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Gareth Walters (27 December 1928 – 31 May 2012) was a well-established British composer, teacher and producer. ==Biography== Gareth Walters was born in Britain on 27 December 1928, at Swansea in South Wales, and completed his early education there. As a schoolboy he began to compose, and he received early encouragement from the famous British composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten, who was a frequent guest at his family home. The composer's visits were related to his preparations for the first recording of ''A Ceremony of Carols'', for which Walters's father had suggested a local boys’ choir in Morriston.〔See Toccata Classics website, www.toccataclassics.com .〕 In 1949 Gareth Walters entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, and after three years he was awarded a Royal College of Music scholarship to the Conservatoire National in Paris, where he continued his studies with Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen in the early 1950s, inheriting a formal elegance that was characteristic of his music ever afterwards. Walters then travelled to Italy to study at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. While on his second period of study there in 1954, he received the offer of a teaching post in the Junior Exhibitioner section of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Gareth Walters returned to Britain to join the teaching staff of the Royal Academy of Music, and, two years later, in 1956, he was appointed as a Producer in the Music Department of the BBC in London. Among his pupils were Malcolm Singer and Martin Anderson.〔M. Anderson, 'Gareth Walters ...' () in ''The Independent'' (2012 July 27).〕 He held both appointments for much of his professional life until 1988. Afterwards, as well as composition, his activities included extended periods of examining (for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) and organising various concert series, including the annual Gower Festival near Swansea. Walters died on 31 May 2012 at Kingston in Surrey.〔M. Anderson, 'Gareth Walters ...' () in ''The Independent'' (2012 July 27)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gareth Walters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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