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Graeme Koehne, (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality. His orchestral trilogy ''Unchained Melody'', ''Powerhouse'', and ''Elevator Music'' makes allusions to Hollywood film score traditions, cartoon music, popular Latin music and other dance forms. He cites influences from "much-maligned and misunderstood" work by composers Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle, Henry Mancini and John Barry. ==Life and career== Koehne was born in Adelaide. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in that city, studying composition with Richard Meale. In 1984, Koehne was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to work at the School of Music, Yale University. Here he studied with Louis Andriessen and Jacob Druckman. For two years of the fellowship he also took private lessons with Virgil Thomson, whose influence is immediately discernible in the radically simplified, direct and anti-modern style of various subsequent scores by Koehne.〔Elder Conservatorium 〕 He returned to Australia in 1986 and was appointed Lecturer in Composition at the Elder Conservatorium of Music. At the 1992 Adelaide Festival of Arts, he gained national attention, when he was awarded the Young Composers Prize for his orchestral work ''Rainforest''. Around this time, he commenced his long and fruitful collaboration with choreographer Graeme Murphy, which included a children's ballet based on Oscar Wilde's ''The Selfish Giant'' and the full-length work ''Nearly Beloved''. As of 2005, Koehne is Head of Composition at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.〔("Elder Conservatorium of Music: People – Composition" )〕 Until recently he also chaired the Music Board of the Australia Council and was a Board Member of the Council. 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「Graeme Koehne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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