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Adelaide in 1936 and soon after moved to Sydney, where she worked for several decades as a composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner and lecturer. It was here that she also met her husband, Marcus Edwards, whom she married in 1939 and with whom she had two children, Christine (1950) and
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She celebrated her 80th birthday in 1993 by giving a series of recitals throughout the country. At the age of 89, she gave her last performance of her Piano
Concerto No. 2, with the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra conducted by Solomon Bard. Her 90th birthday in 2003 was marked with concerts and
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Teachers' Association of South Australia (MTASA) and established the Miriam Hyde Award for the Association. After serving on the Council of the Music Teachers' Association of New South Wales from 1960 to 1991, she was made its patron.
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From the mid-1990s onwards, continuing after her death in 2005, The Keys Press (Perth) and
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in London, which she attended from 1932 to 1935. Her teachers were
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Miriam Hyde died in 2005, a few days before her 92nd birthday.
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