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AUSTRALIAN Classical Musicians
- Agnew, Roy (Ewing) (Sydney, 1893 - Sydney, 1944)pianist/composer
- Ahern, David (Sydney, 2 NOV 1947 - )composer
- Antill, John (Sydney, 8 APR 1904 - Sydney, 29 DEC 1986)composer
- Banks, Don (Donald Oscar) (Melbourne, 1923 - )composer
- Bauld, Alison (Sydney, 7 MAY 1944 - )composer
- Benjamin, Arthur (Sydney, 18 SEP 1893 - London, 9 APR 1960) composer/pianist
- Bonighton, Ian (1942 - 1975)
- Bonynge, Richard (Sydney, 29 SEP 1930 - ) Australian conductor, married to Joan
Sutherland
in 1954
- Boyd, Ann (Sydney, 10 APR 1946 - )composer/flute
- Brideoake, Peter (b. 1945)
- Bronhill, June ( - )
- Brumby, Colin (Melbourne, 18 JUN 1933 - ) composer
- Butterley, Nigel (Sydney, 13 MAY 1935 - ) composer/pianist
- Cabena, Barrie (Melbourne, 12 AUG 1933 - )Australian-Canadian=Singer-Organist-Composer
- Conynham, Barry (Sydney, 27 AUG 1944 - )composer
- Cugley, Ian (Melbourne, 22 JUN 1945 - )composer
- Douglas, Clive (Rushworth, Victoria, 27 JUL 1903 - Melbourne, 20 APR 1977)conductor/composer
- Edwards, Ross (Sydney, 23 DEC 1943 - ) composer
- English, George (b. 1912)
- Farr, Ian (b. 1941)
- Fowler, Jennifer (Bunbury, Western Australia, 14 APR 1939 - )composer
- Le Gallienne, Dorian(1915 - 1963)
- Gethen, Felix(b. 1916)
- Gifford, Helen (b. 1935)
- Giles, Alice ( - ) harpist
- Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (Melbourne, 29 DEC 1912 - Sydney, 25 JUN 1990)Am-composer
- Grainger,
Percy (Melbourne, 8 JUL 1882 - White Plains, NY, 20 FEB 1961)Am-composer
- Hanson, Raymond (1913 - 1976)
- Hart, Fritz (Brockley, Kent, England; 11 FEB 1874 - Honolulu, 9 JUL 1949)Eng-conductor/composer
Settled in Australia, 1915
- Helfgott, David ( - ) pianist
- Henderson, Moya (b. 1947)
- Hill,
Alfred (Melbourne, 16 NOV 1870 - Sydney, 30 OCT 1960)conductor, composer, and
pedagogue.
- Hollier, Donald (b. 1934)
- Hughes, Robert (Leven, Scotland, 27 MAR 1912 )composer
Emigrated to Australia in 1930.
- Hutchens, Frank (Christchurch, NZ, 15 JAN 1892 - Sydney, 18 OCT
1965)pianist/composer
- Hutchinson, Ernest (Melbourne, 1871 - 1951) pianist, composer and
pedagogue - in 1900 and became head of the piano
department
at Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. In 1914, became dean of the
graduate
school at Julliard School of Music in New York, and president of that
institution from 1937 to 1945.
- Hyde, Miriam (b. 1913)
- Mackerras, Charles (Schenectady, NY, 17 NOV 1925 - )conductor, Parents Australian. Moved to Sydney as a child, studied there;
conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and conducted in various
opera
houses in Europe.
In 1973, he helped inaugurate the new opera house in Sydney.
- McGuire, Marshall ( - )harpist
- McKie, William (Melbourne, 1901 - 1984) organist - for
many
years of Westminster Abbey in London. He performed for the coronation
of
Queen Elizabeth II in 1952
- Meale, Richard (Sydney, 24 AUG 1932 - ) composer
- Melba, Nellie (nee Helen Porter Mitchell) (Burnley, 19 MAY 1861 - Sydney, 23 FEB 1931)
World-celebrated
operatic soprano, She took her stage name from her native
city,
Melbourne.
- Mills, Richard ( 11 NOV 1949 - )
- Penberthy, James (b. 1917)
- Plush, Vincent (Adelaide, 18 APR 1950 - )composer
- Rutter, Jane ( Sydney, - ) flute
- Sculthorpe, Peter (Launceston, Tasmania, 29 APR 1929 - ) composer
- Sutherland, Joan (Sydney, 7 NOV 1926 - ) coloratura soprano
- Sutherland, Margaret (Adelaide, 20 NOV 1897 - Melbourne, 12 AUG 1984)pianist-teacher-composer. Studied with Arnold Bax in England
- Tibbits, George (Boulder, 7 NOV 1933 - )composer-architect
- Truman, Ernest (1870 - 1948) composer/ resident organist of the Sydney Town Hall
- Wesley-Smith, Martin (1945) composer
- Willems, Gerard ( - )pianist
- Williams, John Christopher (Melbourne, 24 APR 1941 - )classical guitarist
- Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher(Sydney, 21 NOV 1931)composer
- Woodward, Roger (Sydney, 20 DEC 1942 - )pianist
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