biography
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Composer, pianist, and teacher, born in Tientsin, E China. He emigrated to Australia with his parents at 17, and engaged in postgraduate studies at the New South Wales Conservatory, Sydney (1956–8) and the San Francisco Conservatory (1959–61). After a period in Queensland, he joined the Canberra School of Music in 1966, where he became head of keyboard studies, then head of the Department of Composition and Electronic Music (1978; since 1983, the Department of Composition). He won the Advance Australia Award for his work in 1989, was made professor in 1994, and in 1996 he became resident composer at the International String School in Melbourne. A prolific composer in many genres, his major works include the operas The Fall of the House of Usher (1965), Lenz (1970), The Golem (1980), and incidental music to Faust (1996), 10 concertos (to 1997), and a wide range of orchestral, instrumental, chamber, vocal, and choral music. He has also published widely in the field of musicology. |
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