She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, a Fellowship from the Trinity College of Music, London ( FTCL) and a Licenciate from the Royal Schools of Music, London. ( LRSM)
She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, a Fellowship from the Trinity College of Music, London ( FTCL) and a Licenciate from the Royal Schools of Music, London. ( LRSM)
Alma Mater: Ladies College, Colombo
”’COMPOSER”’
”’COMPOSER”’
Australian pianist and composer
Gina Ismene Chitty is an Australian pianist and composer whose works are published and distributed by Wirripang, the largest independent sheet music publisher of Australian music.[1]
Her music blends neoclassicism, jazz, Impressionism, and harmonically complex, precisely rhythmic mergers of the Neo-Baroque with Arabian, Brazilian or Spanish genres and styles.
Her compositions are inspired by evocations of futuristic visual stimuli, tightly intertwined and abstract higher dimensional points of relative arrangements within tone intervals, to cyborgs, robots and Germanic “Baroque Bears”.[2]
Her works have been performed in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Poland, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
Recent[when?] performance venues included the Florianka Recital Hall in Kraków, Poland, the Krzysztof Penderecki Hall at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, HKU Technology School, Ina Boudier- Bakkerlaan 50, Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Richard Jacoby Saal of Hochschule für Musik, Hannover, Germany.
Chitty has had two World Premieres and one Australian Premiere at the 2023 Sydney International Piano competition.
Her works were selected for the Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology Volume III [3]and the upcoming Australian Women Composers’ Anthology, Volume IV. These works are selections from innovative piano pieces about imaginary beings such as “Grimmolows”, “Baroque Bears”, “The Man in a Hat”, which merge the structural rigour of classical music with an improvisational feel of the elements of jazz. One of these works, “The Cool Struttin’ Baby Grimmolow” received a commendation award and a premiere performance at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference 2024, at Monash University, Melbourne.
EDUCATION
Chitty holds a Ph.d in Contemporary Music from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Her thesis examined a hybrid cultural form of Afro -Lusitanian music and its diasporic usage in Australia. Following which, she authored the book “ “Public Postures, Private Positions” [4]
She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, a Fellowship from the Trinity College of Music, London ( FTCL) and a Licenciate from the Royal Schools of Music, London. ( LRSM)
Alma Mater: Ladies College, Colombo
COMPOSER
Chitty has composed a large selection of works, published and distributed by Wirripang Music.
Between the years 2020 and 2025 she has penned over 65 compositions, and currently has works included in 44 Wirripang publications.
Her works have received feature articles in Interlude [5] , Sounds Like Sydney [6] and broadcasts on WGMS Washington DC.
Gina is an Associate Artiste represented by the Australian Music Centre.
PUBLISHED WORK
The Baroque Bear and the Middle Eastern Princess (2019) https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/collections/composers-and-authors/products/baroq-bear-and-the-middle-eastern-princess-the
The Baroque Bear at the Arabian Wedding Party (2020)
