Cresswell, Lyell, 1944-2022

found: Paragon Ensemble. Paragon premieres, I [SR] c1991:container (Lyell Cresswell) insert (b. Wellington, N.Z., in 1944; currently a freelance composer in Edinburgh)

found: Wikipedia, November 30, 2018(Lyell Cresswell (born 1944, Wellington, New Zealand) is a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. He moved to Scotland in the 1970s and has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1985; received the APRA Silver Scroll for his contribution to New Zealand music in 1979)

found: SOUNZ website, November 30, 2018(Lyell Cresswell was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 October 1944. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. After some teaching at Glasgow University he joined Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff as Music Organiser (1978-80). He returned to Scotland as Forman Fellow in Composition at Edinburgh University until 1982 and spent the next three years as Cramb Fellow in Composition at Glasgow University. In 1978 he won the Ian Whyte Award for the Orchestral work Salm, and in 1979 received the APRA Silver Scroll for his contribution to New Zealand music. His works have been recommended by the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 1979, 1981 and 1988. Since 1985 he has been a full-time composer based in Edinburgh.) - https://www.sounz.org.nz/contributors/1023

found: The dominion post WWW site, viewed on March 23, 2022:Lyell Cresswell page (Cresswell, Lyell: [died] on March 20, 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland)

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