Australian Music Foundation

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

The Australian Music Foundation (AMF) is a charitable organisation (based in the United Kingdom and Australia) which aims to promote and celebrate Australian musical life by offering scholarships, performing opportunities and mentoring to young Australian classical musicians who wish to pursue their studies overseas.

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2025 marks our 50th Anniversary.

Since 1975, the Australian Music Foundation has helped nearly 300 awardees.

Some of our previous awardees have included Violinist Emily Sun (2015 awardee) who has gone on to win the 2018 ABC Young Performers Award in Sydney, and soprano Lauren Fagan recently appeared as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel at the ROH, Covent Garden and represented Australia in the 2019 Cardiff Singer of the World. Soprano Samantha Clarke made her Opera Australia debut in January 2024, as Violetta in La Traviata. Waynne Kwon joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) as Sub-Principal Cello in March 2024. Other distinguished Alumni include baritone Peter Coleman-Wright, pianist Jayson Gillham, conductor Jessica Cottis, saxophonist Amy Dickson and guitarist Craig Ogden.

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2025
Australian Music Foundation
Classical Awards

The Australian Music Foundation has presented awards to nearly 300 young Australian musicians to help support their studies overseas since 1975.

Applications for our 2025 Australian Music Foundation Classical Awards are now CLOSED

We hope to announce the results towards the end of July / early August.

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Please click HERE if you would like to subscribe for information about the Australian Music Foundation Classical Awards.

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Young Virtuosi @ West Green House
Sunday 15 June 2025

Yvonne Kenny and the Australian Music Foundation with Marylyn Abbott, West Green House was delighted to invite guests to

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For 50 years, we have been nurturing young Australian classical musicians and supporting them to study at some of the finest institutions in the UK, Europe and North America

The concert included exceptional performances from Foundation awardees and alumni including Samantha Hargreaves (Soprano), Nathan Bryon (Tenor), and Magdalenna Krstevska (Clarinet). Performers were accompanied by Daniel Peter Silcock (Piano).

The Australian High Commission was delighted to join Yvonne Kenny AM, the Chair of the Foundation, in celebrating its anniversary at a concert at West Green House Garden in Hampshire. Later this year, we look forward to further celebrations of 50 years of the Australian Music Foundation at Australia House.

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