Mary Chandler composer

MARY CHANDLER

b. 1911

MARY CHANDLER was born in Kent on May 16th 1911.

She studied music privately and at the Blackheath Conservatoire of music.

Her teachers included Harry Farjeon (composition), Margaret Eliot and Leon Goossens (oboe) and Harold Craxton (piano). In the

early 1930s she studied English at Oxford University and Education at London University. She then taught English in

London schools until 1944. From 1944-58 she was principal oboist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with whom

she also appeared as oboe and piano soloist and as composer. A short period of free-lance playing,

mainly with her own group, the Mercian Trio (flute, oboe and piano), was followed by her appointment as Area Director of the

Kent Music School in 1960. She retired from Kent in 1971 to concentrate on composition, Associated Board examining and organising

the Cotswold Baroque Trio (soprano, violin spinet). Her works have been performed and broadcast by artists

such as

Leon Goosens,

Dinah Demuth,

Ian Partridge

and Philip Jones.

They

include

concertos,

suites,

chamber

music,

piano

works

and

both

solo

and

choral

vocal

music.

Her

music

has

been

published

by

Novello

and

Phylloscopus.