William Southgate

William Southgate

:"See also William Wright Southgate".Sir William Southgate is a New Zealand conductor and composer. He was the first New Zealand-based artist to be knighted (as a knight bachelor).

Biography

Southgate graduated from the University of Otago with first class honours in both M.A. and B.Mus. He studied advanced conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) due to post-graduate scholarships. He graduated with the Ricordi Conductors' Prize.

Southgate has had long associations, including terms as principal conductor, with both the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Works

Southgate has composed three symphonies.

External links

* [http://www.chsymph.co.nz/musician/sir-william-southgate.html Biography on the Christchurch Symphony Orchhestra website]


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