David Gordon Duke

David Gordon Duke is a composer, educator, and writer. He studied violin with Kenneth Yunke and Douglas Stewart and composition with Jean Coulthard and with Violet Archer. 

He has taught at the University of North Carolina 1971-72, the University of British Columbia 1973-5, and Red Deer College (Alberta) 1975-77. He returned to Vancouver in 1978 to teach at Vancouver Community College, where he became academic co-ordinator in 1984. He has also acted as a critic, lecturer, adjudicator, and workshop contributor in various centres in Canada and the USA. 

Duke was a founding member of the Alberta Composers' Association; he is a member of the CLComp and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

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Works

• Duets From a Winter Garden
  
• Magical Years of the Chinese
  
• Music of our Time Volume One