Olding

Maxl (Maxlwell) Olding (* Launceston, Tas., 4 July 1934), pianist, teacher. Max Olding studied piano at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium with Lindsay Biggins and was the 1952 Commonwealth winner of the ABC Concerto Competition. He undertook postgraduate piano studies in Vienna with Viola Thern and in Geneva with Abbey Simon. Appointed senior lecturer in piano at the Queensland Conservatorium in 1961, he became deputy director in 1976 and later acting director, resigning in 1989; he was...