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The Australian composer, conductor, pianist, lecturer, and broadcaster Richard Meale MBE AM passed away in Sydney on 23 November.
Many times Richard Meale was awarded for his contribution to Australian music. In 1971 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire and in 1985 a Member of the Order of Australia. He also received an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1989. In 1997 he was awarded the Australia Council’s Don Banks Music Award, which is considered the most valuable individual music prize in Australia.
Meale is considered as one of Australia's most distinguished composers. According to Kathy Keele, Chief Executive of the Australia Council: “Richard’s work is an inspiration to the current generation of Australian composers. It is partly due to his efforts that we now hear modern Australian composition being performed around the nation and abroad”.
[Source: www.australiacouncil.gov.au]