Prizes and Awards

The Philip Bates Trust supports a range of prizes and awards including:

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Philip Bates Performance Prize at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School and John Willmott School

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Philip Bates Prize for Composers and Songwriters

Prize Winners

2004 Steve Brown and “Hopping Mad”, Hilary Campbell and “Rest”
March 2005 Amy Whitwam and “Another Five Seasons”
March 2006 Johan Ericsson and “Thief of Thoughts”
November 2007 Ashleigh Bartrum and “Nymphomania, Lies & Insecurities”
November 2008 Josh Angell and “Trouser”
November 2009 Simone Spagnolo and “Pleiades”
November 2010 Michael Betteridge and “Poems of Walt Whitman”
November 2011 Pete Yelding and “Silhouettes Smiling” Tom Coult and “Seven Face Pictures”
November 2012 No prize awarded
November 2013 Blanka Stachelek and “Tryptyk”Leo Geyer and “Sideshows”
November 2014 Samuel Leith Taylor & “Sop two, twice–cool air” and William Cole & “me faytz trobar” (joint winners)
November 2015 Harriet Grainger “Elizabeth’s Aria” / Daniel Blanco Albert “Columna Vertebral: Sageta de Foc”
November 2016 Sam James “Sleep” / Alex Ho “Compost”
November 2017 Georgia Denham “blue” / Maria Cortes-Monroy “The Face” / Hugo Bell “7 Exercises in Style”
November 2018 Kc Cheng “On His Blindness” / James Abel “Emotion Zero” / “Steel Cold Heat” & “Awake” George StackhouseMarch
November 2019 Robert Laidlow “Aroha”/ Kai Moohan-Shotan “Pulse”/ Georgia Denham “for Paul”