Marshall McGuire To Deliver 2025 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address will be delivered by harpist and Australian Music Centre Chair, Marshall McGuire, in Sydney (Gadigal), on 13 October, 2025 celebrating Australian Music Centre’s 50th Anniversary, alongside the 2025 Paul Lowin Orchestral and Song Cycle Prizes award ceremony.
The annual forum for ideas about the creation and performance of Australian music, the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address invites discourse, and to challenge ideas around contemporary issues affecting the art music community. Speakers over the years have included leading Australian composers, performing artists, educators and artistic directors, including Elena Kats-Chernin, William Barton, Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon AO, Kim Williams AM and Nat Bartsch.
This year, the address is a filmed private event with recordings which will be made public after the event.
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address will be followed by the presentation of the 2025 Paul Lowin Prizes, one of Australia’s richest prizes for music composition. This year’s finalists are due to be announced shortly.
Marshall McGuire is one of Australia’s pre-eminent harpists, renowned for reshaping the boundaries of the instrument. He has built a career that challenges the conventions of the harp, commissioning over 100 new works and collaborating with composers around the world to redefine what the harp can be.
Marshall studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, the Royal College of Music in London, and in Paris. Since then, his performance journey has taken him far and wide, embracing conventional and unconventional venues. Marshall has long been an integral part of Australia’s new music scene, especially through his long-standing association with the ELISION ensemble. He has won numerous accolades, including fellowships from the State Library of Victoria, the Churchill Trust, and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Trust.
Marshall’s eight albums have received four ARIA nominations. His collaboration with recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey, Bower, won the ARIA Award for Best Classical Album (2021) and the AIR Award for Best Independent Classical Album (2022).
In addition to his performing career, Marshall has held influential leadership roles in Australia’s music scene.
