Robert Edward Creech is a Canadian french hornist, music educator, and arts administrator. He served as Director of the Canadian Music Council from 1975?1979 and Chairman of the Arts Advisory Council of the Canada Council from 1976-1978. In 1991, he was appointed the Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society. Creech was Principal French Horn with numerous orchestras during his career, including the Victoria Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. He also played with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician, he notably performed and recorded with the Vancouver Woodwind Quintet from 1968?1976 and made recordings with the Baroque Strings and the Purcell String Quartet. Creech attended the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitobawhere he was an undergraduate and graduate student majoring in history and English. He was subsequently offered admission to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and studied french horn with Mason Jones, principa[ horn with the Ph8oadeoophia Orchestra overa period of four years. . 

September 26th, 1928 in Canada (Age 96)