George Logie-Smith

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George Logie-Smith (2 December 1914 - 19 April 2007) was an Australian orchestra conductor, music examiner, and music educator. He was based in Melbourne, Victoria, and came from a Scottish family which migrated to Australia before he was born.

At various times, he conducted the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band, the Astra Chamber Orchestra, and the Grainger Wind Symphony, the last of which he was the founding Music Director of in 1986. He also founded the Astra Choir in 1958.

He conducted on a number of L.P. recordings of music by Australian composers, including a recording of orchestral music with solo parts for saxophone, which was played by Peter Clinch.

In 1964, Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer gave one of his earliest public performances, aged about 10, with the Astra Chamber Orchestra under Logie-Smith's direction.

He was the Director of Music at Geelong College, and then at Scotch College in Melbourne from 1959 to 1978 (where he also coached the first eighteen football team).

For some years, he was also the Victorian Universities Schools Examination Board's Chief Examiner of HSC Music A.

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