Oboe and piano
SKU:
ST.C550
Composed by
Mary Chandler. Wind &
brass music. Clifton
Edition #C550. Published
by Clifton Edition
(ST.C550).
ISBN
9790570815500.
Traveller’s
Joy — Two Walking
Tunes for Oboe and Piano
was composed in 1956.
This is the first time
the piece has been
published.
Mary
Chandler was born in Kent
in 1911. She studied
music privately, and her
teachers included Harry
Farjeon (composition),
Margaret Eliot and Leon
Goossens (oboe) and
Harold Craxton (piano).
She read English at
Oxford University and
taught in London schools
before joining the City
of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra as principal
oboist. She appeared with
the CBSO as soloist (oboe
and piano) and composer
and gave broadcasts and
recitals in the Midlands.
Later, as a free-lance
orchestral player, she
formed the Mercian Trio
(flute, oboe and piano)
which gave concerts
around the
country.
In 1960
Mary became Area Director
of the Kent Music School,
in charge of its wind
teaching and of the
varied activities of its
Tonbridge Music Centre.
She conducted many
student groups and
composed and arranged
music for them until she
retired in 1971. She
continued to be actively
involved in music
thereafter, examining,
composing and organising
concerts. She spent her
later years in
Gloucestershire and died
in 1996.
Dr.
Kristin Leitterman is
currently the Assistant
Professor of Oboe at
Arkansas State University
in Jonesboro, Arkansas,
USA, where she teaches
oboe and bassoon, Double
Reed Techniques, and
coaches small chamber
ensembles. She is also
the Director of the
Lucarelli Oboe Master
Class, a week-long
immersive oboe master
class founded by Bert
Lucarelli in 1996. As a
guest artist she has
presented master classes
at many institutions,
including the Manhattan
School of Music, New York
University, and the Hartt
School.
As a
researcher, Kirstin has
interests in the life and
works of Mary Chandler.
She has presented her
research at The Juilliard
School, Music by Women
Festival, the
International Double Reed
Society conferences, and
the Brazilian Double Reed
Society’s conference in
João Pessoa, Paraíba,
Brazil.
