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1pm Tuesday 2 March 2004 in the Quadrangle

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Director, National Carillon, Canberra
National Carillonist of New Zealand

A Continental Odyssey

1. La Dandrieux . . . . . Joost Boutmy (1697-1779)1
2. Preludium quasi una fantasia (1927) . . . . . Jef van Hoof (1886-1959)1
3. Suite in d minor ‘La Harpe Royale’ (1686) . . . . . Robert de Visée (ca.1650-ca.1732)3
   Prelude - Allemande
   Courante - Sarabande
   Gavotte - Menuet I & Menuet II
   Bourée - Gigue
4. Granada, from Suite Española . . . . . Izaac Albeniz (1860-1909)2
5. From the ‘Mechelen’ School:
   Postlude in d minor (‘Unwritten’ Postlude) . . . . . Jef Denyn (1862-1941)1
   Lamento, from Sonatine voor beiaard (1959) . . . . . Gaston Feremans (1907-1964)1
6. Andante in d
   from De Gruytters Beiaardboek (1746)
. . . . . J.-H. Fiocco (1703-1740) 3
7. Improvisation on a theme of François Couperin 3
   rossignol en amour’
. . . . . Timothy Hurd QSM (o1952)
8. Sprookje (A Fairy Tale) . . . . . Jef Rottiers (1904-1985)1
Music from Flanders 1, Spain2 & France3

Timothy Hurd QSM (o1952, New York) studied composition with Krzysztof Penderecki and Jacob Druckman at Yale University, with further postgraduate study in Holland & Belgium. He received the Artist’s Diploma in carillon performance from the Netherlands Carillon School in 1980, where he studied with Peter Bakker and Leen ’t Hart. He did research in musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven and studied Flemish carillon music at the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn’ in Mechelen. In 1981, he was awarded the ‘Prix d’Excellence’ by the Dutch Government. After two years in Florida as Carillon Scholar at Bok Tower, then teaching at the Scandinavian Carillon School in Denmark, he became National Carillonist of New Zealand in October 1984. A Queen’s Service Medal for services to music was awarded in 1994. He was appointed first Director of the National Carillon in Canberra in July 2001.

 
 
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