Paul Atherstone Grabowsky , born 27 September 1958, is an Australian pianist and composer, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra.

Biography

Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea, Grabowsky is a pianist and composer of music for film, theatre and opera. His father Alistair had lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Charlotte since the 1930s working on oil rigs, building roads, flying planes. Grabowsky described his ancestry as "failed Polish aristocracy". His grandfather was a legitimate Polish Count of the Grabowski noble family, a descendant of Jan Jerzy Grabowski from where he gets his title; his grandfather was exiled from Poland and lived in Scotland. His older brother Michael took great interest in the young composer and later worked with Paul co-ordinating and producing many of his television and film scores in the 1990s. Grabowsky grew up in Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Australia, and began piano lessons when he was five years old. He studied the classical repertoire with Mack Jost, senior lecturer in piano at the Conservatorium of Music at the

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from the age of seven until his university years. He attended Wesley College and it was that school's

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band which introduced him to the genre.

1980s

Immersing himself in jazz, Grabowsky left the conservatorium in 1978 to pursue musical studies at the

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in New York and then embarked on extensive travel in Europe. 1980 he worked in the Melbourne

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/comedy scene where he began his relationship with Steve Vizard and Robyn Archer. He flew in 1980 to London where he travelled via Spain to Germany; he lived there in Munich until 1985. He had been back in Australia for Christmas 1982 when, on the invitation of Red Symons, he co-composed his first film score, the first of many. In Europe he played with many musicians including

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and Johnny Griffin as well as influential European artists. In 1983, Grabowsky formed the Paul Grabowsky Trio with Allan Browne and Gary Costello. The duo recorded the album '' Six by Three'', which was released in 1989 and won the trio an ARIA Music Award at the ARIA Music Awards of 1990. After his return to Australia in 1986, he played in various jazz ensembles. Grabowsky produced Vince Jones' ARIA Award-winning album ''It All Ends Up In Tears''. In 1987, Grabowsky formed the Wizards of Oz with Saxophonist Dale Barlow, bassist Lloyd Swanton and drummer Tony Buck. Wizards of Oz recorded ''

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'' and won the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1989. During this time, he also wrote the score to the film '' The Last Days of Chez Nous'' and for television shows '' Phoenix'', '' Janus'' and '' Fast Forward''.

1990s

Grabowsky and the Groovematics were the innovative house band on the

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TV show '' Tonight Live with Steve Vizard'' from February 1990 to November 1993. This show was live five nights a week. Grabowsky also continued to compose scores for feature films many of which won awards. In 1990 he was commissioned to write several pieces for the Munich-based jazz/contemporary-music group Die Konferenz. One group of these was based on songs of Édith Piaf ("Et les Affaires Piaf"), while a second group was based on songs from German UFA films from the 1920s to 1940s ("Es wird einmal ein Wunder"). With the support from its artistic director Richard Wherrett, this led to the formation of the project ''Ringing the Bell Backwards'' at the Melbourne International Arts Festival and eventually to the Australian Art Orchestra in 1994. That year, Grabowsky wrote a piano concerto for Michael Kieran Harvey. He is married to Margot Salomon and in 1991 their first child was born; Isabella Grabowsky. Their son Guy Grabowsky was born in 1995.. In 1995, the Australian Art Orchestra toured Europe, and later India in 1996. Grabowsky directed the Victorian Arts Centre's Summer Music programme. Late that year he was commissioned to front the 14-part ABC TV series ''Access All Areas''. As Commissioning Editor for ABC Television Arts and Entertainment (1996–1998), he commissioned the documentary series '' Long Way to the Top''. During the late 1990s, Grabowsky concentrated on writing music for film and television: '' Molokai: The Story of Father Damien'' (1999) and '' Innocence'' (2000) by Paul Cox, '' Siam Sunset'' by John Polson, the NBC mini-series '' Noah's Ark'', the UK production '' Shiner''.

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Performing Arts (NORPA) commissioned his first opera, ''The Mercenary'' with a (

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by Janis Balodis).

2000s

In 2000, the project ''The Theft of Sita'' (a collaboration with Wayan Yudane) came to fruition; it combined jazz elements,

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nese

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music and puppetry. The piece premiered in Adelaide, and has since toured worldwide. In that year, Grabowsky was also involved in the writing music for the opening ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics and the Paralympics. Since then, he has written the opera '' Love in the Age of Therapy'' (libretto by Joanna Murray-Smith) commissioned by Melbourne Festival and Sydney Festival, and the symphony ''Streets of Hurqalya'' (26 June 2002), commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Among his recent film scores are

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's '' Last Orders'' and '' It Runs in the Family'', ''The Eye Of The Storm,'' ''Empire Falls'' (HBO) Paul Cox's ''The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky'', and

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's '' The Jungle Book 2''. From 2003 to 2007, Grabowsky was commissioner at the Australian Film Commission. In 2004 he became involved in Charles Darwin University's Remote Indigenous Music Program. In 2004, Grabowsky visited the remote community in the

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called Ngukurr, in order to meet the traditional songmen. He met with the local elders and, after hearing two Wagilak songmen sing, asked permission to bring his

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on a return visit. When he returned in 2005, he brought singer-songwriters

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and his wife Ruby Hunter, along with 10 members of his Australian Art Orchestra. After working together for five days, the musicians staged a concert in the town. The European musicians learnt about the manikay (song cycles) and were led to experiment with whole new ways of exploring sound. The resulting project, called ''Crossing Roper Bar'', toured the Northern Territory, played at the Birrarung Marr park in

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, the National Gallery of Victoria, Apollo Bay Music Festival and the

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. When the group travelled to Gulkula to play at the 2006 Garma Festival, the Yolngu songmen from nearby regions were amazed, thinking that those songs had been lost long ago. In 2010 a ''Crossing Roper Bar'' album was released. In 2005, Grabowsky was appointed Artistic Director for the Queensland Music Festival 2007. His

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'' Before Time Could Change Us'', lyrics by Dorothy Porter and featuring Katie Noonan, was commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and released in 2005 by the

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. The album peaked at number 65 on the

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and number 3 on the ARIA Jazz chart. He recorded an album of original jazz compositions, ''Tales of Time and Space'', with Branford Marsalis (soprano sax), Joe Lovano (tenor sax), Scott Tinkler (trumpet), Ed Schuller (bass) and Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums). In 2007 he was appointed inaugural patron of the

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's project ''Sounds of Australia''. On 4 January 2008, the prestigious Adelaide Festival of Arts appointed Grabowsky as its artistic director for the 2010 festival, its 50th anniversary year. He was then asked to stay on and direct the 2012 Adelaide Festival.

2010s

In June 2012, Grabowsky was appointed Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow in the School of Music at

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and in July 2012, he was appointed Executive Director, Performing Arts, Academy of Performing Arts, Monash University. In 2014 Grabowsky was awarded the

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(AO) for services to music as an educator, a mentor composer and pianist. He won his 5th Aria Award in 2014 for his sextet recording of original compositions ''The Bitter Suite''. In 2015/2016 he wrote the music and songs for theatre work ''Last Man Standing'' performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company, words and play by Steve Vizard; the two teamed again to write another new music theatre work, ''Banquet of Secrets'', performed by the Victorian Opera company.

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as

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) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. , - ,

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, ''Lost and Found'' , Best Independent Jazz Album , , - ,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, ''On a Clear Day'' , Best Independent Jazz Album , , - ,

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, ''The Bitter Suite'' , Best Independent Jazz Album , , - ,

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

, ''Provanance'' (with Vince Jones) , Best Independent Jazz Album , , - ,

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

, ''Tryst'' , Best Independent Jazz Album or EP , , -

APRA Awards

The APRA Awards (Australia) are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance. They commenced in 1982. Paul Grabowsky has won seven awards from twenty nominations. , - ,

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, , "Disappearing Shoreline" , , Most Performed Australasian Jazz Work , , , - , 1990 , , "Tonite I'm Alive with You" , , Most Performed Australasian Jazz Work , , , - , rowspan="2",

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

, , '' Phoenix (Series 2)'' , , Television or Film Theme of the Year , , , - , "Welcome to the World of Major Crime" , , Jazz Composition of the Year , , , - , 1996 , , ''Mushrooms'' , , Best Film Score , , , - ,

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

, , ''Siam Sunset'' , , Best Film Score , , , - ,

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

, , '' Innocence'' , , Best Film Score , , , - ,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

, , "Stars Apart" , , Most Performed Jazz Work of the Year , , , - ,

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, , Art of War , , Best Music for a Television Series or Serial , , , - , rowspan="2", 2006 , , "Silverland" , , Most Performed Jazz Work of the Year , , , - , Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst , , Best Music for a Documentary , , , - ,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

, , "Raindrop" , , Jazz Work of the Year , , , - ,

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

, , "Falling" , , Instrumental Work of the Year , , , - ,

, , "Tall Tales" , , Jazz Work of the Year , , , - , rowspan="2",

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

, , "Love Like a Curse" , , Jazz Work of the Year , , , - , "The Nightingale and the Rose" , , Instrumental Work of the Year , , , - , rowspan="2",

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, , "Nyilipidgi" , , rowspan="2", Jazz Work of the Year , , , - , "Spiel" , , , - ,

, , "Moons of Jupiter" , , Jazz Work of the Year , , , - ,

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

, , Comeclose and Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Love Songs , , Vocal / Choral Work of the Year , , , -

ARIA Awards

The ARIA Music Awards are annual awards, which recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. Paul Grabowsky has won seven awards from seventeen nominations. ! , - , 1990 , , '' Six by Three'' , , rowspan="3", Best Jazz Album , , , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - ,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

, , ''The Moon & You'' , , , , , - , rowspan="2",

, , ''Tee Vee'' , , , , , - , ''The Last Days of Chez Nous'' , , Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album, , , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - , 1996 , , '' When Words Fail'' , , rowspan="2", Best Jazz Album , , , , , - ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, , ''Angel'' , , , , , - ,

, , '' Siam Sunset'' , , Best Original Soundtrack Album , , , , , - ,

, , ''Three'' , , rowspan="7", Best Jazz Album , , , , , - ,

, , ''Tales of Time and Space'', , , , , - ,

, , ''Before Time Could Change Us'' , , , , , - , 2006 , , ''Always'' , , , , , - ,

, , ''The Bitter Suite'' , , , , , - ,

, , ''Solo'' , , , , , - , rowspan="2",

, , ''Provenance'' , , , , , - , ''Nyilipidgi'' , , Best World Music Album, , , - ,

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

, , ''Tryst'' , , Best Jazz Album, , , , , - ,

, , ''Please Leave Your Light On'' , , Best Jazz Album, , , , , -

Australian Jazz Bell Awards

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Helpmann Awards

The

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is an awards show, celebrating live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group ''Live Performance Australia'' since 2001. Note: 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the

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. ! , - ,

, ''The Theft of Sita'' (with I Wayan Gde Yudane) , Best Original Score , , , - ,

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

, '' Love in the Age of Therapy'' (with Joanna Murray-Smith) , Best Original Score , , , - ,

, ''Tales of Time and Space'' , Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert , , , -

Music Victoria Awards

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, ''Torrio!'' (With Mirko Guerrini & Niko Schäuble) , Best Jazz Album , , , -

Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards commenced in 1984 and recognise outstanding achievements in dance, drama, comedy, music, opera, circus and puppetry. , - , 2001 , , Paul Grabowsky , , Individual Award , , , -

Other Awards

*1988 & 1989

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Magazine (Australia) ''Jazz Artist of the Year'' *1989 AFI nomination (Best Original Music Score) for ''Georgia'' *1991 AFI nomination (Best Music Score) for ''A Woman's Tale'' *1992 AFI nomination (Best Music Score) for ''The Last Days of Chez Nous'' *1994 AFI nomination (Best Original Music Score) for ''Exile'' *1995 AFI Award (Open Craft Award) for '' The Good Looker'' *1999 Australian Guild of Screen Composers nomination for the film ''Siam Sunset'' *2000

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Award (Best Production) for ''The Theft of Sita'' *2003 World Soundtrack Academy nomination for The Jungle Book 2 *2004 AFI (Open Craft Award) nomination for Jessica *2006 AFI nomination for '' Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst'' *2007 Melbourne Prize for Music

Discography

References

External links

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The Australian Art Orchestra
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