Ian Shanahan
Ian Shanahan is an Australian composer and recorder player, widely regarded for his command of contemporary techniques and for widening what the instrument can do.
Born in Sydney, Ian Leslie Shanahan studied composition and pure mathematics at the University of Sydney, where his composition teachers were Eric Gross, Peter Sculthorpe and Ian Fredericks (computer music).
He is well regarded as an expert in contemporary techniques for the recorder, and his work in this area has done much to expand the possibilities for composers writing for the instrument. Extremely active as a recorder player, he has commissioned many composers, both from Australia and overseas, to write pieces for him to perform.
Ian Shanahan appears on
There Came a Wind like a Bugle: Chamber Music by Nigel Butterley
Chamber works spanning some thirty years by Nigel Butterley, one of Australia’s finest composers, for soloists, song and choir.