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BIOGRAPHY
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At the end of 1984
Professor Sir Frank Callaway (1919-2003)
retired as Foundation Professor of Music at The University of
Western Australia. Appointed initially to the University's
Faculty of Education in 1953, he guided the development of
music and music education at the University for 31 years and at
the same time established a national and international
reputation in these areas.
Sir Frank was one of the best known personalities in the
international sphere of music education and in 1988 he
succeeded Zoltan Kodaly and Dmitri Kabalevsky as Honorary
President of the International Society for Music Education.
In 1997 Sir Frank was awarded the 1997 International Music
Council - UNESCO Music Prize. The UNESCO Director General
(Paris) announced that, on the recommendation of an
international jury, the laureates for this prestigious Prize
were Sir Frank Callaway (Australia/music education) and Frans
Bruggen (Netherlands/musicology). The prize rewards musicians
who have contributed to the enrichment and development of music
and have served peace, understanding between peoples and
international co-operation as proclaimed by the United Nations
and the UNESCO Act. At a special ceremony hosted by the city of
Aachen (Germany) each of the laureates was awarded the UNESCO
PICASSO-MIRO Medal. Since its inception in 1975 recipients of
the prize have included Yehudi Menuhin, Dmitri Shostakovich and
Ravi Shanker.
Sir Frank was, at the time, only the second person to be
awarded the prize for music education, the other being Nadia
Boulanger (France) in 1979.
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