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Adele Schonhardt OAM (1996) - Australian Honours 2024
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
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We are excited to announce that Adele Schonhardt OAM (Worth, 1996) was awarded a Public Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to the Arts, in the recent Australian Honours Awards, 2024. From Year 7 at Lauriston, Adele flourished at all things “music” and in her final year was the Leader of Choirs, an active member of the Lauriston Senior Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Big Band, and Leader of the Anthem Choir. She also received the OLA Award for Music. Since her Lauriston days, she has spent two decades connecting people through music, most recently as Co-Director of the Australian Digital Concert Hall (ADCH) in partnership with Chris Howlett. ADCH was founded to support Melbourne musicians during lockdown but has since gone national, broadcasting over 1,000 live performances since March 2020, and generating more than $4 million for Australian artists and industry workers. Formerly Media & Public Affairs Manager at Musica Viva Australia, Adele’s career has taken her from Germany’s largest opera house in Baden-Baden to the League of American Orchestras in New York. A graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, she later completed an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW), where she was honoured to receive the University’s Anita Prabhu Women Leaders in Business Award in 2021. Together with Chris Howlett, Adele was named one of the country’s Top 100 Arts & Culture Leaders by The Australian in 2022. She also shares in a Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award (2021), the 2021 Arts Leadership Award from Creative Partnerships Australia, the 2021 Australian Artist of the Year Award (People’s Choice) from Limelight Magazine, the 2021 APRA AMCOS Art Music Award (Luminary Organisation), a Green Room Award (2021) and a National Live Music Award (2020). For over a decade, Adele was a proud volunteer with 3MBS radio, where she hosted the Sunday night program before joining the Board of Directors in 2016 and serving as Chair from 2020-21. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and two daughters. Photo cred: Albert Comper |