Murray Khouri (original) (raw)
Murray Peter Khouri (8 April 1941 – 27 October 2018) was a New Zealand and Australian clarinettist. Khouri was born in Wellington, New Zealand to parents of Lebanese descent. At age 16 he joined the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra in the year of its creation, 1959. He then studied at the Royal College of Music in London, making his debut at the Wigmore Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Clarinet Concertino by Mátyás Seiber. He toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and became first clarinet with the .\ He was a noted broadcaster for the BBC and Radio NZ.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Murray Peter Khouri (8 April 1941 – 27 October 2018) was a New Zealand and Australian clarinettist. Khouri was born in Wellington, New Zealand to parents of Lebanese descent. At age 16 he joined the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra in the year of its creation, 1959. He then studied at the Royal College of Music in London, making his debut at the Wigmore Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Clarinet Concertino by Mátyás Seiber. He toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and became first clarinet with the .\ He had an international career, playing with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and under such conductors as Leopold Stokowski, Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Adrian Boult, and Eugen Jochum. He came to Australia in 1974 to take up the position of Lecturer in Clarinet at the Canberra School of Music. He then based himself in Sydney, where he formed the and was co-founder with Roger Covell of the Australia Ensemble (originally called the University of New South Wales Ensemble). In 2007, he formed the Bowral Autumn Music Festival in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. In 2008, in New Zealand Khouri founded the Spring Festival concert series in Whanganui. He was a noted broadcaster for the BBC and Radio NZ. Murray Khouri had three children from two marriages. He died in Bowral, New South Wales on 27 October 2018, two weeks after undergoing heart surgery. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | https://www.smh.com.au/national/clarinet-virtuoso-and-soloist-with-leading-sydney-orchestras-20181211-p50lh9.html |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 59646112 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2891 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1087812270 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Royal_College_of_Music dbr:Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra dbr:Mátyás_Seiber dbr:Bernard_Haitink dbr:Bowral dbr:D'Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company dbc:1941_births dbc:2018_deaths dbr:Georg_Solti dbr:City_of_Birmingham_Symphony_Orchestra dbr:Leopold_Stokowski dbr:London dbr:London_Philharmonic_Orchestra dbr:Australia_Ensemble dbr:BBC dbc:Alumni_of_the_Royal_College_of_Music dbc:People_from_Wellington_City dbr:Wellington dbr:Whanganui dbr:Adrian_Boult dbr:Roger_Covell dbc:Australian_people_of_Lebanese_descent dbr:Sydney dbr:Sydney_Symphony_Orchestra dbr:Wigmore_Hall dbc:Australian_clarinetists dbc:New_Zealand_people_of_Lebanese_descent dbr:Pierre_Boulez dbr:New_South_Wales dbr:New_Zealand dbr:New_Zealand_Symphony_Orchestra dbr:Eugen_Jochum dbr:Canberra_School_of_Music dbr:Radio_NZ dbr:Australian_Contemporary_Music_Ensemble dbr:Royal_Ballet_Orchestra |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Authority_control dbt:Reflist dbt:Snd dbt:Use_dmy_dates |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:1941_births dbc:2018_deaths dbc:Alumni_of_the_Royal_College_of_Music dbc:People_from_Wellington_City dbc:Australian_people_of_Lebanese_descent dbc:Australian_clarinetists dbc:New_Zealand_people_of_Lebanese_descent |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing |
| rdfs:comment | Murray Peter Khouri (8 April 1941 – 27 October 2018) was a New Zealand and Australian clarinettist. Khouri was born in Wellington, New Zealand to parents of Lebanese descent. At age 16 he joined the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra in the year of its creation, 1959. He then studied at the Royal College of Music in London, making his debut at the Wigmore Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Clarinet Concertino by Mátyás Seiber. He toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and became first clarinet with the .\ He was a noted broadcaster for the BBC and Radio NZ. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Murray Khouri (en) |
| owl:sameAs | http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b2462268-5128-4353-b6c0-fff82bc89331 http://viaf.org/viaf/4110149068366665730003 wikidata:Murray Khouri https://global.dbpedia.org/id/9SqMy |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Murray_Khouri?oldid=1087812270&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Murray_Khouri |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_clarinetists dbr:Deaths_in_October_2018 dbr:Ernest_Llewellyn dbr:Australia_Ensemble dbr:2018_in_New_Zealand |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Murray_Khouri |