Notable Melbourne Arts Figures Honoured
The Age
Monday July 9, 2007
TWO notable Melburnians, horn player Barry Tuckwell and ballet institution Dame Margaret Scott, have won this year's J.C. Williamson Award, which was announced ahead of today's list of nominations for the 2007 Helpmann performing arts awards.
Tuckwell, who is the most recorded of all horn players, became the principal horn with the London Symphony Orchestra when he was only 24. After launching his solo career he went on to win three Grammy awards. He gave up playing as soloist in 1997 and now lives in country Victoria.Scott was a principal dancer with the Rambert Company, which was the first major British company to visit Australia after World War II.She settled in Melbourne and persuaded the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to form the Australian Ballet in 1962. She was appointed founding director of the Australian Ballet School two years later, where she remained for 27 years.She was made a Dame in 1981.
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