Meale, Richard

Meale, RichardMeale, RichardRichard Meale (* Sydney, 24 Aug. 1932), composer. Meale attended the NSW State Conservatorium for nine years until 1955, developing as a virtuoso pianist, but he did not study composition and did not graduate. He studied ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with the assistance of a Ford Foundation Grant in 1960–61 and was later an observer at the Juilliard School of Music, New York, at the San Francisco Conservatorium and at Berkeley. At UCLA…