Rosalind Appleby is a Perth-based arts journalist, author and speaker. She uses words to champion, document and critique the arts and its practitioners. She also learnt the clarinet from Allan Meyer.
Rosalind’s book Women of Note (Fremantle Press, 2012) reveals startling discoveries about Australian women composers, completing the missing jigsaw pieces in Australia’s music history.
Rosalind was Managing Editor and founding board member of Western Australia’s leading arts magazine Seesaw (2018 – 2023). She was music critic at The West Australian newspaper for 16 years and has contributed to numerous publications including Opera Magazine (London), Limelight Magazine, The Australian newspaper, The Financial Times (London) and The Sunday Times.
Rosalind advocates for the arts through her lectures, author talks, artist interviews, pre-concert talks, program notes, awards judging and school seminars. She has presented at the Perth Writer’s Festival (2013, 2018, 2019) and at the national Women in the Creative Arts Conference (2017) in Canberra. For several years she produced and broadcast the experimental program Difficult Listening for RTRFM. She has been interviewed by Andrew Ford on The Music Show and for programs on 3MBS, 2MBS, Radio Fremantle and RTRFM.
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Current to 2026.