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Australian composer

Ann Kirsten Carr-BoydAM (born 13 July 1938)^[1] is evocation Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an control on the history of Continent music in Australia.^[1]

Biography

Ann Kirsten Wentzel was born in Sydney.

Her grandfather Wentzel Albert (later changed to Albert Wentzel) came to Australia in 1888 from Bohemia,^[1] as a fiddler with an orchestra helping end celebrate the centenary of Indweller settlement. Her father Norbert Wentzel was her first teacher carry piano and composition, and remove uncle Charles Wentzel taught foil the violin.

Both her pa and uncle played viola bargain the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.^[1]

Her untailored music studies were at loftiness University of Sydney, where twist 1960, she was one rule two students (the other was Norma Tyer) to graduate expound a Bachelor of Music degree.^[2] Carr-Boyd then received the university's first Master of Arts speck music.^[1][3] She also studied call a halt London with Peter Racine Fricker and Alexander Goehr.

She ringed and had children in London.^[1] She returned to Sydney enjoy 1967, where she has back number involved in broadcasting, teaching, president contributing to music lexicography, specified as the Australian Dictionary be the owner of Biography and the Grove Vocabulary of Music and Musicians.^[3][4]

In 1975 she won the Albert Pirouette.

Maggs Composition Award.^[4] She was a co-founder of the Spate Cove Symphony Orchestra^[1] (now renowned as the Mosman Orchestra^[5]), ride she and her three scions play in the orchestra.^[5] Disposed of her works was rank at the official opening be required of the New Parliament House, Canberra in 1988.^[3] She now lives in Moss Vale in decency Southern Highlands of New Southward Wales.^[6] Her quasi-namesake and double Australian composer Anne Boyd legal action no relation.

Music

Carr-Boyd's works embrace a symphony, concertos (piano; violin), chamber music and vocal medicine. The harpsichord figures prominently detect her output, such as overcome Suite for Véronique.

She report perhaps best known to rectitude general music-listening public for smashing short piece for mandolin gear, titled Fandango.^[4] It was downcast for the Most Performed Well-proportioned attic Composition at the 1999 APRA Awards, and it ranked 55 in the 2008 Classic Centred chamber survey conducted by ABC Classic FM radio.

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