Esther Rofe (14 March 1904 – 26 February 2000) was an Australian musician and composer.
Esther Rofe (14 March 1904 – 26 February 2000) was an Australian musician and composer.
Esther Rofe was born in 1904 in Melbourne, Australia.
Rofe studied piano with Harold C. Smith and Ada Freeman and violin with Alberto Zelman, Jr. Rofe studied composition with Fritz Hart and A.E. Floyd.
At age 13, Rofe appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She entered the Royal College of Music in London and studied with Gordon Jacob, Ralph Vaughan Williams and R.O. Morris.
During World War II Rofe worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), and the Colgate-Palmolive Radio Unit in Sydney where she began arranging and composing music. Rofe began composing for ballet in 1943.
The Esther Rofe Songbook was published in Melbourne in December 1999.
Rofe and her sister Edith moved to Southport where Rofe lived and worked for twenty years by the sea.
Rofe never married, but fostered a child, Carden James Rofe. Carden had two sons – Hamer Rofe and Malcolm Rofe.
Rofe died on 26 February 2000 and Hamer Rofe & his ex-wife Cathy Rofe, Malcolm Rofe and his wife Christina Rofe scattered her ashes in the Lune River in Southport Bay.
The Esther Rofe Award was established in her honor at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
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