At St Margaret’s 1965-1978
Mary Doumany is an Australian harpist, singer and composer. Classically trained, she is fluent across multiple genres including jazz, contemporary, folk and experimental and is known also for creating groundbreaking works for harp and other instruments/combinations.
She is featured on a significant number of major motion picture soundtracks, including "Shine" and "The Truman Show" both as singer and harpist
Variously, since the age of 17, she has played with the Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.
Also a song writer, the collaborative project "The Lovers" with composer Jeremy Alsop, was nominated for five ARIA awards and featured many of Australia's finest jazz musicians.
Mary regularly tours Europe and the USA, and spends a significant part of each year in Tokyo, where she collaborates with local and international experimental musicians.
She was a recitalist, playing her own compositions, at the 2018 World Harp Congress in Hong Kong, also curating the Australasian Harp Orchestra who performed her composition, based on a theme written by one of her Hong Kong students.
One of her great passions, is to help others find their unique voice on the harp. She conducts skype lessons and courses which are designed to inspire and stimulate students to be the best artists possible. She in turn, was fortunate to be mentored during her years at St Margaret’s by composer Betty Beath, and piano teacher Thea Gray. The school’s commitment to excellence in teaching, helped lay the foundations for Mary’s work as an international player and teacher.
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