Robert Creech

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Robert Edward Creech (26 September 1928 – 20 December 2019) was a

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Creech attended the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Manitoba where he was an undergraduate and graduate student majoring in history and English. He was subsequently offered admission to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and studied french horn over a period of six years with Mason Jones, principal horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1959-1976, he taught on the music faculty of the University of British Columbia and from 1970-1985 he was Artistic and Executive Director of the Courtenay Youth Music Centre. During the 1960s, he was highly involved with the Vancouver Community Arts Council and was instrumental in helping establish the Vancouver Academy of Music where he occasionally taught classes. In 1973, he founded the music department at Vancouver Community College, serving as its Director through 1976. He was a Full Professor at the University of Western Ontario from 1976–1989 and served as the Vice-Principal of The Royal Conservatory of Music from 1987-1991.^[1]

Creech moved to Ireland in 1994 where he managed an international arts consultancy (Arts Services Partnership), which has prepared a number of extensive reports for the Canadian and British Columbia governments. He was involved, as a volunteer, in music and arts projects in Ireland, including Summer Music on the Shannon/Summer Music in Galway.

He died on 20 December 2019 at the age of 91.^[2]

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