Sir Frank Callaway AO CMG OBE (16 May 1919 – 22 February 2003) was an influential music educator and administrator.
Frank Adams Callaway was born in Timaru, New Zealand,[1] the youngest of four children, and went to primary school at Lake Coleridge Power Station.
[2] After leaving Christchurch West High School at 15 due to the Great Depression,[3] he joined a firm of commercial stationers.
At the outbreak of World War II a few months later he enlisted for overseas service, was rejected due to poor eyesight, but invited to join the full-time military band as a bassoonist.
[1] In 1953 Callaway took up the newly created position of Reader in Music in the University of Western Australia's faculty of education.
He was on the founding committee of the Commonwealth Assistance to Australian Composers scheme before its activities were absorbed into the Australia Council.