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I am very excited to announce that my album Mad Rush - Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass just won an ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.

A number of people I would like to thank in writing.

Philip Glass, for creating such beautiful music for me to play.

Martin, Robert, Laura, Natalie and the team at ABC Classics/Universal for giving me the opportunity to share my little abstract minimalist offering with the world.

Wayne Stuart for being brilliant and inventing an incomparable and truly unique instrument upon which to play.

Virginia for working out where to put the microphones (A Stuart piano is really tricky to record!)

Vahe for looking after the instrument so lovingly.

My family, for always being supportive of me and this crazy classical music thing I chose to do with my life.

And last but definitely not least, my beautiful partner Glennda who is singularly the strongest and kindest person on this earth.  I really don’t know what I would do without you, my beautiful girl.

A week from today, I’ll be off to the ARIAs.  

Funny kind of event for a Wednesday morning. All the winners of the Fine Arts awards will be announced (Best Classical, Best Jazz, Best Soundtrack, Best World Music) and also the Artisan awards (which are for engineers and producers and the album cover designers and so on and so forth).

Hopefully it won’t all be overshadowed; the nominations for all the popular genre awards will be announced at the same event.  Weird.

At any rate, please cross your fingers for me and my little album Mad Rush. Eep.