Kevin Siddell

Kevin Raymond Siddell OAM (14 March 1924 – 2004) was a New Zealand-born[1][2] Australian pianist, composer, and public service official, active mostly in the states of Queensland and Victoria, Australia.

[6][7] This role required overseeing the State’s school music programs, and travel to regional and rural centres in order to carry this out.

[8] Siddell also wrote the introduction to Betty Beath’s children’s opera, The raja who married an angel.

[14] In 1994, Siddell published Till the moon fails: thirty two psalm settings, two canticles, an Easter blessing with Alleluia and a hymn, held in the National Library of Australia.

[16] He wrote several articles for Brisbane's Liturgy News [1] ,[17] and following his death, an "In Memoriam" to Kevin Siddell was published in the same title in 2004.