for 2016 Art Music Awards|url=http://apraamcos.com.au/news/2016/july/finalists-announced-for-2016-art-music-awards/|website=apraamcos.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> The piece went on to win the 2016 [[Albert H. Maggs Composition Award]].<ref name=maggs>{{cite web|title=2016 Albert H Maggs Composition Award winner announced|url=http://precinct.finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/2016/11/07/2016-albert-h-maggs-composition-award-winner-announced/|website=Precinct|accessdate=30 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=6 November 2016}}</ref> In 2017 Diomira was extended to a full length concert work with video by artist, Scott Morrison, and premiered as part of the Melbourne Festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=Diomira Melbourne Festival, 04—22 October 2017.|url=https://www.festival.melbourne/2017/events/diomira/|website=Melbourne Festival|accessdate=30 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>


In 2016 the Creative Music Intensive was nominated for the AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education. In the same year the AAO premiered Peter Knight's ''Diomira'', inspired by [[Italo Calvino]], which was also nominated for an AMC Art Music Award for Instrumental Work of the Year.<ref name="amc">{{cite web|last1=AMCOS|first1=APRA|title=Finalists announced for 2016 Art Music Awards|url=http://apraamcos.com.au/news/2016/july/finalists-announced-for-2016-art-music-awards/|website=apraamcos.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref> The piece went on to win the 2016 [[Albert H. Maggs Composition Award]].<ref name=maggs>{{cite web|title=2016 Albert H Maggs Composition Award winner announced|url=http://precinct.finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/2016/11/07/2016-albert-h-maggs-composition-award-winner-announced/|website=Precinct|accessdate=30 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=6 November 2016}}</ref> In 2017 ''Diomira'' was extended to a full length concert work with video by artist, Scott Morrison, and premiered as part of the Melbourne Festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=Diomira - 2017 Melbourne Festival.|url=https://2017.festival.melbourne/events/diomira/|website=Melbourne Festival|accessdate=27 May 2024}}</ref> This work was released on the Hospital Hill label on an album called Crossed and Recrossed, which also features Knight's work The Plains. The Plains was inspired by author [[Gerald Murnane]] and premiered at [[Jazztopad]] festival in Poland.
''Water Pushes Sand'' merged Jazz and [[Music of Sichuan|Sichuan folk music]] styles and featured Zheng Sheng Li, a Sichuan ‘face changing’ dancer along with four other musicians from Cheng Du in Sichuan, and five AAO musicians.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pithie|first1=Kristian|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=http://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/kristian-pithie/water-pushes-sand-249592|website=ArtsHub Australia|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> Composer [[Piano Mill|Erik Griswold]] and percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson (together known as ''Clocked Out'') spent 15 years researching Sichuan's music and culture before this work was created.

''Water Pushes Sand'' merged Jazz and [[Music of Sichuan|Sichuan folk music]] styles and featured Zheng Sheng Li, a Sichuan 'face changing' dancer along with four other musicians from Cheng Du in Sichuan, and five AAO musicians.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pithie|first1=Kristian|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=http://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/kristian-pithie/water-pushes-sand-249592|website=ArtsHub Australia|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> Composer [[Erik Griswold]] and percussionist [[Vanessa Tomlinson]] (together known as ''Clocked Out'') spent 15 years researching Sichuan's music and culture before this work was created.


The world premiere of ''Water Pushes Sand'' was at OzAsia Festival in 2015. A full house show at Arts Centre Melbourne as a part of [[Melbourne Festival]] 2015 followed.<ref>{{cite web|title=AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA: WATER PUSHES SAND|url=http://www.abc.net.au/classic/new-waves/australian-art-orchestra---water-pushes-sand/9224284|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en|date=4 December 2017}}</ref>
The world premiere of ''Water Pushes Sand'' was at OzAsia Festival in 2015. A full house show at Arts Centre Melbourne as a part of [[Melbourne Festival]] 2015 followed.<ref>{{cite web|title=AUSTRALIAN ART ORCHESTRA: WATER PUSHES SAND|url=http://www.abc.net.au/classic/new-waves/australian-art-orchestra---water-pushes-sand/9224284|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en|date=4 December 2017}}</ref>


The CD, released in 2016 was nominated for ‘2016 Jazz Work of the Year’ at the [[APRA Awards (Australia)|APRA/AMC Art Music Awards]] and an ''ARIA Award for Jazz Work of the Year'',<ref name="aria">{{cite web|title=Aria Awards|url=https://ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/2017-aria-awards-nominated-artists-revealed|website=ariaawards.com.au|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> receiving positive reviews in the media.<ref>{{cite web|title=Subscribe to The Australian Newspaper home delivery, website, iPad, iPhone & Android apps|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/reviews-becks-colors-the-montgomery-brothers-australian-art-orchestra/news-story/5d44891fa89287ead71bc06ac3233782|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Recommended: Australian Art Orchestra – "Water Pushes Sand"|url=https://www.birdistheworm.com/recommended-australian-art-orchestra-water-pushes-sand/|website=Bird is the Worm|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 November 2017}}</ref> In 2017 ''Water Pushes Sand'' toured Australia including [[Darwin Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|website=Darwin Festival|accessdate=30 January 2018|language=en|date=12 June 2017}}</ref>
The CD, released in 2016 was nominated for '2016 Jazz Work of the Year' at the [[APRA Awards (Australia)|APRA/AMC Art Music Awards]] and an ''ARIA Award for Jazz Work of the Year'',<ref name="aria">{{cite web|title=Aria Awards|url=https://ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/2017-aria-awards-nominated-artists-revealed|website=ariaawards.com.au|accessdate=30 January 2018|archive-date=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011021808/https://ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/2017-aria-awards-nominated-artists-revealed|url-status=dead}}</ref> receiving positive reviews in the media.<ref>{{cite web|title=Subscribe to The Australian Newspaper home delivery, website, iPad, iPhone & Android apps|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/reviews-becks-colors-the-montgomery-brothers-australian-art-orchestra/news-story/5d44891fa89287ead71bc06ac3233782|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Recommended: Australian Art Orchestra – "Water Pushes Sand"|url=https://www.birdistheworm.com/recommended-australian-art-orchestra-water-pushes-sand/|website=Bird is the Worm|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 November 2017}}</ref> In 2017 ''Water Pushes Sand'' toured Australia including [[Darwin Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|website=Darwin Festival|accessdate=30 January 2018|language=en|date=12 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175530/https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|archive-date=19 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Notable performances==
==Notable performances and projects ==
===1997===
* [[Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne|Methodist Ladies College]] Music Auditorium, Melbourne<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Q&A: Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra - Soundstreams |url=https://www.soundstreams.ca/2014/03/artist-q-a-paul-grabowsky-australian-art-orchestr/|website=Soundstreams|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=26 March 2014}}</ref>


===2017===
===1998===
* Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide<ref>{{cite web|title=isbn:1479788848 - Google Търсене|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1479788848|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=bg-US}}</ref>


===1999===
* Water Pushes Sand Darwin Festival<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|website=Darwin Festival|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en|date=12 June 2017}}</ref>
* [[Melbourne Town Hall]], Melbourne, Performance of ''Passion''
* Diomira by Peter Knight, Melbourne Festival<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nicholas|first1=Jessica|title=Review: Artificial intelligence and music merge|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/review-artificial-intelligence-and-music-merge-20171008-gywikp.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=17 January 2018|date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
* OzAsia 'Meeting Points' including works by Keiichiro Shibuya (Japan), Mindy Meng Wang (China), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land) and Bael Il Dong (Korea).<ref>{{cite web|title=OzAsia music: Meeting Points’ radical connections|url=http://www.realtime.org.au/ozasia-music-meeting-points-radical-connections/|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Sydney Festival, ''Sex, Lynch, and Video Games''. The screen works of Nicole Lizée (Canada), featuring Nicole Lizée<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Sex, Lynch and Video Games (Sydney Festival) - Limelight|url=https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/review-sex-lynch-and-video-games-sydney-festival/|website=Limelight|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>


===2016===
===2001===
* Sydney Festival, [[Sydney Opera House]], Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 137 - Remarkable musics|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue137/12494|website=www.realtimearts.net|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>


===2004 Kura Tungar—Songs from the River===
* Sydney Festival, Exit Ceremonies new works for pipe organ and mixed ensemble with Ensemble Offspring featuring new work by Austin Buckett commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Exit Ceremonies {{!}} Ensemble Offspring|url=http://ensembleoffspring.com/the-music/events-2016/exit-ceremonies/|website=ensembleoffspring.com|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en-AU}}</ref>
* ''Kura Tungar—Songs from the River'' was a performance created in collaboration with [[Archie Roach]] and [[Ruby Hunter]] in 2004, after two years' work. A documentary film of the preparation, including interviews, artistic photography of the [[River Murray]], and parts of the performance, directed by Philippa Bateman called ''[[Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow]]'', was released in 2021.<ref>{{cite web | title=Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow | website=Documentary Australia | date=3 August 2020 | url=https://documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/wash-my-soul-in-the-rivers-flow/ | access-date=16 July 2023}}</ref>
* Melbourne Town Hall Exit Ceremonies featuring new work by Alvin Lucier commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Exit Ceremonies: Experimental Music at the Melbourne Town Hall - Melbourne|url=https://theplusones.com/melbourne/2016/02/18/exit-ceremonies-experimental-music-at-the-melbourne-town-hall/|website=Melbourne|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=18 February 2016}}</ref>
* Metropolis New Music Festival opening concert featuring Nicole Lizée including new works from Lizée and Peter Knight commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|url=https://melbournesymphonyorchestra-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/File/3206.pdf| title=MSO| accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>


===2015===
===2005===
* Festival de Mexico Centro Historico, Mexico, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=Alex Pertout - About|url=http://www.alexpertout.com/about.html|website=www.alexpertout.com|accessdate=28 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111072641/http://www.alexpertout.com/about.html|archive-date=11 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>


===2007===
* MONA FOMA (Tasmania) Performances of Crossing Roper Bar<ref>{{cite web|title=MOFO sure plays a mean pinball|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/entertainment/events/mona-foma-magical-music-making-machine-sure-plays-a-mean-pinball/news-story/e87c361e79ac8f46826b89be91031e25?nk=342fbfe358ef54afc3eb265b098e0cf4-1516344098|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Jazzahead Bremen (Germany). Market showcase of Crossing Roper Bar<ref name="roper">{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar - with traditional songmen from Arnhem Land, David & Daniel Wilfred|url=http://www.aao.com.au/crossingroperbar/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* Castlemaine State Festival, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=2007 Castlemaine State Festival|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/20070303184/news/melbourne/2007-castlemaine-state-festival.html|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-gb}}</ref>
* Chengdu China. Creative development and concerts for Water Pushes Sand<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand: The Australian Art Orchestra, Along With Talented Sichuan Musicians, Create A Fusion Of Traditional Sichuan Melodies and Modern Jazz Improvisations - OzAsia Festival Interview - The Clothesline|url=http://theclothesline.com.au/water-pushes-sand-ozasia-interview/|website=The Clothesline|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=9 September 2015}}</ref>
* OzAsia Festival. Water Pushes Sand world premiere<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/erik-griswolds-water-pushes-sand-performed-by-the-australian-art-orchestra-20170815-gxwl8k.html |title=Erik Griswold's Water Pushes Sand with AAO|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* Melbourne Festival performances and album recording Water Pushes Sand<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand {{!}} Melbourne Festival|url=http://2015.festival.melbourne/events/water-pushes-sand/|website=Melbourne Festival|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Wangaratta Jazz Festival with Dave Douglas and Monash Art Ensemble<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cowley|first1=Des|title=2015 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/2809-2015-wangaratta-festival-of-jazz-and-blues?tmpl=component&print=1|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en-gb}}</ref>


===2014===
===2008===
* Artshouse, North Melbourne Town Hall, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=COUNCIL REP 2008 ARTS GRANTS PROGRAM|url=https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-council/committees-meetings/meeting-archive/MeetingAgendaItemAttachments/193/2913/C3_513_20070925.pdf|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>

* Toronto Soundstreams. Performance of ''Passion'', and world premiere performance of new work by Nicole Lizée (Montreal) commissioned by Soundstreams<ref>{{cite web|title=The Australian Art Orchestra|url=https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/hymns-to-pareidolia/profiledetail/3073/|website=www.melbournerecital.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts performances of Crossing Roper Bar<ref name="roper" />
* Melbourne Recital Centre. World premiere of new work by Brett Thompson, ''Atlas, Herbal and Ritual'' commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Triple R - Melbourne Independent Radio - 102.7FM > What's Going On > Triple R News > Brett Thompson, Young Artist in Residence with the Australian Art Orchestra chats with Stolen Moments.|url=https://www.rrr.org.au/whats-going-on/news/brett-thompson-young-artist-in-residence-with-the-australian-art-orchestra-chats-with-stolen-moments/|website=www.rrr.org.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* Malthouse Theatre ''20Up'' 20th Anniversary Concert featuring works from AAO 20-year history plus world premiere of new work by Austin Buckett, Virtuoso Pause, commissioned by AAO. Live broadcast ABC Classic FM<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra celebrates 20 years|url=http://australianjazz.net/2014/10/aao-20th-anniversary-concert-series-5-7-november-2014/|website=AustralianJazz.net|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>


===2009===
===2009===
* In March the AAO performed ''Ringing the Bell Backwards'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre to correspond with the release of a remastered recording of this piece<ref>{{cite web|title=Ringing the Bell Backwards @ Melbourne Recital Centre 2009| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-Wax_NLfQ|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 April 2009}}</ref>

* In April the AAO performed ''Passion'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Passion 2009|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5P-WB_-bU|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 December 2009}}</ref>
* In April the AAO performed ''Passion'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Passion 2009| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5P-WB_-bU|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 December 2009}}</ref>
* In August the AAO performed ''Ruby's Story'' at the Civic Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW
* In March the AAO performed ''Ringing the Bell Backwards'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre to correspond with the release of a remastered recording of this piece<ref>{{cite web|title=Ringing the Bell Backwards @ Melbourne Recital Centre 2009|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr-Wax_NLfQ|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=8 April 2009}}</ref>
* In August the AAO performed ''Ruby’s Story'' at the Civic Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW
* Also in August the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed ''Crossing Roper Bar'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
* Also in August the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed ''Crossing Roper Bar'' at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
* On September 22 the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed ''Crossing Roper Bar'' at the APRA Classical Music Awards as winners of the 2009 Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area Award at the Playhouse Theatre, Sydney<ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Music Awards 2009 - winners : News (Australian) Article : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/classical-music-awards-2009-winners|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>
* On September 22 the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed ''Crossing Roper Bar'' at the APRA Classical Music Awards as winners of the 2009 Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area Award at the Playhouse Theatre, Sydney<ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Music Awards 2009 - winners : News (Australian) Article : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/classical-music-awards-2009-winners|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>
* In October the AAO and The Sruthi Laya Ensemble featuring Karaaikkudi Mani performed ''Into The Fire'' on a tour of Australia, which played at two major concerts, in Melbourne at the Recital Centre followed by special VIP functions at both the Melbourne Recital Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria; and in Brisbane, Griffith University Recital Hall. This was followed by a five-day residency at Griffith University in Queensland, marking the release of ''The Chennai Sessions'' CD<ref>{{cite web|title=Into the Fire Part 2, MRC 2009|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMn7GBV13ng|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=15 October 2009}}</ref>
* In October the AAO and The Sruthi Laya Ensemble featuring Karaaikkudi Mani performed ''Into The Fire'' on a tour of Australia, which played at two major concerts, in Melbourne at the Recital Centre followed by special VIP functions at both the Melbourne Recital Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria; and in Brisbane, Griffith University Recital Hall. This was followed by a five-day residency at Griffith University in Queensland, marking the release of ''The Chennai Sessions'' CD<ref>{{cite web|title=Into the Fire Part 2, MRC 2009| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMn7GBV13ng|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=15 October 2009}}</ref>
* Also in October the AAO and special guests Marc Hannaford and Ken Eadie performed [[Scott Tinkler|Scott Tinkler’s]] ''Folk'' at Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre<ref>{{cite web|title=Wangaratta Jazz Festival - Friday 30 October - Monday 2 November|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/10/20/2718819.htm|website=www.abc.net.au|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=20 October 2009}}</ref>
* Also in October the AAO and special guests Marc Hannaford and Ken Eadie performed [[Scott Tinkler]]'s ''Folk'' at Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre<ref>{{cite web|title=Wangaratta Jazz Festival - Friday 30 October - Monday 2 November|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/10/20/2718819.htm|website=www.abc.net.au|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=20 October 2009}}</ref>


===2008===
===2014===
* Toronto Soundstreams. Performance of ''Passion'', and world premiere performance of new work by Nicole Lizée (Montreal) commissioned by Soundstreams<ref>{{cite web|title=The Australian Art Orchestra|url=https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2016/hymns-to-pareidolia/profiledetail/3073/|website=www.melbournerecital.com.au|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts performances of Crossing Roper Bar<ref name="roper" />
* Melbourne Recital Centre. World premiere of new work by Brett Thompson, ''Atlas, Herbal and Ritual'' commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Triple R - Melbourne Independent Radio - 102.7FM > What's Going On > Triple R News > Brett Thompson, Young Artist in Residence with the Australian Art Orchestra chats with Stolen Moments.|url=https://www.rrr.org.au/whats-going-on/news/brett-thompson-young-artist-in-residence-with-the-australian-art-orchestra-chats-with-stolen-moments/|website=www.rrr.org.au|accessdate=19 January 2018}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Malthouse Theatre ''20Up'' 20th Anniversary Concert featuring works from AAO 20-year history plus world premiere of new work by Austin Buckett, Virtuoso Pause, commissioned by AAO. Live broadcast ABC Classic FM<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Art Orchestra celebrates 20 years|url=http://australianjazz.net/2014/10/aao-20th-anniversary-concert-series-5-7-november-2014/|website=AustralianJazz.net|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=24 October 2014}}</ref>


===2015===
* Artshouse, North Melbourne Town Hall, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=COUNCIL REP 2008 ARTS GRANTS PROGRAM|url=https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-council/committees-meetings/meeting-archive/MeetingAgendaItemAttachments/193/2913/C3_513_20070925.pdf|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>
* MONA FOMA (Tasmania) Performances of Crossing Roper Bar<ref>{{cite web|title=MOFO sure plays a mean pinball|url=http://www.themercury.com.au/entertainment/events/mona-foma-magical-music-making-machine-sure-plays-a-mean-pinball/news-story/e87c361e79ac8f46826b89be91031e25?nk=342fbfe358ef54afc3eb265b098e0cf4-1516344098|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Jazzahead Bremen (Germany). Market showcase of Crossing Roper Bar<ref name="roper">{{cite web|title=Crossing Roper Bar - with traditional songmen from Arnhem Land, David & Daniel Wilfred|url=http://www.aao.com.au/crossingroperbar/|website=Australian Art Orchestra|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* Chengdu China. Creative development and concerts for Water Pushes Sand<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand: The Australian Art Orchestra, Along With Talented Sichuan Musicians, Create A Fusion Of Traditional Sichuan Melodies and Modern Jazz Improvisations - OzAsia Festival Interview - The Clothesline|url=http://theclothesline.com.au/water-pushes-sand-ozasia-interview/|website=The Clothesline|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=9 September 2015}}</ref>
* OzAsia Festival. Water Pushes Sand world premiere<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/erik-griswolds-water-pushes-sand-performed-by-the-australian-art-orchestra-20170815-gxwl8k.html |title=Erik Griswold's Water Pushes Sand with AAO|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
* Melbourne Festival performances and album recording Water Pushes Sand<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand {{!}} Melbourne Festival|url=http://2015.festival.melbourne/events/water-pushes-sand/|website=Melbourne Festival|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* Wangaratta Jazz Festival with Dave Douglas and Monash Art Ensemble<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cowley|first1=Des|title=2015 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-arts/2809-2015-wangaratta-festival-of-jazz-and-blues?tmpl=component&print=1|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en-gb}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


===2007===
===2016===
* Sydney Festival, Exit Ceremonies new works for pipe organ and mixed ensemble with [[Ensemble Offspring]] featuring new work by Austin Buckett commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Exit Ceremonies {{!}} Ensemble Offspring|url=http://ensembleoffspring.com/the-music/events-2016/exit-ceremonies/|website=ensembleoffspring.com|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en-AU}}</ref>
* Melbourne Town Hall Exit Ceremonies featuring new work by Alvin Lucier commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|title=Exit Ceremonies: Experimental Music at the Melbourne Town Hall - Melbourne|url=https://theplusones.com/melbourne/2016/02/18/exit-ceremonies-experimental-music-at-the-melbourne-town-hall/|website=Melbourne|accessdate=19 January 2018|date=18 February 2016}}</ref>
* Metropolis New Music Festival opening concert featuring Nicole Lizée including new works from Lizée and Peter Knight commissioned by AAO<ref>{{cite web|url=https://melbournesymphonyorchestra-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/File/3206.pdf| title=MSO| accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>


===2017===
* Castlemaine State Festival, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=2007 Castlemaine State Festival|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/20070303184/news/melbourne/2007-castlemaine-state-festival.html|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en-gb}}</ref>
* ''Water Pushes Sand'', Darwin Festival<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Pushes Sand|url=https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|website=Darwin Festival|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en|date=12 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175530/https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/water-pushes-sand|archive-date=19 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Diomira'' by Peter Knight, Melbourne Festival<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nicholas|first1=Jessica|title=Review: Artificial intelligence and music merge|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/review-artificial-intelligence-and-music-merge-20171008-gywikp.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=17 January 2018|date=8 October 2017}}</ref>
* [[OzAsia]] ''Meeting Points'', including works by Keiichiro Shibuya (Japan), [[Mindy Meng Wang]] (China/Australia), Daniel Wilfred ([[Arnhem Land]]) and Bael Il Dong (Korea).<ref>{{cite web|title=OzAsia music: Meeting Points' radical connections|url=http://www.realtime.org.au/ozasia-music-meeting-points-radical-connections/|accessdate=19 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=ep>{{cite interview| interviewer-first= Zan| interviewer-last= Rowe| interviewer-link= Zan Rowe|first1 = Mindy Meng |last1=Wang |first2= Tim|last2= Shiel| title=Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Tim Shiel have released a collaborative EP | website=[[Double J (radio station)|Double J]]| format= Audio + text | date=18 Mar 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/programs/mornings/double-j-mornings-zan-rowe-mindy-meng-wang-interview/13256858 | access-date=24 April 2022| quote= I have been settled here for about five or six years. [Mindy Weng Wang]}}</ref>


* Sydney Festival, ''Sex, Lynch, and Video Games''. The screen works of Nicole Lizée (Canada), featuring Nicole Lizée<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Sex, Lynch and Video Games (Sydney Festival) - Limelight|url=https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/review-sex-lynch-and-video-games-sydney-festival/|website=Limelight|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
===2005===


==Discography==
*Festival de Mexico Centro Historico, Mexico, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=Alex Pertout - About|url=http://www.alexpertout.com/about.html|website=www.alexpertout.com|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref>
===Albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"
|+ List of albums, with selected details
! Title
! Details
|-
! scope="row" | ''Ringing the Bell Backwards''
|
* Released: 1996
* Format: CD
* Label: ORIGiN (OR008)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Passion'' <br> (with [[Paul Grabowsky]])
|
* Released: 1999
* Format: CD
* Label: ABC Classics (465 230-2)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Into the Fire'' <br> (with Sruthi Laya Ensemble)
|
* Released: 2000
* Format: CD
* Label: ABC Classics (465 705-2)
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Ruby (Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky and Australian Art Orchestra album)|Ruby]]'' <br> (with [[Archie Roach]], [[Ruby Hunter]] & Paul Grabowsky )
|
* Released: 2005
* Format: CD
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra
|-
! scope="row" | ''The Chennai Sessions (Into The Fire)'' <br> (with Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani)
|
* Released: 2009
* Format: CD
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra
|-
! scope="row" | ''Crossing Roper Bar''
|
* Released: 2010
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 9324690038060)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Crossing Roper Bar, Vol. 2: The Ghost Dances''
|
* Released: 2014
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 9324690104055)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Water Pushes Sand''
|
* Released: August 2017
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Jazzhead (HEAD234)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Vespa'' <br> (with [[Kim Myhr]])
|
* Released: 2020
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Hubro (HUBROCD2630)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Closed Beginnings'' <br> (with Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight)
|
* Released: June 2021
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 007)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Crossed & Recrossed'' <br> (with Peter Knight)
|
* Released: September 2021
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Hospital Hill (HHLP03210750)
|-
! scope="row" | ''Hand to Earth'' <br> (with Peter Knight)
|
* Released: October 2021
* Format: CD, Digital
* Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 008)
|}


==Awards and nominations==
===2001===
===Australian Music Centre===
{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| 2013
| Australian Art Orchestra
| AMC/APRA Art Music Award Performance of the Year
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|title=2013 Art Music Awards - winners announced : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/2013-art-music-awards-winners-announced|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
| 2014
| Australian Art Orchestra
| AMC/APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Organisation
| {{won}}
| <ref name="apraamcos2014">{{Cite web |title=Art Music Awards 2014 |url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/art-music-awards-2014 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=APRA AMCOS}}</ref>
|-
| 2016
| Australian Art Orchestra
| Art Music Award nomination for Excellence in Music Education
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="amc" />
|-
| 2016
| Australian Art Orchestra
| Excellence in Music Education
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="amc" />
|-
| 2017
| Australian Art Orchestra
| Instrumental Work of the Year
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web|title=Art Music Awards 2017 Nominees Announced - Noise11.com|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/art-music-awards-2017-nominees-announced-20170719|website=www.noise11.com|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
| 2022
| Australian Art Orchestra
| AMC/APRA Art Music Award: Luminary Award for an Organisation
| {{Won}}
| <ref name="apraamcos2022" />
{{end}}


===ARIA Music Awards===
* Sydney Festival, Sydney Opera House, Performance of ''Passion''<ref>{{cite web|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 137 - Remarkable musics|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue137/12494|website=www.realtimearts.net|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of [[Australian music]]. They commenced in 1987.
{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995|1995]]
| ''Ringing the Ball Backwards''
|rowspan="4"| [[ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album|Best Jazz Album]]
| {{nom}}
|rowspan="4"| <ref name="JazzAlbum">ARIA Award previous winners. {{cite web|url=https://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/award/best-jazz-album?view=list#|title=ARIA Awards Best Jazz Album|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2000|2000]]
| ''Into the Fire'' (with Sruthi Laya Ensemble)
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2017|2017]]
| ''Water Pushes Sand''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[2021 ARIA Music Awards|2021]]
| ''Closed Beginnings'' (with Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & [[Peter Knight (musician)|Peter Knight]])
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[2022 ARIA Music Awards|2022]]
| ''Hand to Earth'' (with Daniel Wilfred, [[Sunny Kim (singer)|Sunny Kim]], [[Peter Knight (musician)|Peter Knight]] & Aviva Endean)
| [[ARIA Award for Best World Music Album|Best World Music Album]]
| {{Nom}}
| <ref name="2022ARIAnoms">{{cite web|url=https://themusicnetwork.com/2022-aria-awards-nominees/|title=Rüfüs Du Sol Leads 2022 ARIA Awards Nominees (Full List)|website=The Music Network|date=12 October 2022|access-date=12 October 2022|author=Lars Brandle}}</ref>
{{end}}


===Australian Jazz Bell Award===
===1999===
{{awards table}}

! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
* Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Performance of ''Passion''

===1998===

* Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide<ref>{{cite web|title=isbn:1479788848 - Google Търсене|url=https://books.google.bg/books?isbn=1479788848|website=books.google.bg|accessdate=28 January 2018|language=bg-US}}</ref>

===1997===

* Methodist Ladies College Music Auditorium, Melbourne<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Q&A: Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra - Soundstreams|url=https://www.soundstreams.ca/2014/03/artist-q-a-paul-grabowsky-australian-art-orchestr/|website=Soundstreams|accessdate=28 January 2018|date=26 March 2014}}</ref>

==Awards==

*2017 - ARIA Award, ''Water Pushes Sand'' nominated for Best Jazz Release<ref name="aria" />
*2017 - AMC/APRA two Art Music Award nominations for Instrumental Work of the Year<ref>{{cite web|title=Art Music Awards 2017 Nominees Announced - Noise11.com|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/art-music-awards-2017-nominees-announced-20170719|website=www.noise11.com|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref>
*2016 – Albert H Maggs Composition Prize awarded to Peter Knight for ''Diomira''<ref name=maggs />
*2016 – AMC/APRA Art Music Award nomination for Excellence in Music Education
*2016 - AMC/APRA Art Music Award nomination for Jazz Work of the Year<ref name="amc" />
*2014 - AMC/APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Organisation,<ref>{{cite web|title=2014 Art Music Awards - winners : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/2014-art-music-awards-winners|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
*2013 - AMC/APRA Art Music Award Performance of the Year<ref>{{cite web|title=2013 Art Music Awards - winners announced : News (AMC) Article : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/2013-art-music-awards-winners-announced|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
*2011 - Australian Jazz Bell Award for Jazz Ensemble of the Year<ref name="bell">{{cite web|title=Jazz Bell Awards {{!}} Ausjazz Blog|url=https://ausjazz.net/tag/jazz-bell-awards/|website=ausjazz.net|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
*2010 - Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards (Group Award),<ref>{{cite web|title=Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Myer_Performing_Arts_Awards|website=Wikipedia|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en|date=2 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://auspicious.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Myer_Awards11.pdf| title=Myer Awards Programme| accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
*2010 - the H C Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship<ref>{{cite web|last1=Communications|first1=CASS Marketing &|title=2010 H. C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow|url=http://rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/2010-h-c-coombs-creative-arts-fellow|website=ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en-AU|date=16 March 2012}}</ref>
*2009 - Classical Music award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area’<ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Music Awards 2009 : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/awards/awards09|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
*2005 - Helpmann Award (<ref>{{cite web|title=Past nominees and winners {{!}} Helpmann Awards|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2005/past-nominees-and-winners/contemporary-music|website=www.helpmannawards.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
*2003 - Australian Jazz Bell Award for Jazz Ensemble of the Year<ref name="bell" />

==Discography==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
| 2003
| '''Artist'''
| Australian Art Orchestra
| '''Album'''
| Jazz Ensemble of the Year
| '''Label'''
| {{won}}
| '''Year'''
| <ref name="bell" />
|-
|-
| 2011
|Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky
| Australian Art Orchestra
|Passion
| Jazz Ensemble of the Year
|ABC Classics
| {{won}}
|1999
| <ref name="bell">{{cite web|title=Jazz Bell Awards {{!}} Ausjazz Blog|url=https://ausjazz.net/tag/jazz-bell-awards/|website=ausjazz.net|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|-
{{end}}
|Australian Art Orchestra, Sruthi Laya Ensemble

|Into The Fire
===Classical Music Awards===
|ABC Classics
{{awards table}}
|2000
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|-
| 2009
|Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Paul Grabowsky, Australian Art Orchestra
| Australian Art Orchestra
|Ruby
| Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area
|AAO
| {{yes2|awarded}}
|2005
| <ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Music Awards 2009 : Australian Music Centre|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/awards/awards09|website=www.australianmusiccentre.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|-
{{end}}
|Australian Art Orchestra

|Ringing The Bell Backwards
===Helpmann Awards===
|AAO
{{awards table}}
|2008
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|-
| 2005
|Australian Art Orchestra & Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani
| Australian Art Orchestra
|The Chennai Sessions (Into The Fire)
| Helpmann Award
|AAO
| {{won}}
|2009
| <ref>{{cite web|title=Past nominees and winners {{!}} Helpmann Awards|url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2005/past-nominees-and-winners/contemporary-music|website=www.helpmannawards.com.au|accessdate=17 January 2018|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|-
{{end}}
|Australian Art Orchestra

|Crossing Roper Bar
===Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards===
|AAO
{{awards table}}
|2010
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|-
| 2010
|Australian Art Orchestra
| Australian Art Orchestra
|Crossing Roper Bar, vol. 2: The Ghost Dances
| Group Award
|AAO
| {{won}}
|2014
| <ref>{{cite web| url=http://auspicious.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Myer_Awards11.pdf| title=Myer Awards Programme| accessdate=17 January 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119235125/http://auspicious.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Myer_Awards11.pdf| archive-date=19 January 2018| url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|-
{{end}}
|Australian Art Orchestra, Erik Griswold and master musicians from Sichuan
|Water Pushes Sand
|Jazzhead
|2017
|}


==See also==
==See also==

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Australian Art Orchestra
OriginMelbourne, Australia
GenresJazz, world, Experimental
Years active1994–present
LabelsABC Classics, AAO Recordings, Jazzhead
Mitglieder
  • Aaron Choulai Artistic Director 2023-
  • Peter Knight (musician) - Artistic Director (2013-23)
  • Erkki Veltheim
  • Vanessa Tomlinson
  • Simon Barker
  • Martin Ng
  • Andrea Keller
  • Samuel Pankhurst
  • Sandy Evans
  • Gian Slater
  • Joe Talia
  • Adrian Sherriff
  • Tony Hicks
  • Stephen Magnusson
  • Niko Schauble
  • Tristram Williams
  • Scott Tinkler
  • Carl Dewhurst
  • Eugene Ball
  • Jem Savage
  • Lizzy Welsh
  • Christopher Hale
  • Matthias Schack-Arnott
Past members
Websitewww.aao.com.au

The Australian Art Orchestra (AAO) is one of Australia's leading contemporary ensembles. Founded by pianist Paul Grabowsky in 1994, it has been led by composer/trumpeter/sound artist Peter Knight since 2013 and led by pianist/composer/producer Aaron Choulai since 2023. The Orchestra explores relationships between musical disciplines and cultures, imagining new musical concepts that reference how 21st century Australia responds to its cultural and musical history.[1]

The AAO regularly tours both in Australia and internationally.[2]

History

[edit]

With Paul Grabowsky

[edit]

The intention of the Australian Art Orchestra's work has always been to playfully explore the balance between avant-garde and traditional Jazz forms, allowing the incorporation of diverse influences to reference the importance this plays in the history of jazz.[3]

The AAO began as a contemporary jazz orchestra but early on developed distinctive cross-cultural collaborations. These included Into the Fire and The Chennai Tapes. In 1996 the Australian Art Orchestra first collaborated with one of South India's most significant musicians, mridangam virtuoso Kaaraikkudi R Mani in India.[4] In 1999 this collaboration created Into the Fire, a piece bridging Australian and Indian traditions arranged for the orchestra by Adrian Sherriff.[5] This piece was released on CD in 2000 on ABC classics.[6] The association with Kaaraikkudi R Mani became a long-term project that toured all over the world, becoming an Australian world music collaboration.[7][8] This partnership also produced the album, The Chennai Tapes and touring group,Two Oceans.[9] Arguably, the collaboration between Mani and AAO developed a completely original style of music, a meeting between the Carnatic tradition and Western jazz.[10]

In 1997 the AAO drew inspiration from J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion. Originally, five Australian Art Orchestra composers, Doug de Vries, Paul Grabowsky, John Rodgers, Niko Schauble and Alister Spence, were tasked to interpret five movements from the Bach original. Their compositions reimagined Bach's work rather than adapted it.[11] Passion continues to progress and evolve for the AAO. Orchestra collaborators Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach were commissioned by the 2005 Festival de Mexico Centro Historico to compose and perform three love songs to add to the Passion composition.[12] Another movement was commissioned in 2014 by Soundstreams in Toronto who asked Nicole Lizée to expand the piece with her own interpretation for Passion's Canadian premiere with a work called Hymns to Pareidolia.[13]

The piece Testimony composed by Sandy Evans in 1995, was successfully transformed into a stage show by The Australian Art Orchestra in 2002. The composition is about the life of Charlie 'Bird' Parker and follows an epic poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa.[14] The Australian Art Orchestra record label was founded in 2008.

In 2004 Grabowsky began a collaboration with Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach, two musicians whose life stories inspired Ruby's Story.[15] Ruby was taken away from he family as a child, only learning of her aboriginal heritage when reading a picture-book at school about Captain Cook. She spent time living on the streets and met fellow musician Archie at a Salvation Army centre in Adelaide.[16] The compositions explore these themes and the redemption they found in each other when they met, concluding with them travelling back to Ruby's country beside the Murray to raise a family.[17] Tracks from the CD Ruby still often play on Australian radio and the album receives good reviews.[18] Ruby was the first release on the Australian Art Orchestra record label.[19]

Other cross-cultural collaborations include The Theft of Sita with musicians from Indonesia[20] premiering the piece at Melbourne Festival on 1 November 2000. Theft of Sita is a retelling of the epic Sanskrit legend The Ramayana and draws on Balinese shadow puppetry. This project toured all over the world and vastly increased the AAO's following.[21] Crossing Roper Bar was created with musicians from Arnhem Land from 2005.[22][23] This linking of jazz traditions with such a venerable ancient culture was considered revolutionary.[24] A recording was made in Alan Eaton Studio, St Kilda in 2009, during a Melbourne residency,[25] following many live performances of the piece. There was an official tour featuring Benjamin Wilfred and the Young Wagilak Group in 2010, when the CD was released on the AAO label. The goal of the project was to inspire a wider audience to look into the traditions of their ancestors, the original people of Australia in the hope of inspiring respectful engagement.[26]

With Peter Knight

[edit]

Since Grabowsky's departure the Australian Art Orchestra developed an even more contemporary style under Peter Knight's direction. Knight instigated collaborations with international composers, including iconic American composer Alvin Lucier,[27] Canadian composer Nicole Lizée[28][29] and Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya.[30] The development of the Orchestra's collaborations with Australian indigenous musicians, and musicians from Asia has continued under Knight's direction receiving critical acclaim.[31]

The Australian Art Orchestra has also drawn significant praise for its ground breaking Creative Music Intensive program which brings musicians from around the world together in Tarraleah, in the Tasmanian Central Highlands, to share ideas about collaborating musically across cultures.[32] This program was initiated by Peter Knight in 2014 and its first iteration was in Cairns.[33]

In 2022, Australian Art Orchestra was acknowledged with a National Luminary AMC/APRA Art Music Award.[34]

In 2016 the Creative Music Intensive was nominated for the AMC Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education. In the same year the AAO premiered Peter Knight's Diomira, inspired by Italo Calvino, which was also nominated for an AMC Art Music Award for Instrumental Work of the Year.[35] The piece went on to win the 2016 Albert H. Maggs Composition Award.[36] In 2017 Diomira was extended to a full length concert work with video by artist, Scott Morrison, and premiered as part of the Melbourne Festival.[37] This work was released on the Hospital Hill label on an album called Crossed and Recrossed, which also features Knight's work The Plains. The Plains was inspired by author Gerald Murnane and premiered at Jazztopad festival in Poland.

Water Pushes Sand merged Jazz and Sichuan folk music styles and featured Zheng Sheng Li, a Sichuan 'face changing' dancer along with four other musicians from Cheng Du in Sichuan, and five AAO musicians.[38] Composer Erik Griswold and percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson (together known as Clocked Out) spent 15 years researching Sichuan's music and culture before this work was created.

The world premiere of Water Pushes Sand was at OzAsia Festival in 2015. A full house show at Arts Centre Melbourne as a part of Melbourne Festival 2015 followed.[39]

The CD, released in 2016 was nominated for '2016 Jazz Work of the Year' at the APRA/AMC Art Music Awards and an ARIA Award for Jazz Work of the Year,[40] receiving positive reviews in the media.[41][42] In 2017 Water Pushes Sand toured Australia including Darwin Festival.[43]

Notable performances and projects

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1997

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1998

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  • Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide[45]

1999

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2001

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2004 Kura Tungar—Songs from the River

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  • Kura Tungar—Songs from the River was a performance created in collaboration with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in 2004, after two years' work. A documentary film of the preparation, including interviews, artistic photography of the River Murray, and parts of the performance, directed by Philippa Bateman called Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow, was released in 2021.[47]

2005

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  • Festival de Mexico Centro Historico, Mexico, Performance of Passion[48]

2007

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  • Castlemaine State Festival, Performance of Passion[49]

2008

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  • Artshouse, North Melbourne Town Hall, Performance of Passion[50]

2009

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  • In March the AAO performed Ringing the Bell Backwards at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre to correspond with the release of a remastered recording of this piece[51]
  • In April the AAO performed Passion at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne[52]
  • In August the AAO performed Ruby's Story at the Civic Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW
  • Also in August the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed Crossing Roper Bar at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
  • On September 22 the AAO and the Young Wagilak Group performed Crossing Roper Bar at the APRA Classical Music Awards as winners of the 2009 Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area Award at the Playhouse Theatre, Sydney[53]
  • In October the AAO and The Sruthi Laya Ensemble featuring Karaaikkudi Mani performed Into The Fire on a tour of Australia, which played at two major concerts, in Melbourne at the Recital Centre followed by special VIP functions at both the Melbourne Recital Centre and the National Gallery of Victoria; and in Brisbane, Griffith University Recital Hall. This was followed by a five-day residency at Griffith University in Queensland, marking the release of The Chennai Sessions CD[54]
  • Also in October the AAO and special guests Marc Hannaford and Ken Eadie performed Scott Tinkler's Folk at Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre[55]

2014

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  • Toronto Soundstreams. Performance of Passion, and world premiere performance of new work by Nicole Lizée (Montreal) commissioned by Soundstreams[56]
  • Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts performances of Crossing Roper Bar[57]
  • Melbourne Recital Centre. World premiere of new work by Brett Thompson, Atlas, Herbal and Ritual commissioned by AAO[58]
  • Malthouse Theatre 20Up 20th Anniversary Concert featuring works from AAO 20-year history plus world premiere of new work by Austin Buckett, Virtuoso Pause, commissioned by AAO. Live broadcast ABC Classic FM[59]

2015

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  • MONA FOMA (Tasmania) Performances of Crossing Roper Bar[60]
  • Jazzahead Bremen (Germany). Market showcase of Crossing Roper Bar[57]
  • Chengdu China. Creative development and concerts for Water Pushes Sand[61]
  • OzAsia Festival. Water Pushes Sand world premiere[62]
  • Melbourne Festival performances and album recording Water Pushes Sand[63]
  • Wangaratta Jazz Festival with Dave Douglas and Monash Art Ensemble[64]

2016

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  • Sydney Festival, Exit Ceremonies new works for pipe organ and mixed ensemble with Ensemble Offspring featuring new work by Austin Buckett commissioned by AAO[65]
  • Melbourne Town Hall Exit Ceremonies featuring new work by Alvin Lucier commissioned by AAO[66]
  • Metropolis New Music Festival opening concert featuring Nicole Lizée including new works from Lizée and Peter Knight commissioned by AAO[67]

2017

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  • Water Pushes Sand, Darwin Festival[68]
  • Diomira by Peter Knight, Melbourne Festival[69]
  • OzAsia Meeting Points, including works by Keiichiro Shibuya (Japan), Mindy Meng Wang (China/Australia), Daniel Wilfred (Arnhem Land) and Bael Il Dong (Korea).[70][71]
  • Sydney Festival, Sex, Lynch, and Video Games. The screen works of Nicole Lizée (Canada), featuring Nicole Lizée[72]

Discography

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Albums

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List of albums, with selected details
Titel Details
Ringing the Bell Backwards
  • Released: 1996
  • Format: CD
  • Label: ORIGiN (OR008)
Passion
(with Paul Grabowsky)
  • Released: 1999
  • Format: CD
  • Label: ABC Classics (465 230-2)
Into the Fire
(with Sruthi Laya Ensemble)
  • Released: 2000
  • Format: CD
  • Label: ABC Classics (465 705-2)
Ruby
(with Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter & Paul Grabowsky )
  • Released: 2005
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra
The Chennai Sessions (Into The Fire)
(with Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani)
  • Released: 2009
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra
Crossing Roper Bar
  • Released: 2010
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 9324690038060)
Crossing Roper Bar, Vol. 2: The Ghost Dances
  • Released: 2014
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 9324690104055)
Water Pushes Sand
  • Released: August 2017
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Jazzhead (HEAD234)
Vespa
(with Kim Myhr)
  • Released: 2020
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Hubro (HUBROCD2630)
Closed Beginnings
(with Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight)
  • Released: June 2021
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 007)
Crossed & Recrossed
(with Peter Knight)
  • Released: September 2021
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Hospital Hill (HHLP03210750)
Hand to Earth
(with Peter Knight)
  • Released: October 2021
  • Format: CD, Digital
  • Label: Australian Art Orchestra (AAO 008)

Awards and nominations

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Australian Music Centre

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2013 Australian Art Orchestra AMC/APRA Art Music Award Performance of the Year Won [73]
2014 Australian Art Orchestra AMC/APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Organisation Won [74]
2016 Australian Art Orchestra Art Music Award nomination for Excellence in Music Education Nominated [35]
2016 Australian Art Orchestra Excellence in Music Education Nominated [35]
2017 Australian Art Orchestra Instrumental Work of the Year Nominated [75]
2022 Australian Art Orchestra AMC/APRA Art Music Award: Luminary Award for an Organisation Won [34]

ARIA Music Awards

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The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
1995 Ringing the Ball Backwards Best Jazz Album Nominated [76]
2000 Into the Fire (with Sruthi Laya Ensemble) Nominated
2017 Water Pushes Sand Nominated
2021 Closed Beginnings (with Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight) Nominated
2022 Hand to Earth (with Daniel Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean) Best World Music Album Nominated [77]

Australian Jazz Bell Award

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2003 Australian Art Orchestra Jazz Ensemble of the Year Won [78]
2011 Australian Art Orchestra Jazz Ensemble of the Year Won [78]

Classical Music Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2009 Australian Art Orchestra Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in a Regional Area awarded [79]

Helpmann Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2005 Australian Art Orchestra Helpmann Award Won [80]

Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2010 Australian Art Orchestra Group Award Won [81]

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