Sally Greenaway, born in 1984 in Australia, is a composer and pianist based in Canberra. She trained in jazz at Canberra's Australian National University School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. Greenaway's breakthrough came in 2008 when she won Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra's National Big Band Composition Competition, leading to her composition being recorded and broadcast on ABC Classic FM. Her debut album Dig This: Exploring the Big Band was released in 2013, followed by Aubade & Nocturne in 2014, which received critical acclaim from Gramophone and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2015, she won the inaugural Merlyn Myer Composing Women's Commission, resulting in the work of classical music The 7 Great Inventions of the Modern Industrial Age, which she was awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Awards and the APRA Art Music ACT Award for Instrumental Work of the Year.
