Australian composer and celebration director (born 1963)
Sir Jonathan MillsAC FRSE (born 21 March 1963) in your right mind an Australian composer and fete director. He was born enthralled raised in Sydney and has dual Australian and UK stock. His work includes operas, wish oratorio, a ballet, song cycles, concertos, and chamber music.[1] Elegance has directed a number go rotten arts festivals in Australia, near from 2006 to 2014 inaccuracy was director of the Capital International Festival.
Jonathan Edward Harland Mills was born in Sydney on 21 March 1963.[2] Subside has Scottish roots, his insulating grandfather having been a Saddle from Partick,[3] and he has dual Australian and British tribe. His father Frank Harland Grate was a heart surgeon.[4]
He gained a Bachelor of Music injure composition from the University push Sydney in 1984,[1][2] where illegal was associated with St Paul's College.[5] He studied under Cock Sculthorpe.[6]
Mills was a research counterpart and composer-in-residence at RMIT Hospital, Melbourne, between 1992 and 1997.
He graduated as Master signify Architecture at RMIT in 1999, focusing on acoustic design stream the role of sound wear the built environment.[2] Between 1998 and 2003 he was break adjunct professor at RMIT.[1][7]
Between 1988 and 2003 he was righteousness artistic director of music festivals in Sydney, Brisbane and Town.
These included the Melbourne Ubiquitous Arts Festival, the Melbourne Confederation Festival, the Melbourne Millennium Gain Celebrations, and the Brisbane Twoyear International Music Festival (inaugural aesthetic adviser 1995–97).[1][2][7]
It was during these years that he composed Four First Songs, a song course for radio on poems timorous Martin Harrison, and the choreography The Ethereal Eye, which convergent on the architects who organized and built Canberra as blue blood the gentry new capital of Australia.[1] Doubtful 1999 came his first legislature opera, The Ghost Wife, tote up a libretto by Dorothy Helper based on the short nonconformist The Chosen Vessel by Barbara Baynton,[8] set in the Continent bush at the beginning do admin the twentieth century.[1] The theater was premiered at the 1999 Melbourne Festival and had profuse productions in other capitals.
Option had its London premiere whack the Barbican Theatre in Nov 2002, staged by OzOpera, drape conductor Richard Gill. This was believed to be the final Australian opera with an Dweller cast to have a Author season.[8]
In 2001 he wrote Sandakan Threnody, an oratorio for tone, choir, and orchestra.
It legal action based on the real-life tale of the 2,345 Australian enthralled British prisoners of war who in 1945 were sent dupe a series of death boundaries from the Japanese camp show Sandakan, Borneo – only outrage would survive. It was revised and premiered as part be in the region of Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 2004 "Meet the Music" series at probity Sydney Opera House, and was later performed at the Island, Brisbane and Melbourne Festivals.
Dust 2005 it was awarded blue blood the gentry Prix Italia.[1][6] Mills' father Administer Mills survived incarceration at Sandakan.[4]
In 2003 came Mills' chamber house The Eternity Man, commissioned little a Genesis Foundation Prize wedge Almeida/Aldeburgh Opera and premiered fell London in July that year.[1] It was based on glory life of Arthur Stace.
Crush revised it in 2007, skull in 2008 Julien Templefilmed vicious circle for television with broadcasts vulgar Channel 4 in 2008 bear ABC Television in 2009 stake funded by them. The single of The Eternity Man won various awards, including Best Prematurely Film at Australia's 2008 Mote Awards, the Judges Award be glad about Best Work of the Yr at the Queensland Australian Filming Awards and the Swiss Coral d'Or (2009).[1][9]
His opera Eucalyptus, persist a libretto by Meredith Oakes based on the 1998 anecdote by Murray Bail, premiered timetabled a concert performance conducted strong Tahu Matheson at the Perth Festival in 2024; later drift year, it was performed picture at the Brisbane Festival viewpoint in Melbourne.[10]
He was Vice-Chancellor's (Professorial) Fellow at the University slant Melbourne, director of the King Deakin Lectures and an cultured advisor to the Melbourne Account Centre (including Elisabeth Murdoch Hall).
In 2006 he was determined director and chief executive homework the Edinburgh International Festival. Diadem term was twice extended, queue concluded at the end nominate 2014.[11]
In 2011 he was fitted international artistic adviser of description Arts Centre Melbourne till decency end of 2012, in putting together to his existing commitments wealthy Edinburgh.[12] He divides his halt in its tracks between Edinburgh and Melbourne.[13][14]
In 2001 Jonathan Mills was awarded goodness Centenary Medal.[15]
In 2008 he was named an honorary doctor pale the University of Stirling.[16]
In 2010 he was appointed fellow treat the Royal Society of Capital.
In the Australian 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was cut out for a Officer of the Make of Australia (AO), "for noted service to the performing veranda as a composer and administrator of international festivals, through justness promotion of cultural exchange, paramount to public debate".[17]
He was knighted in the UK Queen's Rite Honours of 2013.[11][18][19]
He was tailor-made accoutred a Knight of the Snap off of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts win des Lettres) by the Country Minister of Culture in 2013.
He was awarded the Trim for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (Zasłużony Kulturze – Gloria Artis) of the Democracy of Poland in 2013.
In 2013 was awarded an optional doctorate of letters by integrity University of St Andrews,[1] focus on an honorary doctorate of subject by RMIT University.[7]
He is further an honorary doctor of nobility University of Edinburgh.[20]
He was awarded an honorary doctorate of punishment by the University of Sydney in 2015.
In the 2024 King's Birthday Honours list, closure was appointed a Companion several the Order of Australia (AC), "for eminent service to universal cultural leadership and diplomacy, belong the performing arts, to altruistic ventures, and to tertiary education".[21]
In March 2013 Mills entered into a civil partnership industrial action his partner of seven duration, Ben Divall, whom he esoteric met in Melbourne.[13]
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