 Quentin
Grant
Executive Member
- South Australia
Quentin Grant was born in Leeton, NSW, on January 16, 1962. He
studied composition and clarinet at the Tasmanian Conservatorium
of Music in 1981 and 1982. In 1983 he moved to Adelaide and commenced
studies at the Elder Conservatorium in composition and piano with
Richard Meale, and in analysis with Bozidar Kos and Peter Brideoake.
Further studies included three weeks spent in Bali studying gamelan.
In his final year at the Elder Conservatorium (1985) Grant won
the South Australian Young Composer's Award for his chamber work
Poem Before Spring. He was awarded another SA Young Composer's Award
in 1987, in the orchestral section, for Nocturne Before Nuclear
War, and in 1990 and 1991 was the recipient of Sounds Australian
awards.
Quentin Grant's music has been performed by ensembles including
the Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, le Nouvel Ensemble
Moderne, Nova Ensemble, Perihelion, Breakthrough Piano Quartet,
and the Adelaide Chamber Singers. He has received commissions from
such ensembles as Flederman, and the Breakthrough Piano Quartet.
Quentin currently works as a freelance composer and performer,
and is a Co-Director of The Firm, a company that produces yearly
series of chamber music concerts. He lives blissfully in Adelaide
with Anna, Arland and Clara.
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