Roger David Covell AM FAHA (1 February 1931 – 4 June 2019) was an Australian musicologist, critic and author.
He was Professor Emeritus in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney,[1] and continued until shortly before his death to contribute articles and reviews to The Sydney Morning Herald, where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s.
Published in 1967, Covell's monograph Australia's Music: Themes of a New Society was the first comprehensive study of the history, development and performance of Western art music in Australia, and is now regarded as a seminal text in Australian musicology.
[4] The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.
The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.