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She received a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in composition from the University of Sydney, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe.
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Winsome Evans
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In addition to her activities as a professional harpsichordist, composer, and arranger, she is perhaps best known for her role as director of the Renaissance Players, one of Australia"s best known early music ensembles. She was until recently an Associate Professor of music at the University of Sydney. Winsome Evans has "re-composed" all of Johann Sebastian Bach"s works for solo violin as works for clavicembalo, adding accompaniments as she believes Bach must have had in mind.
Her recording of her recomposition of the 6 Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001–1006, was released in 2009.
In 1986 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music She uses the name Snave Pluckpayres in some contexts.
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