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Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n composers

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

of classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, contemporary music and/or film soundtracks.

These names are largely drawn from the following:

• Music Australia an online service developed by the National Library of Australia
  National Library of Australia
  The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...
  
   (NLA) and the National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...
  
   (NFSA);
• Australian Music Centre's
  Australian Music Centre
  The Australian Music Centre fosters the development of an Australian music community by providing specialist support to its membership of performers, composers, sound artists, educators, students, and music specialists across Australia and throughout the world.The AMC is the Australian national...
  
   (AMC) list of "Represented artists";
• lists entitled "Australian Composers" and "Australian Repertoire" published by Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training (ACCET);
• the "Catalogue of Australian Organ Compositions 1866–2002" published by the Organ Historical Trust of Australia
  Organ Historical Trust of Australia
  The Organ Historical Trust of Australia is a national organisation which works towards the protection, conservation and restoration of pipe organs in Australia, the preservation of records pertaining to their history, the promotion of organ repertoire and organ playing to the general public, and...
  
   (OHTA);
• the "Australian Composers" list;

and

• various other websites and media sources.

Wherever possible, dates of birth and death are shown.

The pseudonyms used by some composers are listed along with a reference back to their legal name.

Personal websites are listed when possible, and entries are cross-referenced to one or more sources to provide further information.

A

• Clifford Abbott (1916–1994)
• Katy Abbott (born 1971)
• Christina Abdul-Karim (born 1980)
• Warren Abeshouse (born 1952)
• David Adams (born 1949)
• Stephen Adams (born 1963)
• Tom Adeney
• David Agg (born 1949)
• Roy Agnew
  Roy Agnew
  Roy Ewing "Robert" Agnew was an Australian composer and pianist. He has been called the most outstanding Australian composer of the early twentieth century.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1891–1944)
• Michael Ahearn (born 1962)
• David Ahern
  David Ahern
  David Anthony Ahern was an Australian composer and music critic, who became a prominent artist in the avant-garde genre after his best-known work, Ned Kelly Music was released and performed at the Sydney Proms music series.Born and raised in Sydney, Ahern decided to become a composer in his...
  
   (1947–1988)
• Lindsay Aked (1930–2010)
• Sonia Aldon (see Florence Maud Ewart)
• John Alexander (see Frederick Fifield Hall)
• Ali-Ben-Sou-Alle (1844–?)
• G. B. (George Benjamin) Allen (1822–1898)
• Geoffrey Allen (born 1927)
• Harold Allen (1917–1985)
• Peter Allis
• Peter Allison (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Robert Allworth (born 1943)
• Hugo Alpen
  Hugo Alpen
  Hugo Alpen came to Australia at the age of 16 in 1858, and established a career as a composer, choral conductor and singing teacher....
  
   (1842–1917)
• Roger Alsop
• Ernie Althoff
  Ernie Althoff
  Ernie Althoff is an Australian musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist. He was involved in the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre during the late 1970s and early 1980s...
  
   (born 1950)
• Lorenzo Alvaro
• Robert Ampt (born 1949)
• Noel Ancell
• Andrew Anderson (born 1971)
• Olive Anderson (1917–1995)
• May Andrewartha
• John Henry Antill
  John Antill
  John Henry Antill, CMG, OBE was an Australian composer best known for his ballet Corroboree.-Biography:Antill was born in Sydney in 1904, and was educated and trained in music at Trinity Grammar School, Sydney and St Andrew's Cathedral School. Upon leaving school in 1920 he became apprenticed to...
  
   (1904–1986)
• Cathy Applegate (born 1959)
• Albert Arlen
  Albert Arlen
  Albert Arlen AM was a Turkish Australian pianist, composer, actor and playwright. He is best known for his musical The Sentimental Bloke , the "Alamein Concerto", and his setting of Banjo Paterson’s Clancy of the Overflow.-Biography:Albert Aarons was born in Sydney in 1905 to Turkish immigrants...
  
   (1905–1993)
• Martin Armiger
  Martin Armiger
  John Martin Armiger is an Australian musician, record producer and film/TV composer. He was singer-songwriter and guitarist with Melbourne-based rock band, The Sports during 1978–1981, which had Top 30 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart with, "Don't Throw Stones" , "Strangers on a...
  
   (born 1949)
• Gabriel Armstrong
• Newton Armstrong
• Jane Arnison
• Andy Arthurs
• Keith Asboe (born 1929)
• Matthew P. Atherton (born 1967)
• Michael Atherton (born 1950)
• Gordon Atkinson (born 1928)
• Paul Aubry (see George Howard Clutsam)
• Rosemary Austen (born 1958)
• Richard Austin (born 1943)
• Eric Austin-Phillips (born 1947)

B

• Dalmazio Babare
• John Babbage
• Tony Backhouse
  Tony Backhouse
  Tony Backhouse is a musician from New Zealand. He played in NZ bands such as The Crocodiles, and formed Australian a cappella groups, the Elevators, the Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, the Honeybees and the Heavenly Lights...
  
   (born 1947)
• Werner Baer (1914–1992)
• Judy Bailey
• Andrew Bainbridge
• Beryl Bainbridge (born 1919)
• Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880–1956)
• Amanda Baker (born 1962)
• Brian Baker
• Rupert Balint-Smith
• Frederick Baliol (see Frederick Bevan)
• Cyril Bancroft
• Ros (Rosalie) Bandt (born 1951)
• Don Banks
  Don Banks
  Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.He initially studied at the University of Melbourne, then moved to London where he studied with Mátyás Seiber...
  
   (1923–1980)
• Mervyn Banks (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Damian Barbeler
• Michael Barkl (born 1958)
• Dale Barlow (born 1960)
• David Barmby
• Stephen Barrass
• N. G. Barnett (1854–1895)
• John Milton Barrett (born 1956)
• Lewis Barrett
• Lawrence Bartlett (born 1933)
• William Barton
• David Basden (born 1957)
• Amy Bastow (born 1985)
• Phyllis Batchelor (1915–1999))
• Andrew Batterham (born 1968)
• Andrew Batt-Rawden (born 1984)
• Alison Bauld (born 1944)
• Geoffrey Baxter (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Ian H. Beasley
• Betty Beath
  Betty Beath
  Elizabeth Margaret Beath nee Eardley, is married to author/illustrator, David Cox. She is an Australian composer, pianist,and music educator . She was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and began piano lessons at the age of three. She studied with Frank Hutchens at the Sydney Conservatorium and...
  
   (born 1932)
• Katia Beaugeais
• Phillip Beazley (born 1956)
• Kirsty Beilharz
• Graeme Emerson Bell (born 1914)
• Dulcie Sybil Bellhouse (see Dulcie Sybil Holland)
• Stephen McRae Benfall (born 1957)
• Arthur Leslie Benjamin
  Arthur Benjamin
  Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...
  
   (1893–1960)
• Lou Bennett
• Rhonda Berry
• Michael Bertling
• Michael Bertram (1935)
• Frederick Bevan (1856–1939)
• Glenn Bidmead
  Glenn Bidmead
  Glenn Keith Bidmead is a Sydney-based singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer and sound engineer. Glenn is currently the lead singer and guitarist with Australian rock band Matt Finish...
  
   (born 1962)
• Matthew Bieniek (born 1976)
• Peter Biffin
• Peter Billam (born 1948)
• Walter Billeter (born 1943)
• Colin Black
  Colin Black
  Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer and sonic media arts practitioner and researcher. Black won the 2003 Prix Italia Award in the category of Best Radio Music — Composed Work for composing and producing The Ears Outside My Listening Room .Black's commissions to create...
  
  
• Ian Blake
• Daniel Blinkhorn
• Diana Blom (born 1947)
• Andrew Blyth (1958–2010)
• Robert Nicolas (Nicholas) Charles Bochsa (1789–1856)
• Charles Bodman Rae
• Ross Bolleter
  Ross Bolleter
  Ross Bolleter is an Australian avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on ruined pianos. He has been a member of The Blackeyed Susans and he is a co-founder of the WARPS Music label....
  
   (born 1946)
• Phillip Bolliger (born 1963)
• Ian Bonighton (1942–1975)
• Rosalie Bonighton (born 1946)
• John Bostock (born 1980)
• Robert Keith Boughen (born 1929)
• Una Mabel Bourne (1882–1974)
• Christopher Bowen
• Calvin Bowman (born 1972)
• Kim Bowman (born 1957)
• Anne Elizabeth Boyd
  Anne Boyd
  Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.-Early life:Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd ....
  
   (born 1946)
• Robert J. Boyd
• George F. Boyle (1886–1984)
• Philip Bračanin
  Philip Bračanin
  Philip Bračanin is an Australian composer and musicologist. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962 with bachelors degrees in mathematics and music. He pursued graduate studies at the same school in musicology and composition, earning an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970...
  
   (born 1942)
• Lee Bracegirdle
• Ethel A. Brady (?–1921)
• May (or Mary) Hannah Brahe
  May Brahe
  May Brahe was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is "Bless This House", recorded by John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. She was the only Australian woman composer to win local and international recognition before...
  
   (1884–1956)
• Georges Brand (see Frederick Fifield Hall)
• Margaret Brandman (born 1951)
• Robert Bratetich
• Tony Bremner (born 1939)
• Anthony J. Brennan (born 1942)
• Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones (1887–1949)
• Peter Brideoake
• Percy J. Brier (1885–1970)
• Anthony Briggs (born 1959)
• Colin Bright
• Michael Brimer
  Michael Brimer
  Michael Brimer is a pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and academic.He was born in South Africa and studied with Eleanor Bonnar, a pupil of Leopold Godowsky. He continued studies at the University of Cape Town, the Royal College of Music, the Royal School of Church Music in London and at the...
  
   (born 1933)
• Jamie Briton (born 1957)
• Donald Britton (born 1919)
• Brenton Broadstock
  Brenton Broadstock
  Brenton Broadstock is an Australian composer.Brenton Broadstock - Australian Composer - was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied History, Politics and Music at Monash University, and later composition and theory with Donald Freund at the University of Memphis in the USA and with Peter...
  
   (born 1952)
• David Brookes
• Gerard Brophy(born 1953)
• Philip Brophy
• Mary Broughton
• Graham Southwell Brown (born 1959)
• Aileen M. Brown
• Amanda Gabrielle Brown (born 1965)
• Andrew Brown
• Brian Brown
• Roger Bruce
• Colin Brumby
  Colin Brumby
  Colin Brumby is an Australian composer and conductor.He was born in Melbourne and studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, from which he graduated in 1957. He went to Spain to study advanced composition with Philipp Jarnach, and to London to study with Alexander Goehr...
  
   (born 1933)
• Gai Bryant
• Eric Bryce (1932–2007)
• Nicholas Buc
• Vera Buck (born 1938)
• Joe Bugden (born 1961)
• Thomas (Tom) Edward Bulch
  Thomas Bulch
  Thomas Edward Bulch , born in New Shildon, Durham, England, was a noted Australian musician and composer.-Biography:...
  
   (1860–1930)
• Stephen Bull
• Edwin Burchett (1884–1966)
• Nadia Burgess (born 1958)
• Brigid Burke (born 1960)
• Alex Burnard (born 1900)
• Don Burrows (born 1928)
• Warren Burt
  Warren Burt
  Warren Burt is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music...
  
   (born 1949)
• Peter Butler
• Nigel Butterley
  Nigel Butterley
  Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.-Life and career:Butterley learnt to play the piano at the age of five. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but as music wasn't taught at the school at that time, he also sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music....
  
   (born 1935)
• Evelyn Byrd (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Andrew Byrne
• Robert Griffin Byron

C

• Harrold Barrie Cabena (born 1933)
• Julian Cafarella (born 1947)
• Bruce Cale (born 1939)
• (George) Douglas Callen (c.1814–1879)
• Suzie-May Camm
• Stephen Campbell (born 1961)
• Monte Carlo (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Rosalind Carlson (born 1937)
• John Carmichael
  John Carmichael (composer)
  John Carmichael OAM is an Australian pianist, composer and music therapist who has long been resident in the United Kingdom. One of his best known works is the Concierto folklorico for piano and string orchestra. His works for piano form much of his musical output, although he composes for many...
  
   (born 1930)
• Philip Carmody
• Monique Carole-Smith (born 1972)
• Leon Francis Victor Caron (1850–1915)
• Edwin Carr (1926–2003)
• Ann Carr-Boyd
  Ann Carr-Boyd
  Ann Carr–Boyd is an Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1938)
• Taran Carter (born 1980)
• Glen Carter-Varney
  Glen Carter-Varney
  Glennis Carter–Varney is an Australian composer, pianist and educator: formerly as Head of Contemporary Keyboard studies and lecturer in piano at the Melba Memorial Conservatorium in Melbourne and as Music Director at The Scots School in Albury New South Wales...
  
   (born 1938)
• Brett Carvolth
• Tristram Ogilvie Cary
  Tristram Cary
  Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM was a pioneering English-Australian composer.-Early life:Cary was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He was the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson...
  
   (1925–2008)
• Damian Castaldi
• Paul Castles (born 1984)
• Anne Cawrse
  Anne Cawrse
  Anne Cawrse is an Australian composer based in Adelaide, South Australia.-Life and career:Anne Cawrse was born in country South Australia, and spent her formative years living on a farm in Freeling, South Australia...
  
   (born 1981)
• Charles Cawthorne (1854–1925)
• Linda Ceff (born 1963)
• Roland Chadwick (born 1957)
• Louis Chapman (see William Garnet James)
• Raymond Chapman Smith (born 1951)
• Charlie Chan
• Lyle Chan
• William F. Chappell
• Alice Ellen Charbonnet-Kellermann (1858–1914)
• Simon Charles
• Richard Charlton (born 1955)
• Chloé Charody (born 1984)
• Lisa Cheney (born 1987)
• Simplicius Cheong (born 1942)
• David Chesworth
  David Chesworth
  David Chesworth is an award-winning Australian-based composer and installation artist. Known for his experimental, and at times minimalist music, he has worked in rock groups, classical ensembles, theatre, opera...
  
   (born 1958)
• Matt Chilmaid
• A. W. B. Chinner (1850–1915)
• David Chisholm
• Aaron Choulai (born 1982)
• Marcelle Christian (see Ethel A. Brady)
• Chu Wang-hua (born 1941)
• Sonny Chua (born 1967)
• Andrew Chubb
  Andrew Chubb
  Andrew Chubb is a Newcastle based pianist, composer, teacher and lecturer. Since 1999, he has taught and lectured at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, University of Newcastle, Australia....
  
   (born 1975)
• Reginald Edward Victor Church (1901–1985)
• Jacqueline Clark (born 1957)
• Steve Clark (born 1978)
• Zana Clarke (born 1965)
• Syd Clayton (born 1939)
• Robert Clerisse (1899–1973)
• Ian Cleworth
• Paul Clift(born 1978)
• Neil Clifton (1956–1986)
• Judith Clingan
  Judith Clingan
  Judith Clingan AM is an Australian composer, conductor, performer and music educator. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Wayfarers Australia Australia Wide Choir.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1945)
• George Howard Clutsam
  George Clutsam
  George Howard Clutsam was an Australian pianist, composer and writer, best remembered as the arranger of Lilac Time. Clutsam published over 150 songs.-Life:...
  
   (1866–1951)
• Bill Coates (1917–1997)
• Julian Cochran
  Julian Cochran
  thumb|200px|Julian Cochran in 1998Julian Cochran is an English-born Australian composer.Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe...
  
   (born 1974)
• Barry Cockcroft
• Madelaine Cocolas
• Percy Edward (or Edward Percival) Code (1888–1953)
• Tristan Coelho (born 1983)
• Rachael Cogan
• Brendan Colbert (born 1956)
• John Colborne-Veel (born 1945)
• G. B. Cole (born 1944)
• Neil College
• Constance Colley
• Brendan Collins
• Ivan Collins
• Gertrude Concannon (1899–1978)
• Owen Conduit (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Richard Connolly
  Richard Connolly
  Richard Connolly is an Australian musician, composer and former broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . His published and performed works allow him to be counted as among Australia's most prolific composers of Roman Catholic church music particularly with regard to the hymns he...
  
   (born 1927)
• Carolyn Connors
• Elias Constantopedos
• Alice R. Consterdine
• Jayson Cooper (born 1976)
• Barry Conyngham
  Barry Conyngham
  Emeritus Professor Barry Conyngham AM is an Australian composer and academic. He has over seventy published works and over thirty recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. His...
  
   (born 1944)
• Arthur Cook
• Clare Cooper (born 1981)
• Ian Cooper (born 1934)
• Paul Copeland (born 1947)
• Lewis Cornwell
• Robert Cossom
• Tania Ravbar Costantino
• James Court (born 1993)
• Edward Cowie (born 1943)
• Geoffrey Cox (born 1951)
• James Jacka Coyle (born 1968)
• Johanna Craven (born 1981)
• Kate Crawford
  Kate Crawford
  Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer and academic based in Sydney, Australia.Crawford was previously part of Sydney electronic band Btek Kate Crawford is a writer, composer, producer and academic based in Sydney, Australia.Crawford was previously part of Sydney electronic band B(if)tek...
  
  
• Ian Cresswell
  Ian Cresswell
  Ian Cresswell is an Australian composer born in 1968. He obtained Bachelor of Music at the Australian National University in 1996 and Master of Music at the University of Queensland in 2002...
  
   (born 1968)
• Donald Crichton (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Judith Crispin
• Romano Crivici
• Alex Cronin
• Stephen Cronin (born 1960)
• Bruce Crossman (born 1931)
• Hugh Crosthwaite
• Hope Csutoros
• Robert Cuckson (born 1942)
• Ian Cugley
  Ian Cugley
  - Early life:He was born in Melbourne in 1945. He gained early prominence with two orchestral works, Pan, the Lake and Prelude for Orchestra, which were performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1967 and subsequently recorded on EMI...
  
   (born 1945)
• Kim Cunio
• Neil Currie (born 1955)
• David Currow (born 1965)
• Leah Curtis
• Paul Cutlan (born 1964)
• Cesare Cutolo
• Philip Czaplowski
  Philip Czaplowski
  Philip Czaplowski is an Australian composer.Czaplowski was born in London in 1958, and emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969. He lives in Melbourne, where he completed a PhD in music composition at Monash University under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Reiner...
  
   (born 1958)
• Dana Czarski

D

• Robert Dalley-Scarlett (1887–1959)
• Will Danby (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Atis Danckops (born 1940)
• Đặng Kim Hiền
• W. Darby
• Anthony Dare (see Frederick Fifield Hall)
• Tim Dargaville
• Kate Darian-Smith
• Andrew Davidson
• John A. Davidson (born 1936)
• Lachlan Davidson
• Robert Davidson
  Robert Davidson (composer)
  Robert Davidson is an Australian composer. He studied composition with Terry Riley in 1995 following studies with Philip Bračanin at the University of Queensland...
  
   (born 1965)
• Brent Davies (born 1956)
• Tim Davies (born 1972)
• Susie Davies-Splitter
• Ken Davis
• Peter Smith Dawson (1882–1961)
• Archibald J. Day (1901–1975)
• Julian Day
• Brett Dean
  Brett Dean
  Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...
  
   (born 1961)
• Roger T. Dean (born 1948)
• John P. Deane (1796–1849)
• Benedict Deane-Johns (born 1971)
• Christopher Hugh Dearnley (1930–2000)
• Emmanuele (or Emanuel) de Beaupuis (also Chevalier de Beaupuis) (1860–1913)
• George de Cairos-Rego (c.1858–1946)
• G. S. de Chanéet (1855–1920)
• Hugh de Ferranti
• Gertrude May Degnian (see Gertrude Concannon)
• Lewis Leon de Groen (1864–1916)
• Sarah De Jong (born 1952)
• John Albert Delany (1852–1907)
• Kirsty De La Rambelva
• Roxanne Della-Bosca
• Chris Dench (born 1953)
• Jim Denley (born 1957)
• Benjamin de Murashkin (born 1981)
• Albert Denning
• Sergio de Pieri (born 1932)
• Clayton Elwyn Dennis (born 1941)
• Claude Devene (see William Garnet James)
• Noel Dervieux (born 1921)
• Jacques De Vos Malan (born 1953)
• Matthew Dewey
  Matthew Dewey
  Matthew Ingvald Dewey is an Australian composer and singer.-General information:Dewey is an Australian composer and singer who studied composition with Professor Douglas Knehans at the University of Tasmania and composition/theatrical design/singing with Greek-Australian composer/designer...
  
   (born 1984)
• Henrique Dib (born 1977)
• Stanley Dickson (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Howard Dillon (born 1954)
• Gerardo Dirié
• Richard Divall (born 1945)
• Glen Dixon (born 1979)
• Hugh Dixon (born 1927)
• John Wayne Dixon (born 1945)
• Michel H. Dixon (born 1961)
• Alison Dodd (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Gabriel Anthony (Tony) Doheny (born 1938)
• Joe Dolce
• Theodore Dollarhide (born 1948)
• Geoffrey d'Ombrain (born 1931)
• Florence Maud Donaldson (see Florence Maud Ewart)
• Gregory Donovan (born 1959)
• Lionel Doolan (born 1958)
• Paul Doornbusch
  Paul Doornbusch
  Paul Doornbusch is a largely algorithmic composer and performer of contemporary music, often fusing electroacoustic and computer music with instrumental music...
  
   (born 1959)
• Clive Douglas (1903–1977)
• Robert Douglas
• Stanton Douglas (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Bernadette Dowling
• Dr Sonique (see Nigel Helyer)
• Christine Draeger
• Elizabeth Drake
• Rohan Drape
• Arthur J. Drewe
• George Dreyfus
  George Dreyfus
  George Dreyfus AM is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.-Life:The Dreyfus family moved in 1935 to Berlin to enable a better education for their two sons...
  
   (born 1928)
• Kay Dreyfus >
• Jon Drummond
  Jon Drummond (composer)
  Jon Drummond is an Australian composer.Drummond's computer music and installation work has been presented at various Australian and international festivals and galleries including the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006 and the International Computer Music Conference...
  
   (born 1969)
• David Drury (born 1961)
• Catherine Duc
  Catherine Duc
  Catherine Duc is an Australian composer and producer of music blending elements of ambient, classical, electronica and world music.- History :Born in Melbourne, Australia, Duc started her musical journey from a young age...
  
  
• Grahame Dudley (born 1942)
• Evan Duggan
• Faye Dumont
• Eve Duncan
• Wayne Duncan (born 1970)
• Houston Dunleavy (born 1962)
• Anthony Dunstan
• Barbara Durham (born 1952)
• Michael Dyer

E

• Moneta Eagles (1928–2002)
• James Easton (1944–2001)
• Michael Easton (born 1954)
• Lance Eccles
• Ross Edwards
  Ross Edwards (composer)
  Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...
  
   (born 1943)
• Frederick Ellard (?–1867)
• William Ellard
• Mark Elliott
• George Ellis
• Jack Ellitt (born 1906)
• George Selwyn English (1912–1980)
• Melody Eötvös
• June Epstein
• Bradley Eustace
  Bradley Eustace
  Bradley Grant Eustace is an Australian composer, arranger, publisher and pianist. He works closely with modern technology, exploring the performance potential of MIDI. He is the author of several books on organ sold mainly in England and has developed software for music teachers and students from...
  
   (born 1978)
• Harry Lindley Evans
  Lindley Evans
  Lindley Evans CMG was a South African-born Australian composer, pianist and teacher. He is best known for his collaboration with Frank Hutchens in a famous piano duet which lasted 41 years, and as the ABC's "Mr Melody Man" for 30 years.Harry Lindley Evans was born in Cape Town in 1895, to English...
  
   (1895–1982)
• Sandy Evans
• Winsome Evans
  Winsome Evans
  Winsome Joan Evans OAM BEM is one of Australia's premier early music specialists.She received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Sydney, where her lecturers included Peter Sculthorpe...
  
   (born 1941)
• Florence Maud Ewart (1864–1949)

F

• Mrs Johann F. Faassen (see Ethel A. Brady)
• Harold Fabrikant
• Amanda Lee Falkenberg
• Kent Farbach (born 1961)
• Ian Farr (1941–2006)
• Eric Faulker (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Gary Featherstone
• Nirmali Fenn (born 1979)
• Bruce Fethers (born 1964)
• Ross Fiddes (born 1944)
• H. P. Finnis (1883–1960)
• Michael Finnissy
• Mark Finsterer (born 1958)
• Mary Finsterer
  Mary Finsterer
  -Life:Mary Finsterer was born in Canberra, Australia, and graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and...
  
   (born 1962)
• John Fitzgerald (born 1954)
• Thomas Fitzgerald
  Thomas Fitzgerald (composer)
  Dr Thomas Fitzgerald is an Australian Composer, Musical Director, Conductor and Musician.Thomas Fitzgerald completed his Doctoral Thesis in Composition at the University of Wollongong in 2005. He also holds a Master of Music and Bachelor of Music from Melbourne University...
  
  
• Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs (1861–?)
• Liam Flenady
• Arnold Flint (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Dean Flintoft (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Alfred Ernest Floyd (1877–1974)
• Madeleine Flynn
• Samantha Fonti
  Samantha Fonti
  Samantha Fonti is an Australian film composer and classically trainedviolinist.Samantha Fonti was raised and born in Sydney, Australia....
  
   (born 1973)
• Andrew Ford
  Andrew Ford
  Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council...
  
   (born 1957)
• Kenneth Ford (born 1942)
• Trevor J. Ford
• Riccardo Formosa
  Ric Formosa
  -External links:...
  
   (born 1954)
• Grant Foster (born 1945)
• Jennifer Fowler
  Jennifer Fowler
  Jennifer Fowler is a British composer of Australian birth. She was born in Bunbury, Australia, and graduated with degrees in music from the University of Western Australia in 1960 and 1967. She spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht in 1968. In 1969 she...
  
   (born 1939)
• Malcolm J. Fox (1946–1997).
• Robin Fox
• Wilbur B. Fox (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Roger Frampton (1948–2000)
• Jim Franklin (born 1959)
• David Franzke
• Ian Francis Fredericks
• Dean Frenkel
• Martin Friedel (born 1945)
• Suzanne Tiborz Frisk

G

• Victor E. Galway (1894–1960)
• Jenny Game-Lopata
• Stephen Gard
• Augustus Gehde
• Mario Genovese (born 1957)
• Lisa Gerrard
  Lisa Gerrard
  Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....
  
   (born 1961)
• Felix Gethen (1916–2002)
• Ann Ghandar (born 1943)
• John Giacchi
• Carlo Giacco (born 1972)
• Helen Gifford
  Helen Gifford
  -Life:Helen Gifford was born in Melbourne, Australia, of Scots and Cornish heritage. She attended Tintern Junior School and Melbourne Girls Grammar, and then the University of Melbourne Conservatorium on a Commonwealth Scholarship. She studied with Roy Shepherd and Dorian Le Gallienne, graduating...
  
   (born 1935)
• Les Gilbert (born 1946)
• John F. Gilfedder (born 1925)
• Brad Gill (born 1976)
• Richard Gill
  Richard Gill (conductor)
  Richard James Gill OAM is an Australian conductor who has earned awards for his work. He conducts choral, orchestral and operatic works, and has been involved in music training and education...
  
  
• Belinda Gillam
• Russell Gilmour (born 1956)
• Paolo Giorza (1832–1914)
• Joseph Giovinazzo
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks
  Peggy Glanville-Hicks
  Peggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...
  
   (1912–1990)
• Dudley Glass (1899–1981)
• Horace Gleeson (1878–1959)
• Gerald Glynn (born 1943)
• Annette Golden
• J. W. Goodfield (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Isador Goodman
  Isador Goodman
  Isador Goodman AM was a South African-Australian Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music for 50 years, introduced many Australians to classical music, and contributed hugely to music...
  
   (1909–1982)
• Eugene Goossens
  Eugène Aynsley Goossens
  Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.-Biography:He was born in Camden Town, London, the son of the Belgian conductor and violinist Eugène Goossens and the grandson of the conductor Eugène Goossens...
  
   (1893–1962)
• Christopher Gordon
• John Gordon (born 1915)
• James Gott (1955–1998)
• Ed Gould
• Tony Gould
  Tony Gould
  Tony Gould is an Australian jazz musician, pianist, composer and educator.Gould's many recordings and performances reveal his harmonic view of music and his love of music from both African-American and European jazz traditions, as well as the classical works of Bach, Mahler, Stravinsky and...
  
  
• James Govenlock (1918–1983)
• Ed Goyer
• Paul Grabowsky
  Paul Grabowsky
  -Biography:Grabowsky was born on 27 September 1958 in Lae, Papua New Guinea; his father Alistair had lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Charlotte since the 1930s working on oil rigs, building roads, flying planes and playing the drums...
  
   (born 1958)
• Peter Graham (born 1943)
• Ron Grainer
  Ron Grainer
  Ronald Erle “Ron” Grainer was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his film and television music.- Biography :...
  
   (1922–1981)
• George Percy Aldridge Grainger
  Percy Grainger
  George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...
  
   (1882–1961)
• Iain Grandage
• Mark Grandison (born 1965)
• Alicia Grant
• Hector Grant (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Quentin Grant (born 1962)
• Edward Grantham
• John Woodcock Graves (1795–1886)
• Linden Greatwood
• Thomas Green
• Stuart Greenbaum (born 1966)
• Andrée Greenwell
• Martin Greet
• Maria Grenfell
  Maria Grenfell
  -General information:Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbury...
  
   (born 1969)
• Wal Gregory (born 1938)
• Dorothy Greville (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Erik Griswold
• Jesmond Grixti
• Eric Gross
  Eric Gross
  Eric Gross AM was an Austrian-Australian pianist and composer.-Biography:Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras...
  
   (born 1926)
• Thomas Nicholas Grubb (born 1970)
• Richard Gubbins
• Jonathan Guthrie (born 1989)
• Ingrid Guymer (born 1968)
• Elliott Gyger (born 1968)

H

• Graham Hair (born 1943)
• Frederick Fifield Hall (1878–1956)
• Anthony Halliday
• Richard Hames (born 1945)
• Gordon Hamilton
  Gordon Hamilton (composer)
  Gordon Hamilton is an Australian composer and conductor. Since 2009, he has been the Artistic Director of The Australian Voices. He was born in Newcastle, lived and worked in Bremen, Germany for five years as a conductor and composer and he now lives in Brisbane.He studied in Australia at the...
  
   (born 1982)
• Jane Hammond
• David Scott Hamnes (born 1971)
• Amanda Handel
• Ronald Hanmer
  Ronald Hanmer
  Ronald Hanmer was a British conductor, composer and arranger of light music, who spent his latter years in Australia. He was best known for his themes to the Adventures of P.C...
  
   (1917–1994)
• Michael Hannan (born 1949)
• Raymond Hanson (1913–1976)
• Lance A. Hardy (1907–1993)
• Cathy Harley (born 1969)
• Bruce W. Harper (born 1950)
• Don Harper(1921–1999)
• Edith Mary Harrhy (1893–1969)
• Robert Harrington (see George Howard Clutsam)
• David Harris
• Sebastian Harris
• Andrew Harrison
• Ian Harrison
• Rebecca Harrison (born 1986)
• Sadie Harrison
• Ian Keith Harris
  Ian Keith Harris
  Ian Keith Harris , is a composer of classical music, arranger, oboist and music educator from Australia.-Biography:Ian Keith Harris was born in Melbourne, living there for the first 26 years of his life. He started the piano at the age of five, was playing cornet in his school band, then violin for...
  
   (born 1935)
• Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874–1949)
• Geoff Harvey (born 1935)
• Lawrence Harvey
• Michael Kieran Harvey (born 1961)
• John Liptrot Hatton
• Miska (Michael) Hauser (1822–1887)
• Fiona Joy Hawkins
  Fiona Joy Hawkins
  Fiona Joy Hawkins is an Australian composer. She was born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a creative family, and trained as a classical pianist....
  
   (born 1964)
• Henry Turley Hayes
• Ross Hazeldine (born 1961)
• Noel Heading
• Roger Heagney
• Karen Heath
• Christian Heim
  Christian Heim
  Christian Heim is an Australian composer and psychiatrist.Heim was born in Sydney and currently lives in Brisbane. He studied under Peter Sculthorpe and has conducted and composed in Vienna, Paris and New York...
  
   (born 1960)
• Andrew Helberg (born 1978)
• Nigel Helyer
• Michael Hemans (1929–1980)
• Nicholas Hender (born 1973)
• Keith Henderson
• Moya Henderson
  Moya Henderson
  Moya Henderson is an Australian composer.A graduate of the University of Queensland, Henderson also studied in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen after which she became a lecturer at the University of Sydney...
  
   (born 1941)
• Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878)
• Marjorie Hesse (1911–1986)
• Mauritz (Moritz) Heuzenroeder (1849–1897)
• Laurence Henry Hicks
  Laurence Henry Hicks
  Laurence Henry Hicks was an Australian composer.-National Anthem of Nauru:Hicks is known as the person who composed the music to the national anthem of Nauru, in 1968, in preparation for the independence of that country....
  
   (1912–1997)
• Alfred Francis Hill
  Alfred Hill
  Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand...
  
   (1869–1960)
• Fiona Hill
• Frederick Rowland Hill (born 1948)
• Mirrie Irma Hill (1892–1968)
• Stuart A. Hille (born 1956)
• Maria Hinckesman (1803–?)
• John Hind (1916–1984)
• Matthew Hindson
  Matthew Hindson
  Matthew John Hindson AM is an Australian composer.-Biography:Matthew Hindson was born in Wollongong in 1968. He studied composition at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards.Hindson's works have been...
  
   (born 1968)
• John Hines (born 1958)
• David Hirschfelder
  David Hirschfelder
  David Hirschfelder is an Australian film score composer and performer.Hirschfelder was born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria....
  
   (born 1960)
• David Hirst
• Wendy Hiscocks (born 1963)
• David Hobson (born 1960)
• Bernard Hoey
• John Hogan (born 1946)
• Franz Holford (1907–1994)
• Stephen Holgate (born 1953)
• Dulcie Sybil Holland
  Dulcie Holland
  Dulcie Sybil Holland AM was an Australian composer and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her energetic involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Board, Holland has in recent decades gained greater recognition as a composer...
  
   (1913–2000)
• Wilfrid Holland
  Wilfrid Holland
  Wilfrid Holland was a British born composer, choral and orchestral conductor, pianist and teacher who spent the last 45 years of his life based In Canberra, Australia....
  
   (1920–2005)
• William Holland (born 1927)
• Alan Holley (born 1954)
• Donald Hollier (born 1934)
• Damien Holloway
• Daniel Holloway
• Suzanne Palmer Holton (see Suzanne Palmer-Holton)
• David Holyoake
• John M. Hooke (born 1946)
• Greg Hooper
• Cat Hope (born 1966)
• Owen Hope (see William Cleaver Francis Robinson)
• Sarah Hopkins (born 1958)
• David Horowicz (born 1960)
• Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876)
• Michael Horsphol
• Phillip Houghton (born 1954)
• Daniel House
• Brian Howard (born 1951)
• Leslie J. Howard (born 1948)
• Raelene (Rae) Howell
• May Howlett (born 1931)
• Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
• Charles Huenerbein
• Gordon Hughes (born 1975)
• Robert Watson Hughes
  Robert Hughes (composer)
  Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE was a Scottish-born Australian composer. His music was characterised as muscular, assertive, pugnacious, with a dark, troubled, even driven quality; but it was also deeply sensitive, lyrical and tender. His capacity to view a complex landscape of diverse musical...
  
   (1912–2007)
• William Hughes
• Leslie Keith Humble (1927–1995)
• Tim Humphrey
• Steve Hunter
• Michael Hurst (born 1925)
• David Hush
• Anita Hustas
• Frank Hutchens
  Frank Hutchens
  Francis "Frank" Hutchens OBE was a pianist, music teacher and composer originally from New Zealand. He became a popular concert pianist in Australia, and was a founding member of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, where he taught for fifty years.-Early life and education:Hutchens'...
  
   (1892–1965)
• Miriam Beatrice Hyde
  Miriam Hyde
  Miriam Beatrice Hyde AO, OBE was an Australian composer, pianist, poet and music educator.She composed over 150 works for piano, songs and other instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a concert pianist with eminent conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Bernard Heinze and...
  
   (1913–2005)

I

• Milica Ilic
• Robert Illing (born 1917)
• Frank Inchley (1905–1990)
• Stephen Ingham
• Robert Iolini
• Alison Ireland
• Kristian Ireland
• Wendy Ireland
• Mark Isaacs (born 1958)
• H. S. Iseledon (see George Howard Clutsam)

J

• Anna Jacobs (born 1980)
• Sonia Jacobsen (born 1967)
• Paul Jager
• William Garnet James
  William G. James
  William Garnet James was an Australian pianist and composer and a pioneer of music broadcasting in Australia.-Early years:...
  
   (1892–1977)
• Charles A. Jarman
• Paul Jarman
• Ian Jefferson
• Wilson Jeffreys (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Richard Thomas Jeffries (1841–c.1890)
• Roy Jeffries (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Graham Jenkin
  Graham Jenkin
  Graham Jenkin is an Australian poet, historian, composer, and educator.Graham Jenkin was born in Adelaide and educated at various country schools and at Prince Alfred College, Wattle Park Teachers College, and the University of Adelaide. He spent two years working as a jackeroo on stations in...
  
   (born 1938)
• Cyril Jenkins (1885–1978)
• Herbert Jercher (born 1947)
• Graham Jesse (born 1955)
• David Jillett
• Josephine Y. Jin
• Alan John
  Alan John
  Alan John is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films and TV series , and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke, and the musical Snugglepot and...
  
   (born 1958)
• Malcolm John
• Andrew Johnston
• Anthony Linden Jones
  Anthony Linden Jones
  Anthony Linden Jones is a composer, conductor and performer living in the Hawkesbury region, on the north west fringe of Sydney....
  
   (born 1959)
• Hooper Josse Brewster Jones (see Hooper Josse Brewster-Jones)
• Margaret Dylan Jones
• Matthew Dyland Jones (see Margaret Dylan Jones)
• Michael Sydney Jones
• Percy Jones (1914–1992)
• Thomas H. Jones (1856–1936)
• Trevor A. Jones (born 1932)
• Melvin H. Jones
• David Joseph
  David Joseph
  David Joseph is the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK.-Career:David Joseph joined Universal Music UK in August 1998 as general manager of the company's Polydor label before moving up in February 2002 to become managing director and later co-President of Polydor...
  
   (born 1954)
• Tommy Joseph (born 1960)
• Kerryn Joyce (born 1972)
• August (or Augustus) William Juncker (1885–1942)
• Attila Jurth (born 1945)

K

• Esther Kahn (1876–1940)
• Kurt Kaiser (see Sydney John Kay)
• Dominik Karski
• Elena Kats-Chernin
  Elena Kats-Chernin
  Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:...
  
   (born 1957)
• Donald H. Kay
  Don Kay (composer)
  Donald Henry Kay AM is an Australian classical composer.Don Kay attained a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Melbourne after which he taught music at Colac High School, Victoria, 1957-59. He then went on to teach music at Peckham Manor Comprehensive School for Boys, London, UK 1959-64...
  
   (born 1933)
• Robert Kay
• Sydney John Kay (1906–1970)
• Norman Kaye
  Norman Kaye
  Norman James Kaye was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox.Kaye was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School...
  
   (1927–2007)
• Robert J. Keane (born 1948)
• Brennan Keats
• Horace Stanley Keats (1895–1945)
• David Keefe
• Adrian J. Keenan (born 1952)
• Cicely Kelly (bornc. 1910)
• Frederick Septimus (a.k.a. Sep or Cleg) Kelly (1881–1916)
• Neil Kelly
• Paul Maurice Kelly (born 1955)
• Christopher Bernard Kempster (born 1933)
• Paul J Kenny (born 1969)
• Gordon Kerry (born 1961)
• Solange Kershaw
• Charles Edward King (see Tom King)
• Henry John King Snr (1820–1888)
• Henry John King Jnr (c.1855–1934)
• Tom King (1900–1976)
• Greg Kingston (born 1954)
• Gwenda Knappstein
• Douglas Knehans
  Douglas Knehans
  Douglas Knehans is an Australian/American composer and academic.Between 2008 and 2010 he was Dean of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.-External links:* ²* ¹...
  
   (born 1957)
• Colin Knight
• Ruby Knight (1905–1986)
• Michael Knopf (born 1955)
• Chris Knowles (born 1955)
• Julian Knowles
  Julian Knowles
  Julian Knowles is an Australian composer and performer, specialising in new and emerging technologies. His creative work spans the fields of composition for theatre, dance, film and television, electronic music, sound and new media arts, popular music and record production...
  
   (born 1965)
• William Robert Knox (1861–1933)
• Gareth Koch (born 1962)
• Graeme Koehne
  Graeme Koehne
  Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...
  
   (born 1956)
• Brian Chatpo Koo (born 1954)
• Bozidar Kos (born 1934)
• Jocelyn E. Kotchie
• Constantine Koukias
  Constantine Koukias
  Constantine Koukias is a Greek-Australian composer and flautist.He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, based in Hobart, Tasmania. He is well known for his innovative work in contemporary opera and other forms...
  
   (born 1965)
• Leonidas Kourmadas (born 1958)
• Linda Kouvaras
• Michael Krelle (born 1947)
• Henry Krips (1912–1987)
• Mary-Anne Kyriakou

L

• Sophie Lacaze (born 1963)
• Eugene Lacosta (see Thomas Edward Bulch)
• Vineta Lagzdina (born 1945)
• Stephen Lalor
• Alan Lamb (born 1944)
• Michael Lampard (born 1986)
• Lynette Lancini
  Lynette Lancini
  Lynette Lancini, born Lismore, 23 June 1970, is an Australian composer of a variety of works including orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal music.-Life:Lynette Lancini studied music at the Queensland Conservatorium and University of Queensland...
  
  (born 1970)
• Brenton Langbein(1928–1993)
• Somaya Langley (born 1976)
• Zachàr Lazkewicz (born 1971)
• Henri Laski (see Thomas Edward Bulch)
• Georges Latour (see George Howard Clutsam)
• Louis Isidore Lavater (1867–1953)
• Louis Henry Lavenu (1818–1859)
• Sister Marie Duchesne Lavin (born 1930)
• Alan Lawrence (born 1949)
• Bruce Lawrence (born 1932)
• David Lawrence
• Raymond Douglas Lawrence (born 1943)
• Lê Tuấn Hùng
  Le Tuan Hung
  Le Tuan Hung is a Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist based in Australia. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled performer of the đàn tranh, a Vietnamese zither, he plays traditional...
  
  
• Simon Charles Anthony Leadley (1956–2010)
• Catherine Leahy
• James Ledger
• Jee-Yun Lee (born 1980)
• Riley Lee (born 1951)
• Stephen Leek
  Stephen Leek
  Stephen Leek is an Australian composer, conductor, educator, and publisher.-Early life:Leek was born in Sydney, Australia in 1959, lived in Brisbane from 1964 through 1969, and then spent the rest of his childhood in Canberra...
  
   (born 1959)
• Dorian Le Gallienne
  Dorian Le Gallienne
  Dorian Leon Marlois Le Gallienne was an Australian composer, teacher and music critic.-Biography:Dorian Le Gallienne was born in Melbourne in 1915. His father, an actor, was born in France, and his mother, a pianist who had studied with G. W. L. Marshall-Hall, was the daughter of the Assistant...
  
   (1915–1963)
• John Leggett (born 1946)
• Wilfred Lehmann
• Michael Leighton-Jones
• Paul Leitch
• John (Jack) Lemmoné(1861–1949)
• John Lemoni (see John (Jack) Lemmoné)
• Albert Francis Lenertz (1891–1943)
• Georges Lentz
  Georges Lentz
  Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia...
  
   (born 1965)
• Frank Leonard (see Albert Francis Lenertz)
• Felix Le Roy (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Tony Lewis
• Sven Erik Libaek (or Libæk) (born 1938)
• Inga Liljeström
• Liza Lim
  Liza Lim
  Liza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects...
  
   (born 1966)
• Karl Linders
• Carl (or Karl) Ferdinand August Linger (a.k.a. Charles Linger)
  Carl Linger
  Carl Linger was a German Australian composer who wrote the "Song of Australia". For his song he received a price of ten guineas.German-born intellectual Carl Linger, who had studied at the Institute of Music in Berlin, came to South Australia in 1849 on the Princess Luise. He settled in Gawler,...
  
   (1810–1862)
• Rainer Linz (born 1955)
• Vernon Lisle (1906–1995)
• Alexander Frame Lithgow
  Alex Lithgow
  Alexander Frame Lithgow was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader known as the "Sousa of the Antipodes"....
  
   (1870–1929)
• George Marsh Little (1880–1958)
• Jonathan Little
  Jonathan Little (composer)
  Jonathan David Little is a composer, academic and writer based in the UK, working mainly in the “contemporary classical” genre...
  
  
• Becky Llewellyn (born 1950)
• Graham Lloyd
• Robert Lloyd
• Arthur S. Loam (1896–?)
• William J. Lock
• Michael Lonsdale (born 1961)
• Karlin Greenstreet Love (born 1956)
• William Lovelock
  William Lovelock
  William Lovelock was an English classical composer and pedagogue who spent many years in Australia. He was the first Director of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, and later became the chief music critic for The Courier-Mail newspaper.He is not to be confused with the...
  
   (1899–1986)
• Henry Lovell (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Jill Lowe
• Adrian Luca (born 1964)
• Christopher J. Luke (born 1972)
• David Lumsdaine
  David Lumsdaine
  David Lumsdaine is an Australian composer. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . He moved to England in 1952 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of...
  
   (born 1931)
• John Sinclair (Jack) Lumsdaine (1895–1948)
• Graeme Lyall
• Andrew D. Lyons
• Anthony Lyons

Mac/Mc

• Ward McAlister (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932)
• J. P. McCall (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Ruth McCall
• Daniel McCallum
• Mary M. McCarron-Maguire
• John McCaughey
• Christine McCombe
• Peter Dodds McCormick
  Peter Dodds McCormick
  Peter Dodds McCormick , a Scottish-born schoolteacher, was the composer of the Australian national anthem "Advance Australia Fair"....
  
   (1834?–1916)
• Justin McCoy
• Andrew MacCunn (1883–1966)
• Terry McDermott
• Simon (Simmie) McDonald (1907–1968)
• Allan McFadden
• Roderick MacFarlane (born 1957)
• Freeman McGrath
• Matthew McGuigan
• Ronald McIver (born 1913)
• Justin McKay
• Colin McKeller (born 1953)
• Ron MacKenzie (1918–1992)
• William Neil McKie (1901–1984)
• Brett McKern (born 1972)
• Barry McKimm (born 1941)
• Ian McKinley (born 1929)
• Neil McLachlan
• Clare Maclean (born 1958)
• Peter McNamara (born 1980)
• Christina Rutherford Macpherson (1864–1936)(
• Nicholas McRoberts (born 1977)

M

• Kris Macken (born 1979)
• Richard Peter Maddox (born 1936)
• Mary Mageau
  Mary Mageau
  Mary Jane Mageau is an American born writer, harpsichordist and composer who lives and works in Australia. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and studied at DePaul University, Chicago, and the University of Michigan where she studied with Leon Stein, Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney,...
  
   (born 1934)
• Mary M. McCarron Maguire (see Mary M. McCarron-Maguire)
• Hellgart Mahler
• Albert Mallinson
• Kevin Man (born 1975)
• Chris Mann (born 1949)
• Adrian Mansukhani (born 1981)
• Joe Manton
• Raffæle Marcellino
  Raffæle Marcellino
  -Life:Raffaele Marcellino graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with merit in 1985.In 1995 Marcellino joined the staff of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music where he served as Director from 1996–1998 and resumed normal teaching duties in 1999...
  
   (born 1964)
• Kevin March
• Joanne Maree (born 1939)
• Henry Marsh
• Stephen Hale Alonzo Marsh (1805–1888)
• Elsa Marshall-Hall (born 1891)
• George William Louis Marshall-Hall
  Marshall Hall (musician)
  George William Louis Marshall-Hall was an English-born musician, composer, conductor, poet and controversialist who lived and worked in Australia from 1891 till his death in 1915...
  
   (1862–1915)
• John Martin
• Nyalgodi Scotty Martin
• Ruth Lee Martin
• Steve Martin (born 1962)
• Stephan Mashor
• Joseph Massey (1854–1943)
• Martin Mather (1927–2002)
• Chris Matters
• Mark Matthews (born 1961)
• Philip Mathias
• John Boswell Maver
  John Boswell Maver
  John Maver is an Australian pianist and composer.Maver was born in Sydney, where he studied the piano: first under Miss Purcell of Botany Bay, then with Kathleen Horne and Ramsay Pennycuick. As a student of the NSW Conservatorium of Music, he studied piano with the noted pianist/composer Frank...
  
   (born 1932)
• Gregory Mayer (born 1969)
• Thomas Meadowcroft (born 1972)
• Richard Meale
  Richard Meale
  Richard Graham Meale, AM, MBE was an Australian composer of instrumental works and operas.-Biography:Meale was born in Sydney and studied piano with Winifred Burston at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, as well as clarinet, harp, music history and theory, before studying at the University of...
  
   (1932–2009)
• Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn (1896–1978)
• Jamie Messenger
• Cyrus Meurant (born 1982)
• Dorothy Mewes
• Themos Mexis (born 1947)
• Lucas Michailidis
• Ralph Middenway (born 1932)
• Charles (Chas) J. Miers
• Sister Mildred
• Alison Miller (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Catherine Milliken
• Sandra Milliken
• Jonathan Mills (born 1953)
• Richard Mills
  Richard Mills
  Richard John Mills AM, DMus BA Qld, is an Australian conductor and composer. He currently works as Artistic Director of the West Australian Opera and Artistic Consultant with Orchestra Victoria...
  
   (born 1949)
• Frank Millward
• Elissa Milne
• Lorraine Milne (born 1946)
• Oscar Milsen (see Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn)
• Pete Mitchell (born 1978)
• Anthony Moles
• Isabel Varney Desmond Monk (1892–1967)
• Edward Monkton
• Gordon Monro
• Kate Moore (born 1979)
• Gabriel Morel (see Frederick Fifield Hall)
• F. S. Moreno (see Stephen (Esteban) Anthony Moreno)
• Stephen (Esteban) Anthony Moreno (1889–1954)
• David Sydney Morgan (born 1932)
• Derek Morgan (born 1915)
• Robert Griffin Morgan
• Ina Mornement (1896–c.1970)
• Carolyn Morris
• David Morris (born 1964)
• Scott Morrison
• Wendy Morrissey (1926–2005)
• Graeme Morton
  Graeme Morton
  Graeme Morton is an Australian composer and conductor, currently directing the St Peters Chorale and Brisbane Chamber Choir. With these choirs, he has produced numerous recordings. In 1993 he and Stephen Leek created The Australian Voices.-References:...
  
  
• Ralph Morton
• Arnold R. Mote (1880–c. 1950)
• Iain Mott
• Paul Moulatlet
• Suzanne Moxon (born 1966)
• Peter Mumme (born 1943)
• Gilbert Mundy (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Gordon Munro
• Ian Munro
  Ian Munro (pianist)
  Ian Munro is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator. His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1963)
• William Murdoch (1888–1942)
• Nicole Murphy
• Ken Murray
• Joseph Muset (Muset-Ferrer) (1889–1957)
• Ch. G. Mustal (see George Howard Clutsam)
• Jonathan Mustard (born 1959)
• Peter Myers (born 1962)

N

• Ronald O. Nagorcka
  Ron Nagorcka
  Ron Nagorcka is an Australian composer, didjeridu and keyboard player. Nagorcka has been an important figure in the Australian experimental music scene for some 40 years...
  
   (born 1948)
• Peter Narroway (born 1929)
• Isaac Nathan
  Isaac Nathan
  Isaac Nathan was an Anglo-Australian composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist, who ended an eventful career by becoming the "father of Australian music".-Early success:...
  
   (1792–1864)
• Kate Neal
• Mike Nelson (born 1949)
• Andrew Charles Newcombe (born 1970)
• Padma Newsome
• Nicholas Ng (born 1979)
• Van P Nguyen (1946–2007)
• Philip Nicholls
• Arthur Nickson (1876–1964)
• John Nickson (1949–2002)
• Noel Nickson (1919–2006)
• Steven Nisbet
• Helen June Nixon (born 1942)
• Keith A. Noake (1915–1968)
• Ferguson Noakes (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Mike Nock (born 1940)
• Anne Norman
• Henry Cecil Nott (1859–1918)
• John Nottle (born 1950)
• Philip John Nunn (born 1961)

O'

• Sean O'Boyle
  Sean O'Boyle (composer)
  Sean O'Boyle is an Australian composer and conductor.His River Symphony was performed by the Queensland Orchestra and released on ABC Classics in 2007 on a CD that also included Concerto for Didgeridoo composed with and recorded by William Barton...
  
   (born 1963)
• Tamara O'Brien (born 1977)
• Geoffrey O'Connell
• Stephen O'Connell
• J. O'Connor (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Jennifer O'Connor
• Tony O'Connor
  Tony O'Connor (composer)
  Tony O'Connor was an Australian composer, producer and performer of instrumental music. His music has sold over 3 and a half million copies worldwide, releasing his debut album in 1987 and his last in 2007. Tony O'Connor also composed music scores for film and television and is one of Australia's...
  
   (born 1961)
• John O'Donnell (born 1948)
• John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan (1898–1987)
• Mark O'Leary
• Lindsay O'Neill (1924–2002)

O

• Ljubo Oblikov
• Robert Oetomo
• Colin Offord (born 1954)
• Vivienne Olive (born 1950)
• Mark Oliviero (born 1983)
• Lawrence Orchard
• William Arundel (Bunny) Orchard
  W. Arundel Orchard
  William Arundel Orchard OBE FRCM was a British-born Australian organist, pianist, composer, conductor and music educator....
  
   (1867–1961)
• Matthew Orlovich (born 1970)
• David Osborne
• André Osterbaan (born 1947)
• Kelly Ottaway
• Meta Overman (1907–1993)
• Ian S. Owens

P

• Charles Stuart Shipley Sandys Packer (1810–1883)
• Frederick Augustus Gow Packer (1839–1902)
• Rosalind Page
• Garth Paine
• William Henry (Willem Hendrik) Paling (1825–1895)
• George Palmer (born 1947)
• Suzanne Palmer-Holton
• Calogero Panvino (born 1972)
• Godfrey Parker (see Thomas Edward Bulch)
• Katharine "Kitty" Parker
  Katharine Parker
  Katharine Parker was an Australian composer.Parker, was born Catherine Parker at Lake River near Longford, Tasmania. From 1904 to 1906 she studied for a diploma in Music in Melbourne. At the inaugural Australian Exhibition of Women's Work she won the Piano Solo Gold Medal...
  
   (1886–1971)
• Anthony Pateras
  Anthony Pateras
  Anthony Pateras is a multidisciplinary musician living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He performs on piano or analogue electronics, and composes written works for ensembles, orchestras and soloists.-Discography:SOLO:...
  
   (born 1979)
• Michael Paton (born 1994)
• James Paull (born 1957)
• Paul Paviour (born 1931)
• Andrew Peachey (born 1968)
• Trevor Pearce (born 1954)
• Anthony Peluso
• James Penberthy
  James Penberthy
  James Penberthy AM was an Australian composer and journalist.He was born Albert James Penberthy in Melbourne in 1917. He served with the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He then studied at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained first class honours in composition...
  
   (1917–1999)
• Miloslav Penicka (born 1935)
• Richard Percival (born 1953)
• Michael (Mike) Perjanik
  Mike Perjanik
  Mike Perjanik is a New Zealand-born musician, record producer, composer, arranger and bandleader who became well known in Australia from the late 1960s for his work on pop and rock recordings, and as a composer, arranger, bandleader and producer of music for film, television and advertising.-New...
  
  
• Horace Perkins (1901–?)
• Andrián Pertout (born 1963)
• Jack V. Peters (1920–1973)
• John Peterson (born 1957)
• Bruce Petherick
• Peter Petrucci
• Barrington Somers Pheloung
  Barrington Pheloung
  Barrington Somers Pheloung is an Australian composer, now living in England. He is one of the most prolific television and film composers in the UK, known for his wide range of compositional genres....
  
   (born 1954)
• Art Phillips
• Eric Austin Phillips (see Eric Austin-Phillips)
• Linda Phillips (1899–2002)
• Rohan Phillips (born 1971)
• William Beith Shaw Pierce (1926–1996)
• Julia Piggin
• Anna Pimakhova (born 1965)
• Estelle Pizer
• Philip Plaisted (1844–1920)
• Markus Plattner
• Jacob Plooij (born 1973)
• Alfred B. Plumpton (c.1841–1902)
• Vincent Plush (born 1950)
• George Pointer (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Angela Polden
• John Polglase (born 1959)
• Peggy Polias (born 1981)
• Mark Clement Pollard (born 1957)
• Claudio Pompili (born 1949)
• Jonathan Powles
• Graham Powning (born 1949)
• Alex Pozniak (born 1982)
• Enio Pozzebon
• Jeff Pressing (1946–2002)
• Edward Primrose (born 1950)
• Émile Prospère (see Alfred B. Plumpton)
• Professor Ratbaggy (see Paul Maurice Kelly)
• Mark Puddy
• Maude (Maud) Mary Puddy (1883–1974)
• Kevin Purcell
• David Pye

Q

• J. Francis (John Francis) Quinlan (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• John Quinlan (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)

R

• Mark Raczynski (a.k.a. Mark Rankin) (born 1957)
• Amed Radaydeh
• R. Radford
• Alex Rae
• Stephen Rae
• Alex Raineri (born 1993)
• Mark Rankin (see Mark Raczynski)
• Peter Rankine
• Peter Ratnik
• Katherine Rawlings
• Simon Reade
• Haydn Reeder (born 1944)
• David Reeves
• Kate Reid (born 1948)
• Thomas Reiner
• Alun Renshaw (born 1945)
• Sylvia Rice
• Ethel Florence Lindesay (Henry Handel) Richardson
  Henry Handel Richardson
  Henry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. She took the name "Henry Handel" because at that time, many people did not take women's writing seriously, so she used a male name...
  
   (1870–1946)
• Steve Richter
• Damien Ricketson
  Damien Ricketson
  Damien Ricketson is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He grew up in Wollongong, New South Wales and performed early on in the world folk ensemble Sea Gypsies....
  
   (born 1973)
• Alistair Riddell (born 1955)
• Dariusz Roberte
• Andrew Robertson
• Dan Robinson
• Edwin F. Robinson
• William Cleaver Francis Robinson (1834–1897)
• Andrew Robson
• Jean Baptiste Rochefort
• John Rodgers
  John Rodgers (musician)
  John Rodgers is a Brisbane-based Australian composer, improviser, violinist, pianist and guitarist.Rodgers had an early background in classical music. He was the leader of the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Queensland Theatre Orchestra, and the Hunter Orchestra. With these and other orchestras, he...
  
  
• Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
• Adrian Rogers
• Daniel Omar Rojas (born 1974)
• Jodi Rose
• Jon Rose (born 1951)
• Sykes L. Rose (born 1951)
• Ferdinand Rosenstengle (c. 1820–1890)
• Colin A. C. Ross (1911–1993)
• Paul Van Ross
• Edouard Rouaille (see Alfred B. Plumpton)
• Nicholas Routley
• Caitlin Rowley (born 1973)
• Anne Rudolph
• Rik Rue (born 1950)
• David Rumsey (born 1939)
• Martin Rutherford (born 1940)
• Jacqui Rutten (born 1964)
• George Rutter

S

• Nigel Sabin (born 1960)
• Adrienne Sach
• Philip Samartzis
• George Sampson (1861–1949)
• John Sangster (1928–1995)
• Paul Sarcich (born 1951)
• Chris Sass
• Peter Schaefer
• Greg Schiemer (born 1949)
• Catherine Schieve
• Andrew Noel Schultz (born 1960)
• Chester Schultz (born 1945)
• Robert Schultz
• Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
  
   (born 1929)
• Luscombe Searell (see William Luscombe Searelle)
• William Luscombe Searelle (1853–1907)
• Johanna Selleck (born 1959)
• Timothy Sexton
• Lily Eugenie Seyd-Wood (1896–1986)
• Ian Shanahan (born 1962)
• Grant Sheridan (born 1961)
• William Shield
• Matthew Shlomowitz
  Matthew Shlomowitz
  Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer of contemporary classical music.He was raised in Adelaide, Australia and studied with Bozidar Kos at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University...
  
   (born 1975)
• (Matthew) Ben Sibson
• Adam Simmons (born 1970)
• Julie Simonds
• Peter Simondson (born 1958)
• Karl J. Simone (born 1955)
• Paul D. Singleton (born c. 1954)
• Thanapoom Sirichang
  Thanapoom Sirichang
  Thanapoom Sirichang was born in the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. He began his music study at the age of eight by joining the Prince Royals College Ensemble. He studied music with Gain Tepparat and Yutthapol Sakthamjareon until he finished college in 1998...
  
   (born 1981)
• Larry (Lazarus or Lazar) Sitsky
  Larry Sitsky
  Lazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...
  
   (born 1934)
• Graeme A. J. Skinner
• Lachlan Skipworth
• Cezary Skubiszewski
  Cezary Skubiszewski
  Cezary Skubiszewski, born 1949, Warsaw, Poland, is an Polish Australian composer for film, television and orchestra.Migrating from Poland to Australia in 1974, he studied the piano from the age of six. He currently lives in East St Kilda, Melbourne...
  
   (born 1949)
• David Slater
• Joe (John Joseph) Slater (1871–1926)
• Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley
  Roger Smalley AM is a British-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley is currently a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.-Biography:Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire,...
  
   (born 1943)
• Robert Smallwood (born 1958)
• Michael Smetanin (born 1958)
• Billo Smith
• Greg Smith (born 1979)
• Maree L. Smith (born 1936)
• Margery Smith
• William G. S. Smith
• Mirrie Irma Solomon (see Mirrie Irma Hill)
• Charles Jean Baptist Soualle (see Ali-Ben-Sou-Alle)
• Ernesto Spagnoletti Jnr
• Ernesto Spagnoletti Snr (c.1804–1862)
• Al Sparks (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Benjamin Peter Speed
  Benjamin Speed
  Benjamin Peter Speed is an Australian musician who composes scores for film, television and theatre...
  
   (born 1979)
• Alister Spence
• John Spence (born 1965)
• Colin Spiers (born 1957)
• Tomasz Spiewak (born 1936)
• Phil Splitter
• Barton Staggs
• Michael Staiff (born 1963)
• Helen Standring
• Stephen Stanfield (born 1966)
• David Stanhope (born 1952)
• Paul Stanhope (born 1969)
• Marian Stankiewicz (1952–1977)
• Jane Stanley
• Peter Stannard (born 1931)
• Ghiota (Yiota or Panyiota) Stathoulopoulos (born 1933)
• J. A. Steele (1894–1970)
• Sasha Stella
• Geoffrey Steuart (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Ian Stevenson
• Rohan Stevenson
• Amanda Stewart
• Dorothy Stewart (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Walter Stiasny (1905–1991)
• John Stiller
• Reginald (Reg) Alberto Agrati Stoneham (1879–1942)
• Robert James Stove
  R. J. Stove
  Robert James Stove is an Australian writer, editor, composer and organist.-Biography:Born in 1961 in Sydney, but later resident in Melbourne, Stove graduated from Sydney University in 1985...
  
   (born 1961)
• Helen Stowasser (born 1933)
• Derek Strahan (born 1935)
• Will Strong (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Ada Fitz Stubbs (see Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs)
• Luke Styles (born 1982)
• Wendy Suiter (born 1954)
• John L. Sullivan (1940–c. 1985)
• Peter Sullivan
• Joseph Summers (1839–1917)
• Daniel Yi Sun (born 1954)
• Leif Sundstrup
• Margaret Ada Sutherland
  Margaret Sutherland
  Margaret Sutherland was an Australian composer, probably the best-known female composer her country has produced....
  
   (1897–1984)
• Caroline Szeto

T

• Davood A. Tabrizi
• Julia Tahourdin
• Peter Tahourdin
  Peter Tahourdin
  Peter Richard Tahourdin was an English-born Australian composer. His compositions range from orchestral and chamber music to choral and educational music, as well as music for the opera and ballet. However, his principal contribution was in the field of electronic music.-Early life and...
  
   (1928–2009)
• John Morton Tallis (1911–1996)
• Henry Tate (1873–1976)
• James W. Tate
• Timothy Tate (born 1989)
• Malcolm Tattersall (born 1952)
• Hollis Taylor
• M. F. Taylor
• Peter Taylor
• Antonio Tenace
• Pamela Terese (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Keren Terpstra
• John Terry (born 1934)
• Gaetano Tesoriero
• Carla Thackrah
• Charles Robert Thatcher (1831–1878)
• George Thalben-Ball (1896–1987)
• Ian L. Thomas
• Lesleigh Thompson (born 1966)
• Benjamin Thorn (born 1961)
• Daniel Thornton
• Penelope Thwaites (born 1944)
• George Tibbits
  George Tibbits (composer)
  George Richard Tibbits was an Australian composer and architect.Tibbits was born in Boulder, Western Australia, to a family of mining prospectors, and when his father returned wounded from the First World War, the family moved to Colac, Victoria, to take up dairying...
  
   (born 1933)
• Katia Tiutiunnik
  Katia Tiutiunnik
  Katia Tiutiunnik is an Australian violist, scholar and composer. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent.-Education:...
  
   (born 1967)
• Sister Clare Tobin (born 1931)
• Richard Tognetti
  Richard Tognetti
  Richard Leo Tognetti, AO is an Australian violinist, composer and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Maribor Festival in Maribor, Slovenia....
  
   (born 1965)
• David Tolley
  David Tolley
  David Tolley , an Australian sculptor, painter, composer and performer.Tolley was the sculptor of the 1970 Play Sculpture in Commonwealth Park, Canberra.-External links:* 16 January 2003.*...
  
   (born 1936)
• Denton Toms (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Christopher Tonkin
• George William Torrance (1835–1907)
• Robert Transini
• Cathie Travers
• H. Alan Tregaskis (1918–1993)
• Phil Treloar
• Demetrio Trombi (born 1972)
• Ernest P. Truman (1870–1948)
• Josephine Truman
• Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (1869–1948)
• Robert Trumble
• David Tunley (born 1930)
• Charles Trussell (1860–1946)
• Costas (Con or Constantine) Tsicaderis
  Costas Tsicaderis
  Costas Tsicaderis was a Greek-Australian singer-songwriter.- Biography :Costas Tsicaderis was born in Katerini in the north of Greece in 1945, and his family migrated to Australia in 1954, when Costas was nine years old...
  
   (born 1945)
• Neil Turnbull (born 1934)
• Austin T. Turner (1858–1880)
• Paul Turner (born 1948)
• Joseph Twist
  Joseph Twist
  Joseph Twist, is an Australian Composer. He has composed "Fanfare for the Common Consumer", "Love Themes", "Rain Dream" and "On the Night Train". His work is performed throughout Australia by choirs and chamber groups....
  
   (born 1982)

V

• Gareth Valentine
• Bruce Vandervalk (born 1935)
• Dennis Vaughan (born 1946)
• Dindy Vaughan
• Georgina Veevers
• Richard Vella (born 1954)
• Lloyd Vick (born 1915)
• Carlile Vernon (see Charles Trussell)
• Lindsay Vickery
  Lindsay Vickery
  Lindsay Vickery is an Australian composer and performer.-Early life and education:Lindsay Vickery was born in Perth. He studied composition with John Exton and Roger Smalley at the University of Western Australia...
  
   (born 1965)
• Mark Viggiani
• John Villaume (1907–1994)
• Tom Vincent
• Carl Edward Vine
  Carl Vine
  Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...
  
   (born 1954)
• Nicholas Vines
  Nicholas Vines
  Nicholas Vines , is an Australian composer currently based in the United States. He studied at the University of Sydney with Anne Boyd, Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards. He completed a PhD at Harvard University studying with Harrison Birtwistle, Bernard Rands, Magnus Lindberg, Julian Anderson, Lee...
  
   (born 1976)
• Ian Vitcheff

W

• James Wade
• Simon Wade (born 1958)
• Rendall (Ren) Wagner
• Brett Wake (born 1958)
• Evelyn Wales (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Allan Walker
• Daniel Walker
• William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865)
• Arthur Walpole (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Wang Zheng-ting
• Wesley Want (born 1952)
• Bert Warne (see Joe (John Joseph) Slater)
• Peter Warren
• Ella Ann Washington (born 1962)
• Peter Waters (born 1945)
• Peter Webb (born 1948)
• Charles Weber (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Diana Weekes
• Carl Weippert (see Alfred B. Plumpton)
• Felix Werder
  Felix Werder
  Felix Werder is an Australian-based German composer of classical and electronic music; also a noted critic and educator. The son of a distinguished liturgical composer, he has composed all his life; he has an international reputation and is one of Australia's most performed composers...
  
   (born 1922)
• Rudolph T. Werther (1896–?)
• Martin Wesley-Smith
  Martin Wesley-Smith
  Martin Wesley-Smith is an Australian composer with an eclectic output ranging from children's songs to environmental events. He works in a range of musical styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces which bring words,...
  
   (born 1945)
• Graham Westacott (born 1958)
• Nigel Westlake
  Nigel Westlake
  -Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...
  
   (born 1958)
• Alfred Wheeler (1865–1949)
• Tony Wheeler (born 1958)
• Lawrence Whiffin (born 1930)
• Melita White (born 1974)
• Gillian Whitehead
  Gillian Whitehead
  Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, DNZM is a New Zealand composer.She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959–62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from...
  
   (born 1941)
• Stanley Whitehouse (born 1916)
• Michael Whiticker (born 1954)
• Daniel Whiting
• Ted Whiting (see John Francis (Jack) O'Hagan)
• Diane Whitmer
• Stephen Whittington
  Stephen Whittington
  Stephen Whittington is an Australian composer, pianist, teacher and writer on music.- Biography :Whittington was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1953. He studied music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, where his piano teacher was Clemens Leske Sr...
  
   (born 1953)
• Auguste Wiegand (1849–1904)
• Phillip Wilcher (born 1958)
• Caroline Wilkins (born 1953)
• Andrew Will (born 1960)
• Christopher Willcock
  Chris Willcock
  Christopher Willcock is an Australian Jesuit priest and one of the most prolific and frequently published Catholic composers of liturgical music. Willcock studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was ordained to the Priesthood in 1977. He then pursued doctoral studies in...
  
   (born 1947)
• Chris Williams
• Lyn Williams
• Natalie Williams
• Robert Williams
• Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...
  
   (1931–2003)
• Stuart J. Williamson
• Alan C. Willmore
• Andrew Wilson (born 1951)
• Keith R. Wilson (born 1950)
• Marion Wilson (born 1915)
• Nathan Wilson (born 1976)
• David Wilson-Pearson (born 1968)
• Michael Winikoff
• John Winstanley
• Charles Winterbottom
• Paul Witney (born 1973)
• Fred Witt (born 1922)
• Craig M. Wood
• Ethel Wood (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Robin Wood (born 1911)
• Steve Wood (born 1959)
• Thomas Wood (1892–1950)
• Mrs Harry Woods (see Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs)
• Herbert Woodhouse (born 1920)
• Robert Woodville (see Peter Smith Dawson)
• Barbara Woof (born 1958)
• David Worrall
  David Worrall (composer)
  David Worrall is an Australian composer and sound artist working in sound sculpture and immersive polymedia as well as traditional instrumental music composition. He performs and exhibits internationally...
  
   (born 1954)
• Toby Wren
• Melisande Wright
• Myles Wright
• Harold E. Wylde (1888–1975)

Y

• Ai Yamamoto
• Stephen Yates (born 1957)
• Adam Yee (born 1974)
• Frank York
• David Young
• Keith Young
• Kevin Young
• Montague Younger (1836–1899)
• Julian Yu (born 1957)

Z

• Mark Zadro
• Ivan Zavada (born 1972)
• Alberto Zelman
  Alberto Zelman
  Alberto Zelman was an Australian musician and conductor, and founder of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra....
  
  (1832–1907)
• Robert Zocchi