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