Winsome Evans
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Winsome Joan Evans OAM BEM
(born 26 October 1941) is one of Australia's premier early music specialists.
She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney
, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe
. In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichord
ist, composer, and arranger, she is perhaps best known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia's best known early music ensembles. She is an Associate Professor of music at the University of Sydney.
Winsome Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach
's works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind. Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009.
In 1980 she was awarded the British Empire Medal
(BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and the NSW Jaycees' Award for services to music. In 1986 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
(OAM) for services to music.
She was featured, along with her colleague Anne Boyd
, in the documentary Facing the Music.
British Empire Medal
The Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service, usually known as the British Empire Medal , is a British medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown...
(born 26 October 1941) is one of Australia's premier early music specialists.
She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
. In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
ist, composer, and arranger, she is perhaps best known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia's best known early music ensembles. She is an Associate Professor of music at the University of Sydney.
Winsome Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind. Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009.
In 1980 she was awarded the British Empire Medal
British Empire Medal
The Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service, usually known as the British Empire Medal , is a British medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown...
(BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and the NSW Jaycees' Award for services to music. In 1986 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(OAM) for services to music.
She was featured, along with her colleague Anne Boyd
Anne Boyd
Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.-Early life:Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd ....
, in the documentary Facing the Music.