David Evatt Tunley AM FAHA[1] (3 May 1930 – 23 June 2024) was an Australian musicologist and occasional composer, noted for his work on François Couperin and French music in the 17th and 18th centuries.
[3] David Tunley was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, where he studied piano with Alexander Sverjensky (1947–50).
He took (externally) the BMus and MMus degrees of the University of Durham in 1958 and 1963, and studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris between 1964 and 1965 on a French government scholarship.
[3] Tunley joined the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1958 as its first full-time lecturer in Music, under head of department Frank Callaway.
[3] He created various community events in Perth and the surrounding areas such as the York Winter Music Festival, which ran for ten years, and more recently the Terrace Proms.