HOUSTON DUNLEAVY, COMPOSER
Houston Dunleavy was born in
Ulster in 1962, and first immigrated to Australia in 1973.
Since 1985, Dunleavy has pursued
a national and international career as a composer and conductor. His
composition teachers include Peter Tahourdin, Barry Conyngham, Donald Erb,
David Felder and Charles Wuorinen, and his conducting teachers are Roland Yeung
and Gilbert Brooks.
He served as Visiting Composer
at James Madison University, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Ball State
University, the University of Florida, Georgia State University, The University
of Southern Florida, The University of Melbourne and the University of
Tasmania.
Dunleavy is also a former
Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra,
Senior Lecturer in Composition and Honorary Principal Fellow at the University
of Wollongong, and currently serves as an academic staff member at the
Australian Institute of Music in Sydney and Musical Director of the Sydney Male
Choir.
Recent performances of his music
include the 2007 Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, the 2008 Aurora Festival,
the 2008 Albert Roussel Festival, and The Delaware New Music Festival. In
2010, Dunleavy’s music had performances at the "Organs of the
Goldfields" Festival in Ballarat, Vic., Adelaide, Wollongong, Melbourne
and Sydney in Australia, as well as Taipei, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland,
(Oregon) in the USA, and Manchester, England.
In 2011, "Flying in
Paradise" was premiered at the Tubamania Festival in Bangkok (the
Australian premiere was given at the 2011 Melbourne International Festival of
Brass). There were further performances at the 2011 Australian National Flute
Festival and in the Opera Prometheus "Sydney in Love" Festival.
2011was capped off in grand
style by the world premiere (December 3, Melbourne), of Dunleavy’s
concerto for viola and symphonic winds "A Kiss Before The World's
End" given by Brett Deubner, viola and the Grainger Wind Symphony,
conducted by Roland Yeung.
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