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  • ^It's an Honour: Centenary Medal. The very idea of what has become known as the functional city flies in the face of some of the most basic premises of human habitation and interaction.

    Worse still, rather than becoming more hygienic and liveable, safer and sociable, the highly artificial idea of a functional city where one ‘resides’ in a series of elevated edifices, isolated from places of work, recreation, worship, or refreshment, has the opposite effect.

    The functional city has also led to some very artificial ways of organising cultural activity.

    He is currently Director of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit, a UNESCO-recognised biennial meeting held in conjunction with Edinburgh’s summer festivals and is the current President of the EFFE International Jury. Retrieved 23 April 2014

  • ^It's an Honour: AO.

    In the Australian 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to the performing arts as a composer and director of international festivals, through the promotion of cultural exchange, and to public debate".[17]

    He was knighted in the UK Queen's Birthday Honours of 2013.[11][18][19]

    He was appointed a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture in 2013.

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  • ^Debbie Cuthbertson, The Age, 13 September 2014, Spectrum, p. pp.

    jonathan mills composer biography dvd

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    His opera Eternity Man was recognised by a Genesis Foundation commission in 2003 and his oratorio Sandakan Threnody won the Prix Italia in 2005. In terms of physical attributes alone? Limelight.

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  • ^ abcRMIT University. Retrieved 23 April 2014
  • ^ abPhil Miller, The Herald, Glasgow, 12 August 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2014
  • ^University of Edinburgh.

    10 June 2024. "Melbourne Arts Centre appoints Jonathan Mills". Jonathan is visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Vice Chancellor’s (Professorial) Fellow at the University of Melbourne. EFFE (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) was initiated by the European Festivals Association.

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  • ^University of StirlingArchived 18 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  • ^Christopher Lawrence (August 2024). These included the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Melbourne Federation Festival, the Melbourne Millennium Eve Celebrations, and the Brisbane Biennial International Music Festival (inaugural artistic adviser 1995–97).[1][2][7]

    It was during these years that he composed Four First Songs, a song cycle for radio on poems by Martin Harrison, and the ballet The Ethereal Eye, which focussed on the architects who designed and built Canberra as the new capital of Australia.[1] In 1999 came his first chamber opera, The Ghost Wife, to a libretto by Dorothy Porter based on the short story The Chosen Vessel by Barbara Baynton,[8] set in the Australian bush at the beginning of the twentieth century.[1] The opera was premiered at the 1999 Melbourne Festival and had numerous productions in other capitals.