FREE LECTURE: SPECIAL EVENT!

Emeritus Professor Margaret Seares, will give special lecture entitled ‘The role of the subscriber in eighteenth-century musical publications’. This lecture is given to honour UWA’s outstanding musicologist and composer Emeritus Professor David Tunley, as part of the celebration of his Eightieth Birthday.

Upon her own retirement in 2009, Professor Seares was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UWA, having been the Head of the University’s School of Music (1991-1995). Besides her distinguished UWA credentials, Professor Seares has held a number of prestigious appointments including the Chief Executive Officer of the West Australian Department of the Arts and Chair of the Australia Council. There is no one more fitting to give this special lecture, as she was both a doctoral student and then close colleague of Professor David Tunley over many years. The lecture is focused on baroque music, a period in musical history loved by both scholars.

This lecture will be followed by a special presentation and private cocktail party to celebrate Emeritus Professor David Tunley’s birthday. Professor Tunley needs little introduction, noted for his work on French music in the 17th and 18th centuries. He joined UWA in 1958 as the first full-time Lecturer in Music. He was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1980 and to the Chair of Music in 1989. In 1983 he was made a Chevalier in the Napoleonic Order of Palmes Académiques for services to French music, and in 1987 became a Member of the Order of Australia for services to music in his own country. He is a Past National President of the Musicological Society of Australia, Past Chairperson of the Music Board of the Australia Council, and is a former Federal Chairperson of the Australian Music Examinations Board. He has been a Research Fellow at Christ Church and Wolfson Colleges in Oxford and at the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio in Italy.