Australian Composers Orchestral Forum provides emerging composers the opportunity to work with a professional symphony orchestra
ACOF 2004 Participant - Anthony Young
Biography
Anthony Young began his full time music studies in 1998 at the University of Auckland. He completed a Bachelor of Music degree in 2000, a Honours degree in 2001, and a Masters Degree in Music (Composition) in 2004. During his time at university, he took an keen interest in not only composition, but electronic music, analysis and conducting.
Anthony has won prizes in a number of different university-based competitions, and was a finalist in the 2003 Douglas Lilburn Prize, a competition run by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, which resulted in two performances of his work Mamaku in August of last year. He has been a regular participant at the annual Nelson Young Composers Workshop, and has had works played in both the Auckland Philharmonia and NZSO reading workshops.
In 2003, Anthony was named the joint Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia, which has resulted in three commissioned pieces: The Farewell (premiering on the 24 June), a Concertino for Orchestra, and a yet to be completed wind quintet. In August 2004, his one-act opera Through A Window, based on a short story by H.G. Wells, was performed.
Recently, Young's conducting studies have taken a back seat to his composition work, but Anthony hopes to resume this in the future. Along with his composition work, Anthony is an itinerant teacher at a local high school, teaching composition, aural skills and theory. He has an interest in his local amateur theatre, and is a keen reader.
