Applications for the 2013 APRA Professional Development Awards have now closed and APRA/AMCOS have revealed their Top 200 shortlist in the second round. The PDA awards aim to provide financial assistant to artists who have been working on on building their music careerrs, but need some financial backing in order oto take the next step. Most recently recipients of the PDA’s have been Australian acts such as Gotye. Abbe May and Laura Jean, plus film score composers Caitlin Yeo and Sean Foran.
This year they received over 1500 applications which were assessed by 29 Partner Organisations including yours truly!
$240, 000 will be allocated across eight winners in 2013, equating to $30, 000 per winning applicant which will assist them in their airfares, publicity packages, mentoring opportunities, distribution deals, instruments, and any other expenses associated with building their career as an Australian musician in the creative industry.
The eight award categories will include three for Popular Contemporary (which covers pop, rock, blues, folk, hip hop, dance and R & B), one each for jazz, country, classical, film and television and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
Keep reading for the full list of shortlisted applicants in each category! Congratulations and goodluck to the shortlisted artists!
ATSI
- Nancy Bates
- Shauntai Batzke
- Dave Dow
- Dewayne Everettsmith
- Leah Flanagan
- Nathan Lamont
- Jeremy Marou
- Gina McGill
- Benjamin Walker
- Warren Hedley Williams
CLASSICAL
- Monica Brooks
- Lisa Cheney
- Julian Day
- Nirmali Fenn
- Alexander Garsden
- Timothy Hansen
- Gordon Hughes
- Lachlan Hughes
- Laura Jane Lowther
- Anthony Lyons
- Peter McNamara
- Nicole Murphy
- Daniel Portelli
- Daniel Rojas
- Rebecca Erin Smith
- Gemma Turvey
- James Wade
- Marcus Whale
- Chris Williams
- Thea Zimpel
COUNTRY
- Julian Abrahams
- Andrew Arcus
- Emma Barlow
- Chelsea Basham
- Katie Brianna
- Lachlan Bryan
- Brad Butcher
- Loene Carmen
- Kimberley Clemens
- Kathleen Coleman
- Megan Cooper
- Paul Cowderoy
- Jackie Dee
- Peter Denahy
- Pippa Drysdale
- Morgan Evans
- Melody Feder
- Dana Hassall
- Kate Jacobson
- Jen Mize
- Rae Moody
- Michael Muchow
- Nerida Naughton
- Fiona O’Shea
- Ben Ransom
- Matthew Scullion
- Shandell Tosoni
- Kym Watling
- Luella Widt
- Andrew Wilson
FILM & TV
- Brett Aplin
- David Barber
- Amy Bastow
- Mark Buys
- Tristan Coelho
- Fiona Hawkins
- Aaron Kenny
- Will Larsen
- Angela Little
- Elaine Loebenstein
- Pru Montin
- Allyson Newman
- Michelle Osis
- Mark Smythe
- Vanessa Tammetta
- Daniel Thornton
- Russell Thornton
- Joseph Twist
- Anthea Varigos
- Haydn Walker
JAZZ
- Nicholas Abbey
- Quentin Angus
- Samuel Boon
- Dannielle Gaha
- Casey Golden
- Rafael Karlen
- Lauren Lucille
- Frances Madden
- Ross McHenry
- Stephen McNally
- Lachlan Mitchell
- Stephen Newcomb
- Mia Palencia
- Bruce Reid
- Jeremy Rose
- Matthew Sheens
- Robert Simone
- Aaron Spiers
- Kristin Theak
- Samuel Zerna
POPULAR CONTEMPORARY
- Ben Allen
- Vladislav Badov
- Courtney Barnett
- Simeon Bartholomew
- Sarah Bird
- Danielle Blakey
- Fergus Brown
- Mikey Bryant
- Amy Buckle
- Andrew Bull
- Andrew Burford
- Thomas Busby
- Thomas Calder
- Robert Owen Campbell
- David Cardwell
- Abbie Cardwell
- Holiday Sidewinder Carmen-Sparks
- Brianna Carpenter
- John Carty
- Joel Chapman
- Greg Chiapello
- Rebecca Chilcott
- Tom Cooney
- Matthew Corby
- Jessica Cornelius
- Darren Cross
- Jordi Davieson
- Isaac de Heer
- Luke Dolahenty
- Paul Donoughue
- Melanie Dyer
- Glenn Esmond
- Jessica Ferguson
- Rebecca Freeman
- Michelle Gardner
- Husky Gawenda
- Tomas Gaynor
- Adam Gibson
- Sheryn Hack
- Greg Haimandos
- Samuel Hales
- Darren Hanlon
- Austin Har
- Peter Harding
- Lakyn Heperi
- Charles Hertzog
- James Higgins
- Romy Hoffman
- Gareth Hudson
- Steven Hughes
- Bela Inkster
- James Keogh
- Georgina Kingsley
- Sophie Su Hui Koh
- Joseph Kosky
- Lorenzo La Cava
- Jay Laga’aia
- Jordie Lane
- Dean Leeson
- Colin Lillie
- Carla Lippis
- Kate Lush
- Briony Mackenzie
- Brendan Maclean
- Daniel Maguire
- Elizabeth Maniscalco
- Kane Mazlin
- Sarah McCallum
- Michael McCarthy
- Kathryn McKee
- John Meyer
- Alejandro Mosquera
- Jeremy Neale
- Joseph Nuttall
- Geoffrey O’Connor
- Colin O’Reilly
- Louise O’Reilly
- Owen Penglis
- Richard Perso
- Penny Phillips
- Chris Pickering
- Sean Pollard
- Justin Pounsett
- Andrew Redford
- Alex Robotham
- Christopher Rose
- Simon Rudston-Brown
- Greg Sanders
- Steven Schram
- Tim Shiel
- Adrian Stirling
- Carolyn Tariq
- Melissa Tickle
- Seja Vogel
- Donovan Walker
- Charles Wall
- Jeni Wallwork
- Amali Ward
- Hayley Warner
- Craig Woodward
