Ross Edwards (composer)

Ross Edwards ( born December 23, 1943 in Sydney ) is an Australian composer.

Life

Edwards studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and at the University of Adelaide. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney. Among his teachers were Sandor Veress and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. After a stay in London Edwards taught at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Conservatorium. Since 1980 he works as a freelance composer in Sydney.

Works

About the Piano Concerto of 1982, which with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra was played for the first time in public in 1983 by Dennis Hennig, the Violin Concerto Maninyas dedicated Dene Olding, and Symphony are known Da pacem domine and the 2002 Diana Doherty under Lorin Maazel premiered oboe Concerto Big Spirit Dreaming.

The created the millennium composition Dawn mantras heard every hour at the Powerhouse Museum for the procession of the Apostles in watches model by Edward Bartholomew Smith.

Awards

2002, 2005 and 2007, Edwards received a Classical Music Awards respectively. Excellent his Symphony No. 3, 2005, his Guitar Concerto with String Orchestra and in 2007 a ​​piano trio in 2002.