Fields of Research

Music composition and improvisation
Music performance
Musicology and ethnomusicology
Performing arts

Research Objectives

Music
The performing arts
The creative arts

Career Best Publications

'A Pinch of Time' Burning Bright
A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds; Palgrave Macmillan
A Feather of Blue
And the Air was Dancing
Choro
Choro
Contemporary Music Ensemble: performance of 'Ceol na Fidhle'
Di Primavera
Five Songs from the East
Flinders and Trim
Four Leunig Pieces
Four Pooh Stories
Four Pooh Stories for solo flute
Gaudete Fanfare
Knitting Unicorns
Maria Grenfell, composer
Mentoring Emerging Women Composers; A Century of Women's Composition: Against the Odds
Mentoring Emerging Women Composers; The Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference
Music soundtrack for the documentary film 'Quoll Farm'
Political Music, Music Politics: A Discussion Panel; 39th Annual New Music Festival
River Mountain Sky
Rock Hopping
Spirals
Stings and Wings
Ten Suns Ablaze
These dark notes drifting
Time Transfixed
To the thing I wish I'd written
Voyage
‘Recomposing’ unpublished Chinese folk songs into new Australian compositions for pipa and piano; Context: A Journal of Music Research
“Re-Composing” Unpublished Chinese Folk Songs into New Australian Compositions For Pipa And Piano; Asian Composers' League Conference and Festival

Research Publications

'A Pinch of Time' Burning Bright
'Night Songs' (2008) for chorus and orchestra
Di Primavera for guitar and marimba
Poems of a Bright Moon - trio for flute, clarinet and piano
Wall of Flames for piano trio
A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds; Palgrave Macmillan
A Feather of Blue
A Feather of Blue
A Feather of Blue
Alegria
And the Air was Dancing
Bowling Green New Music Festival
Choro
Choro
Choro
Choro
Choro
Clockwerk
Clockwerk
Clockwerk: String Orchestra
Collective wisdom: from knitting unicorns to bioluminescent plankton: Interview with Angus McPherson
Contemporary Music Ensemble: performance of 'Ceol na Fidhle'
Dancing at the Camerata
Danny Boy and Loch Lomond
Desert Rain
Desert Rain
Di Primavera
Di Primavera
Di Primavera
Di Primavera
Exploring Tasmania's History and Landscape in music for children's Performance: Don Kay’s There Is an Island (1977) ; Context
Fanfare for a City
Fanfare for a City
Fanfare for a City
Fanfare for a City
Fanfare for a City: Full Orchestra
Far from a Madding Crowd; Sounds Australian
Five Songs from the East
Five Songs from the East
Five Songs from the East
Flinders and Trim
Flinders and Trim: radio broadcast
Four Leunig Pieces
Four Leunig Pieces
Four Pooh Stories
Four Pooh Stories for solo flute
Gaudete Fanfare
Hinemoa
Hush – 12 composers write for children at hospitals
Insight: From unpublished Chinese folk songs to new Australian compositions
Interview (untitled)
Interview (untitled)
Interview (untitled)
Interview (untitled)
Interview with Ryk Goddard
Knitting Unicorns
Knitting Unicorns
Making Waves 3 - Portfolio Careers
Maria Grenfell Tasmanian composer
Maria Grenfell tutors young composers in TSO project
Maria Grenfell's swooping melodies make spirals
Maria Grenfell, composer
Masterworks 2 - Rising Above: repeat performance of 'Concertino for Clarinet, Cello, Double Bass, and String Orchestra'
Mentoring Emerging Women Composers; A Century of Women's Composition: Against the Odds
Mentoring Emerging Women Composers; The Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference
Music soundtrack for the documentary film 'Quoll Farm'
Nature Works
Night Songs
Not just any old concerto competition
Old, Male, and Stale: The Women Fighting Classical Music's Woman Problem
On a moonlit night
On a moonlit night, a recluse plays his pale white ch'in
On a Moonlit Night, for alto flute and piano
On a Moonlit Night, for flute and piano
On Jasmin
Option C Tango
Option C Tango
PANdemonium4@Capital University
Poems of a Bright Moon
Poems of a Bright Moon
Poems of a Bright Moon - concert by Trillium Ensemble
Political Music, Music Politics: A Discussion Panel; 39th Annual New Music Festival
Residential Summer String Camp
River Mountain Sky
River Mountain Sky
River Mountain Sky
River Mountain Sky
Roar!
Roar!
Rock Hopping
Rollicking Rhymes - concert by Elanee Ensemble
Serenades and Skirmishing
SOUNZ showcase of women composers: curated playlists
Spirals
Spotlight on students
Stealing Tutunui
Stealing Tutunui (own musical composition)
Stings and Wings
Stings and Wings
Submission 449: Inquiry into the Impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the Arts
Tarraleah
Tarraleah for chamber orchestra
Tasmanian Youth Orchestra Mini-Concerto Competition
Ten Suns Ablaze
Ten Suns Ablaze
The Blue Suite : three-movement work for guitar orchestra
These dark notes drifting
These dark notes drifting - concert at Music X Festival
Time Transfixed
To the thing I wish I'd written
TSO Composers' Project
TSO Composers' Project
TUNE IN featuring Maria Grenfell and Jessica Wells
Voyage
Voyage (recording)
‘Recomposing’ unpublished Chinese folk songs into new Australian compositions for pipa and piano; Context: A Journal of Music Research
“Re-Composing” Unpublished Chinese Folk Songs into New Australian Compositions For Pipa And Piano; Asian Composers' League Conference and Festival

Research Projects

Mentoring women composers, and preparation for a recording of my orchestral works; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
New Work: composing a triple concerto for Ivy Street Ensemble (flute, violin, viola) and strings; Australia Council for the Arts (ACA)
Stylistic Development and Performance Practice: from Unpublished Chinese Folk Songs to New Australian Music Compositions; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Musical composition - Flinders and Trim
Quoll Farm
Solo marimba piece
String quartet movement

Research Candidate Supervision

A Unique or Universal Voice?- Octatonicism in Early 20th Century Dutch Composition
If Music and Sweet Poetry Agree- The Marriage of Two Art-Forms, with Particular Emphasis on Inflection, Speech Rhythm, Dramatic Intensity and Musical Coherence
New music composition through the application and extension of negative dialectics
The Cimmerian and the Elysian- How musical and extra-musical models and expressive ethos affect the compositional process
The role of percussion instruments & music in an Aboriginal/ Torres Strait Islander culture
The simplification of complex notation presented in aleatoric forms
The songs of George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)