1. Colin James Brumby was an Australian composer and conductor.
10 Facts About Colin Brumby
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Colin Brumby studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, from which he graduated in 1957 with a diploma in education.
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Colin Brumby was organist at St Oswald's Glen Iris from 1950 to 1953.
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Colin Brumby went to Spain to study advanced composition with Philipp Jarnach, and to London to study with Alexander Goehr.
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Colin Brumby became Associate Professor with the University of Queensland, from which he retired in 1998.
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Colin Brumby was Musical Director of the Queensland Opera Company from 1968 to 1971.
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Colin Brumby wrote a series of children's operettas, including The Wise Shoemaker Rita and Dita and the Pirate, Rita and Dita in Toyland and The Prince Who Couldn't Laugh.
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In 1981 Colin Brumby was awarded an Advance Australia Award for services to music.
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Colin Brumby has won the Don Banks Fellowship and the APRA award for most performed Australasian serious work.
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Colin Brumby's music includes operas; concerti for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, piano, violin, viola, and guitar; two symphonies; orchestral suites and overtures; chamber works; sonatas for flute, clarinet and bassoon; incidental music for dramatic presentations; film and ballet scores; and songs.