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Dr. Gina Ismene Chitty is an Australian composer-pianist whose works are published and distributed by Wirripang, the largest independent sheet music publisher of Australian music. [1]
Her music blends neoclassicism, jazz, Impressionism, and harmonically complex, precisely rhythmic mergers of the Neo-Baroque with Arabian, Brazilian or Spanish genres and styles.
Her compositions are inspired by evocations of futuristic visual stimuli, tightly intertwined and abstract higher dimensional points of relative arrangements within tone intervals, to cyborgs, robots and Germanic “Baroque Bears”. [2]
Her works have been performed in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Poland, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
Recent performance venues of her compositions included the Florianka Recital Hall in Kraków, Poland, the Krzysztof Penderecki Hall at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, HKU Technology School, Ina Boudier- Bakkerlaan 50, Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Richard Jacoby Saal of Hochschule für Musik, Hannover, Germany.
Videos of some of these performances can be viewed on Piano+ on [3] [4] the web, and on the Australian Composer Pianists channel [5]
Chitty has had her works receive two World Premieres and one Australian Premiere at the 2023 Sydney International Piano competition.
Her works were selected for the Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology Volume III [6] and the upcoming Australian Women Composers’ Anthology, Volume IV. These works are selections from innovative piano pieces about imaginary beings such as “Grimmolows”, “Baroque Bears”, “The Man in a Hat”, which merge the structural rigour of classical music with an improvisational feel of the elements of jazz. One of these works, “The Cool Struttin’ Baby Grimmolow” [7] received a commendation award and a premiere performance [8] at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference 2024, at Monash University, Melbourne.
EDUCATION
Chitty holds a Ph.d in Contemporary Music from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Her thesis examined a hybrid cultural form of Afro -Lusitanian music and its diasporic usage in Australia. Following which, she authored the book “ “Public Postures, Private Positions” [9]
She also holds a Bachelor of Music from the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, a Fellowship from the Trinity College of Music, London ( FTCL) and a Licenciate from the Royal Schools of Music, London. ( LRSM)
Alma Mater: Ladies College, Colombo
COMPOSER
Chitty has composed a large selection of works, published and distributed by Wirripang Music.
Between the years 2020 and 2025 she has penned over 65 compositions, and currently has works included in 44 Wirripang publications.
Her works have received feature articles in Interlude [10] , Sounds Like Sydney [11] and broadcasts on WGMS Washington DC.
Gina is an Associate Artiste represented by the Australian Music Centre. Her works are catalogued in the National Library of Australia. [12]
PUBLISHED WORK
The BaroQ Bear and the Middle Eastern Princess (2019) [13]
The Baroque Bear at the Arabian Wedding Party (2020) [14]
The Boogie in Limbo (2024) [15]
Chillin’ in Lockdown ( marimba, drum set and piano) 2020 [16]
The Christmas Elves Dance with the First Snowflakes (piano) (2020) [17]
Coogee Beach Capers (piano ) 2024 [18]
Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology, Volume III [19]
Cool Struttin’ Baby Grimmolow ( piano) 2024 [20]
The Cruising Drone - (Drowsy Drone Walk ) -2023 [21]
The Dance of the Ecstatic Metalborg ( piano) 2023 [22]
The Dance of the Robotic Cyborg (piano) 2021 [23]
The Furious Toccata ( piano ) 2023 [24]
The Grimmolow’s Awkward Tango (piano) 2024 [25]
The Heavy Rock Metal Dancer Meets the Baroque Bear piano, harpsichord, drums, cymbals (2020) [26]
Hexagonal Etude Augmentations (piano) 2023 [27]
The Ingratiatingly Friendly Ghost (piano ) 2022 [28]
The Inscrutable Cat (piano) 2021 [29]
The Loping Grimmolow (piano ) 2020 [30]
The Manly Beach Rompango (piano) 2023 [31]
The Orangutan Boogie Dance ( piano ) 2021 [32]
The Panther’s Promenade ( piano ) 2023 [33]
The Rabbit and the Spaniard (piano) 2021 [34]
The Sassy Waitress on the Caribbean Cruise (2020) [35]
Sense and Insouciance ( sleigh bells, marimba, cymbals, drums) 2020 [36]
Skittish in Lockdown ( piano, marimba, drums) 2020 [37]
The Stomping Gygaborg ( piano ) 2022 [38]
The Surreptitiously Astute Cat and the Stoat (piano) 2020 [39]
Toccatina Avventura (piano ) 2020 [40]
The Very Sneaky Grimmolow (piano) 2024 [41]
Year Seven Frolics (piano) 2021 [42]
The Obstreperous Etude 2024 [43]
The Baby Grimmolow‘s First Dancing Lesson 2024 [44]
The Two Sassy Girls from Rio 2025 [45]
The Grimmolow in Brazil 2025 [46]
Gigue on the Rock 2024 [47]
The Island Dancer 2025 [48]
Skid on the Smooth Rock 2024 [49]
The Smooth Jivin’ Man in a Hat 2025 [50]
Sambaliscious Sydney 2025 [51]
La Toccata Euforica [52]
PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS:
Published Postures, Private Positions: The Sri Lankan Diaspora’s Engagement with Baila ( Afro Lusitanian dance and music) [53]
PIANIST
