Warren Thomson
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Warren Milton Thomson
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Thomson organised and conducted workshops for music teachers and students throughout NSW since 1976, and coordinated more than 350 in-service courses for teachers at Sydney Conservatorium. He performed more than 1,200 new piano works for teachers and gave frequent broadcasts on piano teaching, as well as lecture-demonstrations and master classes in the US, Ukraine, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.[citation needed] In 1989 he was the first Australian to be invited to present a paper at the Annual Conference of the Music Teachers' Association, US.[citation needed]
He undertook numerous overseas study tours to investigate music education in Europe, Japan, South America, the US, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union. He gave radio broadcasts in Australia and abroad, including a recording of the piano music of Aram Khachaturian in 1978, the year of the composer's death, for Moscow radio.[2]
He adjudicated at all the major piano eisteddfods in Australia and served on international juries, including Deputy Chairman of the Piano Jury for the International Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 1982 and 1990; Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition 1991; New Zealand National Concerto Competition 1993; Cincinnati World Piano Competition 1993, UNISA Transet Competition (Pretoria, South Africa) 1994; Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (Japan) 1994; Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition, Kiev, 1995, 1997 and 1999; Krainev Competition in Kharkov 1996; José Iturbi Competition, Valenzia, Spain, 1996; Cologne International Competition, Germany, 1996; Schubert Competition, Germany, 1999; Trani International Piano Competition, Italy, 2004 and 2006; Tbilisi International Piano Competition, Georgia, 2005; Shanghai International Piano Competition, China, 2005; Thalberg International Piano Competition Naples, Italy, 2006; and the China International Piano Competition, Xiamen, China, 2007.[citation needed]
In 1983 he was the Australian representative for the European Piano Teachers' Association. In 1995, was made an honorary member of the Tchaikovsky Society of Russia. In 2001 he was made an honorary fellow of the Institute of Music Teachers (Australia) and member of the Organizing Committee of the Horowitz International Piano Competition, Kiev, Ukraine. In January 2005 he was made an Honorary Professor of the Kong Xiang-Dong Music Arts College, Shanghai SIPO Polytechnic, China, and in November 2005 Honorary Professor at The Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China.[2]
In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to music education.[5] He retired as artistic director and Chairman of the Jury of the Sydney International Piano Competition at the end of February, 2014.[6]
His publications include the first Australian Urtext editions, and editions of works by: JS Bach, Mozart, Pachelbel, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Czerny, Schubert, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky.[citation needed]
Thomson died in Melbourne on 19 February 2015.[7]
Notes
- ^ Kelly Burke, "Musicians lift lid on piano Olympics", The Age, 3 July 2000
- ^ a b c d ABC: Grab the Goanna
- ^ Kelly Burke, "Tinkle, tinkle, little stars", Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 2000
- ^ "Minutes about intention of signature of Contract between". horowitzv.org. Archived from the original on 2 May 2003.
- ^ It’s an Honour: OAM
- ^ Special Announcement from SIPCA Board
- ^ "Warren Milton Thomson Notice". The Age. 21 February 2015.