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Ann Carr-Boyd
Australian composer
Ann Kirsten Carr-BoydAM (born 13 July 1938)[1] is an Australian classical composer and musicologist.
Ann carr boyd biography of william shakespeare
She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia.[1]
Biography
Ann Kirsten Wentzel was born in Sydney. Her grandfather Wentzel Albert (later changed to Albert Wentzel) came to Australia in 1888 from Bohemia,[1] as a violinist with an orchestra helping to celebrate the centenary of European settlement.
Her father Norbert Wentzel was her first teacher of piano and composition, and her uncle Charles Wentzel taught her the violin. Both her father and uncle played viola in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.[1]
Her formal music studies were at the University of Sydney, where in 1960, she was one of two students (the other was Norma Tyer) to graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree.[2] Carr-Boyd then received the university's first Master of Arts in music.[1][