Anne Eggleston

Anne Elizabeth Eggleston (September 6, 1934 – November 27, 1994) was a Canadian composer and educator. The daughter of Wilfrid Eggleston, a journalism professor, and Magdelana Raškevičiutė, a writer, she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and studied music there, at The Royal Conservatory of Music and at the Eastman School of Music (MMus 1958). Her teachers included Gladys Barnes, Robert Fleming, Pierre Souvairan, Oskar Morawetz, John Weinzweig, Godfrey Ridout, Bernard Rogers and Orazio Frugoni. Eggleston began giving private lessons in piano and composition in Ottawa in 1958.