Antoinette Kirkwood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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composer
Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1930
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 28-Jan-2014
Profession: composer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Antoinette Kirkwood
- Antoinette Kirkwood (26 February 1930 - 28 January 2014) was an English composer born in London.
- She studied piano and composition with Dorothy Howell at the Royal Academy in London and often accompanied her mother, who was a lieder singer.
- For four years beginning in 1969, she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, now the British Association of Composers and Songwriters.
- Radio Éireann broadcast her Symphony, op 8, composed in 1953.
- This “very notable achievement” established that Kirkwood “can write a memorable tune in a definite key” that will captivate the listenerKirkwood married writer Richard Phibbs in 1961.
- Caring for her mother and husband through their terminal illnesses led to a complete cessation in her composition activity between 1961 and 1979.
- She died on 28 January 2014, aged 84.
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