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May 28, 1965 59 years old
Australian composer and musician
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About Pete Hawkes
- Pete Hawkes (born 28 May 1965) is an Australian composer, mathematician/data analyst, musician and luthier.
- He composes music in many genres.
- Hawkes has composed over 1200 recordings covering folk music, jazz, jazz fusion, classical, world music, rock, ragtime, blues, ambient, and baroque.
- He has collaborated with Bert Jansch, Joe Cocker, Phil Emmanuel, and Dave Swarbrick.
- An accomplished finger style and slide guitarist, his folk-blues style has been compared to Nick Drake and John Martyn.In 2002, Hawkes won the ABC Newcastle Songwriter of the Year Award, and in 2009 he won another ABC award for his instrumental works.
- In 2012 he received a MUSICOZ Legend award.
- In 2017, Hawkes won the Festival of Original Music Award (FOOM) from the Song Writers, Composers & Lyricists Association (SCALA).
- He was a finalist at the Australian Songwriters Association Awards in 2001, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
- He is also member of the Australian Performance Rights Association (APRA).Hawkes has been featured in a number of music and guitar magazines.
- Some of his musical works have been kept for preservation at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Hawkes has chromesthesia, a form of synesthesia where he sees sound in colors.
