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Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM (born
April 10 1946) is an
Australian composer and
Professor of Music at the
University of Sydney.
Early life
Anne Boyd was born
April 10,
1946, in
Sydney,
New South Wales to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd (nee Osborn).
When she was three years of age her father died, and her mother sent her to live with relatives on a sheep station (Maneroo)thousands of kilometres away near Longreach,in central Queensland. This intimate experience with the Australian landscape had a profound influence on her future as a composer: its expansiveness, its dramatic changes, and its "indescribable energy". She began composing while still at Maneroo, at the age of eight, for the resources she'd available: recorder and voice. She moved to Canberra at age 11, and although she was pleased to be reunited with her mother, she missed the beauty of the
Outback terrain.
In New South Wales, she received her education at
Albury High School and
Hornsby Girls' High School.
Following matriculation from
high school, Boyd studied music at the
University of Sydney, where she was one of
Peter Sculthorpe's first students. Sculthorpe had a profound influence on her—she said that his music was the first time she'd heard music which expressed her experience of the Australian landscape.
After receiving her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, she received a
PhD in
composition from the
University of York in
England.
Career
Boyd has taught at the
University of Sussex, the
University of Hong Kong, and the
University of Sydney, where she's currently a professor of composition, Arts Music undergraduate coordinator, Co-chair of Composition, and Chair of the Arts Music Unit of the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has received the
Order of Australia for her contributions to music.
Boyd's struggle to maintain funding for music courses in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney was featured in the television
documentary Facing the Music. Boyd lost the struggle, with the result that the Department of Music was incorporated into the Sydney Conservatorium (a faculty at the same university) from the start of 2005.
Boyd was the recipient of a Special Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards in 2005.
Music
Many of Boyd's compositions have an
East Asian influence, especially the music of
Japan (such as the wood flute and the
Japanese mode) and
Indonesia (such as the
gamelan orchestra and the Balinese modes).
She is a deeply
religious Christian, and many of her works are of a
spiritual or
meditative nature, such as the
a cappella work
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1975). She has written
song cycles, and piano, choral, and
chamber music.
Musical compositions by Boyd include:
Goldfish Through Summer Rain 1979,
The Little Mermaid 1980,
Black Sun 1990,
Revelations of Divine Love 1995,
Meditations on a Chinese Character 1996,
A Vision: Jesus Reassures His Mother 1999, and
YuYa 2005. CD's include:
Meditations on a Chinese Character 1997, and
Crossing a Bridge of Dreams 2000.
Her compositions can be found on Tall Poppies and ABC Classics labels.
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