Robert Cooper Allworth OAM (10 March 1943 - 26 February 2017) was an Australian composer. His album of his composition Last Look at Bronte was nominated for the 1987 ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album.
Robert Allworth | |
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| Birth name | Robert Graham Allworth |
| Born | 10 March 1943 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 26 February 2017 (aged 73) |
| Genres | Classical |
In the 1997 Australia Day Honours he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to music as a composer and as an advocate of other Australian composers' works".
Biography
editRobert Cooper Allworth,[1] was born as Robert Graham Allworth on 10 March 1943,[2] the only child of Australian Army officer,[3] Kenneth Reginald Allworth (11 December 1905 – 26 March 1969)[3][4] and Gwendolyn (née Jones, c. 1906–5 May 1969).[5] He was raised in the northern Sydney suburb of Denistone.[6] While a school student he undertook piano lessons and studied musical theory.[6] As a teenager he was inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's "12-tone style of modern classical music."[6] Late in 1969, after his parents' deaths, he returned to Denistone where he lived with his domestic partner, William Parsons.[6]
His composition, "Past Horizons", was written in 1964 for solo piano.[7] In 1965 one of his piano sonatas was chosen for performance in Stockholm by the International Society of Contemporary Music.[6] In December 1995 "Past Horizons" was recorded by Larry Sitsky at radio station 2MBS and issued on The Glasshouse Suite: Music of Australian Composers by various artists in the following year via Jade Records.[7]
Discography
editAlbums
edit| Title | Details |
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| Last Look at Bronte |
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| Where No Shadows Fall (with David Miller) |
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| The Glasshouse Suite: Music of Australian Composers with Olive Anderson, Lawrence Bartlett, Colin Brumby, Ann Carr-Boyd, Eric Gross, Dulcie Holland, Larry Sitsky, Derek Strahan) |
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| Concerto Grosso (Music of Australian Composers) (with Mary Mageau, Holland, Brumby, Gross) |
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Awards and nominations
editARIA Music Awards
editThe ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 1987 | Last Look at Bronte | Best Classical Album | Nominated | [8] |
References
edit- ^ "Award Extract: Robert Cooper Allworth". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 32, 827. 13 March 1943. p. 16. Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Item Details: B4717 Allworth, Kenneth Reginald". National Archives of Australia. 18 May 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "In the Supreme Court of New South Wales—Probate Jurisdiction—In the will of Kenneth Reginald..." Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 118. 3 October 1969. p. 4060. Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "In the Supreme Court of New South Wales—Probate Jurisdiction—In the will of Gwendolyn Allworth, late..." Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. No. 127. 31 October 1969. p. 4472. Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b c d e Buckley, Anthony; Dale, Charles (12 May 2017), "Robert Allworth, Composer Who Gained International Recognition", The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 7 March 2018
- ^ a b c "CD: The Glasshouse Suite: Music of Australian Composers. [1996]". Australian Music Centre (AMC). Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards – Winners by Award". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 November 2018.