Brett Dean
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- Epitaphs String Quintet
- Sextet 'Old Kings in Exile'
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Brett Dean (b.1961) is a Grawemeyer Award-winning composer and viola player. Dean studied in Brisbane until 1984, when he moved to Germany to join the Berliner Philharmoniker’s viola section, a position he held for 15 years. He began composing in 1988, becoming established in his own right through works such as the clarinet concerto Ariel’s Music, which won a UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers award, the piano quintet Voices of Angels and Twelve Angry Men, written for the 12 cellists of t
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Dean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Brisbane
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Griffith University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- viola
- Work location
- Berlin
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- date of birth
- 1961-10-23
- member of
- Berlin Philharmonic
- name in native language
- Brett Dean
- medical condition
- COVID-19
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