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William Barton was born on 4 June, 1981 in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, is an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player. Discover William Barton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?

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Occupation Musician, didgeridoo player
Age 42 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 4 June 1981
Birthday 4 June
Birthplace Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Nationality Australia

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William Barton is an Aboriginal Australian didgeridoo player.

1981

He was born in Mount Isa, Queensland on 4 June 1981 and learned to play at the age of 11 from Uncle Arthur Peterson an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadungu tribes of Western Queensland.

He is widely recognised as one of Australia's finest traditional didgeridoo players and a leading didgeridoo (yidaki) player in the classical world.

Barton has said, "The yidaki embodies everything of the land, because it’s from the tree, it’s the breath of life and the land, of sustenance to us as human beings. It embodies the history of those old trees. The yidaki has memories, it’s the breath of our ancestors, particularly when the instrument is passed on physically from one person to the next."

"I'm doing what I love," Barton says.

"I want to take the oldest culture in the world and blend it with Europe's rich musical legacy."

Barton has been featured on the ABC television program, Australian Story.

By the age of 12 Barton was working in Sydney, playing for Aboriginal dance troupes.

At the age of 15 he toured America, after which he decided he wanted to become a soloist rather than a backing musician and started to study different kinds of music.

1984

The Don Banks Music Award was established in 1984 to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia.

It was founded by the Australia Council in honour of Don Banks, Australian composer, performer and the first chair of its music board.

The Environmental Music Prize is a quest to find a theme song to inspire action on climate and conservation.

It commenced in 2022.

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1987

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1998

In 1998, he made his classical debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and became Australia's first didgeridoo artist-in-residence with a symphony orchestra.

In November 2022, Barton was named Queensland Australian of the Year.

In 2023, Barton become the first Indigenous artist to receive the Richard Gill Award for distinguished service to Australian music.

Barton has appeared at music festivals around the world and has also recorded a number of orchestral works.

2004

He featured in Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem, a major work for orchestra, chorus and didgeridoo, which premiered the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2004 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Voices conducted by Richard Mills.

This was reputedly the first time a didgeridoo has featured in a full symphonic work.

The work has since been performed in the UK at The Lichfield Festival with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham's choir Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.

In May 2004, ABC Classics released Songs of Sea and Sky, an album of works by Peter Sculthorpe revised for didgeridoo and orchestra.

Performed by Barton and the Queensland Orchestra conducted by Michael Christie.

Barton was jointly selected with pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska for the 2004 Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music by the Music Council of Australia.

In 2004, he was awarded the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists' Fellowship, and the following year he was a metropolitan finalist for the Suncorp Young Queenslander of the Year Award.

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

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The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.

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The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.

2005

In 2005, Barton performed at the 90th anniversary Gallipoli at ANZAC Cove, Turkey, and in debut concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in London.

In 2005/2006, Barton collaborated with orchestras, choral directors and composers in Australia, America and Europe, developing new commissions for the didgeridoo.

2014

On 5 November 2014, Barton performed at the memorial service for former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the Sydney Town Hall.

2015

In 2015, Barton performed at the 100th anniversary opening Gallipoli at ANZAC Cove, Turkey for dawn service.

2016

The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) commenced in 2016 to recognize contributions to the live music industry in Australia.

2019

In 2019, Barton played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra an orchestral rendition of Down Under at the memorial service for former Prime Minister Bob Hawke at the Sydney Opera House.

In 2023, Barton performed at the AFL Grand Final.