Ian Cugley (1945-2010)
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Random Audio Sample: Sea changes : opera by Ian Cugley, from the CD Dreams & desires |
Photo: self-portrait by Ian Cugley
Artist website: http://www.icugley.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
Ian Cugley (1945-2010) came to prominence through his 1960s
orchestral works Pan, the Lake and Prelude for
orchestra. Prior to his move to the UK in the 1980s, he was
active in Tasmania where he composed, taught music and computing
at the University of Tasmania, and worked as a percussionist with
the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra also premiered
Cugley's
Violin Concerto (1977), commissioned by the Tasmanian
Conservatorium of Music for Jan Sedivka.
Since his move to the UK, and partly due to his deteriorating
health, Cugley no longer considered himself an active composer.
'I used to be a composer, reasonably well recognised in my own
country, but I don't do that now and I tend not to dwell on the
past', he stated on his website.
Former composition teacher, Peter Sculthorpe, regarded Ian Cugley
as one of his most talented students. Cugley's Pan, the
Lake, recorded by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for EMI in
1968, was based on a theme from Sculthorpe's Irkanda IV.