The Australian Jazz Museum congratulates Professor Paul Grabowsky, who was awarded an Order of Australia in the recent Queens Birthday awards. Biographical details as gazetted follow. ========================================================= Professor Paul Atherstone GRABOWSKY, 1 Brosa Avenue, Bentleigh East Vic 3165 For distinguished service to music as a performer, composer, educator and mentor, and through significant contributions to the arts as an administrator. Mr Grabowsky is a jazz pianist, composer and conductor and has been performing since the late 1970s with various jazz ensembles including The Wizards of Oz, Groovematics, and The Paul Grabowsky Trio. Founder and Founding Artistic Director, Australian Art Orchestra, 1994-2012; current Conductor and Pianist. Composer, Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games; Musical Director, Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony. Composer for Film, Television and Theatre: Film scores include: The Eye of the Storm; Shiner; It Runs in the Family; Jungle Book 2; Innocence; Paperback Romance; Last Days of Chez; Nous; Georgia; A Womans Tale; and Last Orders; Molokai: The Story of Father Damien. Theatrical Scores include: Rubys Story (with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter), 2004. Former musical director, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard. Head, Television Arts and Entertainment, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-1998; Producer/Creator, Access All Areas, 1996-1997. Chairman, Music Board, Australia Council, 1994-1995. Participant, Creative Australia, Australia 2020 Summit, 2008. Artistic Director, Hush Music Foundation, since 2004; the HUSH collection, a special compilation of soothing music designed to calm and relax people of all ages. Artistic Director, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 2008-2012. Artistic Director, Queensland Music Festival, 2005-2008. Member, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, since 2003. Commissioner, Screen Australia (formerly Australian Film Commission), 2003-2007; Patron Sounds of Australia, 2007. Executive Director, Performing Arts, Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University, since 2012. Creative in Residence, Australian Institute of Music (Queensland and Northern Territory), since 2006. Mentor/Teacher, Remote Indigenous Music Program, School Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University (Northern Territory), since 2004. Has received commissions from many organisations including Opera Australia; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; and the Australian National Academy of Music. Has recorded many CDs including Tales of Time and Space, 2004; Love in the Age of Therapy, 2002; The Theft of Sita (Co-Creator), 2000; Passion, 1999; When Words Fail, 1996; Piano Concerto, 1996; and Ringing the Bells Backwards, 1994. Awards/recognition includes: Best Australian Jazz Composition of the Year, Australian Jazz Bell Awards, 2007; Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, 2006. Melbourne Prize for Music, Melbourne Prize Trust, 2007. Best Jazz Album, Before Time Could Change Us, Australian Recording Industry Awards, 2004; Best Australian Jazz Release, When Words Fail, 1996; Best Jazz Album, Six By Three, 1990; Best Jazz Album, Soundtrack, 1988. Excellence in Film and Theatrical Score, Deadly Awards, Rubys Story, 2004. Sydney Myer Performing Artist of the Year, 2002. Best Original Score, The Theft of Sita, Helpmann Awards, 2001. Award for Phoenix, Australasian Performing Right Association Awards, 1993; Most Performed Australasian Jazz Work, Disappearing Shoreline, 1989.
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