Anderson Tyrer - Performer

Frank Anderson Tyrer (1891–1962) was an English concert pianist, composer and conductor, best remembered as the first conductor of New Zealand's National Orchestra. Born on 17 November 1891 in Accrington, Lancashire, he studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music on a four-year county council scholarship, and served in the British Army from 1914 to 1918. He made his debut at a Promenade concert under Thomas Beecham in 1919, playing Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, and between 1919 and 1923 gave series of orchestral concerto concerts at the Queen's Hall in London; he also recorded with Adrian Boult and the British Symphony Orchestra. He toured Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as pianist, conductor and music examiner, visiting New Zealand frequently during the 1930s. In 1940 he conducted the New Zealand Centennial Music Festival Orchestra in concerts across the country, and from 1946 to 1950 he was the founding conductor of the National Orchestra, today the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, writing in an English idiom of the first half of the 20th century, he produced symphonic works, a piano concerto, piano pieces and songs, as well as Dr Faustus (1940), a symphonic setting for chorus and orchestra after Marlowe. He died on 16 December 1962. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	Anderson Tyrer
On Wikipedia	Anderson_Tyrer
Ensembles	New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1950 (as conductor)
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