Gerald Gentry
Gerald Gentry has been a tireless promoter of contemporary music regarding the work of present-day composers as a vital and essential element in a nation's musical life.
Gerald Gentry studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and privately with Armstrong Gibbs, Walter Goehr and Paul van Kempen.
Beginning his career as a viola player in the 1940s, in the early 50s he was appointed a staff conductor with the BBC. Following nearly twenty years as a music consultant to the West Riding Education Department in Yorkshire, England, he migrated to Australia in 1984.
Gerald Gentry (UK 1927 – Melbourne 2014) was the co-founder and artistic director of Southern Cross Philharmonic Orchestra in Melbourne from 2004 and Vice-President of Friends of Grainger Museum for many years.
Gerald Gentry is featured on the following titles
Music for Strings
String orchestra music from Wolf-Ferrari and Grieg to Britten, Grainger and living Australian voices. Gerald Gentry leads the Southern Cross Philharmonia, with Amir Farid at the piano in Grainger’s clog-dance romp.
Gerald Gentry also appears on
Elegy: Reflections on the music of Peter Tahourdin
A companion to the Australian composer's other Move CD Exposé, this album showcases solo pieces for cello and flute, electronic scores, and small ensemble works.
Exposé
This album spans nearly a quarter of a century of Peter Tahourdin’s chamber music, from 1971 to 1995. The works chart his compositional metamorphosis and draw on a wide range of influences and themes, from the structural procedures of Indian raga to texts from the Carmina Burana.
Other credits
Tuneful Percussion
One of International Record Review’s “Best Discs of 2000”, and nominated for Best Classical CD at the 2001 ARIA Awards. Woof! play Grainger’s complete music for tuneful percussion on authentic instruments, including his own staff bells and steel marimba, with many works previously unrecorded.