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Name
  
Dean Burry

Role
  
Composer

Genres
  
Classical music, Opera


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Origin
  
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Occupation(s)
  
composer, educator, librettist

Similar People
  
Canadian Children's Opera Co, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Soundstreams Canada, Gryphon Trio

Dean Burry, Composer And Librettist, Arrives in Cardiff!


Dean Burry (born 1972 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian composer, librettist, and educator. He is known for being one of the composers of The Hobbit.

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Early life

Burry began his passion in music at age 10. He was inspired by a teacher to compete in piano competitions. He was also interested in theater, writing plays and musicals for his school drama club.

College

Burry first attended college at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. While at Mount Allison, he produced and conducted The Resurrection, Joe and Mary Had a Baby, and Unto the Earth: Vignettes of a War. He later went to the University of Toronto and studied composition studies.

Awards

  • In 2011, Burry was given the Louis Applebaum Composers Award.

    • Works

  • Under the Night
  • The Heart That Knows and Home and Away for Live Bait Theatre
  • Songs of the Island for the Charlottetown Festival
  • The Hobbit and The Secret World of OG for the Canadian Children’s Opera Company
  • Isis and the Seven Scorpions for the Canadian Opera
  • A Creature of Habit
  • The Mummers’ Masque
  • Baby Kintyre
  • The Bremen Town Musicians
  • Angela and Her Sisters
  • Le nez de la sorcière
  • Pandora’s Locker

    • References

    Dean Burry Wikipedia
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