Richard Mills (composer) Richard John Mills , is an Australian conductor and composer . He is currently the Artistic Director of Victorian Opera , and formerly Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria . He was commissioned by the Victorian State Opera to write his opera Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and by Opera Australia to write the opera Batavia .Career Mills was born and grew up in Toowoomba , Queensland, and went to Nudgee College in Brisbane. He studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked as a percussionist in England and for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra . Mills started conducting and composing in the 1980s. In 1988, to celebrate the Australian Bicentenary , the Australian Broadcasting Corporation commissioned Mills to re-orchestrate Charles Williams's Majestic Fanfare , the signature tune of ABC news and television broadcasts , in a more modern, Australian idiom. He was engaged to conduct Opera Australia's first complete production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the State Theatre, Melbourne , in 2013, the of the composer's birth. On 5 June 2013 , he withdrew from the Opera Australia Ring cycle .Honours He won the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award in 1982. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999. He received the Green Room Award in 2001 and 2002, and the Helpmann Award in 2002 for his opera Batavia , in 2006 for his conducting of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde , and in 2007 for Best Musical Direction of his opera The Love of the Nightingale . He also received the Ian Potter Foundation Award for Established Composers. Mills was Musica Viva Australia's featured composer for 2008. In 2019 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities .Works Works for the stage Snugglepot and Cuddlepie , ballet Earth Poem / Sky Poem , a music theatre work for Aboriginal dancers and musicians, orchestra and electronic sounds Summer of the Seventeenth Doll , opera in two acts, libretto by Peter Goldsworthy after the play by Ray Lawler Batavia , opera in three acts, libretto by Peter Goldsworthy The Love of the Nightingale , opera in two acts, libretto by Timberlake Wertenbaker Vocal and choral works Festival Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano , tenor , boy soprano , large mixed chorus , children's chorus, 2 brass choirs and orchestra Sappho Monologues for soprano and orchestra, texts after Sappho, edited by the composer Symphonic Poems , setting of David Campbell and James McAuley poems for soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass , large mixed chorus, 3 brass bands The Little Mermaid for children's chorus, narrator, orchestra; text after Hans Christian Andersen Four Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin for tenor and organ Songlines of the Heart's Desire , commissioned by the Ian Potter Trust, to poems by an anonymous fourth-century Chinese poet, Bengali Rabindranath Tagore , American Kenneth Patchen , French Tunisian Amina Said , and Australians John Shaw Neilson and Judith Wright .Concertos Trumpet Concerto for trumpet and orchestra Soundscapes for Percussion and Orchestra for percussion solo and orchestra Fantastic Pantomimes for flute , oboe , clarinet , horn , trumpet and orchestra Cello Concerto for cello and orchestra Flute Concerto for flute and orchestra Violin Concerto for violin and orchestra Concerto for Violin and Viola for violin and viola solo and chamber orchestra Double Concerto for violin and clarinet Double Concerto for two violins and stringsOrchestral Bamaga Diptych Tenebrae Pages from a secret journal Symphony of Nocturnes Chamber works Sonata for Brass Quintet String Quartet No. 1, revised Four Miniatures for violin, clarinet and piano Here where death and life are met for high voice and piano, text by Judith Wright Requiem Diptych for Brass Quintet Songs without Words from the poems of Ern Malley for oboe and string quartet Jamaican Entertainment . A Little Diary for clarinet and string quartet Woman to Man song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, text by Judith Wright String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet No. 4, Glimpses from My Book of Dada Impromptu, after Schubert Lachrymae, Chorales… Postlude for string octet Instrumental works Epithalamium for solo organ Pastoral for Solo Oboe Six Preludes for Solo OboeEducational works Little Suite for Orchestra for student orchestra Miniatures and Refrains for student string quartet Sonatina for String Quartet for student string quartetAwards and nominations APRA Awards 2009 Orchestral Work of the Year win for Tivoli Dances and nomination for Palm Court Suite both composed by Graeme Koehne and performed by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Mills.
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