Peter Sculthorpe (20 April 1929 – 8 August 2014)

(Reproduced from ACO Concert Programme: Tognetti’s Beethoven, 2014) Our good friend Peter was Australia’s foremost classical music composer, and one of our most original and distinctive creative voices in any medium. Born and schooled in Launceston, he undertook university studies at Melbourne, under Bernard Heinze, and Oxford, where in 1958 his tutor, composer Edmund Rubbra, … Read more