Ann Carr-Boyd

Ann Kirsten Carr-Boyd (born 13 July 1938)

Her formal music studies were at the University of Sydney, where in 1960, she was one of two students (the other was Norma Tyer) to graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree. Carr-Boyd then received the university's first Master of Arts in music. She also studied in London with Peter Racine Fricker and Alexander Goehr. She married and had children in London.

In 1975 she won the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. ), and she and her three daughters play in the orchestra. Her quasi-namesake and fellow Australian composer Anne Boyd is no relation.

Music Carr-Boyd's works encompass a symphony, concertos (piano; violin), chamber music and vocal music. The harpsichord figures prominently in her output, such as in Suite for Véronique.

She is perhaps best known to the general music-listening public for a short piece for mandolin ensemble, titled Fandango. It was nominated for the Most Performed Classical Composition at the 1999 APRA Awards, and it ranked 55 in the 2008 Classic 100 chamber survey conducted by ABC Classic FM radio.