Fritz Hart: an English Musical Romantic at the Ends of the Empire

Presenter(s)

Peter Tregear

Professor Peter Tregear is a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely in both the academic and mainstream press on Australian music history, arts policy, and European musical modernism,  In 2020 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music education and professional associations. Peter is currently a Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and an Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Adelaide.

Peter Tregear, with Anne-Marie Forbes, is co-author of a long-overdue biographical study of Fritz Hart which explores and assesses the substantial and lasting contributions this remarkable musician made to the musical life of England, Australia and Hawai’i. From 1914 Hart was the director of the Albert Street Conservatorium and for a time he and his family called East Melbourne home.