Margaret Kartomi

Margaret Kartomi is professor emerita in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, and founding director of the Music Archive of Monash University. Her books include On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments, Musical Journeys in Sumatra, and Performing the Arts of Indonesia. She has served as president of the Musicological Society of Australia, board member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and convened IMS Intercongressional Symposia in 1988 and 2004. She was elected corresponding member of the American Musicological Society and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and received the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and the humanities, and a Cultural Endowment from the Indonesian government.