Biography
Barry Tuckwell
Real name: Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell
Effective period / Period of releases: 1960 - 2014
Australian French horn player, conductor and educator at the University of Melbourne after retiring in 1997.Born: 5th March 1931 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Died: 16th January 2020 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
3rd Horn with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (aged 15) and then 5th in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Principal Horn of London Symphony Orchestra (1955-1967). He founded the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in 1982 and was the first president of the International Horn Society from 1970-1976 and again in 1992-1994. Appointed OBE (1965) & Companion of the Order of Australia (1992).