Two intended to build musical opportunities in the regional centres where they grew up. All four finalists chose to support the music of Australian composers and the music of our time in their projects to be funded with the Fellowship prize. “She showed us great musical awareness and achievement, a powerful stage presence and in her aspirations, a generous social conscience.” “Congratulations to Kyla Matsuura-Miller as this year’s choice for the Freedman Classical Fellowship,” said Letts, the Director of The Music Trust. Previous winners include Genevieve Lacey, William Barton, Joseph Tawadros, Claire Edwardes and Eugene Ughetti. She was an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2017, and in 2022 she will be the recipient of the Homophonic! Pride Prize.Ĭonceived by Laurence Freedman and Dr Richard Letts, the Freedman Classical Fellowship is offered annually to Australian classical musicians aged up to 30.
The violinist and educator is currently working with Inventi Ensemble, Trio Clara, Duo Piaggio and Adam McMillan. The project will culminate in a live performance for Play On and via You Tube.īorn in Tokyo and raised in Melbourne, Matsuura-Miller graduated from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in 2018. She will work with filmmaker Tobias Willis, composer Stéphanie Kabanyana Kandekwe and two other composers yet to be selected, who will be invited to draw on their personal experiences as non-white Australians to create newly commissioned works for solo violin and optional electronics. “The project is an opportunity to create something from a place of mutual compassion and shared experiences.” “My project aims to express and evoke elements of the collective cultural memory of being raised non-white in Australia,” she said.
Matsuura-Miller will use the prize money on a project that will explore what it is like for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) to be raised in Australia. Kyla Matsuura-Miller, winner of the 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship.
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