Winsome Evans
Biography
She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe. In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichordist, composer, and arranger, she is known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia's leading early music ensembles. She was an associate professor of music at the University of Sydney.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind. Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
In 2017 she donated a harpsichord made by Mars McMillan to Sancta Sabina College in Sydney.{{Cite web |date=2017-11-09 |title=Thank you Winsome! |url=https://www.ssc.nsw.edu.au/2017/11/thank-you-winsome/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Santa Sabina College}}
Awards and honours
In 1980 she was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1060161 It's an Honour: BEM] and the NSW Jaycees' Award for services to music. In 1986 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music.[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/870620 It's an Honour: OAM]
She was featured, along with her colleague Australian composer and music professor Anne Boyd, in the documentary Facing the Music.
She uses the name Snave Pluckpayres in some contexts.[http://www.australianstage.com.au/201010203951/reviews/sydney/andalusian-honey-%7C-renaissance-players.html Australian Stage]; retrieved 15 September 2013
References
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Sources
- [http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/forty-years-on-and-ye-olde-pop-music-is-still-top-of-the-rusticcharts/2006/06/04/1149359609729.html Sydney Morning Herald article]
- [http://www.blacksun.com/biographies/evans.htm Record company biography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110302035423/https://www.sydney.edu.au/music/about/units/staff/arts_music.shtml Sydney University biography]
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