Christian Heim
Christian Heim was born in Sydney in 1960. He studied composition under Peter Sculthorpe, then conducting and composition in Vienna, Paris and New York. His award-winning music has been released on CD and broadcast in Australia and abroad.
Christian was born in Sydney in 1960. He first studied composition under Peter Sculthorpe, then conducting in Vienna, composition in Paris, and both under Maestro Giampaolo Bracali in New York City on a merit scholarship. His music has won several awards, been released on CD and been broadcast on radio in Australia and abroad.
Several of his music-theatre works were performed in New York City, and his multi-media artwork Starlight unofficially opened the Hope Theatre in Wollongong. He has lectured at the Manhattan School of Music, held a tenured post at the University of Wollongong and lectured at the Conservatorium of Music, Newcastle. A doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study music therapy in hospital settings in Europe.
He has spoken at conferences on music and spirituality, music and clinical depression, and music and universal processes. He holds a diploma in pianoforte performance and has exhibited as a photographer.
Christian Heim is featured on the following titles
Prayer Dances
Recorded in the Concert Hall of the Faculty of Music, University of Newcastle, Christian Heim's debut Move disc presents Nicholas Routley directing the Sydney Chamber Choir and Sprung Percussion in the two sacred Prayer Dances and other premiere works.
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