User:David Hush

David Hush (born in 1956 in Bristol, UK), is an English-born composer, pianist and writer. He has been based in Australia since 1993.

Biography
After completing degrees in Arts and Music at the University of Sydney, Hush was the first Australian applicant to be awarded a Graduate Fellowship in Music at Princeton. While at Princeton he studied with the influential composer and theorist Milton Babbitt, earning a Master of Fine Arts and a PhD. On completing his PhD Hush remained in Princeton until 1993, when he returned to Australia and took up a composer residency at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Hush's Sonata for Violin Solo was recorded by the American violinist Zina Schiff, a former protegée of Jascha Heifetz, as the centrepiece of King David's Lyre, the disc released in celebration of Jerusalem's 3,000th anniversary.

Since 2018 Hush has collaborated with Hamed Sadeghi, a young master of the tar (string instrument).Together they have forged a new blend of world music, drawing on contemporary classical, jazz and Persian traditional music for inspiration.