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Philip Bračanin is an Australian of Croatian parentage. From the age of six, he received piano lessons, and subsequently studied music and mathematics at the University of Western Australia, where he was awarded MA and PhD degrees for analytical studies of contemporary music. Emeritus Professor Bračanin retired in 2008 from the University of Queensland, where for nine years he was the Dean of the Faculty of Music, and for ten years, Head of the School of Music.

Included amongst his works are numerous chamber pieces (including three string quartets), solo song cycles with both piano and orchestral accompaniments, choral works, concerti for piano, violin, viola, cello, oboe, clarinet, trombone, guitar, two double concertos, one for guitar and oboe, and the other for guitar and vibraphone/marimba and two for orchestra. He has also written four symphonies, including a choral symphony (Symphony No. 2).    

In 1988 Bračanin was composer-in-residence at the Anglo-Australian Music Festival in Birmingham, England. In 1991, he fulfilled a similar role at the Bournemouth International Festival, at which two of his works were performed, including a festival commission. In May 1995, his first Symphony was premièred by the Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra in Pusan, Korea, and in September his Choral Symphony (Symphony No. 2) was premiered. Additionally, in 1995 his Guitar Concerto won the APRA Award for the best Australian Classical Composition.

His music has been recorded in Australia, Germany, Finland, and in the former Yugoslavia, and performed in Australia, Europe, Korea, Malaysia, Canada and the U.S.A.

Biography provided by the composer — current to May 2009