B

• Judy Bailey
• Kerin Bailey
• Beryl Bainbridge (born 1919)
• Amanda Baker (born 1962)
• Ros (Rosalie) Bandt (born 1951)
• Amy Bastow (born 1985)
• Phyllis Batchelor (1915–1999))
• Alison Bauld (born 1944)
• 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 (born 1976)
• Kirsty Beilharz (born 1971)
• Dulcie Sybil Bellhouse (see Dulcie Sybil Holland)
• Stephen McRae Benfall (born 1957)
• Rhonda Berry
• Diana Blom (born 1947)
• Marguerite Boland
• Rosalie Bonighton (born 1946)
• Una Mabel Bourne (1882–1974)
• 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)
• 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)
• Margaret Brandman (born 1951)
• Mary Broughton
• Aileen M. Brown
• Gai Bryant
• Vera Buck (born 1938)
• Nadia Burgess (born 1958)
• Brigid Burke (born 1960)

C

• Suzie-May Camm
• Monte Carlo (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Rosalind Carlson (born 1937)
• Monique Carole-Smith (born 1972)
• 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)
• 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)
• Linda Ceff (born 1963)
• Alice Ellen Charbonnet-Kellermann (1858–1914)
• Chloé Charody (born 1984)
• Lisa Cheney (born 1987)
• Melanie Chilianis
• Jacqueline Clark (born 1957)
• Zana Clarke (born 1965)
• 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)
• Madelaine Cocolas
• Rachael Cogan
• Constance Colley (born 1954)
• Gertrude Concannon (1899–1978)
• Alice R. Consterdine
• Clare Cooper (born 1981)
• Tania Ravbar Costantino
• 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...
  
  
• Judith Crispin
• Hope Csutoros
• Leah Curtis
• Dana Czarski

D

• Kate Darian-Smith
• Suzie Davies-Splitter
• Gertrude May Degnian (see Gertrude Concannon)
• Sarah De Jong (born 1952)
• Kirsty De La Rambelva
• Roxanne Della-Bosca
• Alison Dodd (see May Hannah Brahe)
• Florence Maud Donaldson (see Florence Maud Ewart)
• Bernadette Dowling
• Christine Draeger
• Elizabeth Drake
• Kay Dreyfus
• Faye Dumont
• Eve Duncan
• Melissa Dunphy
  Melissa Dunphy
  Melissa Dunphy is an Australian-American composer of classical music. She is most notable for the Gonzales Cantata, a 40-minute choral piece in Baroque style that sets the text of the parts of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy hearings in which former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...
  
  
• Barbara Durham (born 1952)

E

• Moneta Eagles (1928–2002)
• Melody Eötvöes
• June Epstein
• Sandy Evans (born 1960)
• 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)
• Amanda Lee Falkenberg
• Nirmali Fenn (born 1979)
• Mary Finsterer (born 1962)
• Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs (1861–?)
• 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)
• 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)
• Suzanne Tiborz Frisk

G

• Jenny Game-Lopata
• 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)
• Ann Ghandar (born 1943)
• 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)
• Belinda Gillam
• 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)
• Annette Golden
• Alicia Grant (born 1978)
• Andrée Greenwell
• 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)
• Dorothy Greville (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Ingrid Guymer (born 1968)

H

• Jane Hammond
• Amanda Handel (born 1958)
• Cathy Harley (born 1969)
• Edith Mary Harrhy (1893–1969)
• Rebecca Harrison (born 1986)
• Sadie Harrison (born 1965)
• 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)
• Karen Heath
• 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)
• Marjorie Hesse (1911–1986)
• Fiona Hill
• Mirrie Irma Hill (1892–1968)
• Maria Hinckesman (1803–?)
• Wendy Hiscocks (born 1963)
• 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)
• Suzanne Palmer Holton (see Suzanne Palmer-Holton)
• Cat Hope (born 1966)
• Sarah Hopkins (born 1958)
• Raelene (Rae) Howell
• May Howlett (born 1931)
• Ruby E Hunter (1900–1986)
• Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
• 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
• Alison Ireland
• Wendy Ireland

J

• Anna Jacobs (born 1980)
• Sonia Jacobsen (born 1967)
• Josephine Y. Jin
• Margaret Dylan Jones (born 1961)
• Kerryn Joyce (born 1972)

K

• Esther Kahn (1876–1940)
• 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)
• Cicely Kelly (born c.1910)
• Solange Kershaw
• Gwenda Knappstein
• Ruby Knight (1905–1986)
• Jocelyn E. Kotchie
• Linda Kouvaras
• Mary-Anne Kyriakou

L

• Sophie Lacaze (born 1963)
• Vineta Lagzdina (born 1945)
• 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)
• Somaya Langley (born 1976)
• Sister Marie Duchesne Lavin (born 1930)
• Catherine Leahy
• Lee Jee-Yun (born 1980)
• 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)
• Becky Llewellyn (born 1950)
• Karlin Greenstreet Love (born 1956)
• Jill Lowe

Mac/Mc

• Mona Margaret McBurney (1862–1932)
• Ruth McCall
• Mary M. McCarron-Maguire
• Christine McCombe (born 1967)
• Clare Maclean (born 1958)
• Christina Rutherford Macpherson (1864–1936)

M

• Kris Macken (born 1979)
• Michelle Madder
• 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
• Joanne Maree (born 1939)
• Wendy Marlow
• Elsa Marshall-Hall (born 1891)
• Ruth Lee Martin (born 1957)
• Dorothy Mewes
• Sister Mildred
• Catherine Milliken
• Sandra Milliken
• Elissa Milne
• Lorraine Milne (born 1946)
• Isabel Varney Desmond Monk (1892–1967)
• Kate Moore (born 1979)
• Ina Mornement (1896–c.1970)
• Carolyn Morris
• Wendy Morrissey (1926–2005)
• Suzanne Moxon (born 1966)
• Nicole Murphy

P

• Rosalind Page (born 1956)
• Suzanne Palmer-Holton
• 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)
• Linda Phillips (1899–2002)
• Julia Piggin
• Anna Pimakhova (born 1965)
• Estelle Pizer
• Angela Polden (born 1960)
• Peggy Polias (born 1981)
• Maude (or Maud) Mary Puddy (1883–1974)

Q–S

R

• Katherine Rawlings
• Kate Reid (born 1948)
• 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)
• Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
• Jodi Rose
• Caitlin Rowley (born 1973)
• Anne Rudolph
• Jacqui Rutten (born 1964)

S

• Adrienne Sach http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/sach-adreinne
• Catherine Schieve http://www.catherineschieve.net/
• Johanna Selleck (born 1959)
• Lily Eugenie Seyd-Wood (1896–1986)
• Julie Simonds
• Maree L. Smith (born 1936)
• Margery Smith (born 1956)
• Mirrie Irma Solomon (see Mirrie Irma Hill)
• Helen Standring http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/standring-helen
• Jane Stanley (born 1976)
• Amanda Stewart http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/stewart-amanda
• Dorothy Stewart (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Helen Stowasser (born 1933)
• Ada Fitz Stubbs (see Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs)
• Wendy Suiter (born 1954)
• 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 (born 1956)

T

• Julia Tahourdin
• Keren Terpstra
• Carla Thackrah
• Penelope Thwaites (born 1944)
• 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)
• Cathie Travers
• Josephine Truman

W

• Evelyn Wales (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Ella Ann Washington (born 1962)
• Diana Weekes
• Jessica Wells (born 1974)
• 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)
• Diane Whitmer
• Caroline Wilkins (born 1953)
• Lyn Williams
• Natalie Williams
• Marion Wilson (born 1915)
• Ethel Wood (see Edith Mary Harrhy)
• Mrs Harry Woods (see Ada Maud Fitz-Stubbs)
• Barbara Woof (born 1958)
• Melisande Wright