Denis Vaughan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian conductor
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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Denis Vaughan
- Denis Edward Vaughan (Melbourne, 6 June 1926 - London, 7 July 2017) was an Australian-born orchestral conductor and multi-instrumentalist.
- In 1950, he joined the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and by 1966 had settled in Rome.
- He was a campaigner for wider access to arts and culture for young people, promoting the health benefits of music, the arts, and sport.
- He returned to the United Kingdom and from 1987 he became more widely known as the driving force behind the creation of that country's National Lottery.
- He was president of CAARE (Council for the Advancement of Arts, Recreation & Education), the charity he founded in 1996.
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