Michael Head

Michael Head may refer to:

Michael Head (composer)

Michael Head (28 January 1900 – 24 August 1976) was a British composer, pianist, organist and singer who left some enduring works still popular today. He was noted for his association with the Royal Academy of Music. His compositional oeuvre mainly consists of songs, as well as choral works and few larger-scale pieces such as a piano concerto.

Life

Michael Dewar Head was born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom on 28 January 1900. His father was a barrister and journalist and his mother an accomplished amateur singer and pianist. His mother’s influence evidently dominated, and at age 10 he commenced his musical training, taking piano lessons with Jean Adair and singing with Fritz Marston at the Adair-Marston School of Music. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset. In 1919, after a period of study at the Royal Academy of Music, he won the Sir Michael Costa scholarship for composition. During World War I he was called up for service, and while working at an ammunition factory, composed the song cycle Over the rim of the moon (Head et al., 1920). This was to become his first published work.

Michael Head (academic)

Michael ("Mike") Head (born 1957) is an Australian academic and lecturer at the University of Western Sydney.

Biography

Head obtained a master's degree in law from the Columbia University in New York. Having initially taught law at Columbia, Adelaide and ANU, Head began teaching at the University of Western Sydney in 1999. His main areas of study have been civil liberties, democratic rights, public law and legal theory. He has written numerous books on these topics.

Head became the first legal PhD graduate from the University of Western Sydney in 2004. He went on to win the award for the UWS leading researcher by publications in the period 2004-2006.

Head is also a national committee member in the Australian Socialist Equality Party for whom he has recently contested the seat of Fowler.

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