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Sally Greenaway (born 1984) is a composer and pianist based in Canberra, Australia.
After winning Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra's National Big Band Composition Competition in 2008, Greenaway's composition was recorded and broadcast on ABC Classic. She continued recording with several and released her debut album Dig This: Exploring the Big Band in 2013.
Her second album, Aubade & Nocturne, was released by ABC Music in 2014. Gramophone likened it to the work of Peter Sculthorpe, Nigel Westlake, and other Australian composers. The Sydney Morning Herald gave it 4/5 stars and noted that, while it wasn't thematically cohesive, it was "a rewarding experience".
In 2015 she won the inaugural Merlyn Myer Composing Women's Commission, and was commissioned to create a new work which was performed by the Syzygy Ensemble at its premiere in 2016. The work The 7 Great Inventions of the Modern Industrial Age (dramatic music) later won the Canberra Critics Circle Awards and the APRA Art Music ACT Award for Instrumental Work of the Year.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra commissioned her work Worlds Within Worlds in 2015. It premiered in Melbourne as a chamber piece before being rearranged for a larger ensemble and performed by the National Capital Orchestra in Canberra.
In 2018 her collaboration with Musica Viva, Da Vinci's Apprentice, toured schools across Australia.
Her next solo album Delights and Dances was due in 2022. Greenaway's 2024 Birthday Suite was the first work by an Australian composer for the , a special box zither and musical notation system which can be played by anyone regardless of age or musical ability, originally designed for the inventor's son who was born with Down syndrome.
Greenaway' piece Stay Awhile was voted no. 56 in the 2017 ABC Classic 100 Countdown. Her piece Encore de Lírico was voted no. 65 in the 2025 countdown.
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