Julian Cochran

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Julian Cochran (born 14 June 1974) is an English-born Australian composer.

Cochran was born in Cambridge and emigrated to Australia in 1978. At the age of fourteen he was awarded a scholarship for piano performance at the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide. Showing great interest in computer programming he wrote a number of computer games including D-Zone in 1992 and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. During university he came to admire the composers Ravel and Prokofiev and increasingly devoted his time towards composition.

Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe. He has written mostly piano works including a book of dances, "Russian Toccata", five Preludes, "Tin Sentinel" and "Wooden Dolls", the impressionistic work "Maelstrom" and two piano sonatas. His chamber music includes a trio for violin and oboe trio, sextet for string quartet, oboe and bassoon and choral works.