Jonathan mills composer biography paper

Australian composer and festival director (born 1963)

Sir Jonathan MillsAC FRSE (born 21 March 1963) is an Australian composer and festival director. He was born and raised in Sydney and has dual Australian and UK citizenship.

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His work includes operas, an oratorio, a ballet, song cycles, concertos, and chamber music.^[1] He has directed a number of arts festivals in Australia, and from 2006 to 2014 he was director of the Edinburgh International Festival.

Biography

Jonathan Edward Harland Mills was born in Sydney on 21 March 1963.^[2] He has Scottish roots, his maternal grandfather having been a Scot from Partick,^[3] and he has dual Australian and British citizenship.

His father Frank Harland Mills was a heart surgeon.^[4]

He gained a Bachelor of Music in composition from the University of Sydney in 1984,^[1][2] where he was associated with St Paul's College.^[5] He studied unde SIR JONATHAN MILLS - Ducere Foundation DUT