Dean Burry
Dean Burry is a Canadian composer, librettist, and educator. He is best known for his operatic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Early life
Burry began his passion in music at age 10. He was inspired by a teacher to compete in piano competitions. He was also interested in theater, writing plays and musicals for his school drama club.College
Burry first attended college at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. While at Mount Allison, he produced and conducted The Resurrection, Joe and Mary Had a Baby, and Unto the Earth: Vignettes of a War. He later went to the University of Toronto and studied composition.Awards
- In 2011, Burry was given the Louis Applebaum Composers Award.
Music
Operas
- Unto the Earth: Vignettes of a War
- The Brothers Grimm '
- The Hobbit '
- The Vinland Traveller
- Isis and the Seven Scorpions '
- Pandora's Locker '
- A Creature of Habit
- Baby Kintyre
- The Mummers' Masque
- The Bremen Town Musicians '
- Angela and Her Sisters
- The Secret World of OG '
- Le nez de la sorcière
- The Bells of Baddeck
- The Sword in the Schoolyard
- Shanawdithit ''''
Musical Theatre
- Under the Night
- Emily of New Moon
- Rainbow Valley
- Songs of the Island
- Home and Away
- The Heart That Knows
- Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story
- ''Beacon of Light''