BIOGRAPHY

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.