BOYD, Anne Elizabeth
(*1946)> FLAUTIST · PIANIST · RECORDER PLAYER · LECTURER · COMPOSER
BOYD, Anne Elizabeth Australian flautist, pianist, recorder player, lecturer and composer. Sydney, April 10, 1946. She spent her childhood on a remote country farm in Queensland and taught herself the recorder at the age of five. She learned to play the piano at the age of 11 and composed a number of small pieces. She won the ABC Children’s Hour Commonwealth Music Award for Air and Variations at the age of 13. She went to Sydney in 1959 and studied at the N.S.W. Conservatory (harmony and…