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William Barton is an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player and composer. He was born on 4 June 1981 in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. He is the son of an Aboriginal mother and a Scottish father.
Barton began playing the didgeridoo at the age of seven and has since become one of the most acclaimed didgeridoo players in the world. He has performed with some of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Barton has released several albums, including his debut album, "The Didgeridoo Concerto" (2005), and his most recent album, "The Didgeridoo Suite" (2015). He has also composed music for film and television, including the score for the Australian film "The Sapphires" (2012).
Barton is a recipient of the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for his services to music and the Indigenous community. He is also a member of the Australian Music Council and the Australian Music Industry Association.
As of 2021, William Barton's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.
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Musician, didgeridoo player |
| Age |
42 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
4 June, 1981 |
| Birthday |
4 June |
| Birthplace |
Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality |
Australia |
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William Barton Height, Weight & Measurements
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William Barton Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is William Barton worth at the age of 42 years old? William Barton’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. He is from Australia. We have estimated
William Barton's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2019, Barton played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra an orchestral rendition of Down Under at the memorial service for former Prime Minister Bob Hawke at the Sydney Opera House.
In 2015, Barton performed at the 100th anniversary opening Gallipoli at ANZAC Cove, Turkey for dawn service.
On 5 November 2014, Barton performed at the memorial service for former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the Sydney Town Hall.
On 3 October 2012, Barton won the ARIA Music Awards of 2012 for Best Classical Album at the Fine Arts and Artisan awards presented at the Art Gallery of NSW. The ABC Classics release features the title track "Kalkadungu", a collaborative work by Barton and Matthew Hindson, along with solo works by Barton and Peter Sculthorpe's Earth Cry and Requiem.
In 2005, Barton performed at the 90th anniversary Gallipoli at ANZAC Cove, Turkey, and in debut concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in London. In 2005/2006, Barton collaborated with orchestras, choral directors and composers in Australia, America and Europe, developing new commissions for the didgeridoo.
Barton has appeared at music festivals around the world and has also recorded a number of orchestral works. He featured in Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem, a major work for orchestra, chorus and didgeridoo, which premiered the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2004 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Voices conducted by Richard Mills. This was reputedly the first time a didgeridoo has featured in a full symphonic work. The work has since been performed in the UK at The Lichfield Festival with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham's choir Ex Cathedra, conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
In May 2004, ABC Classics released Songs of Sea and Sky, an album of works by Peter Sculthorpe revised for didgeridoo and orchestra. Performed by Barton and the Queensland Orchestra conducted by Michael Christie.
Barton was jointly selected with pianist Tamara Anna Cislowska for the 2004 Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music by the Music Council of Australia.
In 2004, he was awarded the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists' Fellowship, and the following year he was a metropolitan finalist for the Suncorp Young Queenslander of the Year Award.
He was nominated in the ARIA Music Awards of 2004 for Best Classical Album with ABC Classics recording Songs of Sea and Sky.
Taught to play the digeridoo from an early age by aboriginal elders, by the age of 12 Barton was working in Sydney, playing for Aboriginal dance troupes. At the age of 15 he toured America, after which he decided he wanted to become a soloist rather than a backing musician and started to study different kinds of music. In 1998, he made his classical debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and became Australia's first didgeridoo artist-in-residence with a symphony orchestra.
William Barton is an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player. He was born in Mount Isa, Queensland on 4 June 1981 and learned to play from his uncle, an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga tribes of Western Queensland. He is widely recognised as one of Australia's finest traditional didgeridoo players and a leading didgeridoo player in the classical world.
