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David Joseph : Represented Artist

Random Audio Sample: Study for strings : Scheherazade : string orchestra by David Joseph, from the CD Selected works. Volume 2


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David Joseph was born in Melbourne in 1954. He completed his secondary schooling in Hobart and studied at the University of Tasmania for two years before transferring to the Elder Conservatorium at the University of Adelaide in 1975 to study with Richard Meale.

In 1980 Joseph graduated from the Elder Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music degree with first-class honours in composition, and was invited to participate in the first Summer School for Young Composers in Sydney. He was awarded a Commonwealth University Post Graduate Research Fellowship and enrolled fulltime at the University of Adelaide in the degree of Master of Music.

In 1982 he travelled to Spain and Italy on an International Fellowship for Composers from the Music Board of the Australia Council.

In 1986 he was commissioned by the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra to compose a work for the orchestra's tenth anniversary concert series. This work, entitled The Dream, was premiered at the Adelaide Town Hall on 13th September, 1986 and has been performed many times since in various countries throughout the world.

Furtehr, David has received numerous commissions and invitations from many of the major ensembles and orchestras in Australia and elsewhere. Significantly from:- Die Kammermusik - Zurich String Trio 1987, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Clarinet Concerto 1987, and the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra Horn Concerto1988 Symphony for Solo Organ and String Orchestra 1989 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition - String Trio No 2 1991, Melbourne Chamber orchestra - Chamber Concerto for Piano and Strings 1992, Ripieno Kammerorchester - Dialogues for solo Violin and Strings 1992, Collegium Musicum Zurich (Paul Sacher) - The Haunting for small orchestra 1994, The Hunter Orchestra - The Memory for small orchestra 1996, Melbourne Symphone Orchestra - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 1996, Zagreb Soloists - Scheherazade 1999 for strings,

Having worked fulltime as a composer between 1988 and 1991, David enrolled at the University of Melbourne for a Master of Music degree in Composition in 1992, completing the Degree in 1996. He was employed as a tutor at the University of Melbourne between 1993 and 1995. David was also employed as a tutor in orchewstration at the VCA during 2000.

In 2000 David enrolled at la Trobe University in Law and completed studies at the end of 2002. he has been working full time as a lawyer at Benalla since 2006, runnning the firm as sole practitioner since 2008.


David Joseph — current to April 2023

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for
1997 Albert H Maggs Composition Award First Prize Rhapsody

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Study for strings : Scheherazade : string orchestra (1999) Commissioned by the Zagreb International Music Biennale for Zagreb Soloists
Chamber concerto for piano and strings (piano with string orchestra) (1991) Commissioned by Spiros Rantos, for the Rantos Collegium.
Trio : for violin, viola and cello (1987) Commissioned by Die Kammermusiker Zurich.