Barry Ernest Conyngham AM (born 27 August 1944) is an Australian composer and academic.
He was initially interested in jazz,[4] and studied with Raymond Hanson[2] and Richard Meale[5] but turned his attention to orchestral writing in the mid-1960s with encouragement from Peter Sculthorpe.
[2] This was unusual, as Australian composers typically chose Europe and Britain as their location for further study.
In 1972, he went to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship[6] and gained a Certificate of Post-Doctoral Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 1973.
He was the Foundation Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University 1994–2000, based in Lismore, New South Wales.
[9] In 2000, Barry Conyngham was invited to give the second annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks address for the Sydney Spring Festival.