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Don BurrowsDon Burrows is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute. Work 1973 - A watershed year: Burrows receives the first gold record won by an Australian jazz musician for his record Just the Beginning; instigated the first jazz studies program in the southern hemisphere at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music; awarded Member of the British Empire (MBE). In 1979 he was appointed as chair of the jazz studies department at the conservatorium. He has played with world-renowned musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, James Morrison, Tony Bennett, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stephane Grappelli, and Cleo Laine. He was invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1972 and later the Newport Jazz Festival. His best-known group is the Don Burrows Quartet: Don Burrows (multiple woodwind), George Golla (guitar), Ed Gaston (bass) and Alan Turnbull (drums). He has performed to otherwise classical music audiences through tours with Musica Viva and Australian Broadcasting Corporation concert series. Burrows fronted the nationally televised show The Don Burrows Collection for six years. He has an extensive recording career in his own right with his groups, and has performed on many more albums with other artists. 2005 Touring with a small band including Kevin Hunt http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kevsy/, Burrows is using his photographic images with his music, in a show called Stop, Look and Listen. Awards - Member of the British Empire (MBE), 1973
- Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1987
- Life member of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, 1988
- Named one of the Australian Living Treasures, 1988
- Sir Bernard Heinze Award, for his service to Australia, 2000
- Honorary Doctorate in Music, Sydney University, 2000
- Honorary Doctorate in Music, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 2001
- Honorary Doctorate in Education, Central Queensland University, 2004
- Queen Elizabeth Jubilee medal
Social matters and interests Burrows lives near Paynesville in the Gippsland Lakes district of Victoria. He has had a lifelong hobby of black and white photography, beginning in his 20s as an active participant in the Sans Souci and Carringbah camera clubs in Sydney. He sees the creativity of music and photography having significant similarities. See also List of Australian musicians
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