CHANDLER, Mary
(*1911)> OBOIST · LECTURER · COMPOSER
CHANDLER, Mary British oboist, lecturer and composer. London, May 16, 1911. She obtained her M.A. from Oxford and is an L.R.A.M. and an A.R.C.M. She was the principal oboist for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1944 to 1958 and area director of the Kent Music School, 1960 to 1971. In 1968 she won the W.W. Cobbett Prize for Women Composers and in 1979 was the winner of the Society of Women Musicians Prize for Women Composers. She was chairlady of the Association of Wind Teachers…