Betty Beath

Elizabeth Margaret Beath, née Eardley, (born 19 November 1932) is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator.

[5] Beath received a Southeast Asian Fellowship from the Australia Council in 1974 to conduct research in Bali and Java.

[2] The State Library of Queensland has in its collection a digital story and oral history of Betty Beath.

In this extensive interview she speaks with Laurel Dingle about her life as a music composer, performer and teacher, from her earliest memories to the present day.

The piece uses the Balinese gamelan pentatonic scale and championed worldwide by Ananda Sukarlan, and now it has been taken by other pianists.