Roland Peelman at book launch… “not dead yet.”
“I COME to praise Roland, not to bury him,” intellectual property and entertainment lawyer Shane Simpson told those present at the launch yesterday (May 1) of a new book about the director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Roland Peelman.
Simpson, who has worked for years with Peelman at The Song Company in Sydney, sketched a picture for the music lovers gathered at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture how Peelman, born in Belgium near the city of Ghent to a family with no background in classical music and how, ugly duckling-style – he had transformed himself into a leading musician, studying first in Ghent, then in Cologne, before emigrating to Australia with his family in the 1980s.