{{short description|Australian composer and music director}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} '''Iain Andrew Grandage''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|size=85%}} is an Australian composer and music director, best known for his compositions for theatre, dance and concert. In May 2018, the Perth Festival appointed Grandage as artistic director.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mayes |first=Andrea |title=Perth Festival appoints Iain Grandage as new artistic director from 2020 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-09/iain-grandage-appointed-new-perth-festival-artistic-director/9737672 |access-date=19 September 2019 |publisher=ABC News (Australia)|date=9 May 2018}}</ref>
==Early life== Grandage initially lived in Brisbane, before moving to Perth when he was seven. Grandage studied at the UWA School of Music (now the UWA Conservatorium of Music) as a cellist, and also studied composition with Roger Smalley.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Composer Iain Grandage creates opera of Tim Winton's ''The Riders''|last=Westwood|first=Matthew|date=September 20, 2014|newspaper=The Australian}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== He has received the Helpmann Award for Best Original Score multiple times, for play ''Cloudstreet'' in 2002, play ''The Secret River'' in 2013, dance work ''When Time Stops'' in 2014, opera ''The Rabbits'' (with Kate Miller-Heidke) in 2015, and concert work ''Satan Jawa'' (with Rahayu Supanggah) in 2017.
Grandage received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for an individual in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.australianstage.com.au/201303146197/news/industry-news/sidney-myer-performing-arts-awards-announced.html|title=Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards Announced|website=www.australianstage.com.au|date=14 March 2013 |language=en-gb|access-date=2017-06-17}}</ref>
He delivered one of the 2024 Boyer Lectures.<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/iain-grandage/104491544 "Iain Grandage: Beyond the Boundaries"], 17 November 2024, Radio National</ref>
In the 2025 King's Birthday Honours, Grandage was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for significant service to the arts as a composer and artistic director.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/KB25%20-%20Honours%20List%20Media%20Notes%20-%20Order%20of%20Australia%20-%20AM%20Member.pdf |title=Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division |date=9 June 2025 |publisher=Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia |pages=43–44 |access-date=9 June 2025}}</ref>
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