Jillian Graham Jillian Graham i(A145945 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Jillian Graham holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, with a dissertation entitled 'Composing Biographies of Four Australian Women: Feminism, Motherhood and Music'. In addition to a freelance professional writing business, she has worked as a researcher for the Women’s Mental Health Program in the Jean Hailes Research Unit (School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine) at Monash University.

In 2018, she was announced as a shortlisted author for the Hazel Rowley Fellowship, for biographical work on composer Margaret Sutherland.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of Australian composer and arts activist Margaret Sutherland
2018 recipient Redmond Barry Fellowship for Beyond the Stave: A Biography of Australian Composer and Arts Activist Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)
2018 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

for her writing about Australian composer Margaret Sutherland

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Inner Song : A Biography of Margaret Sutherland Melbourne : Melbourne University Press , 2023 25544606 2023 single work biography

'Did Margaret Sutherland achieve more for Australian music than any other composer?

'Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges - public and private - in blending these roles. Against the backdrop of an unhappy and unsupportive marriage and a society not yet ready to accept her creative ambitions and strong views on Australia's musical development, she remained admirably steadfast in pursuing her goals. Sutherland created over two hundred compositions, ceaselessly campaigned on behalf of Australian music and musicians, and led the initial push to construct what is now Arts Centre Melbourne. In her attempts to redefine beauty in music she used idiosyncratic musical language, being at the mercy of 'sound pictures' and 'floating ideas'. This book tells her remarkable story, laying bare something of Sutherland's inspiring 'inner song'.' (Publication summary)

2024 commended ASAL Awards The Australian Historical Association Awards Magarey Medal for Biography
2024 shortlisted National Biography Award
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