HEINZE, BERNARD THOMAS
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HEINZE
Given name(s)
BERNARD THOMAS
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B.T.
Honorific
Sir
Gender
Male
Early education
Tertiary education
Start date
1912
Education notes
At 16 he won an Australian Music Examinations Board scholarship to study at MU Con.
Military service
Survived
Survived WWI
Occupations
HEINZE B.T. : Music Critic & Columnist 1920 - Saturday Review @ London [ England ]HEINZE B.T. : Musician 1922 - Lejeune String QuartetHEINZE B.T. : Teacher of violin 1924 - Melbourne University Conservatorium @ Melbourne [ VIC Australia ]HEINZE B.T. : Ormond Professor of Music 1925 - 1956 Melbourne University Conservatorium @ Melbourne [ VIC Australia ]HEINZE B.T. : Conductor 1927 - 1953 Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society @ Melbourne [ VIC Australia ]HEINZE B.T. : Director General of Music - part time 1929 - Australian Broadcasting Commission @ Sydney [ NSW Australia ]HEINZE B.T. : Chief Resident Conductor 1941 - 1945 Australian Broadcasting Commission @ Sydney [ NSW Australia ]HEINZE B.T. : Director 1957 - 1967 NSW Conservatorium of Music @ NSW Conservatorium of Music : Sydney [ NSW Australia ]
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HEINZE, BERNARD THOMAS. 1912.
St. Patrick's Coll., Ballarat; former student of Music.
London 24.9.14, 2/Lt. R.G.A.; to 12th Siege Bty., Ypres May 1916; Lieut. July 1916; invalided home January 1917; to 525th Siege Bty., Arras January 1918; some time A Adjt. Bexhill Gunnery Depot; A.D.C. Maj. -Gen. Sir Herbert Guthrie Smith, Gibraltar 1919-20. Demob. London 1920.
St. Patrick's Coll., Ballarat; former student of Music.
London 24.9.14, 2/Lt. R.G.A.; to 12th Siege Bty., Ypres May 1916; Lieut. July 1916; invalided home January 1917; to 525th Siege Bty., Arras January 1918; some time A Adjt. Bexhill Gunnery Depot; A.D.C. Maj. -Gen. Sir Herbert Guthrie Smith, Gibraltar 1919-20. Demob. London 1920.
Year commenced - MELBOURNE UNI ONLY
1912
Visible notes
Gave service as a representative of education in music on the Victorian Council of Public Education (1936-57), as a close associate of the AMEB, as vice-patron of the Arts Council of Australia, Victorian division, and as an active member and international representative (Belgium, 1953) of the Australian National Advisory Committee for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In Sydney, and with expanding public support for the arts, new opportunities arose. He served as vice-patron (1955-65) of the Arts Council of Australia, New South Wales division; on the executive committee (1957-66) and later as a trustee of the Sydney Opera House; and as foundation chairman of the advisory board of Commonwealth Assistance to Australian Composers (1967), and the music advisory committee of the Australian Council for the Arts (1968). From ADB entry. His papaers are held in the State Library of Victoria.
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12617
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