Alison Bauld
{{short description|Australian writer and composer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
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Alison Margaret Bauld (born 7 May 1944) is an Australian writer and composer who lives and works in London, England.
Biography
Bauld was born in Sydney and studied piano with Alexander Sverjensky at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&dq=Alison+Bauld+%28born+1944%29&pg=PA43|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393034875|accessdate=23 January 2011}} She also studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and toured as a Shakespearian actress for a year before graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Sydney.{{cite book |title=Women & music: a history|author=Pendle, Karin|year=1991}} She continued her education in England through a university scholarship, studying composition with Elisabeth Lutyens and Hans Keller and graduated with a doctorate in composition from the University of York in 1974.{{cite web|url=http://www.femininemusique.com/main.php?page=alison|title=Alison Bauld (b. 1944)|accessdate=23 January 2011|archive-date=10 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710234130/http://www.femininemusique.com/main.php?page=alison|url-status=dead}}{{cite book |title=The companion to 20th-century music|author=Lebrecht, Norman|year=1996}}
After completing her education, Bauld worked as a composer and music teacher. Her works have been performed internationally, and she has received a Gulbenkian Dance Award for composition.{{cite web|url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/bauld-alison|title=Alison Bauld:Represented Artist|accessdate=23 January 2011}}
Works
Selected works include:
- Van Diemen's land, choral fantasy for mezzo-soprano, bass, 2 tenors, baritones, male speaker and a cappella chorus
- Dear Emily, music theatre for actress/soprano and harp or piano. Text by William Blake and Alison Bauld
- Nell, ballad opera
- Farewell Already, adaptation from Richard III
- Banquot's Buried, music theatre
- Where Should Othello Go for tenor/baritone and piano
- Pluto, theatrical chamber work for soprano, female chorus and instruments
- No More of Love, song for soprano and piano
- Play Your Way, three volume piano tutor
- Van Diemen's Land for a cappella choir
Bauld has also published a novel:
- Mozart's Sister (Autumn 2005) Alcina Press
References
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Category:20th-century Australian classical composers
Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:Australian expatriates in England
Category:Australian music educators
Category:Australian women classical composers
Category:Australian women music educators
Category:Musicians from Sydney
Category:National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:20th-century Australian women composers