2025 Art Music Awards: Salutes For Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor

Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor

Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor are this year’s recipients of the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music.

Recognised as art music visionaries, Rose and Taylor will be saluted at the 2025 Art Music Awards, to be presented at Sydney’s City Recital Hall on Thursday, August 21st.

“We are profoundly grateful to the committee for this unexpected honour and delighted to accept it as a couple,” they remark in a joint statement.

“Though most of our projects are undertaken individually, they share two guiding passions: our devotion to the violin and our deep connection to Australia—a vast land of things unknown, understudied, unheralded and even scarcely imagined.”

Rose, a pioneering violinist, composer and multimedia artist; and Taylor, who cut her teeth as a classical violinist and has performed and appeared in various feature films, have frequently collaborated on innovative projects, and are renowned for their boundary-pushing work and sonic exploration.

“In the spirit of Richard Gill, after whom this award is named,” they continue, “we remain committed to championing the transformative power of live music and music education in remote communities.”

Also announced today, the recipients of the 2025 State and Territory Luminary Awards (see below). The remaining 11 Art Music Awards will be revealed on the night.

Presented by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) the Art Music Awards is an annual celebration of the national art music community, saluting excellence among creators, performers and community leaders in contemporary classical, jazz, experimental music and sound art.

This year’s event will feature performances from four-piece supergroup Asteroid Ekosystem; drummer and electronic musician Laurence Pike with VOX Sydney Philharmonia Choir; percussionist Claire Edwardes in collaboration with turntablist Martin Ng; the premiere of Indigenous experimental sound ensemble grndwater featuring amby downs, JWPaton, sallvage and Sonya Holowell; and pianist Alex Raineri, for program curated by acclaimed artist, Sia Ahmad.

Territory Luminary Award: ACT

Luminescence Chamber Singers for their annual program in ACT and beyond

State Luminary Award: NSW

Jack Symonds for outstanding contributions to contemporary Australian opera

State Luminary Award: SA

Adelaide Chamber Singers for sustained contribution to commissioning and artistic excellence

State Luminary Award: VIC

Nat Bartsch for advocacy for neurodiversity in music

State Luminary Award: TAS

Stevie McEntee for programming of Clarence Jazz Festival and as artistic director/founding member of Lutruwita Art Orchestra

State Luminary Award: QLD

Muses Trio for Muses Inc.

State Luminary Award: WA

Perth International Jazz Festival for growth of the Perth International Jazz Festival 2020 – 2024