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A Portrait of Brett Dean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Carlos María Solare
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It surely must take a lot of courage to resign from one of the most prestigious (and best remunerated) positions in the musical world to pursue a career as an independent, free-lance composer. But this is precisely what the Australian Brett Dean did a year ago, when he left the Berlin Philharmonic's viola section after 15 years and went back to his native Queensland. And for all that, composing hadn't even been a part of Dean's training at the Conservatory in Brisbane, or had it?

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 217 , July 2001 , pp. 22 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001

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