This was strengthened and extended when, in 1974, I was awarded, jointly with writer/illustrator, David Cox (whom I married in 1976) a South East Asian Fellowship by the Australia Council.   We have both been strongly influenced by our journeys and researches in Bali and Java, they have extended now over many years and we continue to draw on those experiences as major influences. 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
In 1974, she was awarded, jointly with her husband, author/illustrator, David Cox, a South East Asian Fellowship by the Australia Council which allowed them to carry out research and gather materials for writing in Indonesia. Since then they have developed an extremely strong interest in the music and arts of Bali and Java and have co-produced many projects that are unique in bridging the cultures they have experienced.
Sponsored by the Fellowship of Australian Composers, Betty represented women composers of Australia at the 3rd International Congress on Women in Music in Mexico City and the Concert tour and retreat in the State of Zacatecas in 1984. In that year she was elected to the Executive Board of the International League of Women Composers, a position she held till  1994.  In September/October, 1987, she was invited to take up a Residency at the North Adams State College Massachusetts. The college commissioned a work for performance during her residency and the resulting work, Points in a Journey was given a first performance in a recital program of her compositions at Smith House, North Adams, 8th October, 1987.
Highlights of her career have been the performance of the Songs from the Beasts' Choir (Rumer Godden's translations of poems by Carmen Bemos de Gasztold) at the Camegie Recital Hall and the Symphony Space, both in New York, and the performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Mills, of the love poem Asmaradana for Music of Australia program during the Trade and Cultural Mission in Jakarta, Australia Today Indonesia 94.   Her Lament for Kosovo, Adagio for String Orchestra has been widely performed and most recently on the 27th November, 2006, opened the program of a Peace Concert under the patronage of UNESCO held in the Konzerthaus, Vienna in honour of the first woman to receive The Nobel Prize, Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1905), thework was performed by the Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich and conducted by Christian Benda.

Her orchestral works have been performed by The Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgaria,  the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Republic, the Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich, Vienna, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, USA. and the Trinity String Ensemble,  Toronto. 

Her work has been recorded by Vienna Modern Masters,  Australian Broadcasting Commission, Grevillea and Jade CDs, and has been published by Vienna Masterworks, Publications by Wirripang, Wolfhead Music, USA. J. Albert & Son Pty Ltd, ASMUSE, Allans Publishing, The Keys Press, Five Line Publishing, London, Addison-Wesley, Boolarong Publications, Playlab Press and Beath-Cox Art Enterprises. 

In an Irish Times review of a performance of her Songs from the Beasts' Choir at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, James Maguire wrote: "Ms Beath catches the innocence and profundity of each (member of the animal kingdom) with an almost Brittenesque feel for the words..." In a review for the Opera for Youth Journal, (USA)  Johnathon Pape, Director of Lyric Theatre, Northern Iowa University described The Raja Who Married an Angel, as "...an excellent educational piece for production by young people for young people. The show is well written and challenging for students, but at the same time it offers quality learning experiences and artistic stimulation to those involved..."
At the present time Betty Beath is serving as State Adviser in Music to the National Council of  Women of Queensland.




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