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.