Virtuosi from the Australian Big Scrub: Australia, Empire and the Meaning of Musical Journeys in the Long 19th Century

Born in the 1890's in Brushgrove near Grafton, Northern NSW, Lena and Maggie Chisholm undertook their music training for examination by London Trinity College first at the Roman Catholic College at Brushgrove, then at St Mary's Presentation Convent in Lismore. In 1902, Maggie Chisholm, aged 11, was ranked second in the Trinity list of piano examinations throughout Australia and abroad, writing the W.H. Paling's gold medal in Grafton.