The Australian Music Centre (AMC), formerly known briefly as Sounds Australian, is a national organisation promoting and supporting art music in Australia, founded in 1974. It co-hosts the Art Music Awards along with APRA AMCOS, and publishes Resonate Magazine. Description AMC provides advocacy, representation, and publishing services as well as career support and professional development programmes. Initially focussed on contemporary classical music, its purview has expanded to experimental music, sound art, contemporary jazz, and improvisatory music. In 1990 it briefly changed its name to Sounds Australian. The AMC is the Australian national section of ISCM and IAMIC. The Centre's collection includes a repository of Australian scores, recordings and teaching kits that numbered 13,000 items by 660 creators in 2017. Governance The AMC was established in 1974 by its inaugural director, James Murdoch. For 32 years its CEO was John Davis, who left in 2021. In May 2021, he was succeeded by Catherine Haridy, who had worked in A&R for Mushroom Records and Warner Music Australia and founded her own artist management company in 2006. Marshall McGuire was appointed Chair of the Board in 2021. Art Music Awards The AMC co-hosts the Art Music Awards along with APRA AMCOS, which acknowledges excellence among Australian composers, performers and educators in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, improvisation, sound art and experimental music. The Art Music Awards were first held in 1988 under the banner 'The Sounds Australian Awards'. Notable represented artists The Australian Music Centre represents Australian composers, improvisers and sound artists. Some notable represented artists include: Ross Edwards Mary Finsterer Peggy Glanville-Hicks Brenda Gifford Helen Gifford Percy Grainger Cat Hope Elena Kats-Chernin Don Kay Bryony Marks References External links Resonate Magazine Australian music industry Music organisations based in Australia