Richard James Gill was born on November 4, 1941, and died on October 28, 2018.
He was an Australian conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic works.
Gill was known as a music educator and for his advocacy for music education of children.
He was brought up in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood where he went to Marist College Eastwood.
Preceding turning into an expert conductor, he was a music instructor at Marsden High School, West Ryde, in Sydney.
One of his understudies was Kim Williams who later turned into a long lasting companion.
During 1969, he was the establishing director of the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra in Sydney.
He proceeded as director in 1973– 74 and returned in 1979 to lead the symphony’s tenth commemoration show. In 1971 he learned at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He was later welcomed to instruct at the mid-year schools in Salzburg; on one event he was one of the musicians in the adaptation of Carmina Burana for two pianos and percussion, directed via Carl Orff himself.
He was on staff at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1975 to 1982.
Gill was a director with the Sydney Youth Orchestra Association from 1977 to 1982, leading the ensemble’s voyage through Singapore and Hong Kong in 1981.
In 1982, he was welcomed as an essential moderator to the yearly meeting of the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA); this prompted further workshops and classes all through the United States.
Different posts incorporate senior member of the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music (1985– 1990) and Director of Chorus at the Opera Australia (1990– 1996).
Gill established and was the debut imaginative executive of Victorian Opera during August 2005
During 2013, alongside Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen, he built up the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (in the past “ensemble seventeen88”).
Gill was the imaginative executive and key director of the symphony.
In 2014, Gill was selected to succeed Paul Stanhope as a melodic executive of the Sydney Chamber Choir.
In February 2017, Gill led the debut social event of the Sydney Flash Mob Choir at the City Recital Hall in Angel Place, Sydney, uniting vocalists and would-be artists from all kinds of different backgrounds for a month to month 40-minute singalong.
The day preceding he kicked the bucket, over 70 performers (counting a police band) assembled outside Gill’s home in Stanmore, in Sydney’s inward west, and played for Gill and his family (who were inside the house), including “The Dam Busters March” (purportedly “Gill’s main tune from his most loved film”)
Gill passed away at 76 years old due to colorectal and peritoneal cancer.