CLARE BOWDITCH - APRA

Supporting
the Arts
Music Grants Funding 2006-07
Each year, the APRA Board sets aside 1.25% of distributable revenue to fund projects and
organisations promoting the use and recognition of music by APRA members. The grants are part of
APRA’s commitment to supporting and sustaining the creative life of the Australian music community.
Funding recipients for the 2006-07 year are:
DEVELOPMENT
• Australian Music Radio Airplay Project
(AMRAP)
• Ars Musica Australis
• Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC)
• Australian Songwriters’ Association
• Country Music Association of Australia
(CMAA)
• Community Broadcasting Association
of Australia (CBAA)
• Folk Alliance Australia
• Folk Federation of South Australia
• Music NT
• Music NSW
• QMusic
• Songsalive!
• Sutherland Shire Symphony Orchestra Inc.
• Talent Development Project
• TasMusic Inc
• True-L Music
COMPETITIONS/AWARDS
• 2MBS FM
• ABC Newcastle Awards
• Australian Music Prize Ltd
• Australian Women’s Festival of Improvised
Music
• Music Oz
• The Next Big Thing
• The Push Inc
• The South Australian Country Music Festival
& Awards
• Tamworth Songwriter’s Association Inc
• Australian Children’s Music Foundation
• Victorian and National Country Music Awards
• The Fellowship of Australian Composers Inc.
• Adelaide Eisteddfod Society Inc
• Katherine Country Music Muster Inc.
• Northern Country Music Association Inc
• Q-Song Music Awards
• Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists Assoc.
Inc. (SCALA)
• Sydney International Piano Competition
FESTIVALS/SHOWCASES
• AUSMusic SA + MusicSA
• Carclew Youth Arts Centre
• COMA
• Falls Festival
• Fuse Festival – Adelaide Fringe
• Melbourne Composers’ League
• Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival
• Mildura Country Music Festival Inc.
• Murraylands Music Festival
• Port Fairy Folk Festival
• Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
• Queenscliff Music Festival Inc.
• WAM
• Wangaratta Festival of Jazz Inc
PROJECTS
• Australian Christian Artists Network Inc
• Australian Film, Television and Radio School
(AFTRS)
• Australian Music Centre (AMC)
• AWESAM – SAMIA
• The Gallery Players
• Jazz Action Society
• JazzGroove Association
• Media Resource Centre
• Musica Viva Society
• The Orchestras of Australia Network Inc
• Southern Cross University
• Triple R Broadcasters Ltd
INDIGENOUS
• Deadlys
• Music NT Inc.
• Daguragu Community Government Council
• Tura Events
• Yothu Yindi Foundation
• Black Arm Band
• Goolari Media Enterprises
“We appreciate your
contribution to our work and
hope that the smiling face of
our logo is a reminder to you
of the joy we are bringing to
children.”
Don Spencer, Founder & Director, Australian
Children’s Music Foundation
“Thank you for the approval
of ...a Music Grant... for the
Fellowship of Australian
Composers Inc. With this
generous amount... the FAC
will be able to help, assist and
award Australian composers
throughout Australia.”
Julie Simonds, Vice President/ Treasurer,
Fellowship of Australian Composers
“We really do appreciate the
continued support we receive
[from APRA]. It helps us in our
endeavours to educate, support
and promote our wonderful
Australian songwriters.”
Bev Daniel, President, Tamworth Songwriters’
Association Inc
A
menacing vibe for a
violent thriller, a touch
of musical magic for a
children’s sci-fi, an air of
madness for a black comedy,
or an arrangement bridging
the gap between classical
and club. It’s all in the score
for New Zealand Film/TV
composer and arranger
Victoria Kelly.
Victoria’s first taste of
composing music for film
came unexpectedly, in the
mid 1990’s, midway through
a Masters Degree. Director
Anna Reeves needed a student
volunteer to score a short film
called La Vie En Rose. Victoria
decided to give it a go and the
experience was a revelation,
leaving no doubt in her
mind as to where her future
lay. After winning a TVNZ
Young Achievers Award and
a Professional Development
Grant from Creative New
Zealand, Victoria took off to
the US. Here she undertook
a postgraduate year in film
composition at the University
of Southern California,
studying under Elmer
Bernstein, Leonard Rosenman
and Christopher Young.
Returning home she began to
work on features and during
the late 90’s wrote eerie,
menacing scores for a string
of horror films, including
serial killer flick The Ugly;
Heaven, a violent, compelling,
thriller which screened
at the 1998 Montreal and
Toronto Film Festivals; and
in collaboration with Joost
Langeveld, The Truth About
Demons, which premiered
in the Midnight Madness
programme at the 2000
Toronto Film Festival. Sales
to TV networks ensured all
three films moved ultimately
from silver screen to small
screen, going on to terrorise
television audiences and
earn broadcast royalties
in Germany, Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, Russia, France,
Portugal and Japan.
During 2000 Victoria teamed
up with Joost Langeveld
again as they worked on the
score for Being Eve, a quirky
26 part series centred on the
life of a philosophical 15-year
old school girl. International
success followed, with the
series being snapped up by
a marketplace hungry for
‘tweens’ TV. Being Eve began
screening in America during
August 2001, was picked up
by TV2 in Denmark soon
after and continued to be
broadcast across a range
of countries including South
Africa, Finland, Norway,
Malaysia and Ireland. It’s
still going strong, it was
recently shown on RTL5 in
the Netherlands.
Photo by >> Greg Bowker
Maddigan’s Quest is another
children’s series carrying a
Victoria Kelly score, bound
to travel far and wide. Set
in a post-apocalyptic future,
it’s an epic tale of magic,
adventure and time travel
with an equally expansive
sound track, which required
Victoria to write an average
of 18 minutes of music per
episode – that’s almost 4
hours of music across the full
13 part series! Maddigan’s
Quest made its international
debut in January this year,
screening on BBC1 and has
also been sold to networks
in the USA and Israel.
Victoria is also in demand
as an arranger, often
working on scores for
others or adapting work
for specific circumstances
- like her recent orchestral
arrangement for NZ band,
Shapeshifter. More used to
cranking out heavy beats
in dimly lit clubs, the band
asked Victoria to arrange
their work for an innovative
concert with the Auckland
Philharmonic Orchestra in
the grand St James Theatre.
Bridging the gap between
classical and club audiences
is no mean feat, but by all
reports it was achieved with
dramatic effect. One hardened
Shapeshifter fan admitting
after the concert he’d been
moved to tears by the sheer
emotional force of the music.
Victoria has also brought
innovative interpretations,
surprise collaborations
and occasionally her own
arrangements to the stage
of the APRA Silver Scroll
awards, where she’s been
Musical Director since 2002.
Film projects this year have
included the score for Robert
Sarkies’ Out of the Blue
and Jonathan King’s comedy
horror Black Sheep which
uses 70 minutes of Victoria’s
music. Both films had world
premiere screenings at the
Toronto Film Festival in
September, attracting the
interest of buyers in North
America and Europe.
If history is anything to go
by, two more of Victoria
Kelly’s soundtracks may be
about to go global! •
VICTORIA KELLY
By Kathy Grant, Manager Performance
Verification, APRA
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