Composer, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She studied at the Melbourne Conservatory, at the Royal College of Music, London, and with Vaughan Williams and Nadia Boulanger among others. She was music critic of the New York Herald Tribune (1948--58), and director of Asian Studies at the Australian Music Centre from 1975. She wrote several operas including Nausicaa (1961), and much work for theatre and ballet.