Announcements

From us all at the Melbourne Prize Trust, wishing you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023.

Registrations of interest in the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2023 will open on this website in the new year.

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Missy Higgins wins the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Music 2022.

FINALISTS in the Melbourne Prize for Music 2022 are:
Liza Lim
Mindy Meng-Wang
Jim White

• Click here for our 2022 Newsletter
• Click here for the Finalist Videos
• Click here for the Catalogue

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh wins the $20,000 Beleura Emerging Composers Award 2022.

Jess Hitchcock wins the $10,000 Professional Development Award 2022 (+$1,000 Qantas voucher).

Liza Lim wins the $2,000 Civic Choice Award 2022.

• Click here for the Media Release
• Click here for the 2022 Judges

Thank You

This year’s program is made possible by the generous support of our 2022 partners and patrons.

ABOUT THE 2022 DESIGN BY PLAYGROUND

Playground studios are a leading Melbourne-based design studio. As the Foundation Creative Partner of the annual Melbourne Prize, the studio develops the identity each year for music, literature and (urban) sculpture.

This year’s Melbourne Prize for Music design is inspired by the poetry, science and sensory experience of music, and by interpretations of music through shape, form and colour. The concept began with a chromatic circle or pitch constellation – a graphic representation of pitches used to describe musical scales, modes, chords or other groupings of pitches within an octave range. We then explored the relationship between a pitch constellation and chromesthesia – a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of colour, shape and movement. Music experienced in colour.

Finally, we examined music’s characteristics and explored how notes, volume, tempo, emotion and amplitude could be represented in an energetic, near-cosmic way: interpreting, absorbing and feeling music through multiple senses.

WEBSITE BY THE MIGHTY WONTON

The Mighty Wonton are Founding Partners of the annual Melbourne Prize and have been with the organisation since inception. The company develop and manage IT for the Melbourne Prize and together with Playground, design and manage the website.