Judy Bailey (OAM) is a New Zealand-born pianist, jazz musician, and composer who has lived in Australia since the 1960s. She started to learn piano and music theory when she was 10 years old, then graduated from Trinity College in London when she was 16. She moved to Sydney (Australia) in 1960, where she developed a strong and successful career as a musician.
Judy lecturers in jazz composition and jazz piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is musical director of the Sydney Youth Jazz Ensemble.