Margaret Joy Kartomi AM FAHA (née Hutchesson) is an Australian ethnomusicologist who is known especially for her contributions to the study of Asian music.
She started at Monash University in 1969, where she had a research fellowship (1969), then a lectureship (1979), and a readership (1976); she became a professor in 1989.
[1] She is on the editorial board of the Ethnomusicology Monograph Series of the University of Chicago Press, and of the Music, Dance and Theatre Iconography series of the Hollizer Wissenschaftsverlag.
She has published many books, four monographs, and a number of important journal articles.
[5] The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.