Research Seminar: Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi and Jacqueline Waylen
Research Seminar Series
The history and contents of the Music Archive of Monash University/ MAMU and how its collections can be used for students’ research topics and choice of works for performance
Presented by Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi and Former Monash Librarian Jacqueline Waylen
Students, staff and the general public are welcome to attend this FREE event. (Registration not required).
Abstract
The Music Archive of Monash University, housed in Building 11 at Monash Clayton, was founded in the Department of Music in 1975. It contains rare recordings, musical instruments and artefacts from many parts of the world, and bequests from important artists, musicians, and composers. It organises lecture demonstrations and performances and presents exhibitions in the Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts, including the current exhibition on “The Place of Indian Music and Dance in Australian Culture”. This seminar will discuss MAMU’s history and collections, indicate how performers can find repertoire to play, and suggest ways in which researchers and research students can find research materials and topics from MAMU’s holdings, with special reference to the Jeff Pressing Collection. The Jeff Pressing collection preserves the musical legacy of a significant educator, scientist, composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist by offering access to compositions, instructions for performance, sketches, arrangements, transcriptions, correspondence, drafts of published papers, lecture notes, research notes, program notes, and his library of books and music.
Bio
Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi AM, FAHA founded the Music Archive of Monash University in 1976. Staff and student field researchers and donors have contributed valuable recordings, instruments, textiles, dance costumes and other art objects which have been catalogued and digitised for general access and for display in the Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts in the SZCSMP at Monash University. She has published 12 books and has been awarded several prizes, including the Guido Adler Musicology Prize of the International Musicological Society in 2019 and the Sir Bernard Heinze Award in Melbourne for contributions to music in Australia in 2016.
Jacqueline Waylen is a music librarian who has been a member of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) since 1992. She worked as a subject librarian at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, until 2005, and then at Monash University, until her retirement at the end of 2024. Jackie has worked with a number of archival materials in Special Collections related to music, and in August 2025 commenced as an affiliate in the Music Archive of Monash University, working with the Jeff Pressing Collection.
Event Details
- Date:
- 6 August 2026 at 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Venue:
- Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Meeting room 213, Level 2, 55 Scenic Boulevard
- Campus:
- Clayton
- Open to:
- Students, staff and the general public are welcome to attend this FREE event.
- Cost:
- Free. (Registration not required).
Description
Research Seminar Series
The history and contents of the Music Archive of Monash University/ MAMU and how its collections can be used for students’ research topics and choice of works for performance
Presented by Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi and Former Monash Librarian Jacqueline Waylen
Students, staff and the general public are welcome to attend this FREE event. (Registration not required).
Abstract
The Music Archive of Monash University, housed in Building 11 at Monash Clayton, was founded in the Department of Music in 1975. It contains rare recordings, musical instruments and artefacts from many parts of the world, and bequests from important artists, musicians, and composers. It organises lecture demonstrations and performances and presents exhibitions in the Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts, including the current exhibition on “The Place of Indian Music and Dance in Australian Culture”. This seminar will discuss MAMU’s history and collections, indicate how performers can find repertoire to play, and suggest ways in which researchers and research students can find research materials and topics from MAMU’s holdings, with special reference to the Jeff Pressing Collection. The Jeff Pressing collection preserves the musical legacy of a significant educator, scientist, composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist by offering access to compositions, instructions for performance, sketches, arrangements, transcriptions, correspondence, drafts of published papers, lecture notes, research notes, program notes, and his library of books and music.
Bio
Professor Emerita Margaret Kartomi AM, FAHA founded the Music Archive of Monash University in 1976. Staff and student field researchers and donors have contributed valuable recordings, instruments, textiles, dance costumes and other art objects which have been catalogued and digitised for general access and for display in the Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts in the SZCSMP at Monash University. She has published 12 books and has been awarded several prizes, including the Guido Adler Musicology Prize of the International Musicological Society in 2019 and the Sir Bernard Heinze Award in Melbourne for contributions to music in Australia in 2016.
Jacqueline Waylen is a music librarian who has been a member of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) since 1992. She worked as a subject librarian at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, until 2005, and then at Monash University, until her retirement at the end of 2024. Jackie has worked with a number of archival materials in Special Collections related to music, and in August 2025 commenced as an affiliate in the Music Archive of Monash University, working with the Jeff Pressing Collection.