Powerful women creators sweep the 2024 Art Music Awards

This year's Art Music Awards offered a nod towards the lived experience of women creators, celebrating their strength and stewardship in the industry.
'Elder percussionist' Duré Dara OAM receives the Luminary Award for Victoria at 2024 Art Music Awards. A woman of Indian descent playing a range of percussion instruments.

Art Music Awards, co-presented by the Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (APRA AMCOS) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), has announced a female-powered line-up of winners this year. The Awards celebrates artists who work at the intersection of art music and sound art, pushing boundaries and championing innovation across contemporary and classical music, jazz, improvisation, electronic and experimental practices.

Women and gender-diverse artists took out most of the Work of the Year and Performance of the Year awards, paving the way towards gender equality in the sector.

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