Francis Burt
Francis Burt, born in London, 28 April 1926; resident in Vienna (Austria) since 1956 Education 1943 St. Edward’s School Oxford: Higher School Certificate (physics, chemistry, mathematics) 1944-1948 army service, including short army course in engineering at the University of Cambridge (1944-1945) 1946/1947 16 months as first lieutenant in Nigeria (Aba, Kaduna, Lagos) 1948-1951 Royal Academy of Music London: composition (Howard Ferguson) 1949-1951 annual Summer School of Music Bryanston resp. Dartington 1951-1954 Hochschule für Musik Berlin: composition (Boris Blacher) 1953 International summer courses for new music Darmstadt Professional Activity 1973 appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Vienna; 1992 emeritus 1987 as vice-president of the ISCM (Austrian section) organised the first “Lange Nacht der neuen Klänge” in the Konzerthaus, Vienna 1989-1991 Director of the Institute for Electroacoustic Music at the Hochschule für Musik, Vienna Awards 1954 Mendelssohn Scholarship (Royal Academy / Royal College of Music) 1956 Fellowship of the Fondation Européenne de la Culture 1957 Associate of the Royal Academy of Music 1973 Theodor Körner Prize 1978 Würdigungspreis für Musik Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Art 1981 City of Vienna Prize for Music 1992 Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich 1994 Honorary membership of the Society for Electroacoustic Music (GEM)
