Biography
Assoc Prof Ian Holtham is Head of Keyboard and Head of Practical Studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne. He had specialist musical training from an early age and travelled to Europe on scholarship in his teens where he was based for over a decade. He is a student of G?za Anda, Geoffrey Parsons, Enrique Barenboim and Peter Feuchtwanger whose assistant he was for nearly five years in London. He also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music. He made his South Bank and Wigmore Hall d?buts before he was twenty and has performed throughout Australia, England, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Korea. As concerto soloist he has performed with a number of distinguished conductors including Henry Krips, Geoffrey Simon, Patrick Thomas and Spiros Rantos.
Ian Holtham has broadcast regularly with the ABC since the late seventies, and is a constant performer in Australia and overseas, returning frequently to Europe and Asia for concert and masterclass tours. He has a vast and varied repertoire which, excluding works for solo piano, contains well over forty piano concertos. He holds honours degrees in Music from Durham University, and in Arts from Melbourne University where he also gained his PhD, and has an extensive array of international performance qualifications.
As well as his busy schedule of performing and teaching, he is the Chair of the Council of Directors of the Australian Music Examinations Board in Victoria, is the Federal Chair of the Piano Specialist Panel, and has adjudicated innumerable awards in Australia and abroad. Ian Holtham has a strong commitment to Australian music and a number of prominent Australian composers have written works especially for him. He has published a book on piano technique and has released a number of solo CDs, including the complete Chopin Etudes, to considerable critical acclaim.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
Languages
Languages
| Language |
Proficiency |
| French |
Speak, Read & Write |
| German |
Speak, Read & Write |
| Italian |
Speak, Read & Write |
| Latin |
Read and Write |
| Greek |
Read |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Associate of the Royal College of Music |
Royal College of Music |
31-Dec-1974 |
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| Bachelor of Arts with honours |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1981 |
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| Bachelor of Music with honours |
University of Durham |
31-Dec-1980 |
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| Graduate Diploma in Education |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1984 |
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| Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
31-Dec-1976 |
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| Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music |
Royal Academy of Music |
31-Dec-1974 |
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| Doctor of Philosophy |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1989 |
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Fellowships
| Fellowship |
Date Awarded |
| Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London (FTCL) |
10-Aug-1976 |
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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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