Diana Pereira Hay

Diana Pereira Hay (born 20 February 1932) is a Danish pianist and composer. Hay was born in Sri Lanka of an Australian father and mother of Irish descent. She studied music at the Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen from 1953–60, learning piano, theory, music history, composition and orchestration. After she completed her studies, she worked as a composer through grants from the National Arts Foundation.^[1]

Works

Diana Pereiera Hay composes mainly for piano solo and four-part choir. Selected works include:

• I'm still alive, piano solo (1982)
• Sonata No. 2, piano solo (1979)
• Sonata No. 3, piano solo (1979)

References

1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA213&dq=Diana+Pereira+Hay+(born+1932)&hl=en&ei=ETP4TI3lCsX6lweWmZSBAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2 December 2010. 

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Name	Hay, Diana Pereira
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Date of birth	20 February 1932
Place of birth	Sri Lanka
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