Biography

Pianist and composer Tony Gould is one of Australia's most respected musicians. His career has embraced many styles of music, not least jazz and other improvisatory musics in addition to traditional and contemporary classical musics. He gives many concerts each year and for fifty years he has been involved in an extraordinary number of recording projects both as pianist and composer and has been at the forefront of music education in Australia via various tertiary institutions in Melbourne and throughout Australia.

He has a PhD from Latrobe University, a Master of Arts from Monash University and a Bachelor of Music from Melbourne University. In early 2005 Tony resigned his position as Head of the School of Music, Victorian College of the Arts to renew his passion for a hands-on approach to music-making in performance, composition, and writing.


Recent awards include:
APRA / Australian Music Centre (AMC) Classical Music Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education" (2005)
Australia Council Music Board Fellowship (2006-2007)
Distinguished Artist residency at Arthur Boyd's artist's studios in Bundanon (2007)
Order of Australia (AM) (2007)


Biographical Data on the writer can also be found in the following publications:

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (also a contributor)
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (Colin Larkin)
The Australian Jazz Explosion (Mike Williams)
Black Roots White Flowers (Adrian Bisset)
Compositions for Improvisers (also a contributor) (Jeff Pressing )






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