THE PRIZES up for Grabs

A lot goes on behind the scenes of the Awards and there are a lot of supporters, donors and volunteers who create the incredible prizes that are awarded on Grand Final night

Prizes – 2016 Australian National Piano Award

FIRST PRIZE

$20,000 - The City of Greater Shepparton Prize

The winner will be awarded also a bursary of $5,000 for further music career development – The Daphne and Ross Turnbull Bursary

Total Value $25,000

SECOND PRIZE

$10,000 - The Gaye and John Gaylard Prize

The winner will be awarded also a bursary of $3,000 for further music career development – The Daphne and Ross Turnbull Bursary

Total Value $13,000

THIRD PRIZE

$5,000 - The Beleura, John Tallis Prize

The winner will be awarded also a bursary of $2,000 for further music career development – The Daphne and Ross Turnbull Bursary

Total Value $7,000

NOTE

All other finalists selected to play, who are not awarded first, second or third prize and who perform in all their required recital sessions, will receive $500 courtesy of GV Hearing Clinic

Special Prizes

For the best performance of the music of Bach

The Shepparton News Prize

$1,000

For the best performance of the music of Haydn or Mozart or Beethoven

The Leona and Bruce Sterling Prize

$1,000

For the best performance of the music of Chopin

The Pam Wells Prize

$1,000

For the best performance of music from the Romantic era (excluding Chopin) or for the first half of the 20th century

The Horton Family Prize

$1,000

The Andreadis Family Australian Composition Prize for the best performance of music written in or after 1951. The winner will receive $5,000 to commission a work by an Australian composer, with the intention that the work be performed by the recipient.

$5,000

The Lorna Speechley Memorial Prize for the People’s Choice

(donated by Dr. Ron Speechley)

The Lorna Speechley Memorial Prize for the People’s Choice is donated by Dr. Ron Speechley in memory of his wonderful wife Lorna nee Ducat who is proud to be the daughter of the family who established the Airlie Dairy and has been a graduate of the School of Nursing at the Mooroopna Base Hospital.

$5,000