At the 29th ACT Arts Awards evening, held in the Canberra Museum & Gallery on 19 November, the inaugural Helen Tsongas Award for Excellence in Acting was presented to Christopher Samuel Carroll by ACT Arts Minister, Gordon Ramsay.
Canberra composer and pianist Michael Dooley was named 2019 Canberra CityNews Artist of the Year for his prolific and diverse work, which in the past year included jazz and classical performances, recordings, film scores, a song cycle, a gospel oratorio, works for the Canberra Wind Symphony and his first piano concerto.
More information about the awards and the winners are available at https://ccc-canberracriticscircle.blogspot.com/2019/11/canberra-composer-named-artist-of-year.html
Photo credit: Alexander JE Bradley
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