Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award

The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award, often referred to simply as the Bernard Heinze Award, was inaugurated following the death of Sir Bernard Heinze in 1982.

The award is in the form of a medallion and is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

The award is jointly administered by the Friends of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the University of Melbourne School of Music. In 1992, the Friends of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra were invited to suggest a possible recipient for the award, and have nominated one person per year since then.

It is presented each year at a Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Concert held in the Melbourne Town Hall, now given by the University of Melbourne Faculty of Music Orchestra.

List of Bernard Heinze Award recipients

• 1987 Ruth Alexander
• 1988 Professor Emeritus Sir Frank Callaway
• 1989 Malcolm Williamson^[1]
• 1990 Patrick Thomas^[2]
• 1991 Beryl Kimber
• 1992 John Hopkins
• 1993 Leonard Dommett
• 1994 Peter Sculthorpe^[3]
• 1995 Yvonne Kenny
• 1996 Jan Sedivka
• 1997 Richard Mills^[4][5]
• 1998 Donald Hazelwood
• 1999 Richard Gill
• 2000 Don Burrows^[6]
• 2001 John Curro^[7][8]
• 2002 John Painter
• 2003 Stephen McIntyre^[9][10]
• 2004 Graeme Koehne^[11][12][13]
• 2005 Richard Divall^[14]
• 2006 Richard Tognetti^[15]
• 2007 Graham Abbott^[12]
• 2008 Barry Tuckwell^[16][17]
• 2009 Richard Bonynge^[18]
• 2010 Brett Dean^[19]
• 2011 Simone Young^[20]
• 2012 Carl Vine^[21]
• 2013 Roger Covell^[22]
• 2014 Anne Boyd^[23]
• 2015 Margaret Kartomi^[24]
• 2016 Mary Vallentine^[25]
• 2017 Ronald Farren-Price^[26]

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