Rosalind Appleby

Rosalind Appleby (born 30 September 1979) is an Australian music journalist and author.

Early life

Rosalind Appleby studied music at the University of Western Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Performance (clarinet) in 2002.[1] She is a music critic for The West Australian newspaper where her reviews and articles cover classical, jazz and world music.[2]

Career

Her book, Women of Note: the Rise of Australian Women Composers[3][4] (published by Fremantle Press in 2012), revealed that 25% of Australian composers are women, more than almost any other country in the world.[5] Women of Note documents the untold and often overlooked stories and music of twenty Australian women composers, spanning the twentieth century to present day.[6]

Appleby has contributed to a variety of national and international publications including the Financial Times, The Australian, Scoop magazine, and The Opera Critic.[7] She is the Western Australian correspondent for the London based Opera magazine.[8] Her work has also been published in the Music Forum Journal, Resonate and Limelight magazines.[9][10]

Between 2018 – 2023 Appleby was a founding board member managing editor of Seesaw, a Western Australian arts magazine.[11][12]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Fremantle Press. "Appleby author biography". Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Appleby, Rosalind. "Quartet Comes Out on Top". The West Australian newspaper. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Appleby, Rosalind (February 2011). Women of Note. Fremantle Press. ISBN 9781921888762. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Article on Rosalind Appleby". Australian Music Centre. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Appleby, Rosalind. Women of Note. Fremantle Press 2012. p. 163. ISBN 9781921888762.
  6. ↑ Game-Lopata, Jenny (2 January 2014). "Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers". Musicology Australia. 36 (1): 153–158. doi:10.1080/08145857.2014.911066. ISSN 0814-5857.
  7. ↑ Appleby, Rosalind. "Noted". Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "Rosalind Appleby". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Rosalind Appleby". AustLit. 14 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "The Eisteddfod (Black Swan State Theatre Company)". Limelight. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  11. ↑ "Rosalind Appleby". www.businessnews.com.au. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  12. ↑ "Rosalind Appleby". Seesawmag. Retrieved 2 May 2026.

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