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Richard Mills (other)
Richard Mills may refer to: *Richard Mills (composer) (born 1949), Australian composer and conductor *Richard Charles Mills (1886–1952), Australian economist and academic *Richard Henry Mills (1929–2023), U.S. federal judge *Richard Mills (cricketer) (1798–1882), English cricketer *Richard M. Mills Jr. (born 1959), U.S. diplomat and ambassador to Armenia as of 2015 *Richard P. Mills (educator) (1944–2017), American educator *Richard P. Mills (general) (born 1950), United States Marine Corps general *Rick Mills (born 1957), American glass artist *Dick Mills (born 1936), British sound engineer *Dick Mills (baseball) (1945–2015), Major League Baseball pitcher See also *Richard Milles (c. 1735–1820), MP for Canterbury {{hndis, Mills, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mills (composer)
Richard John Mills , (born 14 November 1949) is an Australian conductor and composer. He is currently the artistic director of Victorian Opera, and formerly artistic director of the West Australian Opera and artistic consultant with Orchestra Victoria. He was commissioned by the Victoria State Opera to write his opera ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' (1996) and by Opera Australia to write the opera ''Batavia'' (2001). Career Mills was born and grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, and went to Nudgee College in Brisbane. He studied in London with Edmund Rubbra at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked as a percussionist in England and for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Mills started conducting and composing in the 1980s. In 1988, to celebrate the Australian Bicentenary, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) commissioned Mills to re-orchestrate Charles Williams's ''Majestic Fanfare'', the signature tune of ABC news and television broadcasts, in a more moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |