The New Zealand Press Association reports that composer Edwin Carr has died at his home on Waiheke Island near Auckland. He was 76.
Carr studied composition first in New Zealand (under Douglas Lilburn, the dean of the country's composers), then with Benjamin Frankel at London's Guildhall School, with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome and with Carl Orff in Munich.
He spent most of the 1960s and 1970s teaching and composing in England and Australia, returning to New Zealand permanently in 1984. He received commissions from, among others, the British Arts Council (for Nastasya, a 1971 opera based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Musica Viva Australia, Radio New Zealand and the Australia Council.
— Matthew Westphal
"NZ composer Edwin Carr dies"
New Zealand Press Association (via
stuff.co.nz) - 28 March 2003
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