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The Music of Betty Beath

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About Betty

     Sponsored by the Fellowship of Australian Composers, Betty represented women composers of Australia at the 3rd International Congress on Women in Music in Mexico City and the concert tour and retreat in the State of Zacatecas in 1984. In that year she was elected to the Executive Board of the International League of Women Composers a position she held till 1994. In 1987 she was invited to take up a Residency at the North Adams State College Massachusetts, USA.

     Highlights of her career have been the performance of her Songs from the  Beasts' Choir (Rumer Godden's translations of poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold) at the Carnegie Recital Hall and the Symphony Space, New York, and the performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Mills, of the love poem Asmaradana for the Music of Australia program during the Trade and Cultural Mission in Jakarta, AUSTRALIA TODAY INDONESIA 94. Her Lament for Kosovo has been widely performed on the 27th November, 2006 this work opened the program of a Peace Concert held under the patronage of UNESCO in the Konzerthaus Vienna  and, most recently  by the same orchestra on the 1st November, 2010, in a UNESCO sponsored memorial concert tor the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Henry Dunant, held in the Festsaal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.                          Vienna                                                             

     Her orchestral works have been performed by The Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgaria; the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Republic; the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, USA; The All State String Orchestra, Texas: the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, USA; Trinity String Ensemble, Toronto, the Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich, Vienna,Shepherd School of Music Chamber Orchestra, Houston, The Camerata of St John's, Brisbane and the Beijing String Orchestra.                          .     

     Her work has been recorded by Vienna Modern Masters, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Grevillea and Jade and has been published by Vienna Masterworks, Publications by Wirripang, Wolfhead Music, USA, J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd., ASMUSE, Allans Publishing, The Keys Press, Five Line Publishing, London, Addison-Wesley, Boolarong Publications, Playlab Press and Beath-Cox Art Enterprises  At the present time Betty is serving as State Adviser in Music to the National Council of Women of Queensland.