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John Beckwith
Biography
John Beckwith (b. 9 March 1927, Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer, educator and pianist.
In 1945, after several years of studying piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), Beckwith received a Royal Conservatory scholarship, which allowed him to study piano with Alberto Guerrero at the University of Toronto. His other professors included Leo Smith and John Weinzweig, and it was here that he obtained his B.Mus. He also obtained his Mus.M. in 1961 from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. In 1950 he was awarded a second scholarship, this time from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. This scholarship allowed him to travel to Paris, where he studied composition under Nadia Boulanger.
Beckwith started teaching in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto in 1952. From 1970 to 1977, he was the dean of the faculty. He was founding director of the Institute for Canadian Music at the University of Toronto. He retired in 1990.
He has written over 130 compositions covering stage, orchestral, chamber, solo and choral genres. In 1987, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Works for Winds
- Back to Bolivia
- Case Study
- Elastic Band Studies
- Eureka
- Quartet for Woodwind Instruments
- A Little Organ Concert
- Scene
- The Sun Dance
- Taking a Stand
- Three Brass Rings (1984/2007)
- Tunes of the Sharon Band (1982)
- For Starters (1984)
- Workout
Resources
- John Beckwith (composer), Wikipedia Accessed 17 November 2020