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Patron
Art Song Perth is honoured to have as its patron Emeritus Professor David Tunley.
David Tunley was trained initially as a pianist at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but after being appointed as Lecturer in Music at the University of Western Australia in 1958, turned his energies more towards choral conducting, composition and research. It has been musicology that established his international reputation with the publication of numerous books and journal articles, including contributions to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Oxford History of Music. He has taken up research fellowships at Oxford and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio in Italy.
He was eventually appointed to a Personal Chair before moving to the Chair of Music after the retirement of Sir Frank Callaway. He is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Music at UWA.
As a composer he studied in Paris under Nadia Boulanger in the 1960s. Soon after his appointment to the University of Western Australia, he founded the A Capella Choir (which later became the University Collegium Musicum), introducing works rarely heard in Perth.
His passion for bringing music to the community included establishing and directing the much-loved York Winter Music Festival and the Terrace Proms. For his work on French music he was appointed a Chevalier in the Napoleonic Order of Palmes Académiques, and for his work at home the Order of Australia and the Australian Centenary Medal. He has enjoyed seeing many of his past students making fine careers in music and music education – the best of all rewards for a teacher.
Links
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tunley
Australian Music Centre http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/tunley-david
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