Pete Hawkes

Who is Pete Hawkes?

Pete Hawkes is an Australian composer, mathematician and musician. A prolific writer, perhaps one of the most prolific of composers alive today, he is best known for his unusual capacity to compose beautiful, haunting, evocative and otherwise interesting music from many different genres. In 2002 Hawkes was awarded Songwriter of the Year at the 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards. He was awarded again by the ABC for instrumental works in 2009. In 2012 he was received as an Australian musical legend in the National MUSICOZ awards. In 2014, Fine Music Magazine featured Hawkes in recognition of his enormous contribution to music, and in particular, his prolific composing ability across all styles of music. His musical catalogue to date now includes to date, well over 1000 recordings covering a very wide spectrum of different genres of music, including blues, folk, Jazz, Celtic music, orchestral scores, ragtime, rock and Russian themed music.