Artist Biography
Four Winds' Master of Ceremonies: Carrillo Gantner
Carrillo Gantner AO has a long and distinguished career in the arts, arts administration and the theatre. Carrillo was appointed by the Victorian state government as President of the Victorian Arts Centre Trust from July 2000. He served three terms to 2009.
The government has now appointed him as Chairman of The Melbourne International Arts Festival from January 2010. He was Chairman of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for six years to March 2000, Chair of the Performing Arts Board and a member of the Australia Council 1990-1993. He was a member of the Australian International Cultural Council (chaired by the Minister for Foreign Affairs) for three years until 2003. Until 2002 he served for three years as a member of the Cultural Network of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO.
Carrillo is President of The Myer Foundation and Chairman of The Sidney Myer Fund, the Myer family’s two philanthropic arms.
He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in June 2001 for service to the performing arts and for fostering cultural exchanges between Australia and Asia. In 2007 Carrillo was named Victorian of the Year in recognition of his cultural and philanthropic service to Victoria. In the same year he was also named as the Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. In 2008 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities.