BETTY BEATH - AUSTRALIA
BORN 19 NOVEMBER
Elizabeth Margaret "Betty" Beath, née Eardley, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator.
Betty Beath was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and began piano lessons at the age of three. She was twice a finalist in the ABC Concerto competition when in her teens. In 1950, she was awarded a University of Queensland Music Scholarship, which took her to study under the composer and pianist, Frank Hutchens at the Sydney Conservatorium and also at the Queensland Conservatorium, with Max Olding and Dr. Janet Delpratt.
After completing her education, Beath settled in Brisbane and took positions as an accompanist and later teacher at Queensland Conservatorium and was Head of Music at St. Margaret's Girls' School, Brisbane. She is an Examiner with the Australian Music Examinations Board. Beath received a Southeast Asian Fellowship from the Australia Council in 1974 to conduct research in Bali and Java. She is married to author/illustrator, David Cox.
She represented women composers of Australia at the 3rd International Congress on Women in Music, held in Mexico City in 1984. She has also been an executive member of the International League of Women Composers.
State Library of Queensland has in its collection a digital story and oral history of Betty Beath. In this extensive interview she speaks with Laurel Dingle about her life as a music composer, performer and teacher, from her earliest memories to the present day. (1950-2014).
Beath, at times, incorporates world music themes into her compositions, including music from Bali and Java.
Source: Wikipedia and Australian Music Centre
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Lament for Kosovo by Betty Beath
TAWNIE OLSON - CANADA
BORN 19 NOVEMBER
BORN 19 NOVEMBER
Tawnie Olson is a canadian composer.
She is the winner of the 2018 Barlow Prize and the 2015 Iron Composer Competition, and in 2018 her Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Neilsen Glenn took second prize in the NATS Art Song Competition. In 2017 she received an OPERA America Discovery Grant to develop a new work about Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine with re:Naissance Opera (libretto by Roberta Barker), and a Canada Council for the Arts Professional Development Grant to study field recording at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In 2018 she was the Composer-in-Residence of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, an American Composers Forum BandQuest Composer-in-Residence at E.C. Adams School in Guilford, CT, and she received a Connecticut Artist Fellowship.
Olson has received commissions from the Canadian Art Song Project, Third Practice/New Music USA, the Canada Council for the Arts, Mount Holyoke College/The Women’s Philharmonic, the Blue Water Chamber Orchestra, Ithaca College, the American Composers Forum, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music’s Robert Baker Commissioning Fund, among others.
Source: Tawnie Olson Official Website and New Music USA
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Scel lem duib by Tawnie Olson
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