Helen Gifford’s long and distinguished career is marked by awards, prizes, commissions, and extensive national and international critical acclaim. Among her many notable honours are a Senior Composer’s Fellowship (1973), Composer-in-Residence to the Australian Opera (1974), an Edward H. Green Foundation grant (1994), the Medal of the Order of Australia in recognition of service to music as a composer (1996), and the APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music (2016).
In 1995, an Australia Council Composer Fellowship supported the completion of Point of Ignition, a setting of six poems by the Australian poet Jessica Aldridge (1920–2020) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.
She received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Melbourne, and in 1996, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Monash University.
Available Works
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Fable, by Helen Gifford$15.95