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Lyell Cresswell (Lyell Richard Cresswell) was born on 13 October, 1944 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a New Zealand composer (1944–2022). Discover Lyell Cresswell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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Lyell Richard Cresswell |
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| Age |
77 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
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13 October, 1944 |
| Birthday |
13 October |
| Birthplace |
Wellington, New Zealand |
| Date of death |
19 March, 2022 |
| Died Place |
Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality |
New Zealand
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Lyell Cresswell Height, Weight & Measurements
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Lyell Cresswell Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lyell Cresswell worth at the age of 77 years old? Lyell Cresswell’s income source is mostly from being a successful composer. He is from New Zealand. We have estimated Lyell Cresswell's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Lyell Richard Cresswell (13 October 1944 – 19 March 2022) was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music.
Cresswell was born in Wellington in 1944, the younger brother of Max Cresswell; his family belonged to the Salvation Army.
He played the trumpet, euphonium and tuba.
In 1969 he went to Toronto to study for a masters degree and three years later in 1972 to Aberdeen to study for a PhD.
In 1983 he was commissioned to write a work for the 100th anniversary of the Salvation Army in New Zealand; O! for Orchestra was premiered by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and lived and worked in Edinburgh from 1985 on.
Although he lived more than half his life away from New Zealand, he regarded himself as a New Zealander.
Cresswell died from liver cancer, complicated by COVID-19.
Cresswell taught and composed at Glasgow University and worked in arts administration in Cardiff but from 1985 he lived and worked in Edinburgh as a freelance composer, taking commissions for works.
Cresswell wrote music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and solo instruments.
His works include several concertos.
His concerto for accordion, Dragspil (Icelandic for "accordion"), was commissioned for the BBC Proms and premièred by James Crabb and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 1995 season.
In 2001, the Scottish Arts Council granted him the Creative Scotland Award and commissioned a work, in collaboration with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, exploring the issues of exile and identity.
His composition Shadows Without Sun combines elements of oratorio, opera, music theatre and cantata.
It requires orchestra, singers, speaking voices and recorded voices.
The work intertwines the story of exiles living in both Scotland and New Zealand with the story of Cassandra.
The Money Man, 2010, was written in collaboration with librettist Ron Butlin with whom Cresswell regularly worked.
Cresswell found inspiration from visual arts and literature.
Links between painting and music were explored in the piano work The Art of Black and White. In 2013 he collaborated with writer Fiona Farrell to write the song cycle The Clock Stops; performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra it was inspired by the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.
Cresswell's music is recorded on the Naxos Records label.
He died in Edinburgh on 19 March 2022, from liver cancer complicated by a COVID-19 infection.
